Walkthrough by Gerty
Use revised Catacomb Wads and choose from the menu
Catacombs. This level has many dark corners and there
aren’t that many flares, so be careful with them.
At the start, pick up the flares. Coming into the
next room, dive in the pool and swim in an opening in
the south wall, and climb out. Pick up the CROWBAR
and pry the Golden Star from the wall. Jump in
the water again and get out off the pool.
There are quite a few openings in this room.
Take the opening in the SW corner and in the room itself
take the stairs left. Walk all the way around the corner
and when you are at the north wall, there is a lever
left. This is a timed lever so save before you pull it.
The door you see through the camera shot is a long way
away, so get to the drill.
Push the lever, wait for the camera to quit the shot,
run outside and keep running east (use dash), around the
corner and jump down, do a roll and leave the room.
Along the pool (use dash), still going straight and at
the end of the pool to the left into a wide corridor
(use dash). You enter a room with pillars, immediately
turn the corner and run up the stairs. You come onto a
ledge, and up to the next stairs, but climb up (left)
when you are on the second step and run through that
open door.
Straight ahead collect the SHOTGUN and some
shotgun ammo. Jump into the opening in the floor and
again to a room with a see through floor. Pick up the
Pharos Knot and see a camera shot of where to place
it. Use the Golden Star and push the button in the
corner and enjoy an elevator ride. Pick up grenade
gun ammo and the LAUNCHER (SECRET #1). Go
right and then left and you are back at the timed door.
Get downstairs and go back to the pool.
Now go to the SE corner and climb the stairs there and
after using the Pharos Knot enter. Around the corner
Lara stares to her left and you can see a skeleton
approaching. Get rid of him if you want. In the next
room are some pillars and a closed door. Go around the
corner (where the skeleton was) and find the crawlspace
straight ahead and on the right (you might need a
flare). Push the button (camera shot), go back and pull
that pillar out and push it to the empty spot west.
Enter the now open door. Follow through and climb down
the ladder and get rid of that skeleton there. Jump down
and climb some stairs.
Go into the opening near the wall torch and watch out as
a boulder comes down. Climb up and at the end climb the
ladder and back flip when you are almost at the top.
Turn around and find another ladder, descend that one.
Find another CROWBAR and a Golden Star.
Go east, down the stairs, the doors opens and go left,
down a ramp. Go to the next room and the next and in the
NW corner you can place the Star, but don’t go in just
yet. First go north.
North wall is an opening, two skeletons hold guard there
and when you follow through you end up at another big
pool with some fire.
Go right (E) and right again and get into the small hole
filled with water. Swim through and at the end climb
out. Get on the ladder and on top is a room with a lever
(camera of one of the fires on the tiles in the water
going out). Leave through the door on the right and you
are back at the pool. Now you can jump to the north. In
the room there is another lever that one extinguished
the other tile with fire. There is still a fire going so
you can’t go there yet. There is however another lever
in the SW corner (camera shows a door being closed and
another one opened). Go east again and around the corner
and that is the place you saw. Go in and climb the
ladder and follow the road so to speak. You are one
floor up and on the left is a closed door. In the NW
corner you can find shotgun ammo and in the
opposite corner is a lever. This extinguished the last
fire so get to it. I just jumped in the water as you can
climb out south. So running jumps over the tiles to get
to the last tile and a standing jump with Ctrl to get
into the opening (N).
You enter a room with fire burning and two ropes. At the
end of the ledge you don’t need to turn around and climb
down as there is nothing there to find so better go for
the ropes. Do running jump to the first rope and swing
to the next. Turn to the right (S) and swing into the
opening.
Get the Ornate Handle (camera) and near the
entrance is an opening west and climb the block there.
At the other end you can find some shotgun ammo and
small medipack, get back on the block and climb up
and save before a slide there.
There are two ways to get to the other side, one is a
monkey climb, so jump up while sliding and the other is
stand to the right and slide and jump with a curves jump
in the opening left and from there a running curved jump
to the medipack and shotgun ammo.
Jump in the next hole and swim through you are back in
the pool. Climb out (S) and back to where those two
skeletons were. Before jumping you see a ladder and if
you want you can pick some shotgun ammo. Go back
and enter the door next to the Star receptacle.
Push the button and enjoy the elevator ride.
Upstairs is a mummy and pick up the CROSSBOW with
arrows (SECRET #2). There is nothing else so leave
and find the hole in the SW corner in the next room, you
are back in the room where you placed the Star.
Go back to the pool in the north and go east again, up
the ladder as the door on the floor above the pool (S)
has been opened. Keep going straight and at he end go
left. Follow through until you reach a room with slanted
blocks and fire. Jump down and a skeleton awakes. Lara
keeps looking at him and the skeletons runs away. You
can follow it and it will lead you to another skeleton.
Or kill it right away and keep the wall to your right
and find a crawlspace at the end. Once in there, climb
the ladder and you are one floor up. Walk and jump to
the ledge in the south and do a safety drop. Slide down
the pole. I would save before sliding down the ramp as
there is a neat trick you can do here. Get your shotgun
and while sliding down you see a skeleton awakens, try
to shoot him of that ledge. Do a safety drop and enter
the new room and watch the fly by.
Go left and climb the stairs and use the lever (camera),
climb more stairs and take a running jump to the open
door. Follow through and jump back and shimmy right,
around a corner and climb up. Use the button (camera
show a door). Take a running jump to the other side and
jump up (E) and shimmy left around the corner and drop
down. Hooray another CROWBAR and a Golden Star.
Go back to the building in the middle and jump to the
stairs north. You can use the Star on the door on the
ground floor and pick up the SIGHT, revolver ammo and
REVOLVER (SECRET # 3). Now up the stairs and use the
lever again. Up the stairs and climb that block. And
climb then to another ledge even higher and with a
running jump in the door. Climb the stairs and all the
way on the top is lever I would save before using it as
it is timed. Get on the block and monkey swing west.
Watch out for skeletons and run (with sprint) north,
around the corner. At the end, slide down backwards and
back flip to the next ledge. Run (with sprint) further
and around the corner and in the open door Pick up the
Pharos Pillar from the pedestal and in the south
is a corridor. Around the corner and climb the stairs,
In the end climb up and go east and you are back at the
starting point, the room with the pool. Go left (N) up
the stairs and place the Pillar.
Enter and go left (N) and find an opening in the floor
and down some stairs. At the end is a hole and Lara
falls in the water. The current takes her away and she
ends up in a small pool. Climb out south and keep
climbing till you enter a huge cave. Watch the fly by.
Goal is to get to the rope (S) and from there to the
exit (S).
There are some goodies to find like flares (first
time around I also found some shotgun ammo but
couldn’t locate it anymore). For the flares go
immediately right, facing west, into that darkness
there, around the corner you can pick them up. Go back
to the entrance of this cave.
Take some steps into this cave and turn west, hop on a
block and keep climbing blocks going south. You come on
a ledge that is brightly lit and you can see the rope
and the exit door on the south. Turn around facing north
and a running jump to the other side. No go in the
direction of that small fire (E) and climb the block on
the left (N). The wall west is climbable. Once on top
turn south again and see a skeleton rising. A running
jump will get you there.
Save here and line up with the rope. Slide, jump the
rope and swing to the opening there. Get the Hathor
Effigy (camera of a door opening) and go east and
slide down.
Go north back to the entrance of this cave and retrace
your steps aiming for the rope again. One you are next
to the slide to the rope, on that brightly lit ledge go
SW and a running jump will get you in that open door.
Climb the stairs and when you hear a danger sound be
aware. In the corridor there is a spiked boulder (S).
Of course you need to run down the ramp and jump over a
hole in the floor. But watch out, as another spiked
boulder will fall down from the other side.
The camera angle changes so jump over the pit and there
is an opening on the right, jump in that and you are
home free.
Near the fire is a climbable wall (E) and follow
through.
In the next cave the wall north is climbable and a
running jump will get you there. Shimmy around the
corner. There are two ways to get to the ledge east
(near the small fire). One is to shimmy around the
corner once, lower Lara till she can’t shimmy anymore,
jump and roll and grab and climb up, she is on the block
with the fire, OR shimmy further till Lara is on top of
a slanted block, let go and grab end of the block, jump
and roll and grab and you are on the ledge.
Follow the ledge, still going north and see a skeleton
wake up. A running jump with grab for the ledge where
the skeleton was and also a running jump to the rope
(W). Swing to the climbable wall and look south now.
There is a lever near a small fire.
Better save here before sliding down and jump to the
climbable wall (E). Climb up and shimmy around the
corner and use the lever. Better safe before using the
lever as it is timed. The camera shows two blocks being
pushed out and the first one is on the west. I saved
again in a different slot the second the camera stopped
and ran around the lever and jumped to the ledge with
the first block, climbed up and a running jump with a
slight angle to the ledge south. Again a running jump to
the second block SW and a standing jump to the crack
there. Shimmy right and at the end climb up.
Go around the corner and into the opening in the floor,
Swim in and a bit further climb out south. There is an
opening north and in there push the button and an
elevator bring you to a staircase. Climb the stairs and
you are back with the pool once more. In the middle
opening of the east side is the receptacle for the
Portal Guardian, so combine the Hathor effigy
with the Ornate Handle and place the Portal
Guardian en enter the door.
Pick up the shotgun ammo on the floor, en enter
the room. A camera shows skeletons and by climbing that
middle structure you see the first one. Around the
corner is a button that shows a door opening. Go back to
the entrance and look for that door on the right. Climb
the ladder and follow the ledge, meeting another
skeleton. Get to the structure in the middle and get the
Music Scroll. A door opens and the end music will
start. Jump down and slide down and once inside, Lara
hits the finishing trigger.
