LEVEL 1: CAVES
Kills: 14 Items: 7
Save Crystals: 1 (PlayStation only) Secrets:
3
STARTING INVENTORY: Pistols (unlimited ammo),
compass.
First a movie: Intrepid explorer Lara Croft
follows a Peruvian guide across a snow-covered plateau. They
approach a set of enormous stone doors. Lara throws a
grappling hook to a ledge above, climbs to the top of the
doors and presses a secret button to open the doors. A pack
of wolves charge out from the darkness and attack the guide.
Lara slides down the rope, cutting it as she falls, then
draws her pistols to dispatch the wolves—too late,
unfortunately, for the guide. She musters her resolve and
enters the caves. The adventure begins....
Objectives: Make your way through the caves down
to a door. Enter and proceed, through some complications of
course, to the level exit.
Walkthrough: Follow the paw prints in the snow
straight ahead. Shortly you'll reach an area with slits in
the walls. This is a dart trap.
Keep running and Lara should get past the darts with little
or no damage.
As you round the corner, the camera view shifts up and to
the left to show where you need to go next, but before
climbing up there do a little exploring: Continue straight
ahead into a rectangular cave with an angled block in the
far left corner. Note the opening in the wall above this
block. The ledge is a little too high to grab, so use the
block to give Lara a boost. Grab onto the back of it, pull
up and slide down the face. Press Jump and Action as you
slide to grab the ledge.
Or, stand Lara in front of the block with her back to the
angled surface, then back flip onto the block and hold Jump
and Action to bounce off the slope and grab the ledge. Pull
up into the small cave, where you'll find
SECRET #1, a
small medipak.
BAT CAVES: Jump down and go to the right to the
raised opening where Lara looked up before. Climb up over
the rocks and through that opening. Draw pistols as you move
into the cave, to take advantage of the game's auto-aim
feature. Three bats fly in from
the caves ahead, and Lara will probably spot them before you
do. As soon as her arms move to aim, press Action to shoot.
When the bats are dead, head into the cave on the left.
In the far right corner is a low snowdrift below an
opening high on the wall. Stand on this drift facing the
wall below the opening and sidestep to the left as far as
possible. This raises Lara up a bit. Press Action + Forward
to grab the ledge and pull up, no need to jump.
Kill another
bat in the cave above and pick up
SECRET #2, a
small medipak.
CAVE LINED WITH GREENERY & DOOR WITH SWITCH: Drop
or jump down and return to the big cave where you shot the 3
bats earlier. Turn left and proceed to a cave lined with
greenery. Go down into the opening to the left. Keep
descending to the bottom, where you'll find a closed door.
Use the Action key to pull the switch
next to the door to open it. Enter and kill the
bat that swoops down. The wooden
gate on the right does not open. Instead head to the far
left corner and climb up through the opening there.
ROOM WITH WOODEN BRIDGES & WOLVES: Follow the
passageway to a landing above a room with two wooden
bridges. Two wolves lurk below.
They're asleep when you arrive but will rouse and begin to
pace as you approach the edge. You can shoot them from above
if you're patient or hop down and take them on.
When you've taken care of both wolves, head for the far
corner of the room. Either follow the perimeter, using the
bridges to get from side to side. Or, after dropping down
into the area below the bridges, walk to the second bridge,
stand below it near its middle, jump straight up to grab it
and then pull up. Or, climb onto the ledge above the alcove
with the mummy. Then cross the second bridge. Go through the
doorway in the corner of the room beyond the second bridge.
BEAR PIT: A bit farther on is a gap with a
bear lurking below. If you want
to, you can easily kill the bear from above. Draw pistols
and Let Lara get a target lock on it, then hold the
Action key to fire. As long as you keep holding Action, Lara
will continue to target the bear and shoot at it whenever it
comes into range. When it's dead, safety drop down into the
room below.
(NOTE: To
safety drop, stand near the edge, turn around so Lara's
back is toward the open area and then hold Action and tap
Back. Lara will drop and hang from the edge. Release Action
and she'll drop to the ground. Doing this gives her a
shorter distance to fall, so she will not lose health as she
would by just running or jumping off the edge.)
After dropping down into the bear pit, continue through
the one door leading out. A bat
will emerge as you enter, and another
bat swoops down as you go a little farther into the
room. Next you'll come to an area with a
small medipak on the ground and a different-looking
tile in the floor next to it. Stepping on this tile opens
the door. It closes fairly quickly, so position Lara so
she's facing the door, step on the tile, then run through.
You're now back in the room with the bridges. Climb back
up and retrace your steps to the gap with the dead bear
below. Take a running jump across that gap.
(NOTE: Now is a good time to
learn that jumping technique if you didn't get it in
the training level. Stand on one of the two slightly raised
areas at the edge. Walk Lara to the edge, then take a single
hop back. Press Forward and Jump, and Lara will run two
steps then take off into the air on the third. She'll land
safely on the other side. If you set up jumps this way, Lara
will never run off the edge and almost never miss a
landing.)
On the other side of the gap there's a
save crystal in the PlayStation
version. Behind the columns to the left of the stairs,
you'll find another small medipak.
Retrieve it and descend the stairs, guns drawn. A
pair of wolves waits at the
bottom. (Try side- or back flipping while shooting to avoid
taking too much damage.) Enter the room at the bottom of the
stairs.
ROOM WITH GREENERY & TIMED DOOR: Note the
vegetation-covered ledge on the left side of the room. The
greenery conceals an opening, but the ledge is too high to
reach from the floor. So climb up on either side—onto the
landing with the pillars on the left or the stone ledge on
the right—and take a running jump to the ledge with the
greenery.
Inside is SECRET #3,
a large medipak. Exit, drop down
and head for the opposite right corner of the room. In an
alcove under the stairs is a small
medipak.
On the ledge to the right of the big carved exit doors is
the switch that opens them. The
doors are timed to close after a short time. Climb up, throw
the switch, then flip to the left (Jump + Left together)
onto the low wall below. Sidestep to the left edge of the
wall, then flip left again onto the platform with the door.
Run through before it closes.
Continue forward and around the corner. Take the steps at
a run to avoid the dart trap.
Draw pistols near the top, because a
wolf waits in the room above. It's lurking in the
alcove on the left as you enter. When you've taken care of
it, step on the break-away tiles
at the center of the room to fall through to the room below.
LEVEL EXIT: You're now in a long room above a wide
hallway. Below, at one end of this hallway you can see the
wooden gate you couldn't get through at the beginning of the
level. The long hallway is lined with
dart traps and the exit doors are closed. So, don't
drop down yet. (NOTE: If you do
drop down, you can climb back up using the rocks to the left
of the exit doors.)
Go to the far end of the room and turn left. Take a
running jump across the gap to the opposite side. Turn left
and head toward the large medipak
on the ground. Another wolf comes
out of the room ahead. Kill it, pick up the health pack and
continue forward into the alcove from which the wolf
emerged. Use the switch there
to open the exit doors. Leave the switch room, turn right
and go through the first opening overlooking the exit. Hop
down, slide to the ground and go through the big doors to
end the level.
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