CREATE A CLASSIC 2021 – THE CITY OF PETRA

Level by Sabatu

Walkthrough by José

[Note] There is no compass here, so I’ll try to give the directions the best I can. [End Note]

First Cave

Jump into the water and swim straight ahead to the next cave (look for uzi clips and shotgun shells on the bottom), surface and climb the small ledge in the corner; turn around and take a running jump to the next flatter ledge, turn right and take a back jump onto the rocky sloped ledge and jump again forth to grab the ladder (no way to restore the camera now); climb up and shimmy left and around the corner, continue climbing up and shimmy right at the top to drop onto a stable surface. Turn around and advance a bit (the camera is restored now), turn left and jump to grab the edge of the high opening, pull up, slide and watch the flyby.

Opening a Door in a Distant Area

To avoid unnecessary backtracking and get all the secrets, let’s explore the area to your right with the big temple building first, so turn right, advance and shoot a lion in the open area. Facing the building go to the sloped rocks in the left side and climb them with a couple of jumps so you can take a running jump to grab the edge of a high opening in the wall, pull up, drop from the other side and shoot another lion; continue until you can find a button to open a door behind the grate in an area we’ll visit later. Go back to the outside area. Next to this opening there’s another opening near the very corner you can climb to get a small medipack and the SHOTGUN.

The First Right Gemstone Piece

Go again to the nearby sloped rocks in the left side (when facing the building) as you did before when you first entered into this area and climb them but this time don’t take a running jump to the opening in the wall, turn left, face the entrance of this area and jump to a flatter part under a tall block, climb it (Ctrl + up arrow) and continue jumping and climbing until you reach the top of a high sloped rock (tricky jump to get there); when you think you can’t go further, jump up to grab a high crack and shimmy right and around the corner, pull up and take a couple of jumps to reach the top of the roof above the temple entrance. Pick up the first RIGHT GEMSTONE PIECE from the plinth. Use the ladder to climb down and drop from one of the edges to ground floor, losing some health.

First Secret

Detour for a secret: after getting the piece, note the ladder to climb down but don’t use it yet, instead, take a running jump to the roof over the column to the right of the ladder, next a tricky running jump with a left curve around the next corner and continue with a couple of jumps to the next flatter rocks to find a crawlspace to your left; go inside to get the SECRET #1: shotgun shells, 2 X uzi clips and a Golden Rose. Go back to the roof with the plinth the way you came; this time, from the triangular ledge near the corner you’ll need to take a tricky walking running jump to reach the roof on the top of the column.

The Lasersight

Now, go to the right side of this area (always facing the temple entrance), to the red rocks with the face tile above on the wall, climb them and on the ledge above that face tile pick up a small medipack, approach the edge to your left and take a diagonal running jump to the triangular ledge above (tricky jump), now take another tricky running jump (same direction) to a flatter part of the rocks ahead and find an opening in the rocky wall to your right. Drop down and in the next room shoot a gladiator and pick up the LASERSIGHT (a door opens in the room behind the grate, we’ll visit it soon) and go back to the open area the way you came.

The Second Right Gemstone Piece

To the left of the wall with the face tile there’s a triangular opening, go inside to find the door you opened moments ago when getting the sight. Go to the right side of the grate, turn around and drop/grab the crack below, shimmy left a long way to the very end and drop on a ledge with revolver ammo and a button in the corner, press it to deactivate the spikes in the next ledge and take a running jump there with a right curve to get the REVOLVER. Combine it with the sight to shoot a bell in a high opening near the opposite corner, a door opens in the nearby wall exposing another bell, shoot this second bell too to deactivate the spikes in the nearby ledge, take a running jump there, climb the ladder and jump to the upper ledge to get the second RIGHT GEMSTONE PIECE from the plinth (spikes are deactivated in several places). For an extra pickup jump to the nearby ledge with the deactivated spikes and take a standing jump with grab to the ledge where you got the revolver, losing some health, jump again to the ledge with the ladder and jump to the niche with the second bell to get 2 X uzi clips. Anyway, from the high ledge with the deactivated spikes take a long running jump to the entrance and go back to the outside area.

Water Caves

No more to do in this area for the time being, so go back to the cave opposite the big building where you started and advance to the other way. Run up the orange ramp, shoot a lion and go to the opening it came from to get shotgun shells; look carefully to the ceiling of this small alcove to find a dark opening, jump there and pull up. Run through the dark passage and jump into the water at the end; for an extra pickup look to your right for a ledge you can climb, climb the next one in the corner, turn left and take a curved running jump to avoid the low ceiling and land onto a triangular flat rock in the water, from here a standing jump to grab the edge of the nearby opening and go inside to find another shotgun and uzi clips. Jump into the water and for another extra pickup swim to the corner right from the opening in the floor and pull up to get the UZIS. Back into the water look for an opening left from the opening in the floor and pull up out of the water, jump over the water holes and find yourself into the sewers.

The First Amphitheater Key

Here go directly to the openings in front of the entrance and press a button to open a nearby UW door, jump into the water and swim following the only possible way until you can surface, but before pick up the shotgun shells. Once out of the water pick up a small and large medipacks and another shotgun. In the next room you’ll fight with a gladiator-hammergod, make good use of your shotgun and when he dies a camera shot will show you an UW grate opening in the sewers, so go back there, take a deep breath and swim inside. Swim following the only possible path until you can surface and get the AMPHITHEATER KEY. Now go all the long way back to the small lake where you got the first shotgun, climb again the ledges in the corner but this time jump to grab the opening in the ceiling, crawl around, take a long running jump to grab the ladder, climb up and drop into the lion lair.

The First Armory Key

Go out and turn left, continue through the caves until you find an opening to your left, go through and advance to the very end and climb to find an open area where a lion awaits. Go to the opening where the lion came from to find a small medipack in the darkness; now if you go next to the quadrangular opening at the other side of this area another lion will attack. Anyway, go to the smaller opening to the right of the first lion lair and in this dark room look up to locate an opening in the ceiling, jump to grab the edge and pull up, once outside the crawlspace, shoot a lion and run to the opening straight ahead (in the opening to your right there are only uzi clips), drop into the pit and locate the movable block (easy to recognize), pull it out of the wall and into the niche to reveal a button, press it to open a nearby door. For extra pickups look for another movable block next to the other niche (this one without ring) and pull it out and aside to get 2 X uzi clips and shotgun shells. Go outside and to your right to find the open door; enter and pick up the ARMORY KEY. Go outside and for an extra pickup situate Lara to the right of the crawlspace, take a standing jump with a slightly left curve to land onto the slope behind the rock, slide/grab the edge and shimmy a bit right to a flatter ledge where you can stand up, roll and take a curved running jump to the next rocks and locate a hole you can jump into, pick up a large medipack and safely jump out and drop to ground floor. Go out of this area to the main caves, turn left and continue through the next opening to another outside area with signs of civilization.

Second Secret

Advance to what it seems to be the ruins of an amphitheater, shoot a lion and for a secret, facing the entrance of the building, climb the niche left from the door, jump to grab the high crack to your left and shimmy left and around the corner until you can pull up, jump over the spiked tile and get the SECRET #2: a Golden Rose. Go back out (the spikes will not pop up anymore) and go inside the building.

The Second Armory Key

Here is the door you opened with the first button you pressed a long time ago; pick up the small medipack and drop into the hole with the open door. Slide down the short ramp and quickly take a couple of standing jumps (the first one when sliding) because the collapsing floor. Use the armory key to open the grate and in the next room pick up a small medipack, revolver ammo and shotgun shells; run down the steps to a room with fiery grated floor. Jump only onto the safe tiles and pick up a small medipack and more shotgun shells. Continue sliding a couple of slopes and jumping in last moment to grab the edge of the floor and avoid falling into a lava pit; pull up and in the next room shoot two gladiators and pull the chain to raise a grate in the floor above. In the room with the spiked floor take a long running jump directly to the far safe corner to your right (tricky, try to approach as much as you can to the deadly tiles and to the right side) and from here another running jump to the corner with the second ARMORY KEY.

The First Left Gemstone Piece

Now the spiked floor is safe so you can jump to the tile with the large medipack, to the room with the fiery grated floor (now the slopes are flat blocks) and up the steps to the room with two statues where you can use your new key. In the new room pick up shotgun shells, a small medipack and the first LEFT GEMSTONE PIECE from the plinth; quickly draw a weapon because two lions attack. When you picked up the piece, one more door opened somewhere, so for some extra pickups you can go back down to the room with the fiery grated floor, down to the small lava pit, climb the nearby ladder and shimmy right around the corner at its top; pick up the small medipack and go to a niche with a large medipack, revolver ammo and uzi clips. Anyway, go the way back to the outside area (in the room with the collapsed floor take a running jump to the ladder in the corner and a door will open when you reach the top.

The Second Amphitheater Key

Now drop into the amphitheater arena to find a keyhole in front of the building, use the amphitheater key to create a hole at your back and drop through. Advance and run straight ahead at the crossing, up the ramp and to a room with two gladiators; one of them will drop a new AMPHITHEATER KEY when he dies. Go back to the crossing and right down the ramp to find the keyhole.

The Dungeons - Third Secret

Shoot a lion and a gladiator and pull the chain in the corner to open the next door, cross the next room and in the last one pick up revolver ammo. Note a triangular opening to the right of the bars door and climb and crawl to cross to the next room. For a secret: here locate a hole in the ceiling with a bell inside (difficult to spot) and shoot it with revolver + sight to open the door in the previous room; don’t need to press the next button in the opening, it only closes the door, instead press the button to open the grate and go back to the room where you picked up the revolver ammo to find the open door and the SECRET #3: a Golden Rose. Go back to the room with two lava pits and use the button to open the first door to your left, shoot a couple of lions, pick up a large medipack and press the button on the wall near the entrance to open a door somewhere. About the remaining closed doors in this room with two lava pits, one of them contains a small medipack, but you’ll alert a lion too; inside the other one locate the movable block in a corner (with a ring) and pull it out and aside to reveal a hole in the floor (here is the door you opened when pressing the button in the room with the large medipack).

The Second Left Gemstone Piece

Climb down the ladder and continue through a dangerous passage with lava pits and floating skeletons. Eventually you’ll reach a pool room with lava, use the small rocks in the right side to cross and in the next corridor sprint to avoid the collapsing floor, climb up the ladder, shoot a lion and a gladiator and press the button at the back of the room to flood a pool somewhere (you can see it through the nearby grate). Now go all the long way back to the crossing where you used the last key time ago (there is a crack to cross the corridor with the collapsed floor shimmying). Run straight ahead at the crossing (if you go left up the ramp to the room where you shot the gladiators to get the last key, you’ll find an open niche with 2 X uzi ammo and shotgun ammo) to find the pool room, jump into the water and swim to the other side to get the second LEFT GEMSTONE PIECE from the plinth. From the triangular ledge you can take a standing jump to the dark niche in the corner, go through a crawlspace and pick up another shotgun at the other side.

Into the Temple

And that’s all in this dungeons area, so go back to the crossing, to the left opening and climb the block so you can go up to the amphitheater arena. Now go all the long way back to the other outside area with the big building. Combine the pieces you have in your inventory to form the LEFT GEMSTONE and the RIGHT GEMSTONE, use them on the receptacles to open the grate and enter, but don’t go too far… In the next room there is one of that nasty giant gladiator heads so you know what to do: walk slowly to the entrance so you reach a comfortable position (always inside the corridor) to shoot his eyes with the revolver + sight (if you are out of ammo, there are two stashes of revolver ammo at the end of the corridor). Once you get it the head will explode; take a running jump from the pointing ledge to the other side and locate the movable block in the right side of the gates, move it onto the marked tile in the left corner to open them.

The Three Tests

In the next room simply go through the opening and slide down the ramp, at the bottom; did you see the film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"?: “only the penitent will pass”, so crouch down on the tile at the bottom of the ramp to close a door and open the side door and quickly go out of that dangerous tile before the spikes pop up. In the next room with the deep pit, take a running jump to grab the rock in the corner, pull up and take another running jump to the safe floor at the other side of the room (no grab) but try to land very next of the wall or you’ll fall to your doom.

In the next room remember again another scene from the movie: there are letters in the ceiling and you should think of a word to discover the safe tiles. From the movie: Yahweh in Christian language is “JESUS” so jump only onto the tiles with these letters above in the ceiling; first locate the “J” in the right side (standing jump), then the “E” in the central row, etc.

Once at the other side continue to find a deep canyon without bridge. Again from the movie: “take a jump of faith”. Of course, there is an invisible ledge to cross, but not from the very edge so take a long running jump straight ahead and a final running jump to the opening in the rocky wall.

The Holy Grail

Advance and after the sliding onto several slopes you finally reach the sanctuary with the chalices. There is a treasure chamber in the adjacent room, but Lara is not interested in getting riches but only in the HOLY GRAIL, so if you watched the movie, you’ll know what chalice to choose; but if you choose the wrong one and try to exit you’ll see what happens. So take a good election and the exit gates will open, run to the next gates and they automatically open too; continue through a short passage to the outside and finish the level.

November — 27 — 2021