The Citadel Gates

Level by Yann Houbas (December, 2001)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie


Go north and the large doors open. Continue past the column and kill a scorpion. Pick up Uzi ammo, small medipack and red shotgun shells in that order. Kill the two ninjas that appear and try to steal the items. Go back to the column and climb the wall near the blue picture. Kill a ninja on the east ledge. Jump to the column for a small medipack and then to the east ledge. You may notice a closed gate on a higher south ledge. Use the floor lever and the doors open in the north wall. Get down and kill two ninjas. Enter the doors quickly to avoid a rolling spike ball. If possible kill a ninja on the upper ledges. If not possible, you can ignore him. Go to the north-east corner and pull up into a crawl space. Stand up in a small room and pick up Uzi ammo and use the floor lever. Get back down and kill a ninja outside the doors and go west and then north into an open gate.

Inside the door, hop onto a block and pick up the Uzis. Then jump up and grab a ledge and pull up into a small room. Use the floor lever and get down. Exit the area and kill two scorpions. Go south and east to an open door. Enter and notice a hole in the floor filled with water. Get into the water and swim to the north-east and into another hole. Swim north-east again to pick up a large medipack and then swim up a shaft for air. You can pull up for Uzi ammo and flares and see the circular door in the north room. There is no need to go into the north room yet. Back to the water and into the east tunnel. Pick up red shotgun shells and swim up a shaft. Pull up into a room and find red shotgun shells in the corner. Go east and then hop back quickly to avoid a rolling spike ball. Go east and up the south ramp. Enter the room and kill a ninja. Pick up the Eye Piece and kill two ninjas. Back into the water and swim west.

The gate is open so swim west again and then swim up a shaft to the surface. Pull up and go to the west wall. The hop back to avoid a rolling spike ball. Go up the north ramp and to the north-east corner for flares. Turn around a kill a ninja. Continue up the ramp and pull up into a green area. Kill four scorpions and climb up the column to the west. Climb to the top of the column to pick up the shotgun. Then climb down to the middle of the column and back flip to a south ledge. Kill a ninja and follow the corridor to the south-east corner and pull up into a crawl space in the east wall. Pick up Uzi ammo and use the floor lever. Get back to the corridor and kill a ninja.

Use the climbable column to back flip into the open doors on the north ledge. First, try to kill the two ninjas on the north ledge so that they do not shoot you as you shimmy around the column. Run to the north doors and a spike ball falls behind you. The doors open and you enter a very dark area. Go to the north edge and jump to the north-west ledge for grenade normal ammo. Then jump to the north-east ledge for the grenade gun. Safety drop to the ground and destroy a mummy. Go to the south-east corner for grenade normal ammo. Then go due north for more grenade normal ammo. Go to the north-west corner and destroy a mummy. Climb the west wall and pull up into a corridor. Go east to destroy a mummy and stay near the sidewalls to avoid two falling spike balls. At the east wall, fall into a hole and drop into some water.

In the underwater chamber, swim into the left tunnel and swim up near the end. Pull up into a room and try to collect the six mummies close together to destroy them. Shoot all the vases and find a small medipack and grenade normal ammo. Notice the central structure with the four closed gates. Go to the dark south-east corner and enter a crawl space. On the end, enter a room to destroy a mummy. Use the floor lever and exit back to the main room. Get into the water and swim back to the underwater chamber.

Swim into the middle tunnel and at the end, swim up and pull up into a dark tunnel. Follow the tunnel and pick up two Uzi ammo. You emerge onto a ledge over a deep pit and you see a floor lever on the far east side. Go to the east edge and run and jump to land on an invisible platform. A fire starts at the north wall. That marks the location of the next invisible platform. Another fire to the east marks the next invisible platform. From there it is a simple jump to the ledge with the floor lever. Use the floor lever and use the invisible platforms to return to the west ledge. Go back down the tunnel and swim back to the underwater chamber.

Swim back into the left tunnel and to the room with the four closed gates. The gates are now open. Enter any gate and pick up the Eye Piece. Back to the water and swim to the underwater chamber.

Swim into the right tunnel and at a T-junction, go left for a large medipack. The swim back to the underwater chamber for air becase the next swim is very long. Swim back into the right tunnel. Continue following the tunnel and pull up into an outdoor area. Pick up Uzi ammo and hop into the opening in the west wall. Follow the tunnel and kill two ninjas. Emerge into an outdoor area with a tree. Enter a south tunnel and kill a ninja. Hop over a deep hole and follow the tunnel to kill a ninja. Continue and up pull into a higher tunnel and kill two ninjas. Drop into a room and use the floor lever. The gate opens in the north wall. Exit and you are back where you started the level.

Go north and then east to the water hole. Swim back to the shaft with the gate and pull up to the room that you may have entered once before. This time go north to the room with the circular door. Kill two ninjas and carefully go forward. Avoid the spike ball and then pick up the red shotgun shells. Make the Eye of Horus and open the circular door. Run down the tunnel to the back wall and the level ends.

15-may-2006