4 x Black Beetle. Secret Key. Soul Cube. The Laser Sight.

The 1st Eye Piece

In front of you (south) there is a lighter coloured wall-tile in the south wall. This is a closed door; although it's not obvious. To your left (east) there is a small maze and to your right (west) there is a small room with a skeleton-lever and a closed gate.

3 Secrets

You are now standing on a central floating island in Limbo. There's a lot going on around you, but you won't be dealing with it all now. Start by picking up the LMP ~ Flares from the ground, then note the skeleton lying in the middle of the island. The skeleton is a crowbar-lever and it will open the way to a secret; but as you don't have the Sword of Fithos (crowbar) yet, ignore the crowbar-lever and forget about the secret for now. Also note the 5 receptacles for the Mystery Stones on the outer edges of the island.

Note: If you have 5 x Mystery Stones, you can collect 1 of the 3 Limbo secrets now and then head to Bonus Levels 1 & 2 and collect another secret on the way. The final secret will be collected later on when you have the sword of fithos. During your visit to Bonus Levels 1 & 2, you can collect 12 x Eye Of The Serpent artefacts. These will help you to gather the 3 x Pentagrams required to access Bonus Level 3. Don't worry if you miss any of the Pentagrams in Limbo, you can collect them later on.

If you do not have 5 x Mystery Stones, you will only be able to get 1 of the 3 Limbo secrets now. However, you will return here later on when you have the Sword of Fithos and grab another secret.

Proceeding In Limbo ~ Secret

Leave the Mystery Stone receptacles alone for now, nip up onto the NW corner block and spot the floating ledges leading to the north temple. You can't go inside the temple yet, but you can get the secret hidden on the roof of it. So let's make a start.

Run-jump to the NW ledge then run-jump to the north ledge. Run-jump towards the NE ledge, grab it and pull up. Stand at the back of the ledge and take a left curved running jump towards the west ledge, grab the edge of it then pull up. Stand at the back of the ledge and take a right curved running jump towards the temple balcony, grab the edge of it and pull up.

Note the three closed golden gates in the north wall of the temple. They are of no use to you now, but you will be back here later on to deal with them. It might interest you to know though, that the patterned-tiles above each gate correspond with the patterned-tiles on the receptacles on the east temple. Make a note this for later on, and then all will become clear when you have returned from the Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

So for now, note the ladder on the east wall with the closed hatch above it, then head to the opening in the west wall and pull up inside it. You are now on an outer wall of the temple. Go right, walk to the end of the temple wall, then face NE and jump down onto the small ledge on the wall of the temple. Face SE, jump up to the wall and make your way to the end. There are a series of ladders on the wall below you. Hang-drop onto the first ladder and shimmy left. Ignore the alcove between the ladders and make your way to the end of the ladder. Climb up, pull up onto the temple and then run to the end of the wall. Go right and use the wheel-switch to lower the hatch above the ladder.

Head back down to the end of the wall and hang-drop to the ladder. Shimmy right as far as you can (ignoring the alcove between the ladders), then pull up onto the temple. Go to the right, and then face NW and jump down to the small ledge on the temple wall. Face SW and use the higher triangular area on the ledge to perform a left curved banana-jump up to the temple wall. Make your way to the end of the wall, drop down to the left and you are back on the temple balcony. Head to the ladder on the east wall, climb to the top and pull up onto the roof of the temple. Now explore the temple roof for the Secret ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ 2 x Revolver Ammo ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ LMP. Wow! That was well worth the trek wasn't it?

Ok, now we can head back to the central island. Climb back down the ladder to the temple balcony, and then use the floating ledges to the south to get back to the central island.

Important Options

If you have 5 x Mystery Stones ~ Follow the walkthrough from Reaching Bonus Levels 1 & 2

If you do not have the 5 x Mystery Stones ~ Nip into the transporter, head back to The Aqueduct and follow the walkthrough from Proceeding In The Maze

Reaching Bonus Levels 1 & 2

Place 5 x Mystery Stones into the snake receptacles and you will get a long cut-scene showing you a number of things. To start with you will see various transporters activating throughout Limbo. You will also see some spikes de-activating on fire-trapped ledges to the NE. The de-activated spike-trap ledges are your main concern right now because they give you access to the far SW transporter. You will then use that transporter to zap to the top of the east temple, where you will find another transporter to take you to Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

A Burning Desire

Start by heading to the NE corner of the island and scan the floating ledges ahead. Placing the Mystery Stones has de-activated the spike-traps on the ledges, but you will still have to deal with the fire-emitters on them. So, stand facing the first ledge, then run-jump towards it and grab its edge. Shimmy all the way around to the other side of the ledge, wait for the flame to lower, and then pull up in the right hand corner of the ledge. You are safe here for now as long as you do not move Lara on the ledge. Wait for the flame to lower, then turn around, stand-jump towards the next ledge and grab the edge of it. Shimmy left around the corner of the ledge and pull up in the right hand corner. Wait for the flame to lower, run-jump to the next ledge and grab the edge of it. You can now repeat this procedure over the following ledges and the route will end at the SW transporter. Now step inside the transporter and Lara will arrive on the top of the east temple.

You can take a look around up here if you wish. There are 12 receptacles on the lower walls (6 on each side) where you will be placing the Eye Of The Serpent artefacts that you have collected from Bonus Levels 1& 2. Note the patterned-tiles on the receptacles, and then remember the patterned-tiles you saw above the closed gates back on the north temple. To open each gate, you must place 4 x Eye Of The Serpent artefacts into the corresponding receptacles. All 12 Eye Of The Serpent artefacts can be found in Bonus Levels 1 & 2. Ok, let's move on now.

Secret

Note the two transporters up on the temple roof. The north transporter will take you back to the central island. The south transporter will take you to Bonus Levels 1 & 2. But first we are going to get the next secret. Note: You can also get this secret later on when you come back from Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

From the transporter-tile you arrived on. Walk east to the edge of the roof and turn around. Hop back from the roof, then slide down and grab the end of the slope. Drop to the ledge below, then turn to face south, hop back from the ledge and grab it. There's a ladder below you, so climb down, and then shimmy to the right until the temple is behind you. Spot a passage behind you and back-flip into it. Face south and note the passage ahead. It's lined with collapsible-tiles and there is one safe-tile at the end. There's also a ladder on a pillar beyond the collapsible-tiles. Run over the collapsible-tiles to the end of the passage, then jump and grab the ladder. Shimmy left around the ladder, then climb to the ledge above. You will hear some spikes de-activating on a nearby ledge. Turn around, face north east and spot the de-activated spike ledge around the corner of the temple. Run-jump to the ledge, then run-jump to the next ledge to the north and save your game by the wheel-switch.

The wheel-switch is timed to a hatch on the other side of the temple; and you need to move fast to get there. Use the wheel-switch to raise a hatch on the other side of the temple, then return to the previous ledge (south) and run-jump around the wall to the ladder-ledge. Face SW, spot another de-activated spike-ledge around the wall to your right and run-jump to it. Take a right curved running jump to the following north ledge, grab it and pull up. Spot the raised hatch to your right, then run-jump towards it, grab it and pull up. Now quickly run-jump towards the ledge on the temple wall and save your game.

Run-jump to the next north ledge, and then face NE and jump down onto the small ledge on the other side of the temple wall. Use the jump-switch on the south wall to open the secret gate on the other side of the temple (and also activate a transporter behind you).

Walk west to the ledge of the ledge, then face SW and jump back to the upper ledge on the temple wall. Run-jump to the next south ledge, then stand-jump down to the hatch. Run-jump to the next south ledge, then run-jump to the corner ledge on the temple wall. Take a left curved running jump around the temple wall and land on the ladder-ledge.

Drop back from the ledge, grab the ladder and climb down. Shimmy right on the ladder until the temple is behind you, then back-flip into the collapsible-tile passage. The collapsible-tiles are gone now, but there's a monkey swing above you. So, grab the monkey swing, swing to the other end of the passage and drop from the monkey swing.

Head out to the right and jump back to the ladder. Shimmy left around the corner of the ladder, then climb onto the ledge above. Now pull up into alcove and collect the Secret ~ 3 x Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ 20 x Explosive Arrows ~ 2 x Flares ~ 4 x LMP ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ Revolver Ammo.

Head Back To The Transporter

You now need to get to the transporter you activated a moment ago (when you used the jump-switch on the other side of the temple). So, face north and run-jump to the ledge ahead. Still facing north, spot the spike-trapped ledge on the corner of the temple; and also note the transporter around the corner of the temple beyond the spike-trapped ledge. Time the spike-trap on the ledge, then just as the spikes lower, run-jump to the ledge and immediately run-jump with a left curve to land inside the transporter.

Lara will now arrive back on the temple roof and you are ready to proceed. So, nip into the south transporter and head off to bonus Levels 1 & 2.

14 Secrets ~ Including 12 x Eye Of The Serpent

Bonus Level 1 ~ Arrival

Lara arrives inside a beautiful castle, and here you will be visiting various tribute levels from QRS' own personal favourites. You can visit most of these levels in any order and you do not have to visit them all. However, if you are collecting the 12 Eye Of The Serpent artefacts, then please make sure you visit all areas before leaving.

Head towards the north end of the hallway and note the open arched passage in the west wall (three arches down from the starting area). The passage is closed off at the end and you will open it up later on. Also note the two large pools to your right (east), which you will be visiting later on. For easy reference we will call this the "main pool".

Make your way to the end of the hallway, and then go right (east) just a short way. There's a dark passage to your left (north). Run through the passage and make your way to the end.

Make a safety-drop to ground and head back to the top of the stairs. Turn right, head past the gate you visited earlier and then take a right turn up the stairs with the burning pots. At the top of the stairs, go right of the doors and collect a LMP from the pedestal. Now head through the double doors and enter The Clockwork Cathedral.

If you have played this level in its original form then you will know this room only too well. Yes, it's that raising and lowering trap-door-run. The principle is the same as the original version. Get to the other side of the room via the trap-doors.

Nip down to the lower balcony to your right (east) and walk north between the break in the balustrade. Stand on the edge of the balcony in front trap-door 1 (which is situated in front of the break in the balustrade). When the trap-door starts to rise, run onto it and run-jump NE to trap-door 2. Keep running as you land on the trap-door, then run NW and jump to trap-door 3. Now roll and run-jump back to trap-door 2, then roll and run-jump back to trap-door 3. Now run-jump north to trap-door 4 and quickly nip up into the north room.

Head to the NE corner of the room and use the wheel-switch to open a gate back in the main pool room. You'll visit there shortly, but there's one more task to do here first. Head to the west wall, climb the ladder behind the chain and pull up into a small passage above. Carefully walk around to the left and stop at the top of the slope in front of the gate. The gate will have opened as you approached it and beyond the gate there are four horizontal-bars. Beyond the horizontal-bars there is a jump-switch on the south wall. Slide down the slope, then jump and grab the first horizontal-bar. Swing around the bar, then jump to the next bar and grab it. Proceed in this fashion until you reach the final bar, and then jump to the jump-switch and pull it down. You will now see a long cut-scene of the arched passage in the main pool room, an explosion takes place at the end of the arched passage and a glass wall appears. The glass wall leads to another level, but you won't be heading there just yet.

Caverns Of The Dead by Michael Bender

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 2

This is a three-tiered room consisting of a ground, middle and upper floor. Your objective is to get to the top of the room, use a wall-lever and make the secret appear. To get to the wall-lever, you need to open a gate on the middle balcony by using four levers.

Start by taking note of a few things on the ground floor. There are three patterned floor-tiles, a jump-switch on the south side of the room and a double slope on the north side of the room. At the top of the second slope, there is a closed ceiling-hatch and above the first slope there is a monkey swing. Opposite the slopes there is a high room.

First, use the jump-switch on the pillar at the south wall and you will get a shot of a closed gate on the second tier of the room. Head up the slope on the north side of the room and note the closed ceiling-hatch. Now walk back down the top of the first slope, grab the monkey swing and make your way over to the high room through the east wall.

Note the movable-statue in the corner of the room and the wall-lever and skeleton-lever. Use the skeleton-lever and you will get another shot of the closed gate. Use the wall-lever to raise a pillar below the room, and then shift the movable-statue onto the raised pillar. Use the wall-lever again to lower the pillar and bring the movable-statue to ground level, then drop to ground and place the movable-statue on all three patterned floor-tiles. This will open the hatch at the top of the slopes. Head back up the slopes and pull up through the hatch.

You can now see the closed gate in the south wall and a smaller closed gate in the west wall (with an empty pedestal in front of it). Also note the lowered hatch on the inside wall of the central platform and the jump-switch opposite. Head to the east end of the room and enter the dark passage in the SE corner. There are some Flares in an alcove nearby if you need them. At the end of the passage, use the jump-switch on the west wall and get another shot of the closed gate. Return to the balcony and head to the west end.

Locate the wall-lever on the west wall (to the left of the closed gate) and get ready for a timed-run. The lever will raise the hatch inside the central platform, and then you need to make it to the jump-switch before the hatch lowers again. So, use the lever to raise the hatch, run to the hatch and nip onto it. Run-jump to the jump-switch and pull it down. The south wall gate will now open and Lara will land on the ground level.

Head back up the slopes, pull up to the balcony again and make your way through the newly opened south wall gate. Climb the ladder at the end of the passage, back flip off at the top and run out onto a central ledge at the top of the room. Run-jump over to the east ledge for a SMP, and then run-jump over to the west ledge. Use the skeleton-lever and the secret pick-up will appear on the pedestal below. Return down the ladder to the middle balcony, then head to the west end of the room and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 2 from the pedestal. The west gate will now open, so head through and find yourself on the top floor of the main pool room.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 3

Go left (south) to the small pool in the hallway, note the uw-lever on the north wall of the pool and then head into the far south room. Note the water pools in each corner of the room, then look inside the pools and spot the uw-levers inside them. You will be back here later on to deal with the pools and their levers, but for now, make your way to the SW corner of the room and locate the wall-lever on the east wall (under the arch to the right of the stairs). Use the lever to lower one of two ropes above the main pool, then leave the room and head back to the small pool with the uw-lever that you noted before you entered this room.

Run past the pool and note the closed north gate ahead (which you will be opening it shortly). Go L - R and make your way to the bottom of the stairs. Go L - L and run down the stairs to the lower balcony. Go left from here, and then take a right turn onto the balcony above the large pool. Run to the end of the balcony, spot the wall-lever on the south wall (under the arch to your right) and use it to lower a second rope above the large pool in the main room.

Take a running jump through the break in the railings to your right, grab the outer south wall balcony and pull up. Make two banana-jumps around the partitioning walls on the balcony to get to the end of the west end balcony, and then face the opening in the west wall. Stand-jump towards the opening, grab the edge of it and pull up inside. Drop down to the left into the lower south room and use the skeleton-lever inside to open the gate on the upper north balcony. When you use the lever, the walls to your right will lower and give you access back to the main room.

Head north along the balcony until you are four arches down, then head right and walk onto the bridge. Walk to the break in the railings and line up with the first rope. Run-jump towards the rope, and then grab it and line up with the second rope. Swing towards the second rope, then jump and grab it. Now line up with the suspended cage and swing towards it. When Lara is just above the cage, jump and grab the top of it and pull up. Face south and spot the jump-switch ahead. Jump up and grab the glass ceiling, then swing to the jump-switch and use it to open a floor-hatch in the main pool.

Lara will fall down to the left of the floor-hatch, so swim down inside the hatch-hole and head to the end of the following passage. At the end of the passage, swim up through the long water-hole, note the closed gate in the north wall of the hole and then pull out of the water into the upper east passage. Head to the end of the passage, then go right and make your way to the end of the following passage. You'll see a closed gate ahead and a wall-lever to the left. The lever is timed to the gate you saw in the water-hole a moment ago. So, use the lever, then sprint back through the passages, drop into the water-hole and quickly swim inside the gate before it closes.

Inside the gate there's an uw-lever. Use the lever to open the gate back up in the passage, then swim out of the gate and pull out of the water into the east passage again. Make your way to the newly opened gate at the end of the passage and stop at the gate. Spot the jump-switch ahead and use it to open another floor-hatch in the main pool. Lara will fall down inside the floor-hatch and it will close behind her. Swim to the end of the following passage, then go left (east) and pick up the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 3 from the end of the passage.

Secrets ~ Eye Of The Serpent 4

Access Ancient Artefact ~ The Beyond by Max

Run ahead to the end of the passage, then go left and stop, because you are now about to enter a passage laden with lava-traps. You will in fact be visiting another of these types of passages, so for future reference we will call this the 1st lava-trap passage.

Jump the lava-traps to get to the end of the passage, and then note the closed gate in the north wall and the water-hole to the right of the gate. Drop into the water-hole and swim down. Note the passage to the north; but don't go through there yet. Swim down into the south passage and make your way to the end. Swim up and note the passage to the east, but don't go through there yet. Swim west to the end of the passage, then swim down inside the floor-hole and use the uw-lever to open a hatch at the other end of the passage. Swim out of the hole and up into the passage again. Swim straight ahead to the end of the passage, then swim up and climb out through the newly opened hatch.

You are now in the 2nd lava-trap passage. Ignore the west end of the passage for now and walk towards the first lava-trap. The camera angle will change and you can see an opening in the lava-trap wall. Jump to the other side of the lava-trap, then turn and walk to the edge of it. Hop back from the edge of the hole, then run towards the hole, press the "action key" and run into the hole. Lara will glide down into the opening in the lava-trap wall and arrive in a passage. Pick up the SMP, then head to the end of the passage, drop down the hole at the end and head around into another lava-pool passage.

Jump over the first lava pool, then turn around and walk to the edge of the ledge. Face NW and make a curved running jump into the alcove in the west wall. Use the skeleton-lever inside the alcove to open a gate at the other end of the passage, and then jump back to the previous ledge. Head on through the passage (jumping the lava-pools as you go) and you will come to the gate you opened a moment ago.

Use the skeleton-lever to the left of the slope to open the double doors back in the 2nd lava-trap passage, then head up the slope. Go R - L and climb to the top of the following passage. Pull up out of the passage into a small room and take the LMP from the pedestal. Head out of the room via the west passage and make your way to the gate at the end. The gate will open as you approach, so run through and find yourself back in the 2nd lava-trap passage (but this time you will be at the other end of the passage) and the newly opened double doors are to your left.

Enter the double doors and run to the top of the slope. Head through the following passage and make your way to a small room at the end. Note the closed central floor-hatch and the closed west gate, and then run down onto the floor-hatch to open it. Lara will drop down into the room below, slide down a series of slopes and land in the next tribute level.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 5

Take note of the green slopes you arrived here by because you will be visiting them again in a short while. Head outside to the building and spot the ferryman floating about to your left. The ferryman is a warning, so take heed and don't fall off the edge of the path or you'll be paying him a visit. Run to the end of the path, locate the jump-switch on the west wall and use it to raise a hatch on the green slopes. Head back towards the green slopes and take note of the closed gate in the building, the boulder suspended by a rope at the end of the building and a hatch and burning wall-lever up on the north rocks.

Back at the green slopes, run left of the central mound and jump up to the north wall. Face east, jump up ahead to the higher mound and then pull up onto the higher east mound. Note the burning torch on the north wall, the unlit torch on the west wall (with a ladder to the right of it), and the hatch you raised a short while ago. Now face NW, jump over to the pile of Torches in the corner of the rocks and pick up a Torch. Jump back to the high mound, light the Torch on the burning wall-torch and then walk to the SW corner of the mound. Take a running jump over to the hatch you raised earlier and light the wall-torch to extinguish the fire by the wall-lever outside.

Take the Torch with you and drop down to ground. Re-enter the outside area and burn the rope below the boulder. The boulder will drop and the hatch will rise on the north wall. Drop your Torch where you can find it easily, then stand on the right side window sill of the building. Face out towards the raised hatch and take a running jump to grab it. Pull up, jump to the wall-lever on the north wall and prepare for a timed-run.

Use the lever to temporarily open the gate in the building, then roll and run-jump down to the gate and quickly jump inside the building before the gate closes. The gate will remain open now, so nip outside again, grab your Torch and take it back inside the building.

Light the floor-pot at the north end of the room (don't stand too close or Lara will burn) and the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 5 will appear on the pedestal at the south end of the room. When you take the eye of the serpent, the exit gate will open in the room above the green slopes.

Head back to the green slopes, and then as you did before, jump the slopes to the highest mound. Run-jump to the hatch again, then go right of the burning wall-torch and jump up the slope to the north wall ladder. Climb the ladder, shimmy right as far as you can and drop off onto the high mount. Now comes the tricky part. You need to get Lara up inside the hole in the ceiling and grab the ladder inside. So, stand Lara here Screenshot side flip-left onto the slope below the hole in the ceiling, then bounce forwards and grab the ladder. When you are safely on the ladder, climb to the top and pull up into the room above.

Return To Bonus Level 1

Leave via the west gate and make your way to the end of the passage. Slide down the slope and arrive back in the 2nd lava-trap passage. Head left and jump the lava-traps to get to the west end of the passage. Drop down into the water-hole, swim down and then swim west until you can swim down into a lower passage. Swim north to the end of the passage, then swim up and pull out into a small room. The south gate will open as you arrive in the room, so head through and find yourself back in the 1st lava-trap passage. Jump the lava-traps to get to the south end of the passage, then go right and re-enter Hall of Fame ~ Part 1.

Drop into the pool ahead, swim under the bridge with the glazed windows and then swim up and pull out of the pool. Head to the end of passage and the elevator doors will open as you approach. Enter the elevator and use the wheel-switch twice to take Lara back up to the main room. Approach the elevator doors to open them, head up the passage and return to the main pool room.

The next level you are going to visit comes in two sections. You will visit part 1 now, and then visit part 2 later on.

Locate Part 1 Of Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins

Make your way to the main pool and head over to the east side of the room. Run southwards along the hallway to the third archway, then go left through the arched passage. At the end of the passage, you will come to another elevator (the doors will open as you approach them). Enter the elevator and use the wheel-switch to take Lara down to her next destination.

Approach the elevator doors to open them, and then head through to the passage beyond. Make your way to the water passages at the end of the passage, and then jump onto the water slide to the right (the left water slide will drag Lara to a watery death). Slide down the water slide, and then jump the hole at the end to get safely into the next passage. Head through to the end of the south passage and arrive in another part of Bonus Level 2.

Run ahead to the T-junction and note the closed double gates at the end of the passage to your left. We will come back to that later on. Make your way down the south passage and stop at the lava-trap. Spot the jump-switch in the alcove on the other side of the lava-trap and jump over to it. Line Lara up below the jump-switch and two steps to the right of it. Back-flip onto the slope behind you, and then bounce forwards, grab the jump-switch and pull it down. You will see a floor-hatch open in another area.

Jump out of the alcove and head towards the west passage. Note the closed gate to your right (north) then jump the lava-trap and enter the small room at the end of the passage. The floor-hatch you opened a moment ago is in a small passage to your right (north), but leave it alone for now and enter the room to your left (south).

Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 1

As soon as you walk out onto the first floor, you will notice a wall-lever on the east wall. To your right there is a central structure with four unlit-torches on the outer walls and an inner room through a crawl space. On the other side of the room (west) beyond the central structure, there is an unlit floor-pot. In the south wall there is a passage leading to a ladder with a closed hatch at the top of it. On the ground level of the room there are four corner levers behind fires, four movable-objects on the outer paths and four blocks under the central structure. On the top level there is a closed gate (east wall) at the end of the path that leads from the central structure. In the west wall there is a high passage and below the high passage there are two lighter coloured floor-tiles.

Leave the east wall lever alone for now and make your way around the path surrounding the central structure (note the unlit wall-torches on the way). When you reach the west side of the room, keep heading around to the right and Lara will run up onto the first flight of stairs surrounding the central structure. Head on until you are on the second flight of stairs, then stop half way up and notice a wall ladder leading up to a crawl space inside the central structure. Climb the ladder and head inside the crawl space. Drop down into the tiny room beyond and use the wall-lever inside to open the east gate at the top of the structure.

Pull out from the crawl space and make your way to the top of the structure. Run east up the path and enter the newly opened gate. Take a look at the end of the north passage and note the unlit wall-torch on the west wall. Lighting this wall-torch will get you a secret later on. For now though, head back to the south end of the room and take a Torch from the pedestal.

Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden

Make your way ahead to the T-junction, then head left (SW) to the archway in the west wall. Just before you enter the passage, load up your shotgun (or crossbow with explosive arrows) because an unwelcome visitor is about to arrive. Enter the passage, and then as you approach the central area, a skeleton will appear from out of the floor. Grab your weapon of choice, and then either shoot the skeleton into the pool at the end of the hallway, or blast it away with your crossbow. When that's taken care of, drop into the pool at the end of the passage and swim down into the flooded chamber.

Inside the chamber, there are four passages. North, south, east and west. Each passage is marked with its own face-tile to help you distinguish the passages. At the end of the north passage you will find a closed door. At the end of the south passage you will find another closed door (which is timed). At the end of the east passage you will find a hole in the ceiling with a wall-switch up inside it. This switch is not timed and it will open the door at the end of the north passage. At the end of the west passage, you will find an uw-lever. This lever is timed to the door at the end of the south passage.

Enter the east passage and swim to the room at the end. Collect the Flares from the central ledge, and then swim up inside the ceiling-hole. Pull out into the passage above and use the wall-switch to open the door at the end of the north passage. Swim back to the central chamber, then swim right and enter the north passage. Swim to the room at the end of the passage and pick up the Hathor Effigy from the central ledge.

Swim back to the central chamber and go up for some air. Dive down into the chamber again and enter the west passage. Swim to the room at the end of the passage, collect the LMP from the central ledge and then use the uw-lever on the north wall to open the door at the end of the south passage, but do not try to do the timed-swim yet! Wait for the cut-scene of the door opening to finish, then swim back to the central chamber and grab some air. Re-enter the west passage and swim back to the uw-lever. The timed-door will now be closed and the uw-lever will have re-set itself. When you re-use the lever, the cut-scene won't kick in this time and you will have the extra valuable time you need to accomplish the timed-swim. When you have used the lever again, swim back to the central chamber and enter the south passage. Swim through to the room at the end of the passage (hopefully you made it past the door in time) and pick up the Ornate Handle from the central ledge.

Return to the central chamber, swim up and pull out of the pool. Run to the end of the passage and go left (NE) after the arch. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go past the closed doors and head around into the next passage (SE). At the end of the passage, go left (east) and enter the sarcophagus room.

Do not shoot the jar to your right as it contains another skeleton. The jar to your left is empty so leave that alone as well. Search the NE and SE corners of the room for two more jars, then shoot them and collect the SMP ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo from the shattered remains. Now combine the Hathor Effigy with the Ornate Handle to make the Portal Guardian, face south at the receptacle and place the portal guardian onto it to open another door out in the passages.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 8

Leave the room and enter the passage to the left (SW). At the end of the passage, turn left into the south room and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 8 from the pedestal. Leave the room and head out to the right (NE). Run to the end of the passage, then run left past the portal guardian room and enter the NW passage. At the end of the passage, enter the north room and the doors will close behind you.

Drop into the pool and swim down through the passage in the bottom of the pool. At the end of the passage, pull out and collect the pack of Revolver Ammo from passage to your left. Now head through to the end of the passage and slide down the slope ahead.

Skellycombs by George Maciver

The ground floor of this room could be classified as a maze; seen as its pathways run around several structures. But there are no dead-ends and it isn't that large (so don't be distressed by the thought of getting terribly lost in here). Your first task is to open a door to upper passages within the structures and you will do this by finding three skeleton-levers on the ground floor. You also need to collect the handle before proceeding to the upper areas.

Lever 1

Bonus Levels 1 & 2 ~ Hall Of Fame 1 ~ Revisited 2

Access Legacy Of The Gods Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins Part 2

At the end of the following passage, jump into the right hand side water passage (the left one will drag Lara to a watery death). Slide to the end of the passage, then jump the hole at the end and arrive safely in the passage beyond. Enter the passage to your right and make your way down to the elevator. The elevator doors will open as you approach, so nip inside and use the wheel-switch on the wall twice to take the elevator up to the main pool room. Leave the elevator, head through the following passage and Lara will arrive back at the main pool room.

Ok, remember that we have only covered one tiny area in the Luis Martin's level so far and now we can complete the task. So, make your way northwards down the hallway and enter the area at the far north end of the room (where the small pool is). Head to the right after the pool, then go right again and make your way to the top of the stairs. Go R - R and head up the stairs with the burning pots. At the top of the stairs, go R - R onto the south stairs and head to the top. Now make your way southwards and enter the far south room.

Take a look around in here because there are a few things to note. There is a large closed gate at the top of the south stairs and a small pool in each corner of the room. Inside each pool there's an uw-lever and two gates.

The pool in the SW corner of the room is your starting place, so make your way over there and drop into the pool. Your next task will be a multi timed-run from pool to pool via the gates in the pools, which you will open with the uw-levers. Each uw-lever will open the gate out of the pool and give you access to the next uw-lever. The timed-run finishes when you are back in the pool you started from. When all uw-levers have been used, the south gates up the stairs will open. If you are not quick enough inside the pool passages, Lara will be locked inside and you will have to re-load from the starting pool. So, let's begin.

From pool 1, use uw-lever 1 - Swim into passage 1. Use uw-lever 2 - Swim into to pool 2. Swim right into passage 2 - Use uw-lever 3. Swim into to pool 3 - Swim right into passage 3. Use uw-lever 4 - Swim into pool 4. Swim right into passage 4 - Use uw-lever 5 and swim back into pool 1.

The gate will remain open, so you can go up for air and then swim back down and grab the LMP inside the gate. The gate at the top of the south stairs will now be open, so make your way up there and enter the newly opened gate. Drop down through the long shaft (it's perfectly safe to do so) and Lara will float to ground.

Use the skeleton-lever in the north alcove to open the double south doors, and then head up to the doors and pick up the Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ LMP. Now enter the double doors.

Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 2

Walk out into the balcony of the beautiful pink and purple room, find yourself at the other side of the room you visited earlier and be informed that you have now entered Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 2

Start by taking a running jump to the central platform and take out the skeleton who is parading about on the platform. There's another skeleton sleeping nearby and he'll jump into action as soon as you approach him, so let him wipe the sleep from his eye sockets, then blast him away too. Make your way east and run all the way to the end of the platform. Jump over to the east wall balcony and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 10 from the pedestal.

The Hand Of The Gods 3

Walk to the south edge of the ledge, nip onto the diamond shaped pink rock and then jump to the pink slope on the south wall. Slide down the slope, grab the end of it and shimmy right until you can pull up onto a flat area on the slope.

Face west, and then use the flat areas on the west slope to get to the high brown ledge sticking out of the south wall. From here, jump over to the roof of the central platform, then walk to the east end of the roof and take a running jump over to the suspended-tile. Now jump to the roof of the east wall balcony and use the wall-lever to open a hatch at the west end of the room.

Jump back to the suspended-tile and jump back to the roof. Walk to the west end of the roof and stand Lara on the right side. Look down and spot a jump-switch on the side of the roof and use it to lower two ropes at the west end of the room.

Return to the east end of the platform and jump back to the east wall balcony. As you did before, jump to the pink slope on the south wall and shimmy right until you can pull up. Face north, then look down and spot a long slope leading down into the deadly lake. Also note the block in the lake beyond the long slope. There's a ladder on the side of the block and a spike-trap on top of it.

Drop down onto the long slope, slide to the bottom and then jump while pressing the "action key" key so that Lara grabs the short ladder on the side of the block. Don't pull up or you will get spiked. Shimmy left around the block until the wall ladder below the central platform is behind you, then back-flip with a twist and grab the ladder. Climb to the top of the ladder, pull up into the small room above and take the Hand Of The Gods 3 from the pedestal.

The Hand Of The Gods 1

As you take the Hand Of The Gods 3, a hatch will open at the top of the west wall ladder. Climb to the top of the ladder, pull up through the newly opened hatch and find yourself back on the central platform.

Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins Part 2 ~ Continued

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 12

Go right to the west side of the balcony and climb up to the high passage. Head to the end of the passage and climb down the ladder. Face SW, jump over to the ledge on the west wall and then jump to the south balcony. Run-jump over to the central platform and make your way to the east end. Jump over to the next central platform, then run-jump to the south balcony again. Make your way down the long path and head back to the west room.

Head straight over into the north passage and make you way down to the newly opened gate. Two spike-traps will de-activate on the following areas. 1 ~ On the block around the corner to your left on the north wall. 2 ~ Inside the north gate. Take a left curved running jump around the wall to the block at the north wall, then run-jump inside the north wall gate.

Place the 3 x Hand of The Gods in the receptacles on the north wall. The central floor-hatch will open and you will have access to a flooded passage. Drop down inside the passage and dive down southwards. Do not swim into the north passage yet or you will miss the final secret. Swim straight ahead to the south end of the passage and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 12 from its watery resting place.

Return To Bonus Level 1

Swim north past the hatch and you will be swept back to Hall of Fame 1.

Proceeding In The Maze

Note: If you have just returned from Limbo, head out of the transporter room and make your way to the glass floor above the maze.

The Four Levers & The 2nd Eye Piece

Only use the first lever from the left. This will open a gate down in the maze (directly below your feet). Drop back down to the ground using the slopes in the NE corner that you came up here by, then run all the way around to the north side of the maze. Run under the first open gate, head to the end of the passage, then go right and enter the newly opened gate. Use the wall-lever inside the gate to open the next gate, then head out to the left and make your way to the end of the passage. Now go L - L into the newly opened gate.

To the right you will see a skeleton lying at the end of the passage. This is a floor-lever, but you need the Sword of Fithos to activate it. So, ignore the skeleton for now and head to the left. At the end of the passage, use the wall-lever to open gate on the south side of the maze, then return up the passage and head left. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go L - L and enter the newly opened gate.

Note the Black Beetle and 2nd Eye Piece behind closed gates in front of you, then head into the passage to the left and use the wall-lever to close the gate on the east side of the maze. Head back out of the passage, go L - L and run past the gate you have just closed. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go right and use the slopes to get back up to the top of the maze.

Raise the first wall-lever. This will open the east gate, and the gate to the 2nd Eye Piece. Now make your way down the slopes again and go L - R into the open gate. At the end of the passage, enter the next gate and pick up the 2nd Eye Piece.

Using The 1st & 2nd Eye Pieces

Return to the slopes and head back up to the top of the maze again. Enter the passage in the NW corner and make your way through until you come to a lava-trap. Jump the lava-trap to get to the other side of the passage, then head on until you come to a second lava-trap. Look down into the lava-trap and spot a ladder on the wall inside. Climb down the ladder and drop off into the passage to your left. Use the wall-lever at the end of the passage to open a gate at the top of the passage, and then climb back up the ladder and head to the top of the passage. The newly opened gate is ahead and beyond that you can see the large gate that you saw when you collected the Eye Pieces. Combine the 1st Eye Piece with the 2nd Eye Piece to make the Eye Of Horus and use it to open the gate. Save your game before heading through the gate because a boulder-run awaits you.

The Boulder-Run

Start sprinting down the slope ahead. The boulders will fall behind you and it's non-stop until you reach the next room. Do not stop sprinting or the boulders will catch up with you. Also make sure that you don't run into the side walls or Lara will burn. At the end of the slope, run-jump over the spikes and lava pit to land on a crumbling tile, then continue to run-jump over the next lava pit, grab the edge of the ledge and pull up.

Crashing Spiked-Walls

You are now facing a crashing spiked-wall passage. Turn around (east) and look into the lava pool room. Note the closed gate in the wall to your right, the lowered hatch to your left and a dark-tile on the pillar to your left. The dark-tile is a block that will lower later on. Now turn around and walk towards the first spiked-wall. Look into the left alcove behind the first spiked-wall and spot a skeleton-lever behind a gate. Time your jump (or run) past the first spiked-wall, then head past the second spiked-wall and walk ahead to the third spiked-wall. Look into the right alcove behind the spiked-wall and note the passage. You will come back to later on. Now continue past the spiked-walls (taking note of the closed floor-hatch on your way) and make your way to the room at the end of the passage.

The crashing spiked-walls will stop when you reach the new room, but they will activate again when you re-enter the passage. Now note the closed floor-hatch ahead and run past it into the next room.

The Hallway

You are now in a long hallway with several openings and a deep central pit. Start by entering the small room to your right (north) and collect the pack of Flares from the pedestal. Light a flare to see a triangular gap in the west wall, then head through the gap to the small passage beyond and use the wall-lever inside to open a gate elsewhere. Head back out to the hallway and walk to the central pit.

Take a look down inside the central pit and note the deadly pool and slopes below (which you will be visiting much later on). Now enter the passage to your left; but stop before going all the way inside because a crashing spiked-wall is active in the passage. Time the spiked-wall, then run left of it and head to the end of the passage. Use the skeleton-lever here to open a gate in the crashing spiked-wall passage. This gate will give you access back to the beginning of the level. Time the spiked-wall to get back into the hallway, then turn around and walk back towards the spiked-wall. Go right of the spiked-wall this time and head down the following passage. At the end of the passage, go right and make your way over into the small north room.

Note the secret keyhole ahead, then nip into the east room and note the skeleton on the floor. This is another floor-lever and you will need the Sword of Fithos to activate it. So, head back out to the secret keyhole and make your way into the west passage.

Note the Black Beetle behind the closed west gate, then head left (south) and walk to the central pit. Run-jump over the pit, grab the edge of the south passage and pull up inside. Go left in the passage and use the wall-lever on the north wall to open the gate back at the secret keyhole area. Now head back out of the passage, run-jump over the pit and head into the north passage. Go right to the secret keyhole room, then run ahead into the small east room and enter the newly opened gate.

Go right, spot a wall-lever on the south wall and save your game! The lever is timed to the hatch at the start of the crashing spiked-wall passage. You need to make it onto the hatch and push a block in into a wall before the hatch lowers again. Sprinting all the way will get you there in good time.

Use the lever, then head out of the room and into the secret keyhole room. Go left out of the room (watch out for the spike-trap that pops out from the wall as you approach the hallway) and head over into the south passage. Go left into the single crashing spiked-wall passage, then time the wall and run left of it to get back into the hallway. Head right, run ahead to the crashing spiked-wall passage and sprint past the walls (this is possible if you time it correctly) to get to the lava pool at the end of the passage. Now nip onto the raised hatch and push the block in the pillar forwards before the hatch lowers again.

Placing the block has now opened the gate on the other side of the lava pool. So, turn around run-jump to the south passage and use the skeleton-lever inside to activate the floor-hatch in the crashing-wall passage. The hatch will not be open at this point, but it will do so when you approach it. Jump back to the crashing spiked-wall passage and time your way past the walls until you reach the wall before the floor-hatch. Now run onto the floor-hatch to open it and drop down into a pool below.

Below you now is a floor-hatch and beyond that is the Secret Key; which you can't reach yet. Note the gate in the south wall of the pool, then swim up and surface in the pool. Climb out onto the pillar in the NW corner and use the lever on the north wall. Drop back into the pool, pull out on the east side and use the lever on the south wall to open the gate in the pool. (Also note the smaller pool with the central ledge which you will come back to later on). Swim down through the newly opened south gate, make your way to the end of the flooded passage and pull out to the east.

Note the Bag of Sand behind a closed gate to your left and the keyhole to your right, then nip to the end of the passage ahead and note the skeleton-lever (which you will come back to later on when you have the Sword of Fithos).

Head past the keyhole into the room beyond and step onto the floor-hatch. As you do so, a cut-scene will kick in showing you the Golden Key on a pedestal and various hatches and levers in the following rooms. As soon as the cut-scene ends, the floor-hatch will open and Lara will fall into a pool below.

In the room above the pool, you can see some levers and lowered hatches. This is a timed-run that you will be doing shortly. Swim through the passage in the west wall of the pool and pull out at the end. Head to the end of the passage and find yourself on a ledge above the pool. As you walked out onto the ledge, the east wall gate opened down in the pool room. Note the various hatches and levers up inside the walls of the room, then drop down to the pool room below and head over to the east wall lever.

A Timed-Run For The Golden Key

Save your game, then use the lever to temporarily raise the first hatch up on the north wall. Drop into the pool and swim back to the end of the passage. Pull out of the water and run to the ledge at the end of the passage. Face left, walk forwards to the edge of the ledge, then jump and grab the raised hatch and pull up. Use the lever on the north wall to temporarily raise the hatch to your right, then side-jump right onto the next north wall hatch. Use the lever on the north wall to open the east wall gate, then roll and run-jump with a left curve into the east gate before it closes.

Head through to the end of the following passage (taking care not to fall into the lava-trap at the end) and pull up into the upper passage to your right. Make your way to the end of the passage and step onto the trigger-tile. This will temporarily raise the north wall hatch, and then your time begins as soon as you leave the trigger-tile. Run-jump towards the raised hatch and grab it as far to the right as you can. Quickly pull up onto the hatch, turn slightly right and stand-jump into the north wall alcove. There's a monkey swing above you now, so grab hold of it and use it to get to the passage in the south wall. Head to the top of the passage, note the Black Beetle behind the closed north gate and then take the Golden Key from the pedestal to your right.

The Bag Of Sand

As you take the Golden Key, the gate beyond the pedestal will open, giving access to the top of the room. Head through the gate, then go left and enter the north passage. Use the Golden Key on the keyhole to open the gate to your left, and then nip inside the gate and collect the Bag Of Sand from the pedestal.

Find The Torch

When you take the Bag of Sand, you will see a shot of a block rising in the small pool room you visited earlier. Leave the room and head right. Drop into the water-hole and swim back through the long flooded passage to the pool you visited earlier.

Pull out of the pool on the east side and spot the newly risen block in the pool ahead. Jump to the risen block, stand at the back of the block and face the right hand side of the NE corner slope Screenshot Stand-jump onto the slope, then only using the "jump key" bounce Lara onto the following three slopes. On the third slope, press the "action key" and grab the ladder on the pillar ahead. Climb to the top of the ladder and pull up onto the pillar. Turn around to face south and walk to the right hand corner of the pillar. Spot the ladder on the south wall, then run-jump over the slope ahead and grab the ladder. Climb the ladder to the top, then climb left and drop off into the east wall passage.

Ignore the closed gate at the end of the passage for now, turn around to face west and spot the jump-switch over on the west wall. Run-jump towards the jump-switch, grab it and pull it down. You will see a shot of a gate opening back the crashing spiked-wall area and Lara will fall into the pool below.

Use the slopes and ladders again to get back up to the east wall passage. The gate at the end of the passage is now open. So, head down to it and watch the following cut-scene that kicks in showing you where you are. You are in fact inside a passage down in the lava pool at the end of the boulder run passage.

Note the jump-switch with a lowered hatch below it on the south wall and the spike-trapped alcove in the east wall. Inside the alcove there is a wall-lever and in front of the spike-trap there is a safe ledge. Start by jumping to the safe east wall ledge. Doing this will trigger the hatch below the jump-switch to rise. Now save your game because we're in for another timed-run!

The jump-switch is going to temporarily turn off the spike-trap in the alcove. So, run-jump towards the jump-switch, grab it and pull it down. Roll on the hatch, run-jump towards the safe ledge and then pull up and nip inside the alcove. Use the lever to temporarily de-activate the spikes in the west wall alcove, then roll and run-jump with a left curve up into the west wall alcove (jump inside the alcove, don't grab it or you will run out of time) and use the lever inside to temporarily de-activate the spikes in the higher east wall alcove. Roll, and run-jump with a left curve into the higher east wall alcove (jump inside the alcove, don't grab it or you will run out of time) and use the final lever to temporarily de-activate the spikes on the higher west wall ledge. Roll and take a left curved running jump to the higher west wall ledge (jump onto the ledge, don't grab it or you will run out of time). Now quickly pull up onto the low west slope and slide-jump ahead to the crashing spiked-wall passage.

Run past the crashing spiked-walls (avoid falling through the floor-hatch again) and head down to the hallway. Run ahead to the central pit, and then take a left turn (south) into the single crashing spiked-wall passage. Time the wall, and then run right of it and head to the end of the passage. Go right, make your way over to the north passage and jump the skeleton-trap to get inside the north room. Go left of the secret keyhole and make your way around the passage to the other end of the hallway. Run-jump over to the south passage, then go R - R and walk to the end of the short passage. You are now at the west end of the hallway. Run-jump over to the north passage and head into a passage with a grated wall.

Note the closed floor-hatch at the end of the passage to your right, then look through the grated north wall and spot the Torch on a pedestal. Whip out your pistols, shoot at the grated wall and then nip inside the passage. Watch the following cut-scene showing you two wall-torches back at the start of the level, then pick up The Torch.

Lighting The Torch

Leave the passage and head out to the central pit. Jump to the balcony to your right and note the closed gate for later on. Jump into the south passage, and then go L - L, jump to the balcony to your right and then jump into the north passage. Head around to the right into the secret keyhole room, then go right and jump over the skeleton-trap. Enter the south passage, make your way down to the single crashing spiked-wall and run left of the wall to get back to the hallway.

Note: If you haven't been following the walkthrough from the start, you might not have opened the gate to the beginning of the level yet. You need to do this or you will not be able to reach the room where you light the Torch. So, before leaving the hallway and heading back to the crashing spiked-wall passage, leave your Torch in the hallway and walk back to the single crashing spiked-wall passage. Time the spiked-wall, and then run left of it, head to the end of the passage and use the skeleton-lever to open a gate in the crashing spiked-wall passage. This gate will give you access back to the beginning of the level. Now time the spiked-wall to get back into the hallway and pick up your Torch.

Make your way to the crashing spiked-wall passage, and then time the walls to get to the spiked-wall before the floor-hatch. Run-jump past the spiked-wall, floor-hatch and the following spiked-wall. You now need to enter the passage to the left (behind the crashing spiked-wall). So, time the wall to get past it, then head down the passage and jump over the lava-trap. Head around to the end of the passage and arrive back at the start of the level. Now light the Torch on the burning wall-torch on the south wall.

Open The Wall-Sconce Task

Light the other wall-torch on the south wall and the floor-hatch will open back at the passage with the grated wall (where you collected the Torch from). Keep your lit Torch with you at all times and leave via the west wall opening. Go L - L, head back through to the lava-trap and jump back into the crashing spiked-wall passage. Go right of the spiked-wall and make your way back down to the hallway. Head to the central pit and go left into the single crashing spiked-wall passage. As you did before, make your way through the passages to the secret keyhole room, then continue on through the left passage and make your way back to the passage with the grated wall (where you collected the Torch from). Now drop down inside the now open floor-hatch.

Secret

If you want to get the next secret, you must do it now because the secret gate will close after you have done the wall-sconce task. You do not need the Torch with you at this point, so hit the "number 1 key" to drop it. The Torch will be safe here until you need it again.

Approach the south gate to open it, and then walk ahead to the lava pool. Run-jump over the lava pool to the south passage and head through. You can see the Waterskin on a pedestal behind the closed south gate. Head right into the next passage, make your way to the end and slide down into the lower passage for the Secret ~ LMP.

The Wall-Sconce Task & The Waterskin

A gate has opened above you now, so jump up inside it and land in the passage next to your Torch. Pick up your Torch and walk ahead to the lava pool. Now take a look inside the lava pool chamber and note the slopes and the two wall-sconces (east and west walls). You need to use the slopes to get to the wall-sconces and light them. Doing so will open the gate to the Waterskin.

Secret

You are now back on the central island in Limbo. Use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to raise a hatch on the ledge behind the transporter, and then jump onto the hatch. Face west, run-jump towards the triangular ledge, grab it and pull up. Take a right curved running jump to the following NW ledge, and then face south. Note the triangular rock on the corner of the island. You need to run-jump to the right hand side of it, and then bounce westwards and curve-jump left onto the island. You've now landed on a spike-trap which is about to activate, so jump clear of the pending trap, then collect the Secret ~ The Crossbow ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ 2 x LMP ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares from the pedestals.

Return To The Aqueduct

Taking care not to venture too close to the spike-trap, pull up onto the NE corner ledge and note that the triangular ledge down to your right is now fire-trapped; so you won't be using that. Walk to the NE corner of the ledge, and then face east towards the other triangular ledge. Time the spike-trap behind you, and then hop back and run-jump over to the triangular ledge. Now jump back to the hatch, jump onto the central island and nip inside the transporter to return to The Aqueduct.

The 1st Black Beetle

The 2nd Black Beetle

Head out from the beetle passage and go L - L - R to the slope passage. Use the slopes to get to the top of the maze again, then head to the SE corner and enter the newly opened south gate. Drop into the water-hole inside the gate and let the current take Lara to the end of the flooded passage. Pull out of the water and find yourself back at the timed-hatch and lever room.

Note the closed west gate with the 2nd Black Beetle behind it, then make your way through to the north passage and take note of the Bag of Sand pedestal you visited earlier. You will be making a hasty retreat through there soon. For now though, go R - R and use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to open the west gate in the previous room. Now re-enter the previous room and head inside the newly opened west gate.

You can see the Black Beetle ahead of you now, but don't touch it yet! Note the monkey swing above you, top up with health and save your game. Pry the 2nd Black Beetle from the wall, and then quickly grab the monkey swing to escape the flood of scarabs that come pouring out from the wall. The gate has also closed, so swing towards it to open it, then drop to ground and quickly head into the north passage. Run through to the north room, and then go left past the Bag of Sand pedestal you visited earlier and drop into the water-hole. Lara will now be swept away down a long flooded passage and arrive in the flooded chamber below the scales element room.

The 3rd Black Beetle

Swim to the west side of the flooded chamber, then swim up through the hole in the grating and pull up into the scales element room. Head to the NE corner of the room and use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to lower the block in the NW pillar. Now nip up onto the pillar and pry the 3rd Black Beetle from the wall.

The 4th Black Beetle

As you take the 3rd Black Beetle, you will hear a rush of water rush and the current has changed course in the flooded passage below the room. Drop back through the hole in the gating and swim through the east passage. Let the current take Lara to the end of the passage, then pull out of the water and slide down into the secret keyhole room.

Go left into the east room and use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to open the gate in the west passage. Make your way to the newly opened gate in the west passage, but do not touch the Black Beetle yet! First note the "Guns" sign on the wall behind the Black Beetle. This indicates that you will need to use your pistols soon. Now pick up the LMP, top up with health and save your game.

Pry the 4th Black Beetle from the wall and the south and east gates will close. You are now trapped with a hoard of hungry scarabs, so quickly roll and whip out your pistols. This will trigger the gates to open (there's no need to fire the pistols) and Lara can make her escape. Ignore the east gate and run immediately right into the south passage. Jump over to the south passage and the scarabs will follow, run over the edge of the pit and fall into the lava pool.

Secret

Return to the north passage (if any scarabs are still roaming around, just keep jumping back to the south passage until they have all dropped into the lava pool) and head around into the secret keyhole room. Go right into the south passage and jump the skeleton-trap to get into the hallway. Head through to the south passage and time the single crashing spiked-wall to get to the east end of the hallway. Go right to the crashing spiked-wall passage and then time the walls to get to the spiked-wall in front of the floor-hatch. In the east wall inside the floor-hatch hole there is a secret passage. Stand Lara as close to the crashing spiked-wall as possible and then time the wall and run into the hatch hole. As soon as Lara is past the edge of the hole, press the "action key" to glide her down into the lower passage. Now run through to the room at the end of the passage and collect the Secret ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo.

Note: Only visit the secret area once. If you do happen to return here later on, the secret bell will chime again, the secret will register twice and your secret count will get messed up.

The Shotgun & The Secret Key

You are now in a small maze type complex and the Secret Key is at the end of the west passage, but don't go there just yet. Head into the north or south passage, make your way around to the higher west room and take the Shotgun from the pedestal. If you enter the west passage, a ceiling-hatch will open giving you access back to the hallway, but as you still need to get the Secret Key, you can ignore the ceiling hatch for now. Head back through the east passage and make your way back to the lower room where you collected the secret. Enter the west passage, drop down into the hole and Lara will fall into the pool you visited earlier. Now swim down through the open hatch and pick up the Secret Key.

Secret

When you collect the Secret Key, the north gate will open. Swim through and head to the end of the passage. Don't turn into the left passage, swim straight on and collect a LMP from the end of the passage. Now swim into the west passage, make your way through the long flooded passage and pull out at the end. You are now in a passage above the secret keyhole room. Slide down into the room and use the Secret Key on the keyhole. You will get a cut-scene showing you a gate opening back in the mirror room.

Leave via the west gate, and then go left into the south passage. Jump over to the south passage, then head right and make your way to the end of the passage. Go right at the end of the passage, then jump left onto the outer west ledge and head through the west gate. Make your way to the end of the passage and nip through the liquid glass wall to get back to the mirror room.

Head to the NE corner of the room and use the triangular block to get onto the higher north pillar. Use the west pillar ladder to get up inside the passage in the hole in the ceiling, and then drop down at the end of the passage and run-jump into the newly opened west wall gate. Now head inside the room for the Secret ~ Pentagram 1 ~ LMP. Note: If you already have The Aqueduct Pentagram from Limbo, the Pentagram in this room will not be accessible to you because you will not need it. If you do not have The Aqueduct Pentagram from Limbo, then take it from here and watch the block rise over The Aqueduct Pentagram in Limbo.

Using The 4 x Black Beetles ~ The Soul Cube

Drop back down into the main room and head to the central pyramid. Place the 4 x Black Beetles into the sides of the pyramid to open it, then reach inside the pyramid and take the Soul Cube. 

Using The Soul Cube

Make your way over to the north side of the room and nip up into the north passage. Enter the room at the end of the passage and place the soul cube in the devil’s hand. The Laser Sight will now appear on the pedestal behind you, then as you pick it up a transporter will activate and the gate to the mirror room will close. Nip into the transporter and follow the walkthrough from Old & New Levels ~ Wrath Of The Wraiths 

4 Secrets

1st Eye Piece. 2nd Eye Piece. Eye Of Horus. Golden Key. Bag Of Sand. The Torch. Waterskin. Vase Of Oil. Ruby Cube. Sword Of Fithos (crowbar).

4 x Black Beetle. Secret Key. Soul Cube. The Laser Sight.

Very Important Notes

During this level, there are three main entry points to Limbo and/or Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

Route 1 ~ When you first enter the area above the glass covered maze Screenshot

Route 2 ~ Before collecting the 4 x Black Beetles Screenshot

Route 3 ~ When you return to The Aqueduct from the Lair Of The Serpents level Screenshot This route will be covered when you have returned to The Aqueduct from the Lair Of The Serpents.

This walkthrough is for Route 2. You will be visiting Limbo and/or Bonus Levels 1 & 2 before collecting the 4 x Black Beetles.

Note: If you require the walkthrough for Route 1 ~ Follow the walkthrough for The Aqueduct ~ Route 1

The 1st Eye Piece

In front of you (south) there is a lighter coloured wall-tile in the south wall. This is a closed door; although it's not obvious. To your left (east) there is a small maze and to your right (west) there is a small room with a skeleton-lever and a closed gate.

Head into the room to your right and use the skeleton-lever to open the south door outside. Head out of the room and run around into the newly opened door (which will slam shut behind you). Run ahead and you are up against a well concealed moveable-block directly in front of you. Push the block forward once, and then climb onto it and back-flip into the room above. Run into the room and collect the Flares and the 1st Eye Piece from the pedestals. When you take the 1st Eye Piece, you will and get a cut-scene of a large closed door in another area. Drop back to the lower passage and pull the movable-block back onto the trigger-tile to open the door again.

Head right (east) and go directly ahead into the east passage. You are now in the outer passages surrounding an inner maze. Follow the passage to the end, then go left and make your way to the end of the passage. Now go right and enter a small passage with a slope at the end. Turn your back to the slope, back-flip onto the slope and bounce forwards to grab the slope above. Pull up, then back-flip on to the slope behind and bounce forwards to the upper ledge. Now run ahead and slide down to the top of a glass covered maze.

The Glass Covered Maze

Note the passage in the south wall over in the SW corner. It has a transporter inside which will take you to Limbo; but in this route you will not be taking that journey yet, so ignore the passage and concentrate on the four wall-levers on the north wall.

The Four Levers & The 2nd Eye Piece

Only use the first lever from the left. This will open a gate down in the maze (directly below your feet). Drop back down to the ground using the slopes in the NE corner that you came up here by, then run all the way around to the north side of the maze. Run under the first open gate, head to the end of the passage, then go right and enter the newly opened gate. Use the wall-lever inside the gate to open the next gate, then head out to the left and make your way to the end of the passage. Now go L - L into the newly opened gate.

To the right you will see a skeleton lying at the end of the passage. This is a floor-lever, but you need the Sword of Fithos to activate it. So, ignore the skeleton for now and head to the left. At the end of the passage, use the wall-lever to open gate on the south side of the maze, then return up the passage and head left. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go L - L and enter the newly opened gate.

Note the Black Beetle and 2nd Eye Piece behind closed gates in front of you, then head into the passage to the left and use the wall-lever to close the gate on the east side of the maze. Head back out of the passage, go L - L and run past the gate you have just closed. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go right and use the slopes to get back up to the top of the maze.

Raise the first wall-lever. This will open the east gate and the gate to the 2nd Eye Piece. Now make your way down the slopes again and go L - R into the open gate. At the end of the passage, enter the next gate and pick up the 2nd Eye Piece.

Using The 1st & 2nd Eye Pieces

Return to the slopes and head back up to the top of the maze again. Enter the passage in the NW corner and make your way through until you come to a lava-trap. Jump the lava-trap to get to the other side of the passage, then head on until you come to a second lava-trap. Look down into the lava-trap and spot a ladder on the wall. Climb down the ladder and drop off into the passage to your left. Use the wall-lever at the end of the passage to open a gate at the top of the passage, then climb back up the ladder and head to the top of the passage. The newly opened gate is ahead and beyond that you can see the large door that you saw when you collected the Eye Pieces. Combine the 1st Eye Piece with the 2nd Eye Piece to make the Eye Of Horus, and then place it on the door to open it. Now save your game for a boulder-run!

The Boulder-Run

Start sprinting down the slope ahead and the boulders will fall behind you. Do not stop sprinting or the boulders will catch up with you. Also make sure that you don't run into the side walls or Lara will burn. At the end of the slope, run-jump over the spikes and lava pit and land on a collapsible-tile. Now run-jump over the next lava pit, grab the edge of the ledge and pull up.

Crashing Spiked-Walls

You are now facing a crashing spiked-wall passage. Turn around (east) and look into the lava pool room. Note the closed gate in the wall to your right, the lowered hatch to your left and a dark-tile on the pillar to your left. The dark-tile is a block that will lower later on. Now turn around and walk towards the first spiked-wall. Look into the left alcove behind the first spiked-wall and spot a skeleton-lever behind a gate. Time your jump (or run) past the first spiked-wall, then head past the second spiked-wall and walk ahead to the third spiked-wall. Look into the alcove to the right (behind the spiked-wall) and note the passage. You will come back to later on. Now continue past the spiked-walls (taking note of the closed floor-hatch on your way) and make your way to the room at the end of the passage.

The crashing spiked-walls will stop when you reach the new room and activate again when you re-enter the passage, so remember this for later on. Now note the closed floor-hatch ahead and run past it into the next room.

The Hallway

You are now in a long hallway with several passages and a deep central pit. Start by entering the small room to your right (north) and collect the pack of Flares from the pedestal. Light a flare to see a triangular gap in the west wall, then head through the gap to the small passage beyond and use the wall-lever inside to open a gate elsewhere. Head back out to the hallway and walk to the central pit.

Take a look down inside the pit and note the deadly pool and slopes below (which you will be visiting much later on). Now enter the passage to your left, but stop before going all the way inside because a crashing spiked-wall is active in the passage. Time the spiked-wall, then run left of it and head to the end of the passage. Use the skeleton-lever here to open a gate near the crashing spiked-wall passage. This gate will give you access back to the beginning of the level. Time the spiked-wall to get back into the hallway, then turn around and walk back towards the spiked-wall. Go right of the spiked-wall this time and head down the following passage. At the end of the passage, go right and make your way over into the small north room.

Note the secret keyhole ahead, then nip into the east room and note the skeleton on the floor. This is another floor-lever and you need the Sword of Fithos to activate it. So, head back out to the secret keyhole room and make your way into the west passage.

Note the Black Beetle behind the closed west gate, then head left (south) and walk to the central pit. Run-jump over the pit, grab the edge of the south passage and pull up inside. Go left in the passage and use the wall-lever on the north wall to open the gate back at the secret keyhole area. Now head out of the passage, run-jump over the pit and head into the north passage. Go right to the secret keyhole room, then run ahead into the small east room and enter the newly opened gate.

Go right, spot a wall-lever on the south wall and save your game for a timed-run! The lever is timed to the hatch at the start of the crashing spiked-wall passage. You need to make it onto the hatch and push a block in into a wall before the hatch lowers again. Sprinting all the way will get you there in good time.

Use the lever, and then head out of the room and into the secret keyhole room. Go left out of the room (watch out for the spike-trap that pops out from the wall as you approach the hallway) and head over into the south passage. Go left into the single crashing spiked-wall passage, then time the wall and run left of it to get back into the hallway. Head right, run ahead to the crashing spiked-wall passage and sprint past the walls (this is possible if you time it correctly) to get to the lava pool at the end of the passage. Now nip onto the raised hatch and push the block in the pillar forwards before the hatch lowers again.

Placing the block has now opened the gate on the other side of the lava pool. So, turn around run-jump to the south passage and use the skeleton-lever inside to activate the floor-hatch in the crashing-wall passage. The hatch will not be open at this point, but it will do so when you approach it. Jump back to the crashing spiked-wall passage and time your way past the walls until you reach the wall before the floor-hatch. Now run onto the floor-hatch to open it and drop down into a pool below.

Below you now is a floor-hatch and beyond that is the Secret Key (which you can't reach yet). Note the gate in the south wall of the pool, then swim up and surface in the pool. Climb out onto the pillar in the NW corner and use the lever on the north wall. Drop back into the pool, pull out on the east side and use the lever on the south wall to open the gate in the pool. (Also note the smaller pool with the central ledge which you will come back to later on). Swim down through the newly opened south gate, make your way to the end of the flooded passage and pull out to the east.

Note the Bag of Sand behind a closed gate to your left and the keyhole to your right, then nip to the end of the passage ahead and note the skeleton-lever (which you will come back to later on when you have the Sword of Fithos).

Head past the keyhole into the room beyond and step onto the floor-hatch. As you do so, a cut-scene will kick in showing you the Golden Key on a pedestal and various hatches and levers in the following rooms. As soon as the cut-scene ends, the floor-hatch will open and Lara will fall into a pool below.

In the room above the pool, you can see some levers and lowered hatches. This is a timed-hatch run that you will be doing shortly. Swim through the passage in the west wall of the pool and pull out at the end. Head to the end of the passage and find yourself on a ledge above the pool. As you walked out onto the ledge, the east wall gate opened down in the pool room. Note the various hatches and levers up inside the walls of the room, then drop down to the pool room and head over to the wall-lever on the east wall.

The Timed-hatch Run & The Golden Key

Save your game, and then use the lever to temporarily raise the first hatch up on the north wall. Drop into the pool and swim back through the passage. Pull out of the water and run to the ledge at the end of the passage. Face left, walk forwards to the edge of the ledge, then jump and grab the raised hatch and pull up. Use the lever on the north wall to temporarily raise the hatch to your right, then side-flip to the right and land on the next hatch. Use the lever on the north wall to open the east wall gate, then roll and run-jump with a left curve into the east gate before it closes.

Head through to the end of the following passage (taking care not to fall into the lava-trap at the end) and pull up into the upper passage to your right. Make your way to the end of the passage and step onto the trigger-tile. This will temporarily raise the north wall hatch, and then your time begins as soon as you leave the trigger-tile. Run-jump towards the raised hatch and grab it as far to the right as you can. Quickly pull up onto the hatch, turn slightly right and stand-jump into the north wall alcove. There's a monkey swing above you now, so use it to get to the passage in the south wall. Now head to the top of the passage, note the Black Beetle behind the closed north gate, then take the Golden Key from the pedestal to your right.

The Bag Of Sand

As you take the Golden Key, the gate beyond the pedestal will open, giving access to the top of the room. Head through the gate, then go left and enter the north passage. Use the Golden Key on the keyhole to open the gate to your left, and then nip inside the gate and collect the Bag Of Sand from the pedestal.

Find The Torch

When you take the Bag of Sand, you will see a shot of a block rising in the small pool room you visited earlier. Leave the room and head right. Drop into the water-hole and swim back through the long flooded passage to the pool you visited earlier.

Pull out of the pool on the east side and spot the newly risen block in the pool ahead. Jump to the risen block, stand at the back of the block and face the right hand side of the NE corner slope Screenshot Stand-jump onto the slope, then only using the "jump key" bounce Lara onto the following three slopes. On the third slope, press the "action key" and grab the ladder on the pillar ahead. Now climb to the top of the ladder and pull up onto the pillar. Turn around to face south and walk to the right hand corner of the pillar. Spot the ladder on the south wall, then run-jump over the slope ahead and grab the ladder. Climb the ladder to the top, then climb left and drop off into the east wall passage.

Ignore the closed gate at the end of the passage for now and turn around to face west. Spot the jump-switch over on the west wall, then run-jump towards it, grab it and pull it down. You will see a shot of a gate opening back the crashing spiked-wall area, and then Lara will fall into the pool below.

Use the slopes and ladders again to get back to the east wall passage and the gate at the end of the passage is now open. So, head on down to the gate and watch the following cut-scene that kicks in showing you where you are. You are in fact inside a passage down in the lava pool at the end of the boulder run passage.

Note the jump-switch with a lowered hatch below it on the south wall and the spike-trapped alcove in the east wall. Inside the alcove there is a wall-lever and in front of the spike-trap there is a safe ledge. Start by jumping to the safe east wall ledge. Doing this will trigger the hatch below the jump-switch to rise. Now save your game because we're in for another timed-run!

The jump-switch is going to temporarily turn off the spike-trap in the alcove. So, run-jump towards the jump-switch, grab it and pull it down. Roll on the hatch, run-jump towards the safe ledge, then pull up and nip inside the alcove. Use the lever to temporarily de-activate the spikes in the west wall alcove, then roll and run-jump with a left curve up into the west wall alcove (jump inside the alcove, don't grab it or you will run out of time) and use the lever inside to temporarily de-activate the spikes in the higher east wall alcove. Roll, and run-jump with a left curve into the higher east wall alcove (jump inside the alcove, don't grab it or you will run out of time) and use the final lever to temporarily de-activate the spikes on the higher west wall ledge. Roll and take a left curved running jump to the higher west wall ledge (jump onto the ledge, don't grab it or you will run out of time). Now quickly pull up onto the low west slope and slide-jump ahead to the crashing spiked-wall passage.

Run past the crashing spiked-walls (avoid falling through the floor-hatch again) and head down to the hallway. Run ahead to the central pit, and then take a left turn (south) into the single crashing spiked-wall passage. Time the wall, and then run right of it and head to the end of the passage. Go right, make your way over to the north passage and jump the skeleton-trap to get inside the north room. Go left of the secret keyhole and make your way around the passage to the other end of the hallway. Run-jump over to the south passage, then go R - R and walk to the end of the short passage. You are now at the west end of the hallway. Run-jump over to the north passage and head into a passage with a grated wall.

Note the closed floor-hatch at the end of the passage to your right, then look through the grated north wall and spot the Torch on a pedestal. Whip out your pistols, shoot at the grated wall and then nip inside the passage. Watch the following cut-scene showing you two wall-torches back at the start of the level, then pick up The Torch.

Lighting The Torch

Leave the passage and head out to the central pit. Jump to the balcony to your right, note the closed gate for later on, and then jump into the south passage. Go L - L, jump to the balcony to your right and then jump into the north passage. Head around to the right into the secret keyhole room, then go right and jump over the skeleton-trap. Enter the south passage, make your way down to the single crashing spiked-wall and run left of the wall to get back to the hallway.

Note: If you haven't been following the walkthrough from the start, you might not have opened the gate to the beginning of the level yet. You need to do this or you will not be able to reach the room where you light the Torch. So, before leaving the hallway and heading back to the crashing spiked-wall passage, leave your Torch in the hallway and walk back to the single crashing spiked-wall passage. Time the spiked-wall, and then run left of it, head to the end of the passage and use the skeleton-lever to open a gate in the crashing spiked-wall passage. This gate will give you access back to the beginning of the level. Now time the spiked-wall to get back into the hallway and pick up your Torch.

Open The Wall-Sconce Task

Light the other wall-torch and the floor-hatch will open back at the passage with the grated wall (where you collected the Torch from). Keep your lit Torch with you at all times and leave via the west wall opening. Go L - L, head back through to the lava-trap and jump back into the crashing spiked-wall passage. Go right of the spiked-wall and make your way back down to the hallway. Head to the central pit and go left into the single crashing spiked-wall passage. As you did before, make your way through the passages to the secret keyhole room, then head through the left passage and make your way back to the passage with the grated wall (where you collected the Torch from). Now drop down inside the floor-hatch.

Secret

If you want to get the next secret, you must do it now because the secret gate will close after you have done the wall-sconce task. You do not need the Torch with you at this point, so hit the "number 1 key" to drop it. The Torch will be safe here until you need it again.

Approach the south gate to open it and then walk ahead to the lava pool. Run-jump over the lava pool to the south passage and head through. You can see the Waterskin on a pedestal behind the closed south gate. Head right into the next passage, make your way to the end and slide down into the lower passage for the Secret ~ LMP.

The Wall-Sconce Task & The Waterskin

A gate has opened above you now, so jump up inside it and land in the passage next to your Torch. Pick up your Torch and walk to the lava pool. Take a look inside the lava pool chamber and note the slopes and the two wall-sconces (east and west walls). You need to use the slopes to get to the wall-sconces and light them. Doing so will open the gate to the Waterskin.

Make sure you have your Torch in hand, look around the wall to the left and spot the slope. Jump with a left curve to land on the slope, then curve-jump right onto the next slope. Slide to the very end of the slope, then curve-jump left onto the long north wall slope. As Lara hits the slope, do a mid-air turn so that she is facing south, then press the "left directional key" to curve Lara onto the south wall slope. Keep the "jump ~ alt and left directional keys" pressed and bounce between the two long slopes until you are at the east end of the slopes. Now jump onto the small slope on the south wall, bounce left onto the east wall ledge and light the wall-sconce.

Four things will now happen. 1 ~ The Waterskin gate will open. 2 ~ The secret gate will close. 3 ~ The south wall gate will close. 4 ~ A small earth quake will re-arrange the slopes in the lava pool, giving you a route to the west wall-sconce.

Face the long south wall slope and run-jump onto it. Bounce between the two long slopes and press the "right directional key" to move Lara to the west end of the slopes. At the end of the slopes, jump onto the small south wall slope, then immediately jump to the small slope to your right. Slide-jump left onto the next slope, slide-jump right onto the next slope, slide-jump left onto the next slope, then slide-jump right onto the west wall ledge. Now light the wall-sconce to re-open the secret gate and raise a block under the north passage.

Take your Torch with you and run-jump onto the north wall block. Take a running jump up inside the south passage, head through to the south room and stop just after the gate. You need to drop your Torch here, but take care not to drop it into the pool or you will not be able to proceed. Use the "number 1 key" to drop the Torch close to you, then nip over to the central pedestal and pick up the Waterskin.

Locate The Waterwheel Room

Note the three element scales behind the south wall railings. You have the Bag of Sand, the Torch and the Waterskin, so all you need now is the Vase of Oil to complete the task. Also note the skeleton in the SE corner (which you will come back to when you have the Sword of Fithos) and the darker wall-tile in the NW corner pillar (which you will lower later on).

Now for some swimming. Nip over to the west side of the pool and swim down through the hole in the grating. Swim through the west passage and out into a flooded cave, then swim to the end of the cave and swim up to a waterfall. Face north, pull out onto the slope and back-flip to the top of the waterfall. Run south and you will find yourself inside a large waterwheel room.

The Waterwheel Room ~ Secret

Head to the NW corner of the room, light a flare and pull up onto the block. Crawl through the triangular west wall gap and make your way to the end of the passage. Stand-jump up the three tall steps to get to the top passage and then head to the T-junction at the end of the following passage. Take a left turn, run down into a small railed passage and collect the Secret ~ LMP ~ Revolver Ammo from the pedestals.

The Vase Of Oil

Return back through the passages and nip back down into the waterwheel room. Note the closed floor-hatches on the east and west sides of the room, then head south and run behind the waterfall. Spot the ladder on the south wall and start to climb up. When you are about half way up, back-flip to the slope behind you, then bounce forwards and grab the upper south slope. Shimmy left until you can pull up onto a flat ledge, then turn around, face NW and spot the jump-switch up on the north wall. Position Lara like so Screenshot side-flip left onto the slope and bounce forwards to grab the jump-switch. As you fall, you will land on the lower slope. So, press the "action key" to grab the end of the slope, then safety-drop to ground.

You now need to locate and use five uw-levers to open the way to the Vase of Oil.

1st Underwater-Lever

The jump-switch has opened the floor-hatch over on the east side of the room, so head over there and drop through the hatch. Swim down into the flooded passage and go west to the closed golden gate. Go right (north) of the gate, make your way to the end of the passage, then go right again and locate the uw-lever at the end of the short passage. Use the lever and get a shot of the closed floor-hatch back in the waterwheel room.

2nd Underwater-Lever

Return down the passage and swim up for some air. Dive back down into the west passage, but this time head left (south) of the golden gate. Just before the T-junction at the end of the passage, go R - R and locate the 2nd uw-lever. Use the lever and the floor-hatch back in the waterwheel room will open.

3rd Underwater-Lever

Swim back to the hatch for some air, and then swim back down into the west passage. Re-enter the south passage and swim to T-junction at the end. Go L - L - L into a small underwater chamber and locate the 3rd uw-lever on the south wall. When you use the lever, you will get a shot of a room above a flooded passage, and the Vase of Oil is beyond that room.

4th Underwater-Lever

Swim back out of the passage and pull back up to the waterwheel room. Head to the newly opened floor-hatch on the west side of the room, pick up the pack of Flares nearby and then drop down through the floor-hatch.

Swim into the north passage, make your way to the end then go R - R - L - L and locate the 4th uw-lever on the north wall. When you use the lever, you will see another shot of the room above the flooded passage.

5th Underwater-Lever

Swim back down the passage and swim up for air. Swim south and make your way to the chamber at the end of the passage. Note the closed gates in the NE and SE corners of the chamber, and then swim through the triangular gap in the west wall. At the end of the passage, locate the uw-lever on the north wall and use it to open the hatch to the room above the flooded passage.

Swim back through the passages to the hatch-hole you entered here by, grab some air and then swim down through the east passage. At the end of the passage, go left of the golden gate and swim down inside the trench in the floor. At the end of the trench, swim up through the newly opened hatch and pull out into the room above.

Note the Vase of Oil behind the closed north gate, then light a flare and spot the jump-switch on the north wall (to the right of the gate). Use the jump-switch to open one of the gates you saw earlier in the flooded chamber, then drop back through the floor-hatch and swim to the end of the passage. Go right at the end of the passage, make your way to the end and swim up for air.

Swim down through the north passage, make your way to the end and go L - L into the flooded chamber. Swim through the newly opened NE corner gate and make your way to the end of the passage. Use the uw-lever to open the gate to the Vase of Oil, and then swim back to the hatch-hole. Swim down into the east passage and make your way back to the room above the flooded passage. Pull out of the water, run ahead through the newly opened north gate and take the Vase Of Oil from the pedestal. Doing so will trigger the element scales gate to open.

Make Your Way Back To The Element Scales

You now have all the items you need to complete the element scales puzzle. So, head out of the room, drop back through the floor-hatch and swim back to the hatch-hole. Pull out into the waterwheel room and exit via the north doorway. At the end of the passage, drop down from the top of the waterfall and swim back to the element scales room.

The Element Scales Puzzle

Note: Please save your game before placing any of the elements into the scales. Then if you place an element into the incorrect scale, you can just re-load from your save and try again.

Start by filling up your Waterskin with water from the pool, then head over to the element scales and note the symbols on them. From left to right ~ Water ~ Oil ~ Earth. Each time you correctly place an item on the scales, you will see a shot of the closed gate back in the hallway. So, use the Waterskin on the left scale, the Vase of Oil on the middle scale and the Bag of Sand on the right scale. Now grab your Torch (that you left by the entrance to the room) and use it to light the oil in the middle scale. When all of the elements are correctly in place, you will get a shot of the gate opening at the west end of the hallway.

Make Your Way Back To The Hallway

Leave the element scales room via the north passage and walk towards the lava pool. The north wall gate on the other side of the lava pool will open as you approach, so jump over and pull up into the north passage. Climb the ladder to your left and pull up at the top. The gate you hear slam shut is the element scales room gate. Head out of the passage and around to the left. At the end of the short passage, you will see the newly opened gate to your right. Jump over the railings, enter the newly opened gate and make your way to the liquid glass wall at the end of the passage. Pick up the LMP and Flares from the pedestals, then nip through the liquid glass wall into the mirror room. The liquid glass wall is one way only I'm afraid, so there's no going back once you have passed through it.

The Mirror Room ~ The Ruby Cube

As you arrive in the mirror room, a long cut-scene will kick in showing you various clues in the new room. You will also see a mirror image of a skeleton mounting a horse and making his way towards you. When you have control of Lara again, the skeleton will be close by, so get ready to run and make some space between you and the skeleton. Shoot the skeleton on his right side (that's the side he is carrying his sword on). Eventually, the horse will keel over and it’s just you and the skeleton. Continue shooting, but this time aim at the skeleton's chest. Eventually he will fall and leave you the Ruby Cube.

The Sword Of Fithos

Note the central pyramid requiring 4 x Black Beetles. We will come back to that later on. For now though, make your way to the mirrored wall on the south side of the room and head to the central alcove with the cage. Inside the cage you can see the Sword of Fithos, but it's trapped securely inside the cage. Look to the left of the cage and spot the receptacle on the nearby pillar. Place the Ruby Cube into the receptacle to raise a block on the north side of the room, then head over to the NE corner of the room and spot the closed floor-hatch. To the left of the floor-hatch is the block you just raised, but it's too high to pull up onto. So, jump onto the lower triangular block then stand-jump to the higher block and pull up. Now face west, run-jump to the ladder on the pillar ahead and climb up, but don't pull up at the top yet. Note the hole in the ceiling above you with a ladder inside, then pull up at the top of the ladder and immediately jump forwards to grab the ladder inside the hole in the ceiling. Climb to the top of the ladder, then pull up and head to the end of the passage. Now drop down onto the pillar below. 

Note the closed west wall gate. It holds a secret which you will get later on. For now though, face south and note the jump-switch on the pillar ahead with a closed floor-hatch below it. Below the floor-hatch there is a lava-trap; and yes, the floor-hatch will open very shortly after using the jump-switch. So, take a running jump towards the jump-switch, grab it and pull it down. Now quickly side-flip left or right to avoid the pending death-trap.

The jump-switch has lowered a block on another pillar, giving you access to the west wall passage. Nip around to the other side of the jump-switch pillar, head to the next south pillar and pull up on the west side of it. Run-jump to the west wall passage and make your way to the end. Turn around, grab the wall ladder above and climb up into the passage above. Now make your way to the end of the long passage and Lara will arrive on a balcony. Note the skeleton to your left, which requires the sword of fithos, then head right and use the skeleton-lever to raise a pillar down in the room.

Make your way back down the passage and jump back to the pillar. Walk to the east side and face the suspended cage. Stand-jump to grab the top of the cage and pull up. Now jump to the pillar ladder ahead, shimmy all the way around to the other side of it and back-flip to the newly raised pillar. Use the chain-pulley on top of the pillar to raise the cage surrounding the Sword of Fithos, then drop to ground and head over to the south side of the room for the Sword Of Fithos.

Important Steps For A Secret Pentagram

Head back to the pillar you used to access the west wall passage, climb back up and re-enter the west wall passage. Make your way back up the balcony and use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to open the hatch above the Secret Key. You will collect the key later on.

Make your way back down to the main room and head to the NE corner of the room. Locate the skeleton lying on the floor and use the Sword of Fithos on it to open the nearby floor-hatch. Drop down into the flooded passage inside the floor-hatch and let the current take Lara to the end of the flooded passage. Now pull up out of the water, head to the end of the passage and find yourself back at the glass covered maze.

A Detour To Limbo

At this point, you can head off to Limbo and/or Bonus Levels 1 & 2. If you do not have 5 x Mystery Stones, you can not visit Bonus Levels 1 & 2, but you can collect 2 secrets from Limbo. So, head to the SW corner of the room, enter the south wall passage and use the transporter at the end to zap yourself off to Limbo.

3 Secrets

You are now standing on a central island in Limbo. If you have 5 x Mystery Stones, you can collect 2 of the 3 Limbo secrets now, then head to Bonus levels 1 & 2 and collect another secret on the way. If you do not have 5 x Mystery Stones, you will only be able to get 2 of the 3 Limbo secrets and you will not be able to access Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

Secret

Start by picking up the LMP ~ Flares, and then use the Sword of Fithos on the skeleton to raise a hatch on the ledge behind the transporter. Jump onto the hatch and face west. Run-jump towards the triangular ledge, grab it and pull up. Take a right curved running jump to the following NW ledge, then face south and note the triangular rock on the corner of the island. You need to run-jump to the right hand side of the triangular ledge, then bounce westwards and curve jump left onto the island. You've now landed on a spike-trap which is about to activate, so quickly jump clear of the pending trap and then collect the Secret ~ The Crossbow ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ 2 x LMP ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares from the pedestals.

Secret

Taking care not to venture too close to the spike-trap, pull up onto the NE corner ledge and note that the triangular ledge down to your right is now fire-trapped; so you won't be using that. Walk to the NE corner of the ledge, and then face east towards the other triangular ledge. Time the spike-trap behind you, then hop back and run-jump over to the triangular ledge. Now jump back to the hatch and onto the central island.

Nip up onto the NW corner block and spot the floating ledges leading to the north temple. You can't go inside the temple yet, but you can get the secret hidden on the roof of it. So let's make a start.

Run-jump to the NW ledge then run-jump to the north ledge. Run-jump towards the NE ledge, grab it and pull up. Stand at the back of the ledge and take a left curved running jump towards the west ledge, grab the edge of it and pull up. Now stand at the back of the ledge and take a right curved running jump towards the temple balcony, grab the edge of it and pull up.

Note the three closed golden gates in the north wall of the temple. They are of no use to you now, but you will be back here later on to deal with them. It might interest you to know though, that the patterned-tiles above each gate correspond with the patterned-tiles above the receptacles up on the east temple (which you will see later on). So, note this for now and all will become clear later on.

Note the ladder on the east wall with the closed hatch above it, then head to the opening in the west wall and pull up inside. You are now on an outer wall of the temple. Go right, walk to the end of the temple wall and then face NE and jump down onto the small ledge on the wall of the temple. Now face SE, jump up to the wall and make your way to the end. There are a series of ladders on the wall below you now, so hang-drop onto the first ladder and shimmy left. Ignore the alcove between the ladders and make your way to the end of the ladder. Climb up, pull up onto the temple wall and run to the end of the wall. Now go right, and use the wheel-switch to lower the hatch above the ladder.

Head back down to the end of the wall and hang-drop down to the ladder. Shimmy right as far as you can (ignoring the alcove between the ladders), then pull up onto the temple wall. Go to the right, and then face NW and jump down to the small ledge on the temple wall. Now face SW and use the higher triangular area on the ledge to perform a left curved banana-jump up to the temple wall. Make your way to the end of the wall, drop down to the left and you are back on the temple balcony. Head to the ladder on the east wall, climb to the top and pull up onto the roof of the temple. Now explore the temple roof for the Secret ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ 2 x Revolver Ammo ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ LMP.

Ok, now we can head back to the central island. Climb back down the ladder to the temple balcony and use the floating ledges to the south to get back to the central island.

If you do not have the 5 x Mystery Stones ~ Nip into the transporter, head back to The Aqueduct and follow the walkthrough from The 1st Black Beetle

Bonus Levels 1 & 2

Place 5 x Mystery Stones into the snake receptacles and you will get a long cut-scene showing you a number of things. To start with you will see various transporters activating throughout Limbo. You will also see some spikes de-activating on fire-trapped ledges to the NE. The de-activated spike-trap ledges are your main concern right now because they give you access to the far SW transporter. You will then use that transporter to zap to the top of the east temple, where you will find another transporter to take you to Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

14 Secrets ~ Including 12 x Eye Of The Serpent

Bonus Level 1 ~ Arrival

Lara arrives inside a beautiful castle, and here you will be visiting various tribute levels from QRS' own personal favourites. You can visit most of these levels in any order and you do not have to visit them all. However, if you are collecting the 12 Eye Of The Serpent artefacts, then please make sure you visit all areas before leaving.

Head towards the north end of the hallway and note the open arched passage in the west wall (three arches down from the starting area). The passage is closed off at the end and you will open it up later on. Also note the two large pools to your right (east), which you will be visiting later on. For easy reference we will call this the "main pool".

Make your way to the end of the hallway, and then go right (east) just a short way. There's a dark passage to your left (north). Run through the passage and make your way to the end.

Make a safety-drop to ground and head back to the top of the stairs. Turn right, head past the gate you visited earlier and then take a right turn up the stairs with the burning pots. At the top of the stairs, go right of the doors and collect a LMP from the pedestal. Now head through the double doors and enter The Clockwork Cathedral.

If you have played this level in its original form, then you will know this room only too well. Yes, it's that raising and lowering trap-door-run. The principle is the same as the original version. Get to the other side of the room via the trap-doors.

Nip down to the lower balcony to your right (east) and walk north between the break in the balustrade. Stand on the edge of the balcony in front trap-door 1 (which is situated in front of the break in the balustrade). When the trap-door starts to rise, run onto it and run-jump NE to trap-door 2. Keep running as you land on the trap-door, then run NW and jump to trap-door 3. Now roll and run-jump back to trap-door 2, then roll and run-jump back to trap-door 3. Now run-jump north to trap-door 4 and then quickly jump into the north room.

Head to the NE corner of the room and use the wheel-switch to open a gate back in the main pool room. You'll visit there shortly, but there's one more task to do here first. Head to the west wall, climb the ladder behind the chain and pull up into a small passage above. Carefully walk around to the left and stop at the top of the slope in front of the gate. The gate will have opened as you approached it and beyond the gate there are four horizontal-bars. Beyond the horizontal-bars there is a jump-switch on the south wall. Slide down the slope, then jump and grab the first horizontal-bar. Swing around the bar, then jump to the next bar and grab it. Proceed in this fashion until you reach the final bar, and then jump to the jump-switch and pull it down. You will now see a long cut-scene of the arched passage in the main pool room, an explosion takes place at the end of the arched passage and a glass wall appears. The glass wall leads to another level, but you won't be heading there just yet.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 1

Head up the steps and leave via the double doors. Go R - L and make your way to the top of the stairs. At the top of the stairs, go R - R and run through the newly opened gate. Run around the passage to the open north passage, and then head through to the bell tower.

You will now be making a series of timed-runs over trap-doors to use a wheel-switch over on the north wall. The wheel-switch will do three things. 1 ~ Open a gate in the lower area of the cathedral. 2 ~ Lower a ladder in the cathedral. 3 ~ Open a hole over in the north wall.

The first wall-lever is to the right (east) of the clock mechanism and the first trap-door is west of the wall-lever. Start by using lever 1 to raise trap door 1, then side-flip left, run-jump to the west end of the balcony and jump to the small north ledge. Stand-jump NW to the west wall ledge, then face east and run-jump with a grab to catch the horizontal-bar. Only swing once on the horizontal-bar or Lara will run out of time and the trap-door will lower. Jump from the horizontal-bar onto the east ledge and save your game.

Turn and take a look over to the NW and spot trap-door 2. Roll and run around to the left (north) and make your way to wall-lever (2) at the end of the ledge. Turn around, note the horizontal-bar protruding from the pillar nearby, then use lever 2 to raise trap-door 2. Roll and run to the horizontal-bar, then jump and grab it and swing to trap-door 2. Immediately jump forwards onto the west ledge and then run-jump to the north ledge where the wheel-switch is situated.

Alternatively: Use wall-lever 2 to raise trap-door 2, and then run back to trap-door 1 (which is now down but that doesn't matter). Run-jump from the trap-door 1 ledge to trap-door 2 and then make a right curved running jump to the north ledge where the wheel-switch is situated.

Use the wheel-switch, and then watch the cut-scene showing you a gate opening, a ladder lowering and a block lowering in the north wall to your right. Pull up through the opening in the north wall, and then climb down the ladder inside the hole in the floor.

Climb the west wall ladder behind the chain again and use the slope at the end of the passage to slide down into the lower room. Make your way to the end of the balcony, then head left and drop down to where the timed-trap-door run began. Don't worry; you don't have to do the timed-run again. Run inside the newly opened south gate and walk to the end of the passage. Do not drop down into the floor-hole yet though. Turn Lara with her back to the hole, then hang-drop from the hole and spot a jump-switch below you. Drop back from the hole, grab the jump-switch and pull it down to activate the next secret.

Lara will now drop into a flooded passage below. Swim to the end of the passage, collect the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 1, then swim south and the gate will open. Swim through the gate, then swim up and pull out of the water. Lara will now be standing by the small pool at the north end of the main pool room.

Note: If you missed the jump-switch, the secret will not appear, but you can go back for it if you wish by re-entering the cathedral and heading back through the south gate.

Access Caverns Of The Dead by Michael Bender

Head south into the main room and dive into the pool. Locate the uw-lever in the partitioning wall and use it to open the double gates to the next level. Pull out of the pool and make your way to the small pool at the north end of the room. Go right (east) of the small pool, then turn right (south) and run up the stairs. Head straight on southwards, then when you come to the third archway on the left, turn left into the newly opened gates. Run to the top of the slope, then go left into a beautiful green tinted room. You will be informed that you have entered Caverns of The Dead by Michael Bender.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 2

This is a three-tiered room consisting of a ground, middle and upper floor. Your objective is to get to the top of the room, use a wall-lever and make the secret appear. To get to the wall-lever, you need to open a gate on the middle balcony by using four levers.

Start by taking note of a few things on the ground floor. There are three patterned floor-tiles, a jump-switch on the south side of the room and a double slope on the north side of the room. At the top of the second slope, there is a closed ceiling-hatch and above the first slope there is a monkey swing. Opposite the slopes there is a high room.

First, use the jump-switch on the pillar at the south wall and you will get a shot of a closed gate on the second tier of the room. Head up the slope on the north side of the room and note the closed ceiling-hatch. Now walk back down the top of the first slope, grab the monkey swing and make your way over to the high room through the east wall.

Note the movable-statue in the corner of the room and the wall-lever and skeleton-lever. Use the skeleton-lever and you will get another shot of the closed gate. Use the wall-lever to raise a pillar below the room, and then shift the movable-statue onto the raised pillar. Use the wall-lever again to lower the pillar and bring the movable-statue to ground level, then drop to ground and place the movable-statue on all three patterned floor-tiles. This will open the hatch at the top of the slopes. Head back up the slopes and pull up through the hatch.

You can now see the closed gate in the south wall and a smaller closed gate in the west wall (with an empty pedestal in front of it). Also note the lowered hatch on the inside wall of the central platform and the jump-switch opposite. Head to the east end of the room and enter the dark passage in the SE corner. There are some Flares in an alcove nearby if you need them. At the end of the passage, use the jump-switch on the west wall and get another shot of the closed gate. Return to the balcony and head to the west end.

Locate the wall-lever on the west wall (to the left of the closed gate) and get ready for a timed-run. The lever will raise the hatch inside the central platform, and then you need to make it to the jump-switch before the hatch lowers again. So, use the lever to raise the hatch, run to the hatch and nip onto it. Run-jump to the jump-switch and pull it down. The south wall gate will now open and Lara will land on the ground level.

Head back up the slopes, pull up to the balcony again and make your way through the newly opened south wall gate. Climb the ladder at the end of the passage, back flip off at the top and run out onto a central ledge at the top of the room. Run-jump over to the east ledge for a SMP, and then run-jump over to the west ledge. Use the skeleton-lever and the secret pick-up will appear on the pedestal below. Return down the ladder to the middle balcony, then head to the west end of the room and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 2 from the pedestal. The west gate will now open, so head through and find yourself on the top floor of the main pool room.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 3

Go left (south) to the small pool in the hallway, note the uw-lever on the north wall of the pool and then head into the far south room. Note the water pools in each corner of the room, then look inside the pools and spot the uw-levers inside them. You will be back here later on to deal with the pools and their levers, but for now, make your way to the SW corner of the room and locate the wall-lever on the east wall (under the arch to the right of the stairs). Use the lever to lower one of two ropes above the main pool, then leave the room and head back to the small pool with the uw-lever that you noted before you entered this room.

Run past the pool and note the closed north gate ahead (which you will be opening it shortly). Go L - R and make your way to the bottom of the stairs. Go L - L and run down the stairs to the lower balcony. Go left from here, and then take a right turn onto the balcony above the large pool. Run to the end of the balcony, spot the wall-lever on the south wall (under the arch to your right) and use it to lower a second rope above the large pool in the main room.

Take a running jump through the break in the railings to your right, grab the outer south wall balcony and pull up. Make two banana-jumps around the partitioning walls on the balcony to get to the end of the west end balcony, and then face the opening in the west wall. Stand-jump towards the opening, grab the edge of it and pull up inside. Drop down to the left into the lower south room and use the skeleton-lever inside to open the gate on the upper north balcony. When you use the lever, the walls to your right will lower and give you access back to the main room.

Head north along the balcony until you are four arches down, then head right and walk onto the bridge. Walk to the break in the railings and line up with the first rope. Run-jump towards the rope, and then grab it and line up with the second rope. Swing towards the second rope, then jump and grab it. Now line up with the suspended cage and swing towards it. When Lara is just above the cage, jump and grab the top of it and pull up. Face south and spot the jump-switch ahead. Jump up and grab the glass ceiling, then swing to the jump-switch and use it to open a floor-hatch in the main pool.

Lara will fall down to the left of the floor-hatch, so swim down inside the hatch-hole and head to the end of the following passage. At the end of the passage, swim up through the long water-hole, note the closed gate in the north wall of the hole and then pull out of the water into the upper east passage. Head to the end of the passage, then go right and make your way to the end of the following passage. You'll see a closed gate ahead and a wall-lever to the left. The lever is timed to the gate you saw in the water-hole a moment ago. So, use the lever, then sprint back through the passages, drop into the water-hole and quickly swim inside the gate before it closes.

Inside the gate there's an uw-lever. Use the lever to open the gate back up in the passage, then swim out of the gate and pull out of the water into the east passage again. Make your way to the newly opened gate at the end of the passage and stop at the gate. Spot the jump-switch ahead and use it to open another floor-hatch in the main pool. Lara will fall down inside the floor-hatch and it will close behind her. Swim to the end of the following passage, then go left (east) and pick up the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 3 from the end of the passage.

Secrets ~ Eye Of The Serpent 4

Swim west until a gate closes behind you and then note the closed hatch above you. Swim on through the passage and you will come to an uw-lever on the wall to your left (if you try to swim further on in the passage the current will knock you back). Use the uw-lever to open the hatch you noted a moment ago, then swim up through the hatch and find yourself back in the main pool room.

Pull out of the pool on the north side and head to the small pool at the far north end of the room. Go right of the small pool, then go right again and make your way up the south stairs. At the top of the stairs, take a right turn and run past the open north gate that you have already visited. Now take a right turn and head up the stairs with the burning pots. At the top of the stairs, go R - R and make your way to the top of the stairs. Now go L - L and enter the newly opened north gate. On the first pedestal you find the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 4 and on the second pedestal you will find a SMP.

Secret

Leave the room and stop just outside the gate. Look down the hallway to your right and note the closed double doors in the north wall. There's another secret behind the double doors, but first you will need to find three well hidden levers to open them.

Lever 1

Run straight ahead (south) to the small pool and dive in. Locate uw-lever on the north wall of the pool and use it to de-activate one of the locks on the double doors back in the hallway.

Lever 2

Pull out of the pool and make your way into the far south room. Pull up onto the wall at the side of the south staircase (either side will do), then head to the east side of the ledges and use the skeleton-lever to de-activate another lock on the double doors.

Lever 3

Drop down into the room below and head north into the hallway (where the closed double doors are). Ignore the double doors for now and make your way down to the small pool on the ground level (north end of the main room). When you reach the small pool, go left and enter the dark passage to the left of the small pool. Light a flare in the passage, spot the carefully hidden jump-switch on the east wall and use it to de-activate the final lock on the double doors.

Make your way up to the newly opened doors, head through and collect the Secret ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ LMP ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares from the four pedestals at the end of the room.

An Elevator Ride To Bonus Level 2

Make your way back out to the hallway, and then head down to the main pool. Go right of the pool and make your way south down the hallway. Near the end of the hallway, you will come to the open arched passage in the west wall that you noted earlier when you entered the level. Go through to the end of the passage and spot the new area that was created when you used the jump-switch in the Clockwork cathedral. The path is blocked by a glass wall and you are seemingly at a dead-end. Well, that's not going to stop Lara is it?  Run-jump towards the glass wall and Lara will smash her way through it.

Head to the double doors at the end of the passage and they will open as you approach. Lara will now enter a small room with a wheel-switch on the west wall; and although it's not apparent, she is in fact inside an elevator. Use the wheel-switch to activate the elevator and Lara will be taken down to her next destination.

Leave the elevator via the large double doors (they will open as you approach) and head through the following passage. Take the LMP from the pedestal to your left, then continue on through the passage and drop down into the pool at the end. Swim under the bridge with the glazed windows, then swim up and pull out of the pool. Head through the north passage and the level will skip to the next destination.

Access Ancient Artefact ~ The Beyond by Max

Run ahead to the end of the passage, then go left and stop, because you are now about to enter a passage laden with lava-traps. You will in fact be visiting another of these types of passages, so for future reference we will call this the 1st lava-trap passage.

Jump the lava-traps to get to the end of the passage, and then note the closed gate in the north wall and the water-hole to the right of the gate. Drop into the water-hole and swim down. Note the passage to the north; but don't go through there yet. Swim down into the south passage and make your way to the end. Swim up and note the passage to the east, but don't go through there yet. Swim west to the end of the passage, then swim down inside the floor-hole and use the uw-lever to open a hatch at the other end of the passage. Swim out of the hole and up into the passage again. Swim straight ahead to the end of the passage, then swim up and climb out through the newly opened hatch.

You are now in the 2nd lava-trap passage. Ignore the west end of the passage for now and walk towards the first lava-trap. The camera angle will change and you can see an opening in the lava-trap wall. Jump to the other side of the lava-trap, then turn and walk to the edge of it. Hop back from the edge of the hole, then run towards the hole, press the "action key" and run into the hole. Lara will glide down into the opening in the lava-trap wall and arrive in a passage. Pick up the SMP, then head to the end of the passage, drop down the hole at the end and head around into another lava-pool passage.

Jump over the first lava pool, then turn around and walk to the edge of the ledge. Face NW and make a curved running jump into the alcove in the west wall. Use the skeleton-lever inside the alcove to open a gate at the other end of the passage, and then jump back to the previous ledge. Head on through the passage (jumping the lava-pools as you go) and you will come to the gate you opened a moment ago.

Use the skeleton-lever to the left of the slope to open the double doors back in the 2nd lava-trap passage, then head up the slope. Go R - L and climb to the top of the following passage. Pull up out of the passage into a small room and take the LMP from the pedestal. Head out of the room via the west passage and make your way to the gate at the end. The gate will open as you approach, so run through and find yourself back in the 2nd lava-trap passage (but this time you will be at the other end of the passage) and the newly opened double doors are to your left.

Enter the double doors and run to the top of the slope. Head through the following passage and make your way to a small room at the end. Note the closed central floor-hatch and the closed west gate, and then run down onto the floor-hatch to open it. Lara will drop down into the room below, slide down a series of slopes and land in the next tribute level.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 5

Take note of the green slopes you arrived here by because you will be visiting them again in a short while. Head outside to the building and spot the ferryman floating about to your left. The ferryman is a warning, so take heed and don't fall off the edge of the path or you'll be paying him a visit. Run to the end of the path, locate the jump-switch on the west wall and use it to raise a hatch on the green slopes. Head back towards the green slopes and take note of the closed gate in the building, the boulder suspended by a rope at the end of the building and a hatch and burning wall-lever up on the north rocks.

Back at the green slopes, run left of the central mound and jump up to the north wall. Face east, jump up ahead to the higher mound and then pull up onto the higher east mound. Note the burning wall-torch on the north wall, the unlit wall-torch on the west wall (with a ladder to the right of it), and the hatch you raised a short while ago. Now face NW, jump over to the pile of Torches in the corner of the rocks and pick up a Torch. Jump back to the high mound, light the Torch on the burning wall-torch and then walk to the SW corner of the mound. Take a running jump over to the hatch you raised earlier and light the wall-torch to extinguish the fire by the wall-lever outside.

Take the Torch with you and drop down to ground. Re-enter the outside area and burn the rope below the boulder. The boulder will drop and the hatch will rise on the north wall. Drop your Torch where you can find it easily, then stand on the right side window sill of the building. Face out towards the raised hatch and take a running jump to grab it. Pull up, jump to the wall-lever on the north wall and prepare for a timed-run.

Use the lever to temporarily open the gate in the building, then roll and run-jump down to the gate and quickly jump inside the building before the gate closes. The gate will remain open now, so nip outside again, grab your Torch and take it back inside the building.

Light the floor-pot at the north end of the room (don't stand too close or Lara will burn) and the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 5 will appear on the pedestal at the south end of the room. When you take the eye of the serpent, the exit gate will open in the room above the green slopes.

Head back to the green slopes, and then as you did before, jump the slopes to the highest mound. Run-jump to the hatch again, then go right of the burning wall-torch and jump up the slope to the north wall ladder. Climb the ladder, shimmy right as far as you can and drop off onto the high mount. Now comes the tricky part. You need to get Lara up inside the hole in the ceiling and grab the ladder inside. So, stand Lara here Screenshot side flip-left onto the slope below the ceiling hole, bounce forwards and grab the ladder. When you are safely on the ladder, climb to the top and pull up into the room above.

Return To Bonus Level 1

Leave via the west gate and make your way to the end of the passage. Slide down the slope and arrive back in the 2nd lava-trap passage. Head left and jump the lava-traps to get to the west end of the passage. Drop down into the water-hole, swim down and then swim west until you can swim down into a lower passage. Swim north to the end of the passage, then swim up and pull out into a small room. The south gate will open as you arrive in the room, so head through and find yourself back in the 1st lava-trap passage. Jump the lava-traps to get to the south end of the passage, then go right and re-enter Hall of Fame ~ Part 1.

Drop into the pool ahead, swim under the bridge with the glazed windows and then swim up and pull out of the pool. Head to the end of passage and the elevator doors will open as you approach. Enter the elevator and use the wheel-switch twice to take Lara back up to the main room. Approach the elevator doors to open them, then head up the passage and return to the main pool room.

The next level you are going to visit comes in two sections. You will visit part 1 now, and then visit part 2 later on.

Locate Part 1 Of Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins

Make your way to the main pool and head over to the east side of the room. Run southwards along the hallway to the third archway, then go left through the arched passage. At the end of the passage, you will come to another elevator (the doors will open as you approach them). Enter the elevator and use the wheel-switch to take Lara down to her next destination.

Approach the elevator doors to open them, and then head through to the passage beyond. Make your way to the water passages at the end of the passage, and then jump onto the water slide to the right (the left water slide will drag Lara to a watery death). Slide down the water slide, and then jump the hole at the end to get safely into the next passage. Head through to the end of the south passage and arrive in another part of Bonus Level 2.

Run ahead to the T-junction and note the closed double gates at the end of the passage to your left. We will come back to that later on. Make your way down the south passage and stop at the lava-trap. Spot the jump-switch in the alcove on the other side of the lava-trap and jump over to it. Line Lara up below the jump-switch and two steps to the right of it. Back-flip onto the slope behind, then bounce forwards, grab the jump-switch and pull it down. You will see a floor-hatch open in another area.

Jump out of the alcove and head towards the west passage. Note the closed gate to your right (north) then jump the lava-trap and enter the small room at the end of the passage. The floor-hatch you opened a moment ago is in a small passage to your right (north), but leave it alone for now and enter the room to your left (south).

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 6

Collect the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 6 from the pedestal, and then use the skeleton-lever nearby. You will now see another secret appear on a ledge in another part of the room. You can't reach the newly revealed secret from here and neither can you explore any more of the large room connected to this level, but you will return to this level later on and finish what you've started.

Open The Gates To Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden

Note the dark area up on the slope behind the pedestal (west) and jump up to it. Face east and run-jump to catch the balcony above the entrance and pull up. Use the wall-lever on the north wall to open the double gates to Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden. However, this is not the level we are going to visit next.

Access Deep In The Jungle By Hokolo

Drop to ground, head back into the small north room and spot the floor-hatch in the small north passage.

Note: If you have not been following the walkthrough, it's possible that you will have missed the jump-switch that opens the floor-hatch. If this is the case, head down the east passage, jump the lava-trap and head straight on to the lava-trap at the east wall. Look left into the alcove and spot the jump-switch up on the east wall. Jump into the alcove and line Lara up below the jump-switch and two steps to the right of it. Back-flip onto the slope behind you, and then bounce forwards, grab the jump-switch and pull it down to open the floor-hatch. Now jump out of the alcove, head west to the end of the passage and go right to the newly opened floor-hatch.

Drop into the water-hole in the small north passage and swim to the end of the flooded passage. Pull out at the end of the passage, head through the following passage and arrive in the next level.

As soon as you walk out onto the first floor, you will notice a wall-lever on the east wall. To your right there is a central structure with four unlit wall-torches on the outer walls and an inner room through a crawl space. On the other side of the room (west) beyond the central structure, there is an unlit floor-pot. In the south wall there is a passage leading to a ladder with a closed hatch at the top of it. On the ground level of the room, there are four corner levers behind fires, four movable-objects on the outer paths and four blocks under the central structure. On the top level there is a closed gate (east wall) at the end of the path that leads from the central structure. In the west wall there is a high passage and below the high passage there are two lighter coloured floor-tiles. Your objective is to get to the high passage in order to leave.

Leave the east wall lever alone for now and make your way around the path surrounding the central structure (note the unlit wall-torches on the way). When you reach the west side of the room, keep heading around to the right and Lara will run up onto the first flight of stairs surrounding the central structure. Head on until you are on the second flight of stairs, then stop half way up and notice a wall ladder leading up to a crawl space inside the central structure. Climb the ladder and head inside the crawl space. Drop down into the tiny room beyond and use the wall-lever inside to open the east gate at the top of the structure.

Pull out from the crawl space and make your way to the top of the structure. Run east up the path and enter the newly opened gate. Take a look at the end of the north passage and note the unlit wall-torch on the west wall. Lighting this wall-torch will get you a secret later on. For now though, head back to the south end of the room and take a Torch from the pedestal.

Return to the main room and run down the stairs to the timed wall-lever on the east wall (the one you noted when you first entered the room). The wall-lever will temporarily light the floor-pot on the west side of the room. So, drop your Torch by using the number 1 key (so that Lara doesn't throw the Torch over the edge of the path) and then use the wall-lever to temporarily light the floor-pot. Now roll and pick up your Torch, run as fast as you can to the burning floor-pot and light your Torch before the flame extinguishes.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 7

There are five wall-torches to light now. Four of them will lower the blocks below the central structure, and one will reveal the next secret.

Make your way back up to the room at the top of the structure (where you picked up the Torch) and light the wall-torch (1) on the west wall at the north end of the room. You will see the secret appear on a pedestal up in the high west wall passage, but you won't be collecting it until you are ready to leave the level.

Return to the central structure and make your way down the stairs. On the third flight of stairs you will find the first wall-torch (2) to light.

On the fifth flight of stairs you will find the next wall-torch (3) to light.

The next wall-torch (4) is on the sixth flight of stairs.

The final wall-torch (5) is on the west wall of the central structure (opposite the timed wall-lever).

The central blocks below the central structure will now be lowered and you no longer need the Torch.

Head to the west side of the room and go to the floor-pot. Jump to the ladder ledge to the left of the floor-pot and climb to the ground level. It's easy from here, simply place the four movable-objects on the lighter coloured floor-tiles below the central structure and the fires in each corner alcove extinguish. Now enter the four corner alcoves and use the wall-wall levers to lower a hatch at the top of a ladder through the south passage.

Climb to the top of the west wall ladder, then jump over to the floor-pot and head around into the south passage. Climb the ladder at the end of the passage, then climb to the top of the following ladder, but don't pull up yet!

Above you now there is a circular chamber that runs down to the right and comes up again to the left; or vice versa. Within the circular chamber there are six wall-levers (two are inside the north and south gates). Two of the levers will open the two gates (north and south walls) above the ladder and the other four levers will raise the pillars under the high west passage outside. You may also have noticed by now that there is a rolling-blade making its way around the circular chamber. So, you need to be quick while exploring for the levers. Always wait until the rolling-blade has passed over-head before making a move, duck tight in a corner is the blade seems unavoidable and keep topped up with health.

Wait for the blade to pass over-head, then pull up, face NW and drop down to the lower pillar. Face west and take a running jump to the passage in the west wall of the chamber. Run inside the passage, use the wall-lever (1) on the west wall and get a shot of the lighter coloured floor-tiles outside in the main room.

Leave the passage, jump back to the pillar and pull up to the starting area at the top of the room. Face east this time and drop down on the right side of the ledge onto the lower pillar. Take a running jump into the east wall passage, use the lever (2) inside the passage and get another shot of the lighter coloured floor-tiles back in the main room.

Leave the passage and jump back to the pillar, but don't pull up onto the starting area! Side-flip right onto a lower slope, then slide and grab the end of the slope. Pull up and back-flip to the lower ledge behind you, then use the lever (3) on the east wall to open the south gate at the top of the room.

Drop down to the west, make your way into the trench in the bottom of the chamber and use the lever (4) on the south wall to open the north gate at the top of the room.

Pull up on the right side of the west wall and run-jump up the slope at the west wall of the chamber. Pull up onto the higher west pillar, then pull up onto the south pillar. Now face east and take a running jump to the ledge in the east wall of the chamber. Face north, climb the ladder to the top, and then face east and pull up onto the ledge at the starting area.

Take care not to fall down the ladder hole ahead and enter the north gate. Use the lever (5) inside the passage and the smaller pillar will rise back in the main room.

Head out of the passage, jump over the ladder-hole and enter the south gate. Use the final lever (6) and the taller pillar back in the main room will rise.

Make your way back down the ladders and return to the main room. Run up the stairs on the central structure and then when you reach the T-junction, go left (west) to the newly risen pillars. Climb to the top of the pillars and jump into the high west passage. Collect the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 7 from the pedestal and a floor-hatch will open at the south end of the room. Drop down through the hatch-hole, fall into a water passage below and swim to the end of the passage. Pull out of the water and head to the end of the passage. The gate at the end of the passage will open as you approach it and you will find yourself back in a familiar place.

Access Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden

Head SE past the lava-trap and run into the south passage. Make your way to the end of the passage and you will come some big double doors that lead to the next level.

Note: If you have not been following the walkthrough, it's possible that you will have missed the lever that opens the gates. If this is the case, head north down the passage, make your way to the end and then take a left turn (west). Jump the lava-trap, head to the end of the passage and then head left into Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 1. Note the dark area up on the slope behind the pedestal (west) and jump up to it. Face east, run-jump to catch the balcony above the entrance and pull up. Use the wall-lever on the north wall to open the double gates to Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden, and then drop to ground and head out to the passage. Take a right turn into the east passage, jump the lava-trap and make your way to the end of the passage. Now head right (south) and head to the open gates at the end of the passage.

A lava-trap is placed immediately behind the double doors, so jump over and run to the bottom of the slope ahead and take heed! As you pull up onto the slope, two boulders will come crashing down. So, pull up onto the slope to activate the boulders, then drop back down and let the boulder pass over-head. Now walk carefully up the slope (because two more boulders are waiting for you further up), trigger the next two boulders, sprint back down the slope and drop down to the lower ledge. Keep tight against to the wall so that the boulders pass over-head, then pull back up to the slope and make your way to the top. Take a right turn into the west room and drop down the central hatch-hole.

Through The Shadow Of Death by Loren Golden

Make your way ahead to the T-junction, then head left (SW) to the archway in the west wall. Just before you enter the passage, load up your shotgun (or crossbow with explosive arrows) because an unwelcome visitor is about to arrive. Enter the passage, then as you approach the central area, a skeleton will appear from out of the floor. Grab your weapon of choice, and then either shoot the skeleton into the pool at the end of the hallway, or blast it away with your crossbow. When that's taken care of, drop into the pool at the end of the passage and swim down into the flooded chamber.

Inside the chamber, there are four passages. North, south, east and west. Each passage is marked with its own face-tile to help you distinguish the passages. At the end of the north passage you will find a closed door. At the end of the south passage you will find another closed door (which is timed). At the end of the east passage you will find a hole in the ceiling with a wall-switch up inside it. This switch is not timed and it will open the door at the end of the north passage. At the end of the west passage, you will find an uw-lever. This lever is timed to the door at the end of the south passage.

Enter the east passage and swim to the room at the end. Collect the Flares from the central ledge, and then swim up inside the hole in the ceiling. Pull out into the passage above and use the wall-switch to open the door at the end of the north passage. Swim back to the central chamber, then swim right and enter the north passage. Swim to the room at the end of the passage and pick up the Hathor Effigy from the central ledge.

Swim back to the central chamber and go up for some air. Dive down into the chamber again and enter the west passage. Swim to the room at the end of the passage, collect the LMP from the central ledge and then use the uw-lever on the north wall to open the door at the end of the south passage, but do not try to do the timed-swim yet! Wait for the cut-scene of the door opening to finish, then swim back to the central chamber and grab some air. Re-enter the west passage and swim back to the uw-lever. The timed-door will now be closed and the uw-lever will have re-set itself. When you re-use the lever, the cut-scene won't kick in this time and you will have the extra valuable time you need to accomplish the timed-swim. When you have used the lever again, swim back to the central chamber and enter the south passage. Swim through to the room at the end of the passage (hopefully you made it past the door in time) and pick up the Ornate Handle from the central ledge.

Return to the central chamber, swim up and pull out of the pool. Run to the end of the passage and go left (NE) after the arch. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go past the closed doors and head around into the next passage (SE). At the end of the passage, go left (east) and enter the sarcophagus room.

Do not shoot the jar to your right as it contains another skeleton. The jar to your left is empty so leave that alone as well. Search the NE and SE corners of the room for two more jars, then shoot them and collect the SMP ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo from the shattered remains. Now combine the Hathor Effigy with the Ornate Handle to make the Portal Guardian, face south at the receptacle and place the portal guardian onto it to open another door out in the passages.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 8

Leave the room and enter the passage to the left (SW). At the end of the passage, turn left into the south room and take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 8 from the pedestal. Leave the room and head out to the right (NE). Run to the end of the passage, then run left past the portal guardian room and enter the NW passage. At the end of the passage, enter the north room and the doors will close behind you.

Drop into the pool and swim down through the passage in the bottom of the pool. At the end of the passage, pull out and collect the pack of Revolver Ammo from passage to your left. Now head through to the end of the passage and slide down the slope ahead.

Skellycombs by George Maciver

The ground floor of this room could be classified as a maze; seen as its pathways run around several structures. But there are no dead-ends and it isn't that large (so don't be distressed by the thought of getting terribly lost in here). Your first task is to open a door to upper passages within the structures and you will do this by finding three skeleton-levers on the ground floor. You also need to collect the handle before proceeding to the upper areas.

Lever 1

Head right, and then run left into the south passage. Make your way to about half way down the passage, and then look left (east) into the wall of the structure and spot the closed door up in the alcove. Collect the Normal Shotgun Ammo from below the closed door, and then continue on down the south passage to the outer south wall. Go left (east) and use skeleton-lever 1 at the end of the passage.

Lever 2

Continue on eastwards to the end of the passage, and then head left down the north passage. About half way down the passage you will come to a pool to your left (west). Nip into the pool for another pack of Normal Shotgun Ammo, and then continue on to the west end of the pool. Take a left turn down the south passage, pick up the LMP, and then go right (west) and find skeleton-lever 2 by a pool at the end of the passage.

From the lever, make your way down the north passage until you are about half way, and then turn right (east) and find another pack of Normal Shotgun Ammo between the two structures. Now run around into the north passage and head to the outer north wall. Go right (east) until you come to another pool, then drop in the pool and pick up the Ornate Handle.

Lever 3

Skeleton-lever 3 is near to the pool you picked the ornate handle up from. Use the lever and you will see a shot of the door opening in the structure.

Make your way back to the outer west wall of the room and head down the south passage again (to about half way). Enter the east wall alcove in the structure and climb up to the newly opened door. Make your way out to a long connecting wall, then as you run across the wall, two skeletons will show up (one in front of you and one will attack from behind). Whip out your shotgun (or crossbow and explosive arrows) and blast the enemy away. Now continue on to the end of the wall and enter the passage in the next structure.

Walk to the end of the passage, and then jump the gap to get inside the passage in the next structure (west). Make your way to the end of the passage, jump over to the passage in the next structure (west) and head to the end of the passage. Jump into the passage in the next structure (west) and follow the passage around to the end. Jump over to the passage in the next structure (south) and make your way to the end. Now jump over to the passage in the next structure (south), make your way to the end and stop.

It looks like you have arrived at a dead-end, but you haven't. The next passage is around the wall to the left (north). So, make a left curved running jump around the wall into the passage of the next structure, and then make your way to the end of the passage. Climb to the top of the north wall ladder, then climb left and drop off onto the ledge.

Head to the south end of the ledge and climb onto the block to your left (east). Ignore the wall ladder above the block (the hatch at the top is closed and you will access that area later on) and face SW. Take a right curved running jump inside the next structure and head make your way towards the end of the passage. Grab your weapon of choice, take out the skeleton that arrives to greet you and then jump over into the west passage and walk to the end.

Look down and spot the long bridge type structure running from north to south. Jump down onto the bridge and note the closed door up in the far north wall. Head towards the south end of the bridge and another skeleton will make an appearance. Take the skeleton out by shooting him off the south end of the bridge (otherwise the sloped sides of the bridge will stop him from falling). When the enemy has been seen to, walk to the south end of the bridge and face east. You will see a small ledge with a wall-switch on the structure to the left. Jump over and use the switch to open the gate at the other end of the bridge.

Face west, walk to the edge of the ledge and then face NW and jump to the small ledge between the structure and the bridge. Jump up onto the bridge, run to the north end and jump up into the newly opened north wall door. Enter the small room beyond and use the skeleton-lever inside to lower a hatch between the structures at south end of the bridge.

Jump back to the bridge and take out the newly arrived skeleton. Run to the south end of the bridge (but not as far as the wall-switch ledge) and jump into the passage in the east wall of the structure (it's to the right of the passage you entered the bridge area by). Now make your way to the end of the passage, jump over to the following east passage and walk to the end.

Your next destination is on the slope ahead of you. Jump onto the slope, slide and grab the edge and shimmy right until you can pull up onto a flat-tile at the end of the slope. Walk to the top of the flat-tile, side-flip right and land on the flat-ledge at the end of the slope. Walk to the east end of the ledge and face NE. Look down onto the slope, spot the flat-tile just below and jump to it. Hang-drop from the flat-tile and shimmy right until you can pull up onto another flat-tile at the other end of the slope. Now pull up and take the Hathor Effigy from its resting place.

Shimmy back to the flat-tile at the other end of the slope and pull up onto it. Face SW, jump back up to the ledge at the end of the slope and then walk to the west end of the ledge. Face NW and take a running jump into the gap in the north wall of the structure. Make your way to the north end of the wall, climb the ladder at the end and pull up onto the top of the structure.

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 9

Face the north structure, take a running jump to its sloped roof and then slide and grab the end of the roof. Shimmy right until you can pull up onto the flat-tile on the corner of the structure, then stand-jump to the receptacle at the top of the structure. Combine the Hathor Effigy with the Ornate Handle to make the Portal Guardian, and then place it on the receptacle to activate a secret over in the NE corner of the room.

Jump over to the sloped roof on next north structure, then slide down the roof and grab the end of it. Shimmy right until you are at the end of the slope, then shimmy around the corner onto the next slope. Shimmy twice to the right, and then pull up and back-flip to the ledge behind you. Head to the east end of the ledge and jump over to the NE ledge where the secret is. Run towards the pedestal and the hatch will lower behind you (giving you access to the lower areas if you missed some goodies down there). Take the Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 9 from the pedestal and the exit door will open over in the west wall.

Walk to the south end of the ledge and face the north slope. Take a running jump towards the corner of the slope, grab the edge of it and pull up. Face SW, stand-jump to the top of the bridge and make your way to the west end. Jump over to the top of the west structure to your right, and then take a running jump over to the top of the NW structure. Now jump into the west wall doorway, head through the following passage and slide down into a small room with a closed floor-hatch.

Return To Bonus Level 1

You should recognise this place. It's where you entered Loren Golden's "Through The Shadow Of Death" level. Make your way into the passage to the right (east), then at the end of the passage, turn left and find yourself back at the top of the boulder slope.

Run to the bottom of the slope and jump the lava-trap to get back into the lower passages. Run straight ahead into the north passage, then just before you reach the end (where the lava-trap is), turn right into the east passage. Make your way through the passage and Lara will be transported back to "Hall Of Fame ~ Part 1"

Access Legacy Of The Gods Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins Part 2

At the end of the following passage, jump into the right hand side water passage (the left one will drag Lara to a watery death). Slide to the end of the passage, then jump the hole at the end and arrive safely in the passage beyond. Enter the passage to your right and make your way down to the elevator. The elevator doors will open as you approach, so nip inside and use the wheel-switch on the wall twice to take the elevator up to the main pool room. Leave the elevator, head through the following passage and Lara will arrive back at the main pool room.

Ok, remember that we have only covered one tiny area in the Luis Martin's level so far and now we can complete the task. So, make your way northwards down the hallway and enter the area at the far north end of the room (where the small pool is). Head to the right after the pool, then go right again and make your way to the top of the stairs. Go R - R and head up the stairs with the burning pots. At the top of the stairs, go R - R onto the south stairs and head to the top. Now make your way southwards and enter the far south room.

Take a look around in here because there are a few things to note. There is a large closed gate at the top of the south stairs and a small pool in each corner of the room. Inside each pool there's an uw-lever and two gates.

The pool in the SW corner of the room is your starting place, so make your way over there and drop into the pool. Your next task will be a multi timed-run from pool to pool via the gates in the pools, which you will open with the uw-levers. Each uw-lever will open the gate out of the pool and give you access to the next uw-lever. The timed-run finishes when you are back in the pool you started from. When all uw-levers have been used, the south gates up the stairs will open. If you are not quick enough inside the pool passages, Lara will be locked inside and you will have to re-load from the starting pool. So, let's begin.

From pool 1, use uw-lever 1 - Swim into passage 1. Use uw-lever 2 - Swim into to pool 2. Swim right into passage 2 - Use uw-lever 3. Swim into to pool 3 - Swim right into passage 3. Use uw-lever 4 - Swim into pool 4. Swim right into passage 4 - Use uw-lever 5 and swim back into pool 1.

The gate will remain open, so you can go up for air and then swim back down and grab the LMP inside the gate. The gate at the top of the south stairs will now be open, so make your way up there and enter the newly opened gate. Drop down through the long shaft (it's perfectly safe to do so) and Lara will float to ground.

Use the skeleton-lever in the north alcove to open the double south doors, and then head up to the doors and pick up the Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ LMP. Now enter the double doors.

Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 2

Secret ~ Eye Of The Serpent 10

Walk out into the balcony of the beautiful pink and purple room, find yourself at the other side of the room you visited earlier and be informed that you have now entered Legacy Of The Gods ~ Bonus Level 4 by Luis Martins ~ Part 2

Har Meggido by Trix

Middle Gate ~ Enter the middle gate, take Pentagram 2 and leave the room. As you do so a cut-scene will kick in showing you the Lair Of The Serpents level and its Pentagram being concealed.

Return To The Aqueduct

Ok, it's now time to head back to The Aqueduct, but you will return here later on for another secret when you have the Sword of Fithos. For now though, use the floating ledges to get back to the central island, nip into the transporter and zap back to The Aqueduct.

Secret

Return to the north passage (if any scarabs are still roaming around, just keep jumping back to the south passage until they have all dropped into the lava-pool) and head around into the secret keyhole room. Go right into the next south passage and jump the skeleton trap to get into the hallway. Head through to the south passage and time the single crashing wall to get to the east end of the hallway. Go right to the crashing walls passage and time them to get to the crashing wall in front of the central floor-hatch. Now note. In the east wall inside the floor-hatch hole there is a secret passage, and you need to use the glide trick to get inside it. So, stand Lara as close to the crashing wall as possible, and the time the wall and run into the hatch hole. As soon as Lara is past the edge of the hole, press the "action key" to glide her down into a passage. Now run through to the room at the end of the passage and collect the Secret ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo.

Note: Only visit the secret area once. If you do happen to return here later on, the secret bell will chime again, the secret will register twice and your secret count will get messed up.

The Shotgun & The Secret Key

Another Wraith Run

As soon as you take the shining star, a long cut-scene will kick in showing you a skeleton-lever, a gate opening with another lever inside and the wraith-dolly in the flooded chamber. You need to pay attention to all of this because it's going to be your escape route from another frenzied wraith. You need to use two levers to open the way to the wraith-dolly in the flooded chamber to finally kill the wraith.

The 1st Lever

When you step away from the e pedestal, the wraith will be heading your way. Quickly run out into the passage, go L - L - L to find the skeleton-lever and use it to open the gate to the next lever.

The 2nd Lever

Roll and run back out to the long passage, head to the end of the passage and go right (just before the starting room) at the end of the passage. The next lever is straight ahead of you now, so use it to open the gate to the wraith-dolly chamber.

Kill The Wraith & Get The 1st Gold Key

Run out of the lever alcove and go right. Nip up to the higher passage and make your way up to the wraith-dolly chamber. The gate is now open, so head inside and drop into the hole at the end of the short passage.

Lara will fall into a lower flooded chamber and the current will sweep her towards a fire-trapped hatch. The current will also stop you from swimming to the south side of the chamber, so try to swim around the hatch and make your way up into the NE corner. Swim up to the top of the passage and head through the south passage to the circular-blade. Time the blade to get past it, and then swim to the end of the passage and swim up to the wraith-dolly chamber. Go left in the chamber, locate the wraith-dolly at the end and wait for the wraith to disappear. Now, swim back to the east wall opening (where you entered the chamber) and swim up into the air-pocket for some air.

Return to the chamber and go right this time. Swim down through the water-hole at the end of the passage and make your way to the end. You will now see the Gold Key behind the grating to your left, so swim forwards to the end of the grating, then swim L - L around the grating and pick up the 1st Gold Key.

Expose The Secret Key

Swim out of the Gold Key passage and swim back up to the wraith-dolly chamber for some air. When you are topped up with oxygen, swim back down to the Gold Key pick-up passage and head straight on to the circular-blade. Time the blade to get past it, and then swim down the hole beyond the blade. Swim down into the lower flooded passage, then swim south and make your way down the hole at the end of the passage. Swim up through the green tinted passage, note the passage to your right which is blocked off at the end, then swim on ahead and go up for air. Now continue through the east passage and pull out at the end.

Pick up the LMP from in front of the gate, then look up inside the hole above the water-hole and note the jump-switch high up on the south wall. Nip around into the north passage and walk towards the spike-tile. Note the slope on the wall beyond the spike-tile, and then walk as near to the spike-tile as you can. Take one step back from the spike-tile, then stand-jump towards the slope and grab it. Pull up onto the slope, back-flip with a twist onto the slope behind, and then press the "jump + action keys" to bounce Lara up the following slopes and grab the final south slope. Now pull up and back-flip to the safe ledge behind.

Note the Silver Key behind the closed north gate, and then face south and run-jump to the LMP on the ledge ahead. Spot the jump-switch on the south wall (that you noted earlier from the water-hole passage) and use it to lower the block in the green tinted water passage. After using the jump-switch, Lara will fall into the water-hole. So, grab some air, then swim down into the green tinted passage and make your way along until you can take a left turn. At the end of the passage, is the block you just lowered. Swim up into the hole above, pull out into the tiny room and use the skeleton-lever inside to de-activate the spike-tile back in the slope passage.

Before you leave the skeleton-lever room, jump over the lever to the west wall and find that the wall is in fact a movable-block. Push the block forwards to reveal a wall-lever, then use the lever to lower a block and open the way to the Secret Key. You will get the Secret Key later on, so forget about it for now and drop back into the green tinted passage. At the end of the passage, go right and head black up to the spike-tile and slope passage.

Head through the passage, go right after the spike-tile (which is now safe) and stand-jump to the top passage. Note the Diamond Key behind the gate to your right and the closed gate up in the wall ahead. Head left down the passage and stop about a quarter of the way down. Note the lighter coloured floor-tile, then walk a short way ahead and note the two lighter coloured wall-tiles to your left with another lighter coloured floor-tile between them. Also note the ladder and high passage up to your right, the temporarily inaccessible movable-block to the left of the ladder and the two closed floor-hatches ahead. Now make your way to the end of the passage and enter the room ahead.

Head back to the end of the passage and save your game before pulling up through the newly opened gate. As soon as you arrive inside the passage, a wraith will be on your tail. So quickly head to the end of the passage and drop down into the water-hole at the end.

The Sea Hag Chamber ~ A Secret & The 1st Diamond Key

You will now arrive in a large flooded chamber; and yes, you will shortly be meeting the sea hag, but first you need to get rid of that wraith. So, spot the wraith-dolly cage at the north end of the pool, then swim to the SE corner of the pool. Locate the uw-lever on the east wall and use it to open a hatch in the grated area of the ceiling. Swim to the hatch and pull out into the room above. There's a chain-pulley at either end of the room. Use them to raise the wraith-dolly cage down in the pool, then drop back into the pool and lure the wraith to the dolly to kill it.

You now need to use three uw-levers to open a secret gate and the gate to the 1st Diamond Key.

1st Underwater-Lever

Return to the hatch and pull back into the room above. Head to the SW corner of the room, light a flare to see the dark passage in the west wall and pull up inside. Pick up the LMP and use the skeleton-lever at the end of the passage to lower a block down in the pool.

Head back down into the pool, then keeping to the central path, swim south to the end of the pool. Go L - L, locate the uw-lever on the column and use it. Three things will now happen. 1 ~ A block will lower in the NW corner of the pool and expose the next lever. 2 ~ The sea hag will be released. 3 ~ The central hatch will close. You can grab some air from the SW ceiling air-pocket where you entered the chamber, or you can grab some air from the central grated ceiling area, but as you do not have use of your guns, you can not kill the sea hag.

2nd Underwater-Lever

Swim to the NW corner of the pool, locate the uw-lever on the column and use it to reveal the next uw-lever.

3rd Underwater-Lever

Swim to the NE corner of the pool, locate the uw-lever (SE of the wraith-dolly cage) and use it. Two things will now happen. 1 ~ The gate in then west wall (SW corner) will open. 2 ~ A secret passage in the right hand side of the west wall will open.

Secret

Swim to the right hand side of the west wall and enter the secret passage. When you do so, you will feel the slight rumble as one of the blocks up in the passage by the three keyhole room lowers. Pull up into the passage at the end and follow it through to the two lighter coloured wall-tiles. The left wall-tile is a movable-block, so push it through once only so that it's sitting in the upper passage by the three keyhole room. Now turn around, nip back to the end of the passage and jump up to the grated ledge up to your right. Pull up to your left for a LMP, then jump into the west passage and drop down into the lower passage.

The movable-block is to your right and you can see where one of the blocks lowered earlier, but you still need to lower the other block so that you can place the movable-block onto the lighter coloured floor-tile in the alcove. So, pull the movable-block down the passage four times until it's sitting on the lighter coloured floor-tile and this will lower the other block. Now push the block back up the passage and place it to the left of the ladder (so that it's sitting in front of the first lowered block). Climb the ladder, make your way back down to the movable-block and push it forwards once (so that it's sitting on the first lowered block). Now pull the movable-block onto the central lighter coloured floor-tile and one of the floor-hatches in the passage will drop open.

Now, don't go rushing towards the open floor-hatch or you will have a nasty shock. The closed floor-hatch is triggered to open if you step onto it and a spike-trap lies beneath it. So, jump over the closed floor-hatch to get to the open floor-hatch, then drop down inside for the Secret ~ LMP ~ Revolver Ammo.

The 1st Diamond Key

Pull up out of the hatch-hole, jump over the trap-hole and head left into the movable-block passage. At the end of the passage, drop into the water and swim to the left hand side of the west wall. Go through the open gate and it will close behind you (locking the sea hag inside the chamber). Now swim to the end of the passage, pull out of the water and run ahead for the 1st Diamond key.

The 1st Silver Key

Climb the ladder to your right and make your way to the slope at the top. Shimmy left as far as you can, then back-flip to the slope behind you and bounce forwards with a left curve so that Lara lands on the following slope to her left. Slide-jump ahead to the following slope, and then press the "action key" to grab the edge of the slope. Shimmy right as far as you can, pull up, slide-jump right onto to the corner slope and then twist and curve left so that Lara lands on the safe-tile in front of the west doorway. Now head through the doorway and go left for the 1st Silver Key.

Using The Three Keys

As you take the Silver Key, a wraith will arrive and you need to make a hasty retreat out of the sloped room. So turn tail, head to the sloped room and stand-jump onto the small south slope. Slide-jump to the next south slope, then slide-jump to the ladder and drop down into the passage below. Run into the movable-block passage, head past the pedestal and make your way to the wall ladder. Go right after the wall ladder into the movable-block passage, and then drop down into the water-hole to kill that pesky wraith. Now pull out of the water, head right out of the passage (mind the spike-hole) and make your way to the room with the three keyholes.

Secret

Use the Diamond, Silver and Gold Keys on the keyholes and two hatches back in a previous flooded chamber will open. A secret will also be uncovered which we will get it shortly. So, make your way down to the start of the passage and drop down into the spike-trap and slope passage. Go left to the water-hole and drop down into the green tinted passage. Swim through the passage and be sure to grab some air from the air-pocket inside the passage. Now swim to the end of the passage and go up to the open hatch; but don't swim up through it yet! Swim into the north passage, then when you are about half way down, swim up into the hole in the ceiling and make your way to the top. Now enter the south passage and pick up the Secret ~ LMP.

Get Some Air ~ Locate The Rotating-Blade Room

You now need some air, so quickly turn tail, swim out of the secret passage and swim down to the lower passage. Swim south to the end of the passage, then swim straight up into the hole in the ceiling. At the top of the hole you can grab some much needed air.

The Rotating-Blade Room

Swim into the north passage and head on until you come to a hole in the ceiling with a passage inside it. Leave the passage alone for now and look below you for a flooded chamber with rotating blades. Swim down to the blades, but keep above them to start with and head to the east wall. There's an uw-lever here, so use it and see a shot of a closed gate elsewhere. Now swim down below the blades to the west side of the chamber and locate the uw-lever on the east wall of the trench. Use the lever and get a shot of the gate opening. Return to the top of the chamber, swim north to the end of the passage and save your game before pulling out of the water.

The Wraith-Run

As soon as you pull out of the water, you will be treated to a long cut-scene showing you the tasks ahead. This will involve a lot of slopes, levers, collapsible-tiles and one very persistent wraith. As you can see, the gate has closed behind you and there's no wraith-dolly to hand, so your only option is to find one elsewhere. Also note the receptacle, covered water-hole and large medi-pack to your left, but ignore them all for now.

Run over to the slope in the NW corner, jump up and grab its edge. Shimmy left as far as you can, then back-flip with a twist onto the slope behind and immediately jump forwards with a right curve to land on the next slope. Immediately jump to the next slope, then slide-jump to the next slope. Continue on until you reach the slopes that are joined together to make a right angle, then grab the edge and shimmy as far right as you can (without turning the corner). Pull up and slide-jump with a right curve to land on the collapsible-tile, then immediately back-flip with a twist onto the collapsible-tile behind. Now run-jump to the collapsible-tile to the left (SE direction) and grab its edge. Shimmy around to the south side, then pull up, run-jump to the collapsible-tile in the NE corner and grab the edge of it. Shimmy around to the left, pull up and roll, then run-jump to the block with the wall-lever. Use the lever to open the hatch covering the water-hole below, and then turn slightly left and jump down through the hatch-hole.

Secret

The wraith is still hot on your tail, so swim along the passage and out into a large flooded chamber. Spot the three silver wall-tiles on the outer walls. The east wall-tile has a hidden passage behind it, so swim through and grab the Secret ~ 2 x LMP.

Locate The Golden Handle

Return to the chamber and swim up to the mirror on the south wall. Go take a look in the mirror and spot an opening in the west wall. Swim through and use the uw-lever inside to open a hatch at the top of the flooded chamber. Swim back out, then swim to the top of the chamber and pull up through the newly opened hatch. Head to the gate at the end of the passage (which will open as you approach) and go through.

When you enter the gate, you will get another long cut-scene showing you the next task; which is more or less the same as before with various slopes, collapsible-tiles and levers. And yes you do still have that wraith lurking about, but you will eventually come across the wraith-dolly.

As soon as you have control of Lara again, turn around and use the jump-switch up on the wall to close the hatch over the water-hole and open the gate over in the north wall. You can't actually see the gate yet as it's obscured by a slope. Jump onto the slope nearest to you and slide-jump over the following two slopes until you see the newly opened gate ahead. Slide-jump towards the gate and press the "action key" to glide Lara inside the gate. Head inside the passage, go R - R and use the lever at the end of the passage to de-activate the spike-trap that's surrounding the wraith-dolly and open the gate above it. Head back down the passage and go left into the next passage. Head past the gate you entered the passages by and go left for a LMP. Continue on down the passage until you reach the opening at the end, and then drop down onto the wraith-dolly ledge.

At this point, the wraith should finally wipe itself out on the wraith-dolly, hooray! Now use the wall-lever behind the wraith-dolly to raise a block on top of a ladder to your right. This will block off the spike-trap at the top of the ladder. Oh, and you have also released another wraith.

Now, this wraith really isn't having any of that wraith-dolly stuff so you need to find something else to deal with it. Face south and jump back to the ledge you arrived in this room on. As you did before, use the three slopes to get to the north side of the room, but this time, don't jump into the north gate. Instead, slide-jump left onto the west slope, then slide-jump and grab the ladder on the pillar. Climb up the ladder and pull up onto the top of the pillar.

There's a long slope to your left now with a smaller slope ahead of it. Run-jump or side-jump onto the long slope, then shimmy left until the smaller slope is behind Lara. Pull up and back-flip with a turn onto the smaller slope, then slide-jump with a left curve onto the slope on the east wall. Keep just the "jump key" pressed, bounce Lara onto the following slope, then slide-jump and grab the next slope. Shimmy right as far as you can, then pull up and slide-jump to the west wall slope. Keeping the "jump key" pressed, bounce to the next slope to the north, then slide-jump with a right curve onto the east slope to your right. Bounce to the next north slope (make sure Lara is facing east when you land on it) then slide jump with a right curve onto the east wall ledge. Use the wall-lever on the east wall to open the hatch covering the water-hole, then face west and run off the ledge. Lara will land in the water-hole below and the wraith will disperse. Woohoo!

Swim through the passage and make your way up to the top of the flooded chamber again. As you pull out into the upper passage, the gate to your left will open. Head through to the passage beyond, and then as you reach the end of the passage, the hatch covering the water-hole will close again. At the end of the passage, nip up onto the grated block for a LMP, and then pull up to the right. Lara will now be on an elevator and heading to the top of the room.

Drop down to the central hole in the grated floor, face east and hang drop from the hole. Release your grip, fall through the sloped room into the water-hole at the bottom of the room, then pull out of the water. Collect the LMP in front of the receptacle, and then combine the Shining Star with the Golden Handle to make The Star Of Light and place it on the receptacle. The sloped lava pool you visited earlier at the start of the level will now change to water.

The timer won't begin until Lara leaves the trigger-tile. So, place Lara with her back to the east wall and with her right foot on the edge of the trigger-tile. Side-flip left onto the block, run-jump and grab the raised block ahead and then quickly pull up and run-jump to the balcony ahead before the block lowers. Walk ahead and pick up the 2nd Diamond Key from the pedestal.

When you take the Diamond Key, a cut-scene will show the east drawbridge lower and a hatch rise on the west side of the room. Drop down from the balcony and head north to the end of the bridge. Turn around, hang-drop to the lower central column and then walk eastwards to the edge of the path. Turn around, hang-drop down onto the ladder below and then climb down and shimmy right until you are on the other side of the central column. Now drop from the ladder, nip over to the right and take the 2nd Gold Key from the pedestal. As you do so, a cut-scene will show the west drawbridge lower and a hatch rise on the east side of the room.

Run out onto the bridge ahead and spot the lowered rope to your right. Stand-jump to the rope, then swing to the de-activated spike-tile ledge on the north wall. Back-drop from the ledge and shimmy right to the end of the wall. Now shimmy around to the other side of the wall, hang-drop and grab the gap in the wall below you and shimmy left to the other side of the wall. Continue on to the end of the wall, then shimmy to the other side of the wall and drop down to the ledge below. Now collect the 2nd Silver Key from the pedestal and watch the cut-scene showing you a hatch rising high up on the north side of the room.

4 Secrets

Tinnos Key. Ocular Part 1. Ocular Part 2. Smaragd Ocular. 7 x Snake Stone. Serpent's Key. Dragon Mask.

Arrival

Note the sign indicating that you have use of your weapons again. Initially though, Lara will not draw her guns via the "weapons draw key", so select a weapon from the inventory to initiate the weapons draw function. From now on, Lara will be able to draw her weapons by using the usual key.

The Tinnos Key

Start by walking ahead to the central hole and drop down into it. Lara will take a long fall down through the central hole and splash-land in a pool below. Note the closed west gate in the pool wall, then pull out of the water on the west side and take the Tinnos Key from the left pedestal. Collect the LMP from the right side pedestal, then nip over to the east side of the chamber and take the LMP ~ Flares from the other two pedestals. When you have picked up all the items, the west gate in the pool will open.

Head around to the north opening and stand-jump towards the north wall while pressing the "action key" so that Lara glides down inside the north wall passage. Head back through the passage and make your way back to where you entered the passage from the central north tower. Walk out to the edge of the opening, jump over to tower and then face NE and run-jump into the newly opened gate. Light a flare, make your way through the passage to the chamber at the end and take the Ocular Part 1 from the pedestal.

Swim out from the lever passage and go left. At the end of the passage, pick up the SMP, then head back down the passage and swim into the west room for some air. Now swim back through the east passage, swim down into the trench and head to the east room. Pull up onto the central ledge climb the chain to about half way, then back-flip off to a rocky chamber and collect a LMP from the south alcove. Return to the chain, climb to the upper room and take the Ocular Part 2 from the pedestal. As you take the Ocular Part 2, you will see a shot of the pillar lowering back in the hallway and a receptacle is revealed.

Make a safety-drop down from the tower and head to the west end of the lava pool room. Jump back to the starting path, run through to the hallway and spot the newly revealed receptacle straight ahead of you. Combine Ocular Part 1 with Ocular Part 2 to make the Smaragd Ocular and place it on the receptacle. A hatch will now open in the central water pool inside the lava pool room. Head back into the lava pool room and make your way to the eastwards to the central water pool.

Pull out of the water on the north side and nip into the tiny room ahead for a pack of Flares. Head back to the pool and note the other two passages south and west. It's the south passage you need next, but you can take a look inside the west passage if you wish. Above the entrance of the west passage, you can clearly see that weapons of any kind are not permitted and if you attempt to use them beyond the sign you will pay a high price. As you enter the west passage, a gate will open inside the small chamber and a swinging-ball is revealed. But as you can't use your weapons in here to break the ball, you need to find another way of solving the problem. There's s gap in the north wall, so that should give you a small hint. Ok, let's move on now.

Leave the nine levers room, go right in the passage and make your way around the following passages. At the end of the passages, you will come to a small rocky chamber with the 1st Snake Stone inside.

Head out to the left and follow the passages through to the newly drained wide rocky passage. Jump over to the west ledge (ignore the sound of the swinging-ball gate closing) and run-jump to the east wall ladder. Climb down to the rocky passage and take the 3rd Snake Stone from the SW corner.

Enter the east wall alcove, pull up through the ceiling-hatch and take the 4th Snake Stone from the pedestal.

Return to the ladder and climb back up to the bridge. Walk the break in the railings to your right, face SE, take a right curved running jump around the tower wall and grab the small ledge. Pull up and take the 5th Snake Stone from the pedestal. Doing so will open the gate at to the north tower at the end of the bridge.

Start by hopping back twice from the opening. Now run towards the opening, and then as soon as you reach the edge, keep the "forwards key" pressed and also press the "jump + walk keys" to perform a running jump swan dive. If you are successful, Lara will dive through the hole in the railings and land next to the Secret Key below the lava pool.

Spot the newly opened west wall gate and pull up inside it. Head to the top of the slope, and then make your way over the bridge and onto the central platform. A pillar will rise behind you trapping you on the platform and a huge serpent will appear in the NE corner. Quickly gun down the slithering enemy and some items will appear on the floor-hatch nearby. First collect the Normal Shotgun Ammo from the west side of the platform, then save your game before picking up the Revolver Ammo and Serpent's Key from the floor-hatch.

When all the swinging-balls are shattered, the gigantic serpents will disappear, the far east lava pool will turn to water and a passage is revealed in the pool wall. Dive into the pool, swim through the east passage and pull out at the end. Make your way through the following passage and use the Serpent's Key on the keyhole at the end to open the gate to the Snake Stone receptacles. As you do so, Lara will be elevated to an upper passage. Run left from the elevator and take the 7th Snake Stone from the pedestal.

Head over to the central skeleton-lever and use it to conjure up a Dragon Mask in the nine levers room above. Leave the room via the south gate and go left in the passage. Make your way to the end of the passage, then go left and head to the end of the passage. Stop at the end of the passage, look up and spot the higher passage inside the hole in the ceiling and pull up into it. Nip into the south passage and head immediately right into the nine levers room. Now head over to central pedestal and collect the Dragon Mask from the pedestal.

You are now back in The Aqueduct with 1 x Dragon Mask and the Tinnos Key. Hopefully you also have 3 x Pentagrams to access Bonus Level 3. If you have not visited Limbo and/or Bonus Levels 1 & 2 yet, this will be your last chance to do so.

Important Options

To visit Limbo and/or Bonus Levels 1 & 2 ~ Follow the walkthrough from Take Me To Limbo

If you do not wish to visit Limbo and/or Bonus levels 1 & 2 ~ Follow the walkthrough from Using The Tinnos key

Take Me To Limbo

Run to the right (north) and drop into the water-hole. Let the current take Lara to the end of the passage, then pull out of the water and slide down to the top of the glass covered maze. Head to the SW corner, enter the south passage and use the transporter at the end to zap yourself off to Limbo.

3 Secrets

Note: If you have 5 x Mystery Stones, you can collect all 3 Limbo secrets and access Bonus Levels 1 & 2. You can also collect any missing Pentagrams from Limbo when you return from Bonus Levels 1 & 2. We will discuss this further when you return from Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

If you do not have 5 x Mystery Stones, you will not be able to visit Bonus Levels 1 & 2 and you will not be able to collect any missing Pentagrams from Limbo. However, you can still collect 2 secrets from Limbo.

Secret

Return To The Central Island

Taking care not to venture too close to the spike-trap, pull up onto the NE corner ledge and note that the triangular ledge down to your right is now fire trapped; so you won't be using that. Walk to the NE corner of the ledge, then face east towards the other triangular ledge. It's safe to jump to, so time the spike-trap behind you, then hop back and take a running jump over to the triangular ledge. Now jump back to the hatch and then onto the central island.

Secret

Nip up onto the NW corner block and spot the floating ledges leading to the north temple. You can't go inside the temple yet, but you can get the secret hidden on the roof of it. Run-jump to the NW ledge, then run-jump to the north ledge. Run-jump towards the NE ledge, grab it and pull up. Stand at the back of the ledge, take a left curved running jump towards the west ledge, grab the edge of it and pull up. Now stand at the back of the ledge and take a right curved running jump towards the temple balcony, grab the edge of it and pull up.

Note the three closed golden gates in the north wall of the temple. They are of no use to you now, but you will be back here later on to deal with them. It might interest you to know though, that the patterned-tiles above each gate correspond with the patterned-tiles above the receptacles up on the east temple. You can note this for later on when you have returned from the Bonus Levels 1 & 2 with the x eye of the serpent artefacts, and then all will become clear.

So for now, note the ladder on the east wall with the closed hatch above it, then head to the opening in the west wall and pull up inside it. You are now on an outer wall of the temple. Go right, walk to the end of the temple wall, then face NE and jump down onto the small ledge on the wall of the temple. Now face SE, jump up to the wall and make your way to the end. There are a series of ladders on the wall below you, so hang-drop onto the first ladder and shimmy left. Ignore the alcove between the ladders and make your way to the end of the ladder. Climb up, pull up onto the temple wall and then run to the end of the wall. Now go right and use the wheel-switch to lower the hatch above the ladder.

Head back down to the end of the wall and hang-drop down to the ladder. Shimmy right as far as you can (ignoring the alcove between the ladders) then pull up onto the temple wall. Go to the right, then face NW and jump down to the small ledge on the temple wall. Now face SW and use the higher triangular area on the ledge to perform a left curved banana-jump up to the temple wall. Make your way to the end of the wall, drop down to the left and you are back on the temple balcony. Head to the ladder on the east wall, climb to the top and pull up onto the roof of the temple. Now explore the temple roof for the Secret ~ Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ Flares ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ 2 x Revolver Ammo ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows ~ LMP.

Ok, now we can head back to the central island. Climb back down the ladder to the temple balcony, then use the floating ledges to the south to get back to the central island.

Important Options

If you do not have 5 x Mystery Stones ~ Nip into the transporter, head back to The Aqueduct and follow the walkthrough from Using The Tinnos Key

If you have 5 x Mystery Stones ~ Follow the walkthrough from Bonus Levels 1 & 2

Bonus Levels 1 & 2

Place 5 x Mystery Stones into the snake receptacles, and then watch the cut-scene showing you various transporters activating throughout Limbo and some spike-traps de-activating on fire-trapped ledges to the NE. The de-activated spike-trap ledges are your main concern right now because they give you access to the far SW transporter. You will then use that transporter to zap to the top of the east temple where you will find another transporter to take you to Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

A Burning Desire

Start by heading to the NE corner of the island and scan the floating ledges ahead. Placing the Mystery Stones has de-activated the spike-traps on the ledges, but you will still have to deal with the fire-traps on them. So, stand facing the first ledge, then run-jump towards it and grab its edge. Shimmy all the way around to the other side of the ledge, wait for the fire-emitter to lower and then pull up in the right hand corner of the ledge. You are safe here for now, as long as you do not move Lara on the ledge. Wait for the flame to lower, then turn around, stand-jump towards the next ledge grab the edge of it. Shimmy left around the corner of the ledge and pull up in the right hand corner. Now wait for the flame to lower, run-jump to the next ledge and grab the edge of it. You can now repeat this procedure over the following ledges and the route will end at the SW transporter. Now step inside the transporter and Lara will arrive on the top of the east temple.

You can take a look around up here if you wish. There are 12 receptacles on the lower walls (6 on each side) where you will be placing the Eye Of The Serpent artefacts that you have collected from Bonus Levels 1& 2. Note the patterned-tiles above the receptacles, and then remember the patterned-tiles you saw above the closed gates back on the north temple. The solution to the gates will be explained when you have returned from Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

Secret

Note the two transporters up on the temple roof. The north transporter will take you back to the central island. The south transporter will take you to Bonus Levels 1 & 2. But first we are going to get the next secret. Note: You can also get this secret later on when you come back from Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

From the transporter-tile you arrived on. Walk east to the edge of the roof and turn around. Hop back from the roof, slide down and grab the end of the slope. Drop to the ledge below, then turn to face south, hop back from the ledge and grab it. There's a ladder below you, so climb down, then shimmy right around the ladder until the temple is behind you. Now spot a passage behind you and back-flip into it. Face south and note the passage ahead. It's lined with collapsible-tiles and there's one safe-tile at the end. There's also a ladder on a pillar beyond the collapsible-tiles. Run over the collapsible-tiles to the end of the passage, then jump and grab the ladder. Shimmy left around the ladder, then climb to the top of the ladder and pull up onto the ledge above. You will hear some spikes de-activating on a nearby ledge. Turn around, face north east and spot the de-activated spike-tile ledge around the corner of the temple. Run-jump to the ledge, then run-jump to the next ledge to the north and save your game by the wheel-switch.

The wheel-switch is timed to a hatch on the other side of the temple. Use the wheel-switch to raise a hatch, then return to the previous ledge (south) and run-jump around the wall to the ladder ledge. Face SW, spot another de-activated spike-tile ledge around the wall to your right and run-jump to it. Take a right curved running jump to the following north ledge, grab it and pull up. Spot the raised hatch to your right, run-jump towards it, grab it and pull up. Now quickly run-jump towards the ledge on the temple wall and relax for a while.

Run-jump to the next north ledge, then face NE and jump down onto the small ledge on the other side of the temple wall. Use the jump-switch on the south wall to open the secret gate on the other side of the temple and activate a transporter behind you.

Walk west to the ledge of the ledge, then face SW and jump back to the upper ledge on the temple wall. Run-jump to the next south ledge, then stand-jump down to the hatch. Run-jump to the next south ledge, then run-jump to the corner ledge on the temple wall. Take a left curved running jump around the temple wall and land on the ladder ledge.

Drop back from the ledge, grab the ladder and climb down. Shimmy right on the ladder until the temple is behind you, then back-flip into the collapsible-tile passage. The collapsible-tiles are gone now, but there's a monkey swing above you. So, grab the monkey swing and make your way to the end of the passage. Now head out to the right and jump back to the ladder. Shimmy left around the corner of the ladder wall, then climb to the ledge above. Now pull up into the alcove and collect the Secret ~ 3 x Wideshot Shotgun Ammo ~ 20 x Explosive Arrows ~ 2 x Flares ~ 4 x LMP ~ Normal Shotgun Ammo ~ Revolver Ammo.

Head To The Transporter

You now need to get to the transporter you activated a moment ago (when you use the jump-switch on the other side of the temple). So, face north and run-jump to the ledge ahead. Still facing north, spot the spike-trapped ledge on the corner of the temple and the transporter around the corner of the temple. Time the spike-trap on the ledge, then just as the spikes lower, run-jump to the ledge and immediately run-jump with a left curve around the corner of the temple wall and land inside the transporter.

Lara will now arrive back on the temple roof. Nip into the south transporter and head off to Bonus Levels 1 & 2.

Access Sanctuary of Souls ~ The Clockwork Cathedral by Piega

Note the smaller pool to your right (east), then go L - L and make your way up the stairs to about half way. Look up northwards and spot two horizontal-bars above the stairs and a wheel-switch up on a high balcony. Pull up into the west alcove (just before the lower horizontal-bar) and use the two horizontal-bars to get over to the north balcony. Use the wheel-switch to open a gate in the main pool, then make a safety-drop to ground and head back to the main pool.

Drop into the pool at the north end and swim through the newly opened gate in the north wall. Swim through to the end of the passage, then swim up and pull out onto the north ledge. Use the nearby skeleton-lever to open a gate in the upper area of the main pool room, then swim back out to the main pool.

Pull out at the north end of the pool and make your way back to the far north end of the room (where the smaller pool is). Go L - L and make your way up the stairs again. At the top of the stairs, go L - L into the newly opened gate.

Light a flare if you need to, then drop down into the lower passage and run to the end. Pull up to your right into an upper passage and use the wheel-switch inside the passage to open another gate near to the one you previously opened. Return back through the passages, head out of the gate and go left. Run past the wide ascending stairs with the burning pots, then turn left into the newly opened gate. Drop down into the lower passage and make your way to the skeleton-lever at the end. Use the lever to open the double doors at the top of the stairs with the burning pots, and then make your way back through the passage and head out of the gate. Stop here because there's a secret to collect before we proceed to The Clockwork Cathedral.

Secret

Go L - L and run down the stairs to about half way. Look up to the north and spot the goodies on a pedestal. Pull up into the east wall alcove (the second alcove down from the top of the stairs), perform two banana-jumps around the alcove walls to get to the north balcony and grab the Secret ~ 10 x Explosive Arrows.