In the back alley near Vasiley's apartment, Luddick gives Lara a Low Level Security Pass for the Strahov warehouse. He drives Lara there, and leaves. |
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We enter inside a large container loading dock and warehouse area. There doesn't look to be any way, to get over that huge wall. All the doors are locked? But then, the overhead crane starts to move across to the tall stack of containers. Quickly jump up and pull up to the roof of the single freight container beside the 3-high stack of freight containers. |
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As the gantry crane attaches and lifts the top container, jump and grab the roof of the container, now only 2 high. Pull up. Turn left. The overhead crane stops and lowers the container for only a few seconds. Quickly run-jump across to the hanging container, grab the edge and pull up to the roof. Draw your shotgun and crouch on the roof next to the grapple magnet. Hang on! The crane lifts and moves the container over to the other side of the warehouse and lowers it to the floor. |
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Cool ride! and a great view! If you were paying attention, you now know there are 3 security guards below, patrolling the area. Quietly safety-drop from the roof of the container. Make sure Lara's health is 100% and draw the SMG machine gun. Walk slowly around the stack of crates and using the camera, look around the corner first. See if there's a security guard close by. They are easy to spot becuse of the gun spotlights. Take them down at CLOSE RANGE, one by one. Watch your health! |
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One of the guards drops a Mid Level Security Pass. The other 2 drop SMG ammo. At the back of the warehouse there's a stack of climbable crates. Climb to the top crate, jump up and grab the railing of the overhead catwalk. Pull up and climb the ladder to the wall catwalk. SAVE GAME HERE! You can go for a side adventure up the middle wall ladder all the way up to the high catwalk. The only thing up there, is one darn chocolate bar by the crane control booth. Not worth it, but a great view? |
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Go out the far door and use your security pass to open the steel door to the next warehouse area. The doors at either end of the catwalk will take you inside the next area, but the far door under the crane, is the better choice. Trust me! Once inside the next area, look for 2 more security guards patrolling the catwalks. Crouch down and wait for one of the security guards to walk all the way down to where you are hiding. As he gets close, run out and shoot from close range. Take his ammo. |
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Run down the catwalk to the back wall. The screen cam will go passive. Wait for the 2nd security guard to come down the catwalk along the back wall. Run to him and take him down from close range. Grab his ammo. Along the next catwalk, after the camera returns to normal, look for an opening, high up along the wall where you came in. There's a security guard patrolling inside there. Be careful. DON'T LET HIM SEE YOU! As he turn aways [sprint] along the catwalk to the wall. |
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Slowly climb the ladder, but only go half way. Watch up top for the security guard. Be patient. He eventually comes to the opening to have a look around. Stay out of his view. As his light turns away from the opening, climb the ladder the rest of the way, and enter the small control room. NOTE: If he DOES see Lara, he will point his gun down the ladder, and start shooting, killing Lara on the spot. NOT pretty? |
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Up top, the guard has his back to Lara, for just a couple of seconds. Enough time to karate kick him from behind, or you can always use your machine gun. Whatever you like? Take his machine gun. Go to the control panel. Pull the lever. This will powerup the overhead crane, way up in the corner. Climb back down the ladder. DON'T GO DOWN TO THE TRUCK AREA YET! There are laser-sight automatic machine gun turrets hanging from overhead wires, that will kill Lara as she comes into sight. |
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Go back down the catwalk to the far wall. Climb the long ladder to the upper catwalk. Up top, walk to the crane booth and down the stairs by the cabin door. A cut-away sequence will show the crane magnet, destroying the machine gun turrets. When action returns to Lara, go back down the wall ladder, across the catwalk, and now down the long ladder to the truck loading dock area. There's no goodies here. Go through the small door inside the large overhead door. |
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Lara's now inside a back storage area that's heavily fortified with lasers, high fences and locked doors. The place is a mess. Off to the right, there's a stack of crates against a tall fence. The door is locked with no access. The area beyond the overhead door, in the back, is heavily fortified with a series of deadly wall lasers. No go there. By the stack of crates, there's an overhead pipe blowing off deadly steam, but there's a swing bar hanging from the ceiling, right next to it, that Lara can use. |
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2 guard dogs come up to the door in the chain link fence, as Lara approaches. It may seem cruel, but you do want to take care of them now and eliminate the threat, before you enter that area. A few good shots with the machine gun through the fence, will do the trick. No point attracting attention with all that barking? (sorry to all you animal lovers, but this is business). Ok... time to move some crates! This puzzle took awhile to solve. |
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The object is to get the tallest crate, up against the fence. Move the single wooden crate, next to the crate against the fence, by the door. Climb up that crate and push the upper crate to the wall. Climb to that 2nd level crate. Pull the 3rd level crate in front of you, to the fence. it will only go 1/3 the way because Lara's back is to the fence. Engage [walk] and go around the back of the 3rd level crate. There's a small piece of the 2nd level crate to walk on. Push the crate to the fence. |
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As Lara pushes the 3rd level crate into place, she gets a new strength upgrade. Interesting time for an upgade? Now we have to turn off that deadly steam from the leaky pipe? Follow the pipe back along the wall. There's a wall-mounted fan motor and a valve wheel up top. On the other side of the storage area, by the blue lasers, there's a double stack of crates. Push the double stack of crates across to the wall by the fan. Climb up top. Turn the valve. The steam is now shut-off. |
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Safety-drop down from the fan motor, and climb the crates by the fence. From the top crate, grab the overhead bar, pull up Lara's legs [triangle], to clear the barbed wire, and shimy to the other side of the fence. Drop to the ground. Check your health. Go into the industrial concrete saw area. This is amazing. There's a huge ancient slab of rock on the cutting table floor. Lara tries to read the inscriptions, but it's a language she doesn't know? Eckhardt's being trying to decipher it? |
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There doesn't seem to be a way out? I'm starting to hate this! Against the far wall, there's a wall ladder leading to a small balcony area. Up top, there's a control panel. Ah.. this must control the saws. Pull the lever. The concrete saws spring to life and start to cut the slab. Sparks fly everywhere. One saw blade, digs in and gets caught in the slab. The robotic arm kicks and swings upward, sawing the overhead ventilation ducts in half. The giant machine jams and stops. Cool! |
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Ok... Now we have to find a way to get inside that ventilation duct. From the control panel, turn left. Jump up to the overhead girder. Grab the edge, pull up. Engage [walk]. You don't want to fall. Walk along the girder to the cross-beam. Climb up. Turn left and walk the beam to the vent duct. Climb up. Walk along the vent duct to the opening. The camera will swing around to the duct opening. Safety-drop down, hang from the edge, then drop and hang from the bottom. Climb inside. |
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Crawl along the vent duct. Foward-flip down the vent shaft... Movie sequence begins. Gunderson has caught Luddick snooping around. Eckhardt is not impressed. Gunderson leaves and Eckhardt murders Luddick, using that Monstrum glove. Luddick is engulfed with energy surges and is left to barbecue on a chair. Eckhardt is keenly aware that Lara is nearby and looks up to the vent. NOT GOOD!! |
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Continue crawling down the vent to the end. A cut-away camera shows Lara peeking out from the top of the wall. A security guard is patrolling below. As he passes to the right, front-flip down to the ground and draw your machine gun. Start firing away at him as soon as you can. Lara will take damage before she's done. Take his High Level Security Pass. We're now in the back laser hallway. Walk to the right towards the back office. If Lara has her gun still drawn, something weird happens? |
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As Lara walks by a few crates an acetylene tank and a nearby wooden wire spool, her gun auto-aims at the tank. It doesn't disengage auto-aim even as you walk by. Very strange.. OK.. fire a few shots.. The tank blows up and the wooden wheel starts to roll down the hall. It passes through all the lasers, setting off explosive floor traps. The wheel stops at the last row of lasers. This must be the way out. Continue to the back office for now. The guards in the office see you coming. DARN ! |
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For some reason, the security guard can't or won't leave the office. Climb the stairs and use your security pass to open the office door. Quickly back-flip from the stairs, back down to the lower level. Hide behind the wire spools and load your machine gun. Try to coax the security guard to come down the stairs. If he doesn't, run up to the stairs, and take him down at close range. Grab his ammo clip. Open the door again with your security pass and cautiously go inside the office. |
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There's 2 sections to the office. The back is a lunchroom area. There's 2 security guards eating back there. Take'em by surprise. Grab all the goodies on the tables. The front area is a computer station and console. Go to the console. A long movie sequence begins. Lara examines the maps and realizes that she needs to pass through the bio-research areas to get where she wants to go. She gets devious and decides to shut-off the power to the entire area. Uh Oh? This can't be a good idea? |
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A remote scene shows the power going down in a maximum containment area with a scarey looking encasement pod. All of a sudden, extreme panic. There's a screaming animal roar and the cage door is ripped open. The security guard pleads to get to safety but is taken down by a nasty predator mutant animal. It's now on the loose #$%@^! This is the Proto-Nephilim experiment gone bad. |
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Back in the office, Lara decides she better get a move on. Check the cabinets for goodies then get out. Walk down the hallway to the lasers. Crouch and then [stealth] to go on her stomach. Crawl under the first set of lasers. Crawl under the second set of lasers. Another floor device goes off. Restore Lara's health to maximum. Now run-jump the last 2 lasers to safety. If you don't time the jump perfectly, Lara is zapped by the lasers, and dies. |
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Walk back into the open area where we were a short while ago. The blue laser defenses are now off (no power). Go to the door in the wall on the right. Use your newly acquired high level security pass to open the door. LEVEL ENDS. |
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