Big Ice Crystal

Level by Piotr Klonowski (Pedros) (November, 2001)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie

[Note] This level included no script.dat nor english.dat files so I renamed bigicecrystal.tr4 to tut1.tr4 and started a new game as the tutorial level. This level was very bad because it would crash in many places. For a while, I just gave up. However, I decided to play with the game settings to see if it would help. I used the following settings where YES means it was selected with a check mark and NO means the selection was left blank.

YES  Hardware Acceleration
NO   Software mode
NO   Volumetric FX
NO   Bilinear Filtering
NO   Bump Mapping
YES  Low Resolution Textures
NO   No FMV
Output Settings       Microsoft Direct 3D
Output Resolution  640x480 16 Bit
Texture Bit Depth  16 Bit RGBA 5551
Sound Device         Disable YES
These settings made the level playable. [End note]


When you slide, jump with a left curve to avoid a deep pit in front of you. At the bottom go west and north to another slope. Go west and slide and jump to the right to avoid a deep pit. At the bottom kill two scorpions and two dogs. Look west behind some columns to see a closed fence-type gate. Go north into a cave and see an exit to the north-west and another one to the east. Go east and down to kill a dog. A little further the cave splits into a north and an east branch. Go east to locate a closed door in a hole. Then return and go north. Climb the ledge and see a closed door to the north and a receptacle to the east.  Now you know where some things are located, go back to the first junction and go to the north-west. Enter the cave and kill three dogs and pick up a small medipack. Continue to come to a ledge. You see a building to the north and more caves to the west. Go west and around a large pillar and south to another building. Be careful of a deep hole at the north side of the ice column. Go around the area and kill three bats. When done go the south-east to get on a snowy platform to pull up the second level ledge.

Go around the ledge counter-clockwise for red shotgun shells, two large medipacks, two blue shotgun shells and the shotgun. Finish your collecting and arrive in front of a pushbutton. Press the pushbutton and get down from the ledge. Go to the fence-type gate you saw near the beginning of the caves, Go there and pick up a small medipack and enter the open gate. Go west and kill an ahmet. Go to the end of the cave and go south and another ahmet attacks. Go south to kill a bat and pick up red shotgun shells from a block to the east just before the pit. Another set of shells seems to floating in mid-air and cannot be picked up. Jump the pit and go south. Retreat back over the pit and kill a big scorpion that attacks. Then continue the way you started and go down some ledges. From one ledge you can kill a dog before you slide down a slope to where it was. Continue going down the cave and see an ahmet that is stuck on a ridge top. In that area, look north for a cave branch. You may have to do jumping with a curve to get into it and avoid the bad slopes. In there you find three Uzi ammo and the Uzi's. Exit and kill the amhet on the ridge top and go into a snow cave.

Kill two big scorpions and follow the ice cave into the south-east. Eventually you come to a dead-end but use the binoculars and see a crawl space in the north wall. Continue and you seem to be in a crawl space in a building. At the end, do a long drop into water and pull up into a large cave. There is nothing in the water. Go south-east and you can see a big scorpion kill a bat. There is also a small scorpion to kill. Exit to the south-east and continue north a little ways and see the trail split. First go north and kill an ahmet and get a large medipack. Then return to the split and go west. Find another large medipack and continue north into a narrow passageway. The way gets wider and you kill a dog. Eventually climb some blocks in the west and come to a long slope. Go up the slope and the passage splits again. First continue south and slide down to find Uzi ammo. Continue following the cave and find more Uzi ammo. Eventually you come to a ledge overlooking a snow platform. Jump down to the platform and kill an ahmet. Pick up the Eye of Horus (Golden Vraeus) and three Uzi ammo. To get down, go to the south-west and jump back into the water.

Go back to the split and go west instead of south and the door opens for you. Follow the tunnel to another door that opens for you. Exit and you recognize this place from the earlier searching you did. Climb the rocks up to the west. Kill two dogs and then go north. Climb a ledge and look west for a receptacle. Use the Eye of Horus and the north door opens. Enter the door and get into a crawl space. Follow it to stand up in a large cave with a passage in the north-west. At the top kill a bat. When you reach a large rock hanging from the ceiling you are attacked by an ahmet. At this point, the cave splits again.

Go west to a slope that you can jump over but do not jump over it yet. Go north to find a cave to the west. Enter there for a small medipack and exit. Then go to the east and follow the tunnel to a large cave. Pick up three Uzi ammo and a small medipack. Now return to that slope and jump over it. Go south to pick up a small medipack and find a hole.

Drop into the hole and onto the ground. If you go south, you will overlook the cave that you have passed through before. Instead go north and then west and enter a large high room with many ledges. Go to the west side of the central structure and pull up into a hole. Pull the switch and then climb the ladder to the top. Run south and enter an open door. Follow up the ramps into a wide corridor and kill two ahmets. About half way down the corridor are two openings in the east and west sidewalls. Enter both openings and go to the end to pull the two switches. Exit and go south and past a closed door in the east wall. Go to the south end of the corridor and another door is open. Use the two floor levers and exit. The corridor east door is open go there and crawl in to drop into a pool of water. As you drop you may briefly recognized the room as the room with the ice column.

Start by swimming south and just follow the underwater tunnel to the end. Walk up the water slope to a closed door. Turn around and go up a slope to the east wall. Step on a fancy floor tile. Side flip to another fancy tile and the door opens. Enter the closed door and climb the block. You see the Hand of Sirius and the level ends with a final crash to the desktop.

13-mar-2006