Tomb of Water

Level by Emanuel Top (June, 2008)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie

You start in the desert beside a jeep. To the east is a cave but the circular door there needs items. Go north-west and slide down a hill. Pick up flares beside a tree. Look to the east and see a dark depression in the sand. You will return there soon. Now go west and follow the valley and see a hole next to a bull statue and a tree. First go up the south-west hill. Crouch down to pick up flares. Then drop into the black hole. Follow the dark tunnel to the east. You reach a junction. Continue east and shoot a vase and a scorpion. Pull up into a dark upper east wall crawl space. Drop on the other side. Go east and pick up flares. Notice a room behind the fence. Return through the tunnel back to the junction.

Go north and the tunnel splits. To the left is a dead-end tunnel ending in a closed gate. Go to the right and follow the tunnel to a small room. You can see another room behind the fence. Use the floor lever and there is an earthquake. Exit the room and return to the tunnel entrance hole. Pull up onto the east side. Pull up and back flip near the bull statue. Run and jump to the east and over the slope. Return east to the jeep. The dark depression is now a hole. Drop into the hole. Enter the dark opening in the north-east corner. Follow the crawl space to pick up flares and return. Now enter the dark opening in the north-west corner. Follow the tunnel to a small room. Shoot a vase for red shotgun shells. There is a closed gate in a north wall tunnel. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of a gate opening near water. Exit this room and climb out of the hole.

Go west back to the first hole. Drop in and go east to the tunnel junction. Go north and follow the left branch tunnel this time. You reach the open gate near the water tunnel. Swim west and follow the first branch tunnel to the left. Then left again to a small room and pick up flares. Swim out and take the first left branch. Follow the tunnel and surface into a small room for air. Use the floor lever and drop into the water hole. Stay there until a rolling spike ball rolls into the corner. Follow the ramp into the north-east corner and enter an open door. Follow the short corridor to a large room.

There is a platform in the middle of the room. Go south and follow around the platform. Shoot a scorpion and continue. You see a mummy on a small corner island cut off by a water trench. Shoot a vase near the platform and pick up flares. Jump onto the island with the mummy. Climb onto a block and pick up a small medipack. Or climb the block in the north-east corner and monkey swing onto the block near the mummy. Notice a closed door in the upper west wall. Dive into the water channel and swim into the north underwater crawl space. Pull up in a small room and use the floor lever. You get a cut scene of a gate opening in a dark room.

Return to the water trench and swim into the west underwater crawl space. Swim west to a T-junction. To the right is a closed gate. Swim left to a split in the tunnel. Take the right branch to a T-junction. Follow the left branch and surface in the room of the cut scene. Shoot a vase and a scorpion at the east wall. Go west and shoot a vase for red shotgun shells. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of an underwater gate opening. Return to the water. Swim east and then north and take the first right branch tunnel. Swim forward to the T-junction and then go to the left. Go straight and ignore any side branches. The current will carry you to a pool in a large building.

Swim into the crawl space in the middle of the east wall. Pull up onto a ledge and climb the pole. Back flip onto a west ledge. Shoot a vase in an alcove and shoot a scorpion. Continue west and use the floor lever. You get a cut scene of a gate opening in the water pool. You can see a receptacle behind it. Slide down the pole and stand jump to grab a crawl space in the upper west wall. Crawl to the end for secret #1 and a crossbow. Continue forward and shoot a scorpion. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of a fire stopping on a pedestal. Return to the water pool.

Pull up onto the south ledge. Go to the south-west area and pick up red shotgun shells on a grate. Go to the south-east corner and go down the steps. Shoot a scorpion and enter a small room. Shoot a vase at the end of the west tunnel and pick up flares. If you drop into a hole there, you get a view from the water pool. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of the dry pool. Exit up the steps and go to the north edge. Climb down a wall ladder into the dry pool. There are many things to do here.

Get into the lowest middle trench of the dry pool. Go east and drop into a hole. Now go west and crawl under the grate. At the end swim into a water trench. Stand up at the end and climb the wall ladder. Near the top, back flip and roll to grab another wall ladder. Climb up and pull up into a crawl space. Drop on the other side into a small room. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of nothing. You can hear a gate open but the cut scene is pitch black. Exit the room and climb down the wall ladder again. Drop into the water and return to the dry pool.

Go to the south-east corner and get into the entrance tunnel. Follow the tunnel and shoot a vase in an alcove for flares. When you climb onto a higher tunnel, you get a cut scene of a floor lever. Follow the tunnel and the gate closes. You have to evade three mummies as you run through the tunnels. You get to a split in the tunnel. Go south to another split in the tunnel. Go south and follow the tunnel to a small room. Shoot a vase for a large medipack. Return to the split and go west to a T-junction. Go north and follow the tunnel to a small room. Pick up the Hand of Sirius and shoot an empty vase. You can see another item behind a fence. Return to the T-junction and go north. Follow the tunnel and pull up into the room from the cut scene. Go west and use the floor lever. Exit the room and drop into the hole. Follow the tunnel to a split in the tunnel. Go right, then left and then straight. Drop into a lower tunnel and continue back to the dry pool.

Go to the south-west corner and hop onto a block. Use the floor lever and the gate opens in the lower corner beside you. Ignore the tunnel for now. Climb the wall ladder back onto the south ledge. Go down the steps again and use the floor lever. You can see that the pool is flooded again. Get into the pool and swim into the tunnel in the lower south-west corner. Enter the tunnel and go south to a tunnel split. Continue south and swim up to surface. There is a current flow against you so swim near the ceiling of the tunnel. Pull up into a room and go west into another room.

Climb a pole and back flip into a small room. Shoot a vase and then shoot a scorpion. Shoot another vase and pick up red shotgun shells. Climb the pole again and back flip into a higher room. Shoot a vase and then shoot a scorpion. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of an underwater gate opening. Slide down the pole into the bottom room. Return to the water hole and swim back to the pool. Pull up on the south ledge. Go down the steps again and use the floor lever. Return to drop back into the dry pool. Go to the dark lower south-west corner. Follow the tunnel to a split. Follow the east tunnel and through the open gate. Stand jump up a slope and pick up the Hand of Orion.

Go to the edge of the slope and jump up and forward to grab a wall ladder. Climb up and shimmy to the left to drop into a tunnel. Shoot a vase and pick up flares. Go west up the steps and shoot three scorpions. Follow the steps to a small room. Step onto a grate for secret #2 and pick up the shotgun. Use the floor lever and get a cut scene of a dark tunnel with a fire on a pedestal. Exit back down the steps and drop into the tunnel. Evade a mummy and follow the tunnel back to the dry pool.

Place the Hand of Orion in the north-west corner receptacle. You get a cut scene of two closed doors. Place the Hand of Sirius in the north-east corner receptacle. You get a cut scene of the two closed doors opening. Climb the wall ladder to pull back up onto the south ledge. Go down the steps and use the floor lever to flood the pool again. Exit and swim across the pool. Pull up onto the north ledge and in front of the open doors.

Go north up the steps and the doors close behind you. Continue up the steps and the next set of doors open as you approach. You enter a dark room with a central platform. Go to the west wall and move two statues onto two gold beetle design tiles. Go to the east wall and move one statue onto a gold beetle design tile. Go north and step on the gold beetle design tile and the camera view changes. The flame on the central platform has stopped. Hop onto the central platform and pick up the Eye Piece from the pedestal. You get a cut scene of many ninja back near the jeep. Climb the pole on the central platform and back flip into an upper room. Go south and follow the tunnel to a split in the tunnel. You have a choice of routes.

Route #1:

Go south to the tunnel split and a pedestal with no fire. If there is still a fire on the pedestal then carefully step on the corner of the pedestal and crouch down to crawl past the pedestal with the fire. Drop into a tunnel and shoot a vase in an alcove to pick up flares. Follow the tunnel down many steps. At the end, shoot a vase and then shoot a scorpion. Enter a room with a shallow water pool and some fires on pedestals. Wade through the water and pull up onto a block at the middle of the east wall. Walk through the wall and slide down a long slope. Follow the tunnel to a room and evade two mummies. Go to the south-east corner and enter the tunnel in the south wall. Follow the tunnel to the end and hear a gate open. Shoot a vase in the corner for red shotgun shells.

Go south and enter the open gate. Enter a dark room and shoot two ninjas. You have been here earlier. Exit out the east wall tunnel. Hop onto the block and pull up out of the hole. Shoot three ninjas near the hole. Go east and shoot a ninja near the circular door. Pick up the Eye Piece from the dead body. Make the Eye of Horus and use it to open the circular door. Run into the room and the level ends.

Route #2:

Go south to the tunnel split and a pedestal. Go east and shoot a vase and shoot a scorpion. Follow the tunnel to evade a mummy. Shoot a vase in an alcove for a small medipack. Drop down a hole into the flooded pool below. [Note] You can pull up on the north ledge. The closed doors will open as you approach. Go up the steps and onto the central platform to climb the pole again and follow route #1. [End note] Instead pull up onto the south ledge. Go down the steps and use the floor lever to drain the pool. Exit and climb down the wall ladders into the dry pool. Go to the south-east corner and enter the entrance tunnel again. Follow the tunnel and pull up into the higher tunnel. Go forward and take the first left branch tunnel and see a crawl space. You may be attacked by two ninjas that have sneaked up behind you. Go through the crawl space and into the room with a central platform. Go around the platform and shoot a ninja.

Enter the tunnel in the north-east corner and shoot a ninja. Run down the ramp and shoot another ninja. Dive into the water hole and swim east, straight north, and east again to exit the water trench. Follow the tunnel and shoot two ninjas. Follow the tunnel around and take the right side branches. Pull up at the hole near the bull statue again. Run and jump over the east slope and shoot two ninjas to the west behind you. Go east and shoot three ninjas near the jeep. Go east and shoot a ninja near the circular door. Pick up the Eye Piece from the dead body. Make the Eye of Horus and use it to open the circular door. Run into the room and the level ends.

30-jun-2008