Cain on the Bus
Level by Cain
Walkthrough by DJ Full
WARNING! This is the most boring level I've ever played. But this is only my
humble opinion.
General tips are:
- save grenades for eels and mummies
- save shotgun shells for dinos
- to kill an eel with pistols, you need to hit him in the head. Notice Lara
ducks a bit in certain point of backflip animation.
In this moment she's more likely to hit eel's head. So backflip
while shooting whenever you can. If your trigger finger is fast enough to take
advantage from switching targeting to manual, it may be advisable. Also, you
can make some space by letting an eel come closer to you, then jumping over it,
rolling and backflipping as many times as necessary
to get to the other side of the place. Then you can duck to hit the opponent in
the head more efficiently.
THE PROLOGUE
Kill 2 SASes. Pick up a large medi
from the left of the exit. Press the switch and fall into the pit. Slide down.
At the end of the slope, jump and grab the ledge.
PLATFORMING
Pull up and murder 2 SASes. Now look S and notice a
ladder. Look around and plan your way to it. You don't need a detailed
description here. I'm just gonna tell you grabbing
the ledge of the third platform isn't required and it's better to get onto it
before the enemy shoots you from there. And not to jump on
the high platform in the SW corner. And not to forget
2 large medikits from under it. After you
finish platforming and murdering, use the mentioned
ladder to descend to the lower floor. Here, it's also about jumping and
killing. When you get onto the fire platform, you can choose three routes.
SHORTCUT
Jump from here directly onto the lower platform in front of you. Kill a SAS on
the other side of the gap and jump over it.
HARDCORE SHORTCUT
Jump from here directly onto the SAS place mentioned above.
INTENDED WAY
Avoid an eel by jumping on the next pillar, and get out of SAS range by
escaping to another platform. Watch out for the next SAS behind baboon
platform. Shoot this thug carefully from here, hiding
behind the wall everytime he targets you. When he's
dead, kill the previous SAS from the distance. Now get back onto the previous
platform and shoot the remaining eel. Return to the platform you killed both SASes from and shoot the baboon 8-10 times from here but
DON'T kill it (it respawns automatically if you do
so). Drop down to the baboon platform and finish the monkey from there with 2-3
precise shots to prevent it from pushing you off the ledge. Now jump over the
gap, grab a small medikit left by the last SAS and
switch targeting to manual.
THE LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT
There's no possibility to miss any of the opponents waiting for you in the
luggage compartment (if we're really on the bus, its lowest part should be a
luggage compartment). SAVE THE GAME. Get psyched and slide down to face them -
a horde of giant chicken, guardians of the Talion.
They activate one by one. Fire shots rapidly to kill the first one and keep to
the right wall to find a lever. Just step on its square and kill one more
chicken and an eel. Pull the switch. Follow the right wall to find the Jeep
keys. Picking'em up activates next chicken. Get rid
of it. Again, stick close to the right wall to locate another switch. Stand on
a tile in front of it to spawn another chicken. After you kill it, pull the
lever. Find the next alcove with a switch. Getting inside
triggers another enemy. Finish the bird, pull the lever and find the
last alcove using the same method as always. After you kill the last enemy and
pull the last switch, find a door in the only one unexplored part of the place.
Get to the jeep, drive out of the "garage" and massacre some eels and
SASes on your way to the base of the ramp you slided down into this place. Drive up.
THE MAZE
On the top, kill 3 more SASes,
enter the door and start massacring people. You can find many of them in this
maze, but if you wanna get out of here, on the
following junctions go N, N, N, E, N, and E.
NAVY BLUE CATACOMBS
Up there, get outta vehicle
and collect: 24 normal shells, 1 big medi, 1 grenade
gun, 2 small medis, 20 explosive arrows and 2 packs
of super grenades. Climb the ladder. It's time for probably the toughest battle
in this game. Watch out for the grenades and you should have enough of them.
Blow up an eel horde and a SAS squad. Find and collect 2 packs of super grenades
in the NW and NE corners. Climb the central polerope
and backflip to land on the upper floor. See the
stairs? This is, IMO, the most "tomb raider" place Cain has ever
built. Reminds me of final levels of TR2. Advance
upstairs, blowing up the largest group of eels you've ever seen and stand on
the grate. You can look through it to see what awaits you there. These T-Rexes can be killed by single shot while they attack you.
You need a shotgun for it. There it is, lying on the floor in the middle of the
grate. Pick it up. The door opens. Go through it and slide down to face and
kill the dinos. There are 2 packs of super grenades
in the SE corner of the room, and a lever switch in the NE one. Pull it and get
out of here. Perform another asSASeelation and find 2
more packs of super grenades and 12 normal shells in the NW corner. Climb the
ladder to get to the top. Pull up into the corridor.
MUMMY CORRIDORS
If you know other Cain's levels, you probably treat
this as a kind of personal tradition. Proceed through the corridors, killing
lots of baboons (if you go back, the monkeys respawn),
picking up a grenade gun from under the ramp and blowing up some obligatory
mummies on your way to the jeep at the other end of the location. Enter the
vehicle and drive up the ramp you passed by a while ago. On the top, get out of
the jeep and jump over the gap. Do another running jump to grab a crack in the
wall. Shimmy left, pull up and pick up another grenade gun. Safety drop to the
corridor on the other side of wafer-thin wall. Kill some more SASes, monkeys and mummies on your way through the
passages. At the end, the path splits in two. In that place, kill some giant
chicken. Choose the left passage. Actually, it's a long alcove. You can find a
crossbow and some more normal shells in there. Enter the second passage and
proceed to the very end of it to find a ladder. Before you climb it, prepare a
shotgun to draw.
THE CONTAINER
On the upper floor, find and kill another T-Rex. Get to the next room. To get
to the top of the central container, go around it, climb the next ladder, jump
out of it, roll in midair, grab the ledge of the cage and pull up. Through the
grate, you can see the last jeep waiting for you to enter it. Notice a hole in
the wall. Find The Hand Of Orion inside and use it on
the receptacle on the N wall of the container room. Now you can enter the jeep.
FINAL DRIVE
Get out of the room through the portal that led you here. Pass by the wall and
drive up the ramp next to it, into the open space. Go down the slope to hit
finish trigger and leave this navy blue rampage.