Tomb Raider Chronicles Walkthrough for PlayStation Game Name: Tomb Raider Chronicles Format: PlayStation Submitted By: ]v[atrix Level 01 - Streets of Rome - Rome ================================= This is the first story. Winston or Jean-Pierre is telling it. From the movie we can learn that Lara tried to buy an artifact, the Mercury stone, but the sellers, Larson and Pierre (Natla's goons) wanted to keep it for themselves together with Lara's money. Lara took the stone and ran away from them. And we get the control on the streets of Rome. Lara has the usual green top and brown short in this whole story. I was hoping after the FMV that we can control her in that cool blue dress a bit too. :) First run to the corner and turn right. You get to a small fountain, you can shoot your first enemy there, a dog. From the fountain you can do a running jump to the top of the cafe and get the flares there. As this is a quick walkthrough, I will not write about everything like this and like the secrets, feel free to explore the areas in details yourself (I leave a little bit of fun for you). Go to the path behind the cafe and put your head into the mouth of the lion. Just kidding, press action (on the PSX the X button by default) and you pull a handle in its mouth (anyway Lara will put her head into the lion's mouth, hehe). From the fountain go to the path you originally came from and turn right at the first corner. Go down and pull another handle in another lion's mouth. Bats will attack you. Now climb up to the platform and into the house from there. Follow the path. You'll find a window, if you shoot it out, you can find some ammo behind it. Follow the path and you'll find another window with a small medipack. Go down on the stairs, kill the dog and pull the switch, now you can get back to the fountain easier. But now go back to the last window, shoot out the opposite one and jump over the gap. Go to the left and get the Golden key 1. Now go back to the fountain, kill the dog and open the door. Inside you have to gunfight with Larson, after a few shots he will run away and you can get a small medipack there. Go after him, turn left and get the Garden key from the top of the wooden box. Follow the other path and gunfight with Larson again, he'll run away again. Now you can try out one of Lara's new moves. Go to the rope, press the action and then press and hold Up. Lara will randomly lose her balance, stop and lean left or right, when she does it, press the opposite direction, she'll get back her balance and you can continue walking on the rope with Up. Go down to the street with action and pull the handle, you have another open way back to the fountain. You can skip this part if you don't need goodies and a secret, the following is a large area filled with these but isn't needed to finish the level. Go back to the fountain and go where you originally came from, go to the Opera Backstage. (You can do this in different order too of course.) Climb up on the boxes, jump and go to the other room. Jump over the gap and climb up to the metal platform. From there you can get some goodies and after a jump, from the middle platform even more. Now you have to reach the top of the yellow machine, you can do it on two ways, either with a simple jump from this platform, or you get back to the previous gap and follow the path to the next room where you jump from platform to platform and finally get back to this room. (And I must add you can go to that third room on ground level and climb up there too.) When you get back to this second room, jump and grab the platform above you, climb to the other end of the room and climb up to the yellow machine there. Many ways to choose. Crawl into the hole, pull the switch and go through the door. Climb up to the yellow machine and jump to and into the pool. Follow the path by swimming under the water. And from the next pool you can follow a small path too what you can find at the bottom of the pool, to get some goodies. Get out of the pool and you'll find another rope. Don't cross it, but explore the area below it. Press action at the cabinets (sorry, I wrote cabinets everywhere to the shelves too in this walkthough and I can't correct them without finishing it again, some cabinets are shelves) to get goodies and push the cabinets at the corners to get even more behind them, and a secret. Now go back to the rope, you can simply climb up at the other end if you don't want to practice on the rope. :) More cabinets, more stuff. Finally you'll reach another handle, pull that one too and you can go back to the fountain. Now go back to the last opened path and turn left. In the opening on the left you can pick up some ammo, then follow the path and pick up the Revolver at the top of the stairs. Go down to the closed door and press action to open it. You can find the LaserSight there, combine it with the Revolver and shoot the lock this way. Take the second Garden key and get out of here quickly. Go back to the previous junction, run to the end, turn left and use the two Garden keys to open the garden gate. Now you can go into the garden from the street through the gate. When you go to the snake heads, you get the cutscene with Larson and Pierre. Continue your way behind the building. Another cutscene with a bell. Of course you have to ring the bell with the Revolver and LaserSight. You can get another LaserSight and a box of ammo at the upper door. Go into the opening on the left from the upper door. Do a running jump, pull the handle in the mouth of the lion and the upper door is open now. In the upper building, go to the left and pull the handle, then operate with the crystal bird. Go to the right and on the upper platform hop backwards with action, then shimmy right below the swinging thing. Pull that handle you find there, go down and operate with the other crystal bird too. Go out of the building and through the lower door. Take the Saturn symbol and watch the cutscene. Level 02 - Trajan's markets - Rome ================================== In the cutscene Larson and Pierre are taking the Saturn symbol from Lara and placing it into the gate. Now two symbols are there, two more are needed. We find ourselves on the streets again. Go into the left room and shoot the box to get the Crowbar. You can do the same on the right too, to get another LaserSight. Open the metal door with the Crowbar and climb up. (There's a small medikit in the box.) Take the other small medikit from the window and walk through the rope. Jump to the other platform, go out and jump across the two gaps. You can get the ammo from the window too. Continue your way by climbing and jumping and finally down into the building where the gears are. Climb up on the climbable wall on the right, at the top climb left across its corner. Now you can jump into two directions. Jump to the right and into the building from there. Pull the rope, the cutscene shows that the gear goes up. Don't leave yet, pull it again and again to raise the gear to the top. Now jump from platform to platform until you reach the other rope, pull it to start the big machine what will move away the biggest gear from the way. You can take the ammo from the window above the gear, then go down and enter the door. Get the goodies inside, then continue your way to the left where the big gear was. Get the Golden coin with the Crowbar and place it into the knight's platform. You can leave the building now and enter a new area what was closed before. Get the ammo and continue your way in the water. Get the medikit and get out of the water at the other end. Get the ammo and prepare for the metal octopus boss. It is not easy, it will fry you very quickly with electric beam. You have to use the Revolver with LaserSight and aim and shot its green eyes really quickly. You can jump in and out for the two eyes. Save here, probably you have to retry it a few times (I killed it without problem with one quick aim to the two eyes). Go down and get the Mars symbol. Back at the red machine you can jump up to the metal platform and jump to the top of the red machine to get a secret. Go back to the octopus room, get the ammo and open the manhole. Climb down into the sewers, get the medikit in the water and swim through the upper hole in the big hole on the middle. Follow the path, get the ammo and get the Valve wheel with the Crowbar. Go back to the red machine, use the Valve wheel on it and turn the wheel, then go back to the sewers and dive at the big hole again. Now you can swim through the deeper hole, you can get a large medipack in a room, then swim up where a ventillator is pumping the water. Another red machine, turn the valve and you can swim right at the ventillator. Follow the path to the surface. Get the ammo and the Shotgun, then kill the knight boss. Don't let him catch you with his sword, jump to the left or right when he is preparing his electric shock. Get the goodies, jump out where the window was and dive down for the fourth piece, the Venus symbol. Swim through the other new underwater door too and you'll find yourself at the snake gate again. Time to save. After a small cutscene you have to fight again with Larson, after he's down, you have to shoot him some more times. The time gone out, the snakes are coming alive. These are the next bosses to fight against. Get the goodies in the garden and shoot the snakes with shotgun. Don't go too close to them and always jump left and right to avoid their fire. Now all you have to do is to place the two symbols into the gate and jump from platform to platform in the open gate. You can't take the artifact at the end, it was a trap and you fall down ... to the next level. Level 03 - The Colosseum - Rome =============================== No FMV or cutscene this time. Just follow the path and run and jump when the stones are collapsing below your feet. From the stone you landed hop back while you hold the action, climb a bit down (these walls are climbable), then a lot to the left until you reach a small place with a stone button on the wall. Push it, then go back the same way. Now the door is open, follow the path, it is really linear. Slide down, kill the lion, push the button, kill the lion, climb up and pick up the Gemstone piece. The simple linear part continues. Kill the gladiator, pick up the medikit in the opening, go up, kill the gladiator, pick up the ammo, push the stone button, go up, go up, kill the gladiator, kill the lion, go through the door, go to the left, pick up the large medikit and pick up the Uzi. Now go down to the previous level and go into the big hall and save there. This is a quite heavy timed part. Probably you have to waste a lot of time until you can make this part in time. Explore the hall if you want to (you have to learn the places of the platforms), then do a running jump to the right, where you can see a pulling rope switch. Pull the rope three times, then quickly run to the right corner of the platform (right when you are facing to the middle of the hall), jump to the platform what is in front of the middle area, jump from that platform to the next one, from that to the next again (you'll see the order), climb up, run around on that large platform, finally you'll face to the middle and with a running jump you can reach the middle again. Everywhere you have to make running jumps at the exact points. You can't hop back for runup and you have to push jump at the very last position. Also you can't save in a timed sequence like this. Technically you can, but it will f*ck up the game. (As I remember in all TR games and I had to restart many levels due to that I save sometimes in timed sequences.) If you did it right, you'll reach the metal cylinder before it goes down again and you can get the second Gemstone piece from it. Combine the two pieces into the Gemstone and go into the direction of the closed door, what will open when you reach it. You'll fall into another trapdoor trap and a cool and funny cutscene is coming up with Pierre. After the "busy girl gotta go", go into the next room and use the Gemstone on that thing. The room is collapsing under your feet, turn around quickly and do a running jump to the opposite direction (to the direction of the door). Turn around again a do another running jump to the opposite direction again. Hop back with action and shimmy left around the corner until you can, there you can release action and continue your way. After you climb up to the next level, finally you can see the outdoors again and you see the Colosseum. You have to kill a gladiator and a lion and the gladiator will leave the Colosseum key 1 for you. Use the key at the door and go inside, prepare for a fight with another big knight boss. After you killed him, go into the opening, take the Colosseum key 2 and open the next large door with it. Slide down and finally get the red artifact with the Crowbar. This is the end of the level and the end of the first story. You get the FMV where Lara is holding this stuff, then her friends are watching it. Level 04 - The base - Russian Base ================================== The FMV is continuing and Jean-Pierre is telling the next story, the story of the Russian Base and the russian and german submarines. The story is starting in the WW2 probably, a german submarine is sinking (german submarines are always sinking in every movie like Das Boot) and we will learn that the Spear Of Destiny, a mysterious and powerful mythological artifact was on the board. Something is moving in the boxes and then the soldiers are fighting against something what is lighting. A little bit of Abyss, a little bit of Das Boot and a really lot of X-Files rippoff. And then they died and the submarine crushed. We can see Lara in a white snow camouflage suit and a small cap and Jean-Pierre standing on a hill above a russian military base, watching russian gangsters going into the base. I have no sound in this beta version, probably they are talking about that the base is organizing a u-boat mission into the german submarine, to get the Spear