After being discovered by Von Croy and his executive assistant, from his grand corporate office, Lara finds herself outside on the fire escape stairwell. There's a circling attack helicpoter keeping an eye on her.
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Before even moving. draw your assault rifle and using the scope, [zoom in] on the armored guard at the top of the stairs. With one good sniper shot to the head, (his only vulnerable spot), take him out and watch him fall down the stairwell. Go up to the landing and take a running jump to the far platform. Climb the stairs and turn the corner. As you walk up, the helipcoter blasts the stairs collapsing the section your standing on. Grab on and climb up to the landing high above.
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To the left is an alcove with A SECRET ROSE. Using the collapsed stairs, shimy to the left and drop in the opening. Avoid the flame. As you come out, drop to the stairwell below and work your way back up to the collapsed stairs. Jump and climb up to the landing. The chopper take out another section of stairs ahead of you. Run jump to the ledge. Run jump and grab the next landing to the right. SAVE GAME. As you run up the next steps, the chopper blows away the stairs under Lara.
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Slide down the metal stairs and cling to the edge. Shimy to the right as far as you can go. Pull up and back flip to the stairs down below. Repeat the jumps back to the last landing right before where the stairs collapsed (gotta like the view of New York). This time, run jump to the platform with the flame pot. Pull up and using [x] action, kick out the plate covering a crawlway. Crawl in and enter a room with a ceiling floor grate. The camera goes passive again. Listen for footsteps.
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Up above, security guards are on a sweep. Position Lara on the far side of the room beneath a trapdoor handle. With the camera still passive, jump up and pull open the grate. Draw the assault rifle BUT with burst ammo. Lara can't use the scope in sniper mode here. Once the guard comes into range, Lara's rifle will automatically point at him. Take him down with as few bullets as possible. Climb out to a dimly-lit hallway. Zip advises to make good use of the infared headset for the next hall.
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Low and behold... more infared lasers. Grab the ammo on the crates first. Using the assault rifle in sniper mode, [zoom] in on the red turn wheel on the steam pipe at the end. One shot and steam starts pouring out of the pipe, exposing the position of the lasers as the steam passes through them. Watch for the cycle of each one and walk to the area just before the white line on the floor. Watch the next pattern and when it stops, pass. At the end, walk right, then run through the doorway.
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Draw your rifle with burst ammo. As you approach the elevator, the door opens and a guard come out. Let the rifle auto-aim and take him out. Go in the elevator and push the button. Draw your weapon again. There's a guard waiting at the other end. Again, let the rifle auto-aim and take him out. Welcome to the shooting gallery area. At the end of the hall are 2 glass doorways. Neither one is passable right yet. Go into the shooting gallery using the door on the left. Grab the ammo.
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Push the button starting the shooting gallery. In sniper mode, hit all five targets before thay pass the line by the window. If you do this fast, it will open a second galley and A SECRET ROSE. If you don't want to bother, finish the shooting gallery, then proceed down the hall to the weaponry room on the right. Go to the cabinet stall with the green laser. Grab the gattling gun from the rack. Avoid the stalls with the red lasers. Go through the glass door on the right to the huge open storage room.
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Take out the guard with auto-aim as he approaches. Climb up the crates to get the ammo from the highest point. Jump down to the floor. Equip the grappling gun and point to the ceiling grate using the scope. The moving square in the viewfinder will go green if you have a good target. Fire the grappling gun. This releases a rope. Swing on the rope and use a good swing. Grab a hidden crevice in the wall with the black spots. Shimy across to the upper opening and climb up into the vent.
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SAVE GAME. Draw your rifle in sniper mode before sliding down the vent. There are 2 armored guards with laser weapons down below. If you're not fast and get them in the heads, you're toast real quick wih 2 direct hits. Once they're down, go to the elevator, press the down button then go inside and use the elevator. Return to the previous floor. There's a security guard hiding behind the crates. Take him out with auto-aim and grab the large medpack on top of the crate (we need it). Go back through the steam room watching out for the infared lasers, drop through the floor grate and crawl back out through the tunnel to the outside stairs. All that work, in all those rooms, just for a grappling gun!!!
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Outside, there's a mangled staircase high overhead. Using the grappling gun, target the stairs, there will be a flashing green square, and fire. This releases a rope. Lara has to swing to the far opening on the other side with the twisted metal, covering the entrance. Pump swing and jump to the opening. As she slides down the far ramp, jump and grab the ledge. If you miss, She's slips and falls into the fire. Pull up after the jump grab, and crawl through the vent to the right. SAVE GAME.
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Position Lara so she kneels, as if she's picking up something. Using the camera, look way down to the floor below. Do not attract this guard's attention. If he sees you, he'll activate a gun turret causing considerable damage. Push Lara to the edge of the right side of the vent, facing the block on the right. Somersault [triangle] out of the vent landing on the block. Go to the edge of the block. Draw your assault rifle in sniper mode [zoom in] to the guard way down below, take him out.
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Drop down, pull the lever, opening a door to the glass hall. Push the elevator button. Walk in and push the button again. Draw your assault rifle with burst ammo. Open the door and enter a high-cieling foyer with large steps. As you go forward, a swat team drops down on ropes. Take out both guards using auto-aim. Note the panel on the door with the open receptacle. We'll be back. Using the rope on the right, swing to the top of the crates. From the crate, jump up and pull the doors open.
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Immediately drop to the floor again, draw your rifle and auto-aim at the guard now standing in the doorway by the heliport door. Now turn around and auto-aim to the guard that appears from the open doors high above. Once they're gone, swing back up to the vent using the rope and go down the vent to the right. As Lara tries to push the wall button, the floor opens beneath her and she slides down a set of ramps. Lara emerges at a 4-way intersection. 2 are blocked by infared lasers.
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To the right is another hall. To the left is an infared laser barrier leading to a glass hallway. Go right. Crawl through the vent and climb the grate to another vent. As you approach, the vent hatch opens. SAVE GAME. Time to meet the bionic man. With your rifle drawn in sniper mode, [scope] the man while he's walking on the floor below. As you peg away at him, his bionic arm and leg skeletion start to show and he begins to short-circuit. Drop down to the top of the crate in the room.
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Continue firing away at him as he fires back at you. Watch your health. Now aim your rifle and [zoom] to the red turn wheel under the vent you came in. When you hit it, water starts to pour out onto the floor. Turn around and continue plugging away until he falls and dies. Catch your breath and health. The water is now electrified. From the block, do an angled run jump to the hidden black grate beside the vent. Grab the grappling hook. Climb to the top of the vent. Using the grappling gun [zoom] to the overhead ceiling grate and fire. A rope drops down from the ceiling. Jump to the rope and swing to the opening on the far wall. At the end of the hall, pull the switch. Come back out the hall, run jump to the rope, then safety drop to the floor which is now dry. Grab the Left Key Fragment from the slayen bionic man, and the large medpack by the door.
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Jump back up to the block again, and run jump again to the black grate beside the vent (that is now closed). Grab another grappling hook and jump up to the vent top. Use the rope again and swing to the far opening. Pull the switch in the hall again. This opens the vent grate where you came in, but also electrifies the floor again because of water now pouring in with the bionic corpse on the floor. Use the rope and swing back to the vent and then drop to the lower ledge of the vent and pull up inside. Go back down the hall, jump down to the lower crawlway and out to the hall with the glass windows on the right. SAVE GAME.
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As you enter the corridor, you're under attack by severe machine gun fire from a helicopter on the right. Run down the hall, jumping the crevices, as the floor collapses away from the nearby tanks exploding. Don't stop or explore along the way because the machine gun fire is chasing you. If you fall, grab a ledge and pull up, even if you take heavy health damage from the machine gun fire. Run all the way to the end corner room. Take a breather and restore Lara's health.
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To the left is another door leading to the bar room. As soon as Lara enters, the camera goes passive and machine gun fire, starts up again. Go to the left, and duck behind the bar. All the glass shelves shatter behind you as you crawl to the far end of the bar. From the corner, push the switch, then duck down again. Crawl back to the opening in the bar, then dart back to the corner room under heavy fire. A 2nd bionic man is there to greet you. SAVE GAME HERE. Recharge your health to full.
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Even if the bionic man is right there, it's still safe to recharge your health. Run past him out to the 1st hall. The helipcoter is waiting for you. Run the gauntlet back across all the crevices being careful to jump cleanly and run fast to avoid machine gun fire. Go into the hallway to the right and sprint the hall past the floor grate, past the room with the green window on the right. Go down the hall to the left, then immediately left again down a short ramp to a small room with a wall switch.
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If you've timed it right, the bionic man is passing overhead going into the room you just went through. Pull the switch closing the door behind him. The bionic man is now trapped in the window room. WHEW!!
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Once you have your wits about you and have calmed down, go up the ramp, left down the hall, up the steps, back to the 4 door area. Go in the door on the left that isn't protected by an infared laser barrier. Once inside, poisonous gas jets start to fill the room. Watch Lara's oxygen while she's in the room. If you run low, crouch down and restore Lara's air. This is a maze of rooms. Go through the 1st room out the far door ahead, and through the 2nd room out the door on the left.
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In the 3rd room on the right is a crawlway to A SECRET ROSE. Return to the room, climb up on the block and pull the switch. This unlocks the door straight ahead. Go through that door and in the next room go to the right. You'll draw gunfire from another swat guard. Don't bother with him, just run. Go through the door on the right, to a room with a glass window on the left. You see the bionic man. Pull the switch on the wall. This transfers all the poisonous gas to his room. He slowly dies.
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The bionic man drops the other Right Key Fragment. Pull the switch in the room again, transferring the gas back into the room, and then run out the door straight ahead, and then out the door to the right to the 4-door area. Run down to the right, back down the ramp, and pull the swicth re-opening the room where the bionic man died. Go in the room and grab the key fragment. Run back down the long hall, up the ramp, to the waiting helicopter. Run to the right, dodging machine gunfire again.
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Go back to the intersection with the 4 doors. Go up the way you came in. In the hall, face the doors, and jump up grabbing the ladder. Climb up and then out the overhead doors by the large foyer. Zip pipes in and says "Great job Lara. Now get the heck outahere." Safety drop down to the floor, climb the steps. Combine the 2 key fragments and use the combined key in the wall receptacle to the left. The Heliport door opens. Lara runs in... LEVEL ENDS and the final ADVENTURE ENDS.
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