Valley Of Giza

a custom level made by xxclaudxx

Unofficial walkthrough written by Selene

As before I will emphasize that this is not an official walkthrough. Any questions or concerns relating to the level must be directed straight to its maker. I have written it to the best of my abilities, but if something should be missing please let me know. Thanks for reading.

I didn’t find any secrets in this level, don’t think there are any to find. If someone has found any though I would be happy if you could let me know so I can add it to my walkthrough (and of course credit you for finding it).


Lara starts in a dark room somewhere in the
Giza Valley.

Cartouche Piece 1:

Go to the right and pick up the 1st Cartouche Piece in the E corner below the torch. Go straight ahead and through the grey doors which open automatically. Here you can shoot the urn to get the Crossbow and three batches of ammo, both regular and explosive. Wade into the shallow pool and pick up two batches of Uzi clips. Climb the pole to the N and backflip onto the ledge behind. Immediately turn and take care of the baddie shooting at our heroine. Pick up the Grenade Launcher and two batches of grenade ammo left behind. In the E corner is another Cartouche Piece.

[NOTE: Many people playing this level have noticed that once Lara picks up this piece she will still have only one piece in her inventory. The second piece she picks up is in fact the First Cartouche Piece. The Second Cartouche Piece will be found later in the level. So actually Lara can pick up the First Cartouche Piece twice and that's why you will only see one piece in the inventory. I don't know if it is a mistake by the level builder or if it's meant to be that way in case you miss the piece in the first room.]

There is a red scorpion crawling around on the ledge below, so you can either drop down and deal with it or take it out from the safe heights. Jump to the pole to the E and slide down to the bottom. Take care of the mummy wandering around or just ignore it and drop into the pool. Swim down and pick up the Uzi clips in the S/W corner. Underwater along the wall you can also pick up three boxes of shotgun wideshot ammo, the Shotgun and the Uzis.

Swim down and through the opening straight ahead in the N corner. Swim left and then right three times, then left and up to an opening where Lara can surface. Climb out of the water here.

Jeep Area:

Climb the ladder down to the floor below. If you like you can walk over to the right side and take out the baddie with the gun and the red scorpion appearing down by the jeep below (in that case be careful to not slide down there yet). You can also leave that for now and take care of them later when you go to explore that area. As you approach the lever you will see a fly-by showing you the area with the jeep and where you're going. Pull the lever here and slide down to the floor with the jeep. As you approach the crossbow ammo (next to the floating object) two baddies will appear to the left so kill them too before picking up two batches of poisonous arrows. Go through to the area shown in the previous fly-by. Go past the waterhole and there will be a hole in the ground to the N/E. Drop down there for a long fall until Lara lands safely in a pool.

2nd Cartouche Piece:

Swim down and pick up the large medipack in the E corner. Swim back up and pull up on the ledge to the E. The next part is a bit tricky, especially since it ends with a fly-by making it impossible to see where you're going. Go forwards and slide down the first slope, keep running and as you start sliding down the second ramp three spiked boulders come rolling down. I found it easiest to just stand on the middle of the slope, slide down the two first and as soon as Lara reaches the end start sprinting down the rest of the slope and through the gates which open automatically with the boulders in hot pursuit. As soon as you reach the next room steer right and keep running to get out of the way before the boulders reach Lara. Once they've come to a stop go to the left side of the room and through the opening you saw in the fly-by. Head up the stairs and on top turn around and jump and grab the monkey bars above. Traverse to the FAR opposite side of the room (it can be difficult to see where the monkey bars are here because of the dark and the flares do not work in this area). Continue traversing to the left and follow the monkey bars until Lara can drop down in the next room. Right by the W wall underwater you can pick up the 2nd Cartouche Piece. Pull up on the W ledge and see another fly-by of the cartouche receptacle. Once it finishes quickly turn and kill the baddie with the sword jumping in from the right and then another bad guy with guns firing from the same direction. Pick up the shotgun ammo on the left side. Combine the two cartouche pieces to create the Ba Cartouche and use it in the receptacle on the ledge to the N. Doing so opens the first out of two gates underwater to the right of the cartouche receptacle(when facing N).

The Hand Of Orion:

Turn around and swim to the S/E. Climb up on the ledge here and shoot the urn to reveal a lever. Pull this to open the second underwater gate. Swim through and climb out of the water. The ground will start shaking violently and three red scorpions come crawling. Kill them and crawl under the darts to the right side where you can shoot another scorpion and pick up some poisonous crossbow ammo, a large medipack and some flares. Go through the crawlspace in the E wall and take out the baddie on the other side. Turn left and jump over the slope to land in a small depression where you can pick up the Hand Of Orion.

Exiting The Level:

Go through the next crawlspace and kill two baddies, one right next to the crawlspace and the other in the doorway ahead. Go back in the crawlspace and pick up two boxes of revolver ammo on the left side (when facing the room with the two baddies) and a laser sight on the right side. Enter the room where the second bad guy came from. Here you can turn around and blow up the mummy wandering around on the stairs above the room where you were a few seconds ago (but there‘s nothing interesting up there, so you can leave it too). Place the Hand Of Orion in the receptacle on the wall. Go to the left dark corner and around to the right. Climb the brown wall ahead and on top go right. Kill the baddie that appears on top of the hill straight ahead and go left. Right before the pool another baddie will show up on the opposite side so take him out too. If you jump in the water and try to climb out where the ammo is the game will only crash to the desktop, so you can consider this the end of the level.