GREEK TEMPLE

TR1 Level by Opaque79

Walkthrough by Treeble

Lara slides into a dark cave... proceed through the pathway to your left to deal with the welcome party: a lion and a gorilla. The exit is pretty obvious in the other side of the room, but before going further turn and climb the rocks in the corner straight opposite and up into the darkness to find SECRET #1, a small medipack.

In the next area, next to a temple façade, dispatch two gorillas and a crocodile in the water. Dive in to retrieve a small medipack, then proceed to the flat top rocks on the left hand wall. Use them to reach the rooftop of the façade, which will require a bit of a curved running jump, and throw the switch you'll find up there.

The gate atop the slope opens. Safely drop to the ground floor and run up the slope, but be prepared to roll around and run right back out of a boulder's way. Resume when it's safe, but don't rush blindly into the next area as a gnashing teeth trap might get the best out of you. Kill the gorilla roaming around and drag the block around the perimeter to reach a switch high up on the wall. A gate opens nearby, proceed to a spike pit.

Wait until the many bats come within range to shoot each and every one of them down, then line up to the ramp on your left. Jump there and immediately backflip as a boulder crashes down into the spike pit. If you follow that ramp upwards, you can pull up into an alcove housing SECRET #2, a large medipack. Get back down near the edge and jump over the slope. From this vantage point, you should be able to hit the gorilla frantically running around. Mind the ceiling and do a long running jump to the sandy rock at the edge of the spike pit, then proceed to throw the switch the gorilla once guarded.

Now you have to work your way back; from the side ledge you should find a flat spot where you can do a long running jump over the slope, then a slightly angled jump to the now raised metal trapdoor over the spike pit. Drop into the water pit in the middle of the room and swim to a short passage. Wait for the boulder to roll by, collect the large medipack, then step on the break-away floor to trigger the next boulder, immediately hopping back to safety. Throw the switch to finally open the temple door, then make your way back there through the water tunnel and down the ramp beyond the gnashing teeth door.

Inside, deal with two gorillas and a lion. If you look past the locked gate, you'll see the mythical Hand of Midas, so our next goal should be clear (ie. easy gold, let's get rich!). In the next room, protected by another lion, you'll find several closed gates, we'll be opening each of them in turn. For now, go through the only open passage on the far left side. A ramp means a boulder, yes, but not from where you are expecting: it'll roll down from the side instead. At the top, you arrive at a room with several burning pillars.

Approach the switch and save your game. It's a timed run, and the flames will go off for a few seconds so you need to be rather precise. To make matters worse, if you reload the flames will reset, so you need to do the entire run in one go. It's not difficult, just space your jumps in order to gain a headstart for the next jump and work your way across the pillars, past the swinging axe traps to find an alcove with a switch in the back. After throwing it, drop into the water and swim around the perimeter, behind the pillars, to find magnum clips and a small medipack, and keep swimming around the corners until you find a ledge you can pull up to, get more magnum clips and hop back up to the entrance. Run down the ramp to the central area.

The double gates are partly open, get the RUSTY KEY and pull the switch to open the nearby tall door. The narrow corridor is a trap, naturally, and you will be dropped into a pit with three crocodiles. Do your best to dispatch them quickly — if you can squeeze past them, you will have more room to get by in the next area —, then climb up the rocks in the dark corner. Turn around to a jutting ledge and you'll notice a locked gate, that'll be our next goal in a minute, but for now jump towards the rocky bridge and immediately sideflip to the left to disarm a boulder trap.

Get back down and jump into that water pit in the corner. If you stick to the right hand wall, you will find an alcove with a small medipack, then the MAGNUMS in the next corner, and finally a timed underwater lever. Pull it and quickly make your way back to the crocodile pit and up the rocks to the open gate above. Inside, kill two gorillas and get the first LEAD BAR. One trapdoor has been raised, granting you a quick return to the central area.

Loop around to the next open gate on your left and drop into the water pit. Pull out of water and push the gray block twice to reveal a second block, push this one only once and run around it, then push it twice to block the entrance. You now have room to maneuver the third block, pull it twice and run around it as well to the revealed corridor. A final block rests near a dry fountain, push it aside and your path to the second LEAD BAR is revealed. Get it and the underwater gate nearby opens and you'll be back at the entrance of the room, just swim through the tunnel back to the central area.

Run straight ahead to the last challenge room. Ignore the obvious pushable block in the corner to your right for now and instead pull up into a passage on the left end of the chamber, through where you get to the top of the metallic columns. Hop over them to an alcove with a switch, throw it to open a gate on the opposite side of the room. Safely drop to the floor and now proceed to pull that block from the corner. Pull it twice and a switch gets revealed, it alternates the position of the columns in the room, now granting you access to the gate you've just opened. Use the block as a stepping stone to climb the nearby metallic column, pull the switch in the alcove and the last gate opens, hop there to retrieve the third LEAD BAR. Safety drop and return to the central area, then retreat a little further to the area with the locked gates you saw earlier.

Use the key and enter the next area, guarded by two gorillas. Once you're in the clear, approach the massive hand from its flat side and place all three lead bars, one at a time, to turn them into GOLD BARS. The receptacles for these are in the nearby alcoves. Once all three of them are in position, the gate behind the hand opens and you're home free.