Underground A

Level by Braden Ellis (June, 2003)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie


You start in a large open area with many boxes. Hop onto the south-west box for crossbow normal ammo. Continue to the south-west corner and Lara looks at a closed door in the west wall. You can shoot any empty box. Go to the south wall to look for a small medipack and flares. Go north and pick up a small medipack from a brown box. Continue north and go past the broken sentry gun and into the doorway. Run down the corridor and Lara looks at the ceiling tile. Climb the boxes and pull up to the west through the ceiling tile. You get secret #1. Search the small area with the boxes for a small medipack and crossbow explosive ammo. Return and drop to the ground floor.

Go north-east and follow the east corridor. You end a room with more boxes and a locked door. Kill a guard and then wait and kill another guard that appears from the west corridor. To the north is a closed gate. Go down the west corridor and pass a branch corridor. Go straight to the room with boxes and kill three guards. In the room, go to the west wall and use the floor lever. Exit the room and now go into the branch corridor. Pick up grenade normal ammo from a box and proceed north. Enter the first branch for flares. Enter the second branch to kill a guard and use a floor lever and hear a gate open. Go back to the corridor and go north through the open gate. It closes behind you and you face a set of ledges over toxic water. Start running over the edges and a fire wraith attacks. Get to a tunnel in the east wall and enter a room to find a water hole at the east wall. When the wraith is extinguished in the water, pull up to kill a guard. Go back to the toxic water pit and climb down the ladder at the west wall. Shoot a box and get into the crawl space. You get secret #2 and a large medipack. Climb the ladder and beware of wall darts and go back to the room with the water. Use the floor lever in the north-west corner and get into the water.

Follow the underwater tunnel to a gate that opens for you. Continue and swim upwards and pull up into a corridor. Follow the corridor and you are back with the locked door again. Follow the corridor to return to your starting area with the many boxes. The door in the south-west corner is now open. Go up the ramp and shoot the barricades. Carry on to climb a ladder and drop into a hole. Go west and emerge into a deep red room with many columns. Jump to the west column. Go south to the crawl space and the spike ball drops behind you. Now you can safely pick up the small medipack. Get into the crawl space and follow it to a ladder. Go down the ladder and follow the tunnel. A gate opens as you approach it. Enter for crossbow normal ammo and the crossbow. Continue down the tunnel into a room. Shoot a box and pick up the Security Key. Pick up grenade flash ammo from the floor.

There is an empty room to the south-east so enter the south tunnel and the gate opens for you. Follow the tunnel and climb a ladder. Use the key and the gate opens in west wall of the deep red room. Jump to the column and approach the gate as a spike ball falls behind you. Enter the room and go to the north wall for a wall switch. Pull the wall switch and spikes pop up on the walkway.
The timed south door opens as well. The best way seem to be to roll, hop forward and do a series of side flips and forward stand jumps. When you enter the gate it closes behind you. Enter the room and kill a guard. Go to the south wall for the doorway to get behind the glass wall. Follow this tunnel to finally slide into a pit. You get a flyby of some spike balls. Use the north wall switch, roll, and run south to jump into the open gate as the spike balls fall behind you. Another gate opens for you so follow the west tunnel. Continue to a room and pull up into an opening in the east wall. Drop into a room and pick up the grenade gun and use the floor lever. The hole and the spike ball room are flooded.

Get into the water and swim up to where the spike balls were located. Follow the underwater tunnel in the upper corner and after a long swim, pull up into a room. Pick up a small medipack and shoot a barricade. Drop into the corridor to the north and watch out for wall darts. Go to the other end, climb over some boxes, and climb down a ladder. Follow the tunnel and kill a guard. Continue down the tunnel to kill another guard. Then enter a very dark room and kill three guards. Go to the north-west corner and get into a crawl space. Get secret #3 and pick up grenade normal ammo. Exit by the tunnel in the north-east corner. Follow the tunnel and pick up a Security Key from the floor. Use the wall switch and hear a gate open. Continue to the west and up the ramp to the room with locked door again.

Use the key and the door opens. Enter and go down the tunnel as a gate opens. Enter another area and go down the ramp into a room with four pillars and a box. Exit into a tunnel in the south wall and another gate will open and close behind you. You enter a room with a switch on the west wall. Before you pull the switch, go north to enter a room. You get secret #4 and pick up grenade normal ammo. Exit and use the wall switch. An earthquake (or TNT explosion) happens and the gate in the south wall opens. The secret room is destroyed if you decide to go back and look inside. If you do look, kill two guards that appear when you leave. Enter the open gate to the south. Go around the boxes and the fires and safety drop at the end to a ledge. Slide down the slope between the two sentry guns and the level ends.

09-may-2006