Tomb Raider Anniversary Demo
The Cave
By
Razyel
Walkthrough by Moonpooka for www.trle.net
Note: I found no secrets in this level.
Arrival
Lara begins her adventure outside below the temple doors. Watch the fly by and hit the “look” key to stop the flyby loop, and then it’s time to head up to the temple. Pull up onto the pillars at the west wall and make your way up to the top of the highest pillar. Look east to see a rope hanging and use it to swing to the east pillar behind the rope. Face south and jump to the next pillar, and then jump to the next two pillars to the east. Face north and jump the final two pillars until Lara is standing under the temple door balcony. Stand Lara at the back of this final pillar and with her left foot on the left side of it, stand jump to grab the edge of the balcony and pull up. Pull up onto the pillar at the north wall and then pull up to the balcony above the temple doors. Use the button on the north wall to open the temple doors, and then watch the cut scene showing the temple doors opening and a pack of dogs frolicking about inside the temple. Go to ground to take out the dogs, and then enter the temple.
Temple Entrance
As you walk ahead another pack of dogs will attack, so see them off and then continue through the passage until you come to a silver platform in the floor. Standing on the silver platform activates three wall flames in the following passage; but don’t go there yet because we have something else to do first. Nip up into the hole in the south wall and make your way to small cave with a deep pit and a large medi pack on a pedestal on the other side. Kill the three bats that show up and then walk to the left side of the deep pit and grab the climbable north wall. Shimmy right and spikes will activate down in the pit; but Lara is safe on the wall so continue to go right until you hit a gap in the wall and Lara can’t go any further. Back flip with a turn to grab the south wall, and then Shimmy left to the pedestal ledge and drop off. Take out the two bats that show up, and then grab the LMP from its resting place. Now return over the pit using the south wall first and back flipping to the north wall when you reach the other side of the pit. You can now return to the silver floor platform outside.
If you jump over the silver platform into the flame passage then only one flame will activate, but it’s up to you if you want to be risky or not and either way you need to judge the flames and sprint through when they are low to make it into the first temple room.
1st Temple Room
Two dogs are lurking down in the this first temple room, so pick them off from the safety of the higher ledge and then make your way down into the room. Make a note of the small bridge to the right and the closed doors up to your left as you enter the room because you will be back here later, but first you need to make your way to the far east side of the room and pull up onto the small sloped rock in the NE corner (It’s just to the left of the east wall alcove with the bright face texture). Now jump into the alcove at the east wall, grab the north wall and climb around onto the east wall of the alcove. Climb to the top of the wall and pull up. Enter the small east wall passage and head right and down the steps. Continue on to the bottom of the passage, and then make your way out to the upper balconies of the room. There’s a rope ahead, grab it and swing to the lever ledge over at the north wall. Use the lever to open the big doors you saw when you entered the temple room, and then walk to the east side of the lever ledge and jump to the gap in the east wall (It's just to the left of the face alcove where you just climbed up).
Make your way through the following passage and arrive at a deep pit with two ropes. Use the ropes to swing to the other side of the pit, and then grab a SMP from the skeleton. Now return back over the pit via the ropes and drop down into the room below.
Make your way to the west side of the room and you will see the newly opened doors to the right, and the small bridge you saw earlier when you entered the room is to the left. Go to the bridge and use the slope to the left of it to spring up and grab the edge of the bridge. Pull up onto the bridge and head east around the ledges until you can’t go any further, and then look north and see a rope. Jump to the rope and swing to the newly opened doors in the north wall and go inside.
Climb to the top of the passage and shoot the four bats that show up; there’s a fifth bat flapping about in the west room. Note the closed doors to the north, and then enter the west room. Climb the rocky steps at the west wall, and then jump to the bridge. Face north and run jump to catch the second bridge, and then take a running jump to the hole in the north wall. Go around to the right and use the lever at the end of the passage to open a wall in the next room, and then drop down, kill a peaky bat and enter the west room. To the right you will see where the wall opened up and inside you will find a LMP. Take the reward and return to the lower cave outside. Go out to the closed doors in the previous passage, and as you approach the doors another bat will attack; you know what to do. Now use the lever up on the ledge to the left of the door to open the door and head through.
Stop just inside the door because spike traps will activate as soon as you step inside the door. Time the spikes and sprint through the passage when the spikes are fully out of the wall, and then drop down into the small cave at the end of the passage. Make your way west down the small cave and Lara will arrive above a beautiful pool room.
The Pool Room
Dogs are lurking on the lower ground, so nip down the rocks and shoot them from safety before diving into the pool for a pack of Flares. Return to the room and note the closed door to the west that you will enter later on, but first you need to head to the south wall, and to the left of the small broken wall you will find the wall is climbable. Climb up to the hole in the wall above and make your way through the following passage until you can’t go any further. Drop back and grab the ledge, and then shimmy right until you can pull up. Walk onto the little bridge at the north wall, and then jump to the east ledge by the water fall. Pull up above the waterfall and walk to the end of the bridge. Face the sloped wall ahead to the north and then jump and grab it. Shimmy left until you are on the east wall, and then shimmy left until you are about half way along the wall and can back flip with a turn to grab the bridge behind you. Pull up onto the bridge and take note of the closed north door. Go south along the bridge and drop down inside the small alcove ahead. Use the lever in the alcove to open the north door, and then make your way up to the newly opened door and go through.
Jump the deep pit ahead, and then go up the rocks to a tiny rock stacked room above. Climb the rocks to the top, and then jump into the hole in the west wall and go through to a small dark cave. Light a flare to see a crawl space in the south wall and climb through. The dramatic music spells danger and a bear shows up to greet you. Take down the beast and then use the lever on the east wall to open the door back in the pool room. There’s another bear lurking in a cave nearby but you can leave him there if you wish because he’s so slow that Lara can be out of here before he even notices her. Go back through the crawl space and out to the rock stacked room. Make your way down and back over the deep pit to the waterfall area, and then drop down to the pool room and enter the newly opened door in the west wall.
Run through the passage ahead and kill the bats that show up at the end. Drop down into a hallway with stairs, and use the lever on the north wall to open the west door and go through. You are now in a beautiful large temple room.
Large Temple Room
Kill the three dogs that attack as you enter the room, and then go behind the west pillar and use the lever on it to lower a block up in the room. Now make your way to the pillars at the south wall and climb to the top. Jump to the pillars at the east wall and then pull up onto the first small bridge tile. Jump to the following tiles, and at the final one stand jump down to a pillar to the north. Jump up to the bridge at the north wall, and then jump to the next two bridges to the west. Jump up right onto the balcony for a SMP, and then jump down SW onto the lower bridge. Take a running jump to catch the ledge to the south, and then pull up and climb the blocks to your right. At the top of the rocks you can see where the block lowered allowing you access to a hole in the ceiling. Climb up through the hole and make your way through the following cave until you are above an area with two bridges spanning the room. Slide down with guns at the ready because five dogs are waiting for you in the room below.
Room With Two Long Bridges
Take out the dogs and then enter the small south room for a SMP. Now go to the low north wall and find that its climbable and make your way up to the top. Grab the high north wall and climb all the way to the top of the room, and then nip up west to the first long bridge. Run over the bridge, and at the end go right and climb the blocks. Go right to find yourself on the second bridge, and then make your way across to the other side. Slide sown west and enter the passage ahead, and then walk out to the edge of the deep pit bear ahead.
Note: Players were not sure why we had to do this next part but we think it was to raise two blocks at the west wall to help us over the bear pit; however, this can be done with a simple running jump to catch the other side of the pit , so you can avoid this next long object move if you wish and continue from Over The Bear Pit
Doing The Object Move
Kill the bear in the pit below, and then drop down into the pit and enter the east room. Move the two objects from this east room and take them to the west end of the pit. Place the objects on the patterned tiles at the back of the west room and two blocks will rise nearby (As you leave the object placing area you will see the two risen blocks just behind the wall where you placed the objects). Return to the east room and head up the steps to the right. At top of the steps, drop down the hole using the ladder on the near wall, and stand on the pattered tile to open the door back to the two bridges room.
Note: There's a bit of an odd bug with this door and it might disappear into the wall leaving you with an invisible barrier when you try to leave, so nip back onto the tile to re-activate the door and all should be well. When you are through the door you will not be able to return through it, even though it appears to still be open.
Make your way to the top of the room as before and return to the top of the bear pit. Use the two risen blocks to help you over the bear pit.
Grab some Flares from the left side of the room, and then head down the steps. Go right and kill the three dogs that are lurking in the lower room, and then make your way into the new room. Note the closed doors at the east wall, and then climb into the alcove in the south wall and use the lever there to raise two blocks in the north room. Head through to the north room and see that the blocks have risen under two levers; one to the east and one to the west. Use both levers to activate the central silver platform, and then stand on the platform to open the north doors. Enter the small north room and use the button on the north wall to open the doors in the previous room, and then head back and enter the newly opened east wall doors.
The Final Areas
Head down the steps to the passage below and kill the dog that's waiting in the next room. Inside the new room, use the lever on the west wall to lower two blocks in the middle of the floor, and then drop down the hole. Make your way down the steps and through the east passage to familiar looking sloped wall room from Tomb Raider 1. Go to the right side of the balcony where you see a pole, (don't worry if you slide down to the sloped wall area, the west wall near to the pole is climbable) and jump to catch the pole. Turn Lara so that her back to the east ledge, and then back flip off to the ledge. Head along the ledge and kill the two dogs that attack, and then go to where the dogs appeared from a doorway in the north wall. Enter the passage and go right to find a lever, and use it to raise a block under a lever in the alcove to your left. Nip up the block and use the lever to activate a silver platform in another area, and then make your way back to the ledges outside.
Slide to ground and make your way north to where you see the silver platform on the ground in front of three doors. Stand on the platform to open the two smaller doors either side of the double central doors, and then go up into each door and use the levers inside to open the central double doors. Now simply enter the double doors and run through the passage to finish the level.
The End