TR3 - THE OLD MANASTERY by VINCENZO DENTAMARO (Vinc@eborg)

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie

 

The level is dark in places and with no flares. Changing the brightness Gamma to 10 really helped.


Lara falls into a trench. Go forward a littler to pickup a
shotgun (1). Go to the end and in front is a closed gate and a lever. Also see a water hole in the ground. Dive in and find two closed gates and the Desert Eagle (2). Go left to pick up a small Medi pack (3). You can get behind the Shiva statutes but there is nothing there. Go to the other side to a closed gate and pick up rockets (4). Pull the lever and the gate beside it opens to a slide surrounded by torches on both sides. Slide down, catch fire and at the end fall into a pool of water. You may have to use a Medi pack.

 

At the bottom, climb out and go to a room with columns and some monkeys. Shoot two monkeys to get back the two small Medi packs (5) they stole. Go to the back of the room to jump up on a short ledge. Run to the right side and jump to a column to get some shotgun shells (6). On the short column in front are some more shotgun shells (7). You also hear a snake above you. Turn around and climb the ladder into a cage in an attic room. A snake (1) is to your front left. Run to the right to the back of the cage and exit on the left side. Go around and kill the snake and get the rocket (8) he was guarding. You see a movable block, a body floating over a hole and a small green gem on the floor that you cannot pick up. Pull/push the movable block over the gem. Go back to the block corner and pull up to find a lever. Pull it and a gate opens in the hole beneath the body. Go there a kill a native (2) shooting darts at you.

 

Go to the end and go up an incline passing a closed gate on the left. Go to the end of the tunnel to overlook an open area with water and a movable block. Go down and move the block to a nearby marked square and everything changes. As you face the way you entered, go behind the far left corner to a lever. Pull it and everything changes again. Climb the wall behind the switch, shimmy right and black flip to a ledge. Go back into the tunnel and the gate should be open. Go in to enter a room with two Shiva statues on the left side and sloped wall on the right. At the back wall are three movable blocks. Pull them out to access a crawlspace. Enter a room with a metal bridge over a deep pool. Climb the back wall behind Lara's right to get double shotgun shells (9,10) and a small Medi pack (11). In the pool are two tunnels. The tunnel in the left wall ends in a closed grate. Enter the tunnel in the far wall and swim to a large sewer like tunnel. The bright water is deadly. Go forward and kill four giant wasps (3,4,5,6) one at a time and notice a closed gate in the left sidewall niche.

 

At the end you enter a large room crawling with monkeys and a Shiva statue. When you go to the left floating body you get a cut scene of a wall in a previous room. At the back of the room are some raised blocks with three switches. You have two choices here. First choice is to kill the monkeys now because when the Shiva statue comes to life, Lara aims at the monkeys while the Shiva statue hacks at her. If they are dead, Lara only aims at the Shiva statue. The second choice is to ignore everything and just run away. Pull the three switches as left, middle, and right. The last one brings the Shiva statue (7) to life and opens the gate in the sidewall niche. So go to the open gate and enter. If you fall in the hole in the floor, swim back to the room with the metal bridge and get back to here to try again. As you go the end the gate opens for you. Enter a room with an underwater level to your immediate right, a ledge with a tunnel to the right and a water filled trench with a closed gate to the left. Go up the right tunnel to the end to pull a lever to flood the area. Watch out for the deadly firetrap in the floor. Go back and pull the underwater level to open up the other gate in the trench. Now go back and lift the first lever to drain the area. The underwater trench gate stays open so swim in.

 

Swim up a slope to enter a room with trees and camel statues. One wall has an exit. Near the back corners you can pick up a small Medi pack (12) and Uzis with clips (13). As you enter the exit, a spiked wall starts. Jump back and wait for it to pass. I never could get the large Medi pack at the end. Lara died each time so I ignored it. Go to the other side. If you look back you see niches that have nothing. Go forward to see a switch on the left wall and a large pool. Do not swim yet since the fish are deadly. Pull the switch and the Shiva statue (8) on the far ledge comes to life. He moves towards you, falls into the water and is killed by the fish (a fantastic idea). Go towards the right ledge and look down to see a tunnel. Dive in the water and swim into the tunnel. The fish do not follow you in here. Pull up at the first hole. When I swam to the second hole I seemed to be outside the game level looking back into it. Pull up to a ledge and then pull up into a triangular hole.

 

You are facing a closed tall gate with an MP5 (14) to pick up lying in front of it. There is a long trench behind you with a barricade at the middle. Jump around the barricade to pick up a large Medi pack (15) and some Desert Eagle clips (16). Go to the T-junction at the end and pick up some shotgun shells (17). Go left and jump up the side of the trench at the end and with luck end up in front of the buildings. Now, go back along the top of the trench back towards the closed tall gate. Note that in this area, Lara can walk through walls. You pass an extra pair of Lara's pants floating above a block. I think this was supposed to be Shiva statue that you hear as well. At the end jump down behind the tall gate and kill a horde of rats (9,10,11,12,13,14). In a niche near the gate you find the rocket launcher (18) and secret #1. Climb the side ledges and eventually jump back over in front of the tall gate. Go to the T-junction again and turn right. You arrive at a broken bridge over a large body of water. You see a green object on a block in the water to the far left. I think if you jump the bridge gap, you can shimmy along the far wall to the other bridge area where you can jump to pick the object up. It is obviously a small Medi pack item and a secret but I could never manage to jump the gap.

 

So jump in and be carried by the current downstream under a bridge up to a large room with two Shiva statues and three switches on the left wall. You also hear a Shiva statue stomping somewhere. Pull all the right one to open a tall gate in the alcove on the other wall. The other two can be pulled as well since the boulder just drops behind Lara and causes no damage. Enter the tall gate and follow the corridor until you see what looks like a maze on the right side. If you go straight, it is a dead end. If you go left to go over the bridge that you swam under earlier. As you enter the room you hear and see some deadly blades in front of you. At the far end is a closed gate. Jump left or right to a clear block and then jump into a hole in the wall. Go up a ramp and jump over to a floating platform to pick up a Mystery Key (19). The gate below opens. Jump down to the bridge. Go to the gate jumping the blades and picking up a small Medi pack (20) and a grenade launcher (21). Run down the tunnel to get a green item (22) that gives Lara a half Medi pack of health. Kill the dart-blowing native (15). It is possible to drop to the bottom area and kill the two Shiva statues and three natives but I found nothing and no way to get back up so I ignored them.

 

Go to the end of the tunnel, climb a block and jump into some water. Pull the underwater lever and the gate opens. This is the underwater tunnel at the start. Swim in and to the left gate that is now open. Swim in and then swim under a wall to a platform with a switch. Pull the switch to open the closed gates near the level start. Go back to the tunnel and swim up to the start area. Go through the closed gates and use the Mystery Key to open the gate there. As you go down the path, some boulders roll and some rats attack. However the level ends before you need to kill them. Time taken was 2:28:30 but my final screen was corrupted and I only managed one secret.

 

End of the level.
Pickups: 22
Kills: 15
Secrets: 1 out of 6