The Dead Empire 1

Level by Channing Chang (January, 2006)

Start with a short flyby of some ruins and ending on Lara. Go west and turn right to press a large button. A door opens south of you. Enter the room and the door closes. Turn right and go down some steps. At the bottom kill a ninja. Go down more stairs and kill another ninja. Pull the jump switch on the north wall and the gate opens. Go up some stairs, turn right and stop before you enter the room with a mirror. In the mirror, the depressions in the floor are spike traps. Jump to the first south-east tile and pick up red shotgun shells. Go north-east to pull a jump switch and get a cut scene of a large door opening. Go south and pick up a large medipack. Jump over the spikes back to the entrance. Go down the steps and there is the open door. Enter and run down the steps for a flyby of the room. In the room pick up the small medipack from the pedestal. When you pickup the revolver ammo a door opens in the north-east corner. Enter the room to pickup a small medipack. Jump the spike pits and the door closes. Push the big button for a cut scene of a door opening. Turn around and kill two ninjas. Exit this room and go west into the other room. Shoot a box and pick up revolver ammo. Kill another ninja that appears. Go to the south wall and press a big button and the door besides you opens.

Carefully go inside and use both reach-in switches and avoid the fire. A door opens behind you, so enter in to face a pool. Dive in for a small medipack. Go south to pick up flares from the floor. Pick up a shotgun off a pedestal and the gate beside it opens. Enter, pick up blue shotgun shells, and the gate closes. Immediately go left, kill a demigod and pick up a large medipack. Dive into the water pool for Uzi ammo and flares. Carefully use the right reach-in switch and get a cut scene of a closed gate. Use the left reach-in switch and the gate behind you opens. Exit this room, turn right, and enter the newly opened gate. Follow a short corridor and enter another room. The gate closes behind you. You have to fight a demigod and a Shiva at the same time. When finished, pick up a large medipack from the demigod. Get on the block with the fire and use the reach-in switch to hear a door opening. Use a few medipacks and get into the water behind you if you catch fire. Pick up blue shotgun shells from the water. Go to the north-west corner for the open gate. Get secret #1 and pick up a revolver. Back to the block with the fire. Pull up and jump to grab a sloped pillar to the north. Slide and grab another pillar. Slide and jump to pull a jump switch on the north wall. You get a cut scene of ninjas back in the starting room.

Go back there and on the way, kill six ninjas. Pick up two small medipack, red shotgun shells, and blue shotguns shells. In the last room, go north pass the button to enter another tunnel. The door closes behind you. Go north to a ledge and climb a ladder. Go down the corridor and get a flyby of a huge castle like building ending with a picture of a gate and a jump switch. As you go out the door, kill two scorpions. Go north into the hills and retreat as four ninjas attack. After their deaths, pick up revolver ammo, Uzi ammo, red shotgun shells, and a small medipack from the ground. Go north and then east, kill a ninja below you. Slide down for secret#2, blue shotgun shells, and the Uzi's. Slide down the hill to the large doors and kill a ninja. Pull the jump switch and the doors opens. Enter the corridor and the level ends.

04-feb-2006