The Egyptian Temple WALKTHROUGH

Level built by: Potter

Walkthrough by: Nina Croft

When the level loads, run into the near right corner (SW) and go through the wall with greenery. The camera will go mad here, so try your best to locate the floor lever and use it to open one gate high above the first room. Go back through the solid wall "opening" and go up the ladder on the pillar straight ahead. If you want, you can pick up the goodies now or later when you return here.

If you want the goodies now, when you climb up the ladder, turn around and jump onto the broken walkway above the entrance. Go towards the S wall but don't turn left. Turn to face E and drop backwards from the edge. Press Action not to grab the edge of the walkway, but to cut Lara's fall and make her land inside the broken pillar, where you'll find an LM. Go up the ladder again, once again jump onto the walkway S and this time go left, towards the E wall. Hang on the E edge of the walkway and drop to grab the broken pillar below. Pull up and pick up FLARES. Drop to the ground and once again, climb the ladder on the pillar.

This time go to the right and run jump with Action to land inside the dark opening (the gate you opened with that floor lever opened this gate here). Kill one ninja and use another floor lever in the corner to open a double gate in the first room. Return there and safety drop to the ground. Once again, climb the ladder, jump onto the hallway S and go through the open gate.

Turn left at the junction and pick up FLARES from the floor near the pool. In SW corner there is another opening which is covered with a thin brick wall with greenery, through which you can enter. So climb up into this opening and crawl through. At the end, crawl backwards into the pit, and crawl into a very long passage. Near the end, there is another pit in which you have to drop by crawling backwards. Here you'll find an LM and FLARES. Pull up into the next opening, kill a ninja and follow the passage to its end. Kill one ninja here and use the floor lever to open a gate in the pool you have just visited. Sorry, but you have to return there through that long crawl space from which you came here.

Drop into the pool and swim through the opening and long UW tunnel. Light up a flare if it is too dark. Once you emerge in a room with decorated columns and sarcophaguses, find an opening in the far right corner. Just before you enter a small room with lying statue and two openings on the right, you have an air pocket just above Lara, in case you need air. Continue swimming, into the left-hand opening, and pick up UZIS with 2 X UZI CLIPS in the corner. Then swim to the right and into a tunnel where you can climb out of water.

Kill one ninja in the passage and pull a floor lever to open another double door in the first room. Also kill a small red scorpion and return through the UW passage back into the pool room. Climb out of the water and return to the first room (where you started). Safety drop to the ground. The gate that opened is on the N side. Enter and jump across the deep pit to the other side.

Go left and enter a room with stairs. Just to the right from the entrance there is a closed gate, and another double gate at the top of the stairs. Kill two or three small scorpions and go up the stairs to trigger appearance of two ninjas. Kill them and go down the stairs. The door near the entrance is now open, so go through and follow a passage. Kill another ninja along the way and use another floor lever to open the double gate at the top of the stairs. Watch a flyby and return back to the stairs. Up the stairs and into the room with huge statues.

Pick up FLARES from the floor and notice another closed gate on the right. Go around the central pillar and turn to face N. If you use Binoculars with Action, you'll locate a high opening. Although the pillar does not have any ladder or anything nearly resembling a climbing surface, Lara can still climb it. Go up and once you climb into the room, remain where you are and use flares. You'll see spikes all around you. If the flares won't work in Lara's hand, just throw them (press 1, not Space) to shed some light around. There is a safe path without spikes, leading to a floor lever. Just walk carefully along the safe path and use the lever to open the double gate below. Carefully return to the opening and climb down the pillar. Go through the gate you have just opened.

Once through the gate, go left and you'll emerge outside in a courtyard. On the left you can see a pool with a closed UW gate and two closed gates near the pool. On the right from the entrance, there is a green hill behind which there is another closed gate. Climb up the stairs killing a ninja along the way, and go through the solid wall with greenery (the texture is stretched at this spot, just near the wall). Use the lever to open the double gate, return there and kill two ninjas. You'll realise you've just returned to the starting room. However, the gate W is now open, so climb in and go through.

Slide down the hall into the basement. As soon as Lara stops sliding, side flip to right to get away from the boulder coming from behind you. Avoid the mummy in the dark room and use the floor lever to open the door ahead. Climb into the dark passage, avoid yet another mummy, use a flare to shed some light and follow the dark passage to a pit. You'll hear spikes, so be careful. Jump straight in the middle of the pit to land on the floor with no spikes. Avoid another mummy here, and use the lever in the passage to the right, to open another door outside. In the other passage you'll find a long dark shaft with ladder. So climb up to the attic.

Go left, kill a ninja and follow the attic through some darts, until you emerge before staircase leading down. Follow another passage, ignore the side room in the dark corner and simply go outside through the opened gate on your left. You'll be at that pool you have just seen in the courtyard. This time the UW gate is open, so jump into water, through the passage and into a room with another floor lever. Use it to open the other gate in the courtyard, return to the pool and swim to the right. The gate has opened here so enter and go around the grand staircase into a wide corridor with colourful pillars.

Now, along the way you'll see two closed gates to the left and right. A bit further in the corridor you'll find LM, UZI CLIPS and FLARES on the floor in the right corner behind one of the pillars. Follow the burners on your left. Just around the third burner on the left, there is a concealed ladder on the supporting pillar. Use it to climb up and to the left into the room with burners. Carefully walk diagonally between two burners on your left and around to the floor lever. Pick up UZI CLIPS from the corner and use the lever to open one gate back in the wide corridor. Return over the burners and down the ladder.

Return to the entrance to this corridor, the gate on your right is now open. Go up the ramp and through the dark passage, picking up an SM from the floor along the way. You'll emerge on the roof where you have to kill two ninjas. Use a lever here to open yet another gate nearby. A third ninja may appear here before you leave. Go through the gate which is just beside the entrance (E), crawl into golden passage, find 2 x SHOTGUN SHELLS and UZI CLIPS, kill a ninja and use  the lever. Return to the roof the way you came. Use the dark passage with the ramp to return to the wide corridor.

Go through the corridor which is now on your left and through the opened double gate at the end of it. Use the lever on the left and pick up SHOTGUN with 2 x of SHELLS. Enter the gate in the other corner you've just opened, ignore the mummy and use another lever to open another gate. Return back and this time go left and into the far corner, to find another lever and open yet another gate. Return to the big wide corridor, go to the other side of it, and you'll see that the left-hand gate at the entrance to the wide corridor has opened. Go through and approach the trench with burners.

Use the MS above to traverse along the burning hallway. You'll have to bend around the corner, and you can finally drop on the safe floor ahead. Be careful though, and avoid the spikes in the room. A mummy lurking ahead may make trouble and there is nothing you can do about it. Just stay focused and follow safe floor tiles to another lever and use it. Return back to the entrance, and once again, use the long MS above the burners, to return to the wide corridor.

In the corridor, go to the right and through the double gate. This time the door opposite the entrance has opened. If you drop into the pit, you'll find an LM in the far right corner. Climb back out of the pit, before the mummy eats Lara, using the ladder just below the entrance. Stand jump to land on the slanted pillar, slide and jump to land on another slanted pillar. Just repeat this until you land on the flat floor. The gate ahead  will open. Find LM, REVOLVER and 2 x Revolver AMMO on the floor.

In the near right corner (it is the darkest corner) there is another unmarked invisible ladder you can climb. Ignore two mummies here and use another floor lever to open the gate below. Drop to the room below and go through the opened gate ahead. In the room with hot oil pool, use sloped block to get across (easy standing jump with no Action sequence). Use the floor lever here to open the last gate, return to the entrance across the pool and kill two last ninjas in the level (finally the good weapon you have just found can be put to use). Go through the gate you have just opened and retrieve the PANDORA'S BOX from the pedestal. The gate nearby will open and you'll see Lara's jeep outside (did she know where to park when she arrived, huh?) Go through to end the level.

In Hamburg, on 11 September 2014