BLACK FORTRESS OF ANTARCTICA

Level by Ruediger Abend (Febuary, 2003)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie


You start by sliding down a slope. Jump and roll to slide down backwards. At the end, grab, pull up, back flip, roll and grab the other side. Shimmy left until you can pull up safely. Look North and you can see some darker safe spots to get to. Go West and find a pool of water. Splash though it and continue and notice a huge penguin on the West hill (cute). At the end turn to the right and go North. You see a trench to the left but go to the right and jump to the darker snow there. Go North and after a few awkward jumps, you will find Uzi clips and secret #1. Jump down and continue to the black fortress. Go inside and get a flyby of the area showing a locked gate and some openings. Hop to the blocks in the middle of the room. Pick up two Uzi clips and flares and kill two bats. For orientation purposes, North-West is the locked gate, South-West is a tunnel, North-East is a high opening, and East is a tunnel.

Go to the East tunnel and kill a dog. Continue and slide down a slope. At the bottom, side jump to avoid a rock. Pick up the large medipack and go to the South-East for another tunnel. Enter a room and pick Uzi clips and the Uzi's. Ahead are two passageways. Go to the right to find a crawl space. Go in for a small medipack, Uzi clips and secret #2. Return for the left passageway. Follow it and pull up into a crawl space on the right side to avoid the two skeletons chasing you. Follow the crawl space and at the end stand up. Go left up some stairs and drop back into the main room. Go to the South-West tunnel and follow to a ladder. Climb it and reach a crawl space. Drop at the other side and kill two dogs. Make it through the spikes into a passageway on the North wall. The down spikes are harmful but the up spikes are deadly. Pick up Uzi clips and continue around the corner to kill a demigod. Use the climbable wall to get over the spike floor and kill the demigod on the other side. Continue and monkey swing over some spikes. Arrive at a room to pick up Uzi clips and the Gate Key from the centre of the floor. Now go back to the gate in the main room.

Open the gate with the key. Hop to the block to pick up a crowbar, small medipack, and a shotgun. Go North to an impassable pit. Turn right and slide down into water. Swim and walk to the East to pull up onto steps and kill a crocodile. Look to the South-West corner for a crawl space. Go there for Uzi clips, shotgun shells and secret #3. Go back to the steps and look East over the ice flows and kill a crocodile. Go over the ice floes to the East killing two skeletons on the way. At the end hop to the slope, slide, grab and shimmy left to pull up. Turn and kill a crocodile in the water. Jump over the sloped ice block to an ice floe and kill a skeleton. Get to a square block in the North. Try to jump the next two slopes so hat on the last slope you slide down backwards and grab. Pull up, back flip, and roll to grab an ice floe. Pull up and kill a crocodile. Go West towards another floe with items. Kill a skeleton and pick up shotgun shells and flares.

Go to the West wall and jump to a crawl space. Crawl in and go to the right to shimmy around a deep pit. At the next deep pit go to the left and drop into water. In the crawl space up top, straight ahead is a dead end, literally. Pull up from the water and pry a Golden Star off the wall. Get into the water and swim to the North-East for the exit. Follow the tunnel until you see an opening to the right. That is a dead end, so go left down into a hole and follow until you can surface into a cave. Use the Golden Star to open the gate. Enter a room and get a flyby basically showing you the upward route. Start by going to the South-West corner. Light a flare to help see the slopes you need to make it to a platform on the North wall. Follow the platforms to the ladder and climb up. Near the top back flip a platform and kill a bat. Jump to a ledge on the North wall for Uzi clips. Follow the ledges counter clock-wise and beware of shooting darts and falling rocks. On the East wall ledge pick up a large medipack. Continue and finally pull up onto an open area with a frozen pool. Go the slope on the left side and use it to slide and grab another ledge above you. Look to the waterfalls to the South and see a crawl space at the top.

Go North to step on the blue tiles at the back wall. Turn around and see that a rope has appeared. Use it to get to the crawl space. Get to the other side and drop. Go left and climb a ladder. At the top look North to a timed trapped door above the demigod that is firing at you. Kill him first and then go back to the trigger tile at the ladder. When you make it go to the West end of the room and see a slope. Stand with you back to the South side of the room about one block East of the slope. Side jump and slide backwards on the right side of the slope. At the end, grab, release, and grab the ledge underneath. Immediately shimmy to the right and the rock should miss you. Pull up and kill a dog. As you go into the snow at the opening ahead, the level ends.

12-dec-2005