BARTOLI'S CONTROL CENTER

TR2 Level by Checkm8Croft

Walkthrough by Treeble

The level begins with Lara dropping into a water tank. Underwater, take notice of a switch you cannot operate at the moment and a closed trapdoor in the center, then swim to the other side and pull out of the water. Open the valve door in the corner, handle two thugs on the other side and loot their bodies for ammo. Wade towards that red keycard receptacle, we still don't have one but right to its left is a switch. Pull it to open the trapdoor in the shallow water pit.

Sink through the open trapdoor and follow the right hand wall until you come to an air pocket. Make a stop for air but don't climb out yet, instead, swim just a little further in and find an underwater lever which opens a door at the start of this long tunnel. You could swim back now for a secret there, but it's quicker to make a short trip later on. For now, climb up the ladder in the nearby air pocket.

On top of the metal structure, kill two baddies and loot their bodies for a small medipack and ammo, then take that lovely BLUE CARD from the corner. Safety drop and swim into the open trapdoor again, this time looping just around the left hand wall to find the door you've opened earlier. Inside, you'll find SECRET #1: the gold dragon plus AUTOMATIC PISTOLS. Swim back through the trapdoor (the ceiling looks solid from underneath, but you can swim through safely) and go back to the initial area.

Slot the blue keycard in and go through the corridor to the switch in the back end. When you flip it, the lights go out and a thug rushes towards you, almost like he's in a hurry to deliver a small medipack. Go back out the door and check that the water tank has been drained, safety drop into it and flip that switch you'd spotted at the start of the level. The trapdoor in the center opens, so drop into another series of underwater tunnels.

Swim over the first ramp and immediately turn around: there's an underwater lever right behind that ramp. Not only it operates a door elsewhere, as the camera clue shows you, but it also lowers a trapdoor in the previous room, so swim back over the same ramp to spot a new opening in the floor where you can find the UZIS plus some spare clips. Take a breather before swimming over the ramp again and this time around follow all the way through, making stops for the ammo pickups and HARPOON GUN along the way. Pull the underwater lever and surface to another sector of the base where an alarm will go off and trigger three thugs. Relieve them of the goodies they were carrying around.

Enter the open door at the top of the steps and push the button in the machinery on the left to turn that pool of acid into water. Hop over the suspended platforms to take the CHIP and proceed through the valve door nearby. Loop around to the right for some uzi clips and press the button in this room to open a trapdoor at the bottom of the nearby water tank. Swim down there to find the RED CARD, and then come back to surface.

Use the chip on the panel by the locked door and go in for SECRET #2: the GRENADE GUN, spare grenades, a large medipack, and the jade dragon. Press the button in here to lower a trapdoor in the adjacent room, go there and climb through the ladder for a shortcut back to the area where you'll spot the red keycard receptacle just beyond the shallow water pit.

As soon as you cross the threshold into that outside area, barrels roll towards the door, so wait until it's safe to collect those uzi clips. Pull up into the next building and gun down the poorly equipped thug in the floating platform ahead of you. Jump across and take the ammo he leaves behind, then perform a series of jumps over the platforms in a counterclockwise direction. Around the bend is another baton thug (carrying around ammo for the weapon his boss never gave him...). When you get to the next corner, you need to drop on top of the lower metallic structure to resume your routine over the platforms, at which point a thug might open fire while you're climbing back up. Take his ammo and do a couple more of running jumps to the next corner, where another thug is posted.

When you get close to completing a full loop around the perimeter, you'll find a button opposite a closed door in the hanging cell. The button, contrary to your expectations, turns off the massive underwater fan, so dive into the water and swim past the sub through the still fan blades to find an underwater lever there, and, right next to it, SECRET #3: the silver dragon and a pair of uzi clips.

Climb to the top of the structure surrounding the fan to reach the catwalks above once more and jump your way towards that newly opened door, next to the button. But be careful: inside the cage is a flamethrower thug who is very likely to burn you to a crisp as soon as he spots you. He leaves some grenades to be remembered by. Push the button and a trapdoor just below the yellow submarine opens, fall into water again and swim through this new opening to reach the end of this level.