TR2 - RETURN TO THE OPERA by IGOR

Walkthrough by Harry Laudie

 

You start in a water channel. Just swim with the current into a pool. Swim to the left corner to pull up onto a ledge. Jump back across the water and grab a crevice. Shimmy to the left to pull up onto a ledge. Then run and jump across the water. Go to the far right corner and climb the ladder onto a building roof. Run forward and the camera view changes. Turn to the right and jump to the flat part of the roof in the dark right corner. Then stand jump to the higher part of the roof near the windows. Shoot the windows and enter the room. Pick up a small medipack (1) and the Trapdoor Key (2) from the top of the boxes. Exit the room and slide down the roof to safety drop to the ground. Kill a thug (1) and pick up shotgun shells (3) from his dead body.

 

Dive into the water and swim under the gate to the left in the opposite wall. You enter an area with a boat. Swim to the back and pull up to a ledge. Climb a ladder and back flip to a ledge behind you. Run and jump at an angle to the higher left slope on the opposite ledge. Slide down and grab the edge. Pull up and back flip to a ledge. Jump back to the ledge with the slopes. Press a pushbutton on the wall and the gate below you opens. You can now drive the boat into the main water channel. However, there are more gates to open so just leave it there for now.

 

Swim back to the other side and pull up to the ledge. Go to the back of the area and go to the left wall. A door will open as you approach it. Enter the room and climb the ladder to a higher room. Shoot the windows and the window in the opposite building to the right. Jump over and enter a room to kill a dog (2). Shoot out more windows and hop out into a ledge. Run and jump into the opening in the opposite wall. It is between the third arched windows. Enter the window and jump down to the left side ledge. Pull the wall switch and you hear a door open. Drop into the water and swim back to the main channel. Notice that the second gate is open. Pull up to a ledge and kill the thug (3) for his shotgun shells (4). Swim back and get into the boat and drive through the open gates. Use CTRL at the side of the boat to get into the boat.

 

Drive in the new area and see more closed gates and a ramp. Drive to the left and get out of the boat near the closed gate. Use ALT and a left/right arrow key to exit. Get on the dock to the left side as you face the closed gate. Jump up to grab the block above your head at the end of the dock. This block is climbable, so climb to the top. Run and jump forward to a red awning. Run and jump across the water channel to grab the roof on the other side. Pull up to the roof and go to the right side wall to pull down a wall switch. You hear gates opening. Go back to the boat and drive it through the open doors. Park it next to a low section of dock that you find.

 

There is a building in the middle of the water. Swim around the right side of the building to pull up onto a ledge at the far wall. You see two ladders and a pushbutton. Press the pushbutton on the wall and get a cut scene of the timed gate opening back in the main channel. Climb either ladder to the roof. Kill two thugs (4,5) and pick up flares (5) and a small medipack (6). Go down the ladders to the pushbutton again. It has probably timed out by now. Press the pushbutton, turn around and swim back to the low dock. Get into the boat and drive through the gates before they close. It is a rather tight timed run.

 

Park the boat next to either dock. Get out of the boat and onto the dock. Without the boat you cannot get onto the docks. On one dock you kill a thug (6) and pick up his flares (7). On the other dock you kill a thug (7) and pick up his small medipack (8). With the closed doors to your back, look up to the back wall and see a closed door on a high ledge. Then go to the right wall and turn left. Go straight to the piles of boxes and pull out the bottom box. Get behind the boxes and pull down a wall switch. Exit and climb the boxes to get onto the high ledge. Enter the open door and follow the tunnel.

 

Kill a thug (8) and a dog (9). Follow the tunnel to a fence. Enter another tunnel to go around the fence and kill a thug (10) and a dog (11). Run pass the fence and kill a thug (12) and a dog (13). Go forward and up the steps and climb into the opening in the back wall. Go forward and start to slide down a slope. Jump over the deadly fan and into a tunnel. Slide down into a large room. Kill two thugs (14,15) for a small medipack (9) and shotgun shells (10). Also kill the dog () on the right side of the room.

 

Enter the doorway to the left side of the room and get a cut scene showing thugs and dogs. Wait in the room and kill a thug (16) that enters and pick up a small medipack (11). Enter the doorway and go to the right. Go down the steps to the stage area. Kill two dogs (17,18) and a thug (19) who drops a large medipack (12). Go to the right side of the stage and walk through the red curtains. Watch out for the large pit to the left. There are two doorways in the right wall. Go to the second doorway and kill a thug (20) for shotgun shells (13). Notice the ladder at the back wall. Climb down the ladder and into a room. Climb the boxes at the back wall and pull down the wall switch. You get a cut scene of a door opening. Climb back up a ladder and kill a thug (21) for a small medipack (14).

 

Exit the room and go to the right to find the open door. Enter the door and kill a thug (22) for a small medipack (15). Continue into the room and kill a dog (23) and two thugs (24,25). Afterwards pick up shotgun shells (16) and two large medipacks (17,18) from the dead bodies. Examine the dressing rooms. The dressing room behind the boxes nearest the closed gate has a hole in the ceiling that you cannot reach. Exit and go the large room to the left with the many boxes. To the right side of the back wall is a movable box. Drag it back to that dressing room and move between the two fixed boxes. Climb on the boxes and move the movable box in the corner to underneath the hole. Pull up into the room and hear a lot of machinery. Light a flare and go forwards to jump to a ledge over a fan. Continue in the tunnel and jump two more fans. At the end you see a hole in the floor. You can go to the end of the tunnel and jump up to a ledge for shotgun shells (19).

 

Safety drop into the hole and pull the switch on the back wall. The gate opens behind you. Climb the brown box on the right wall and pick up the Maintenance Key (20). Get down from the box and exit the gate. Go back to the first room and watch out for the pit.

 

Go into the doorway that you passed earlier. It is on the left side as you should be now facing the opposite direction. Turn right an enter another room to kill a thug (26) for a small medipack (21).  Climb on the boxes in the corner and stand jump to grab a higher ledge. Ignore the windows overlooking the room that you left. Go into the opening in the corner and overlook the large room you were in earlier.  On the far left ledge you can see something on a ledge but I could never reach it. Jump down the right side to a high ledge. Go to the middle right and enter a high ledge. Run, jump and grab the gray ledge across the deep pit. Pull up to the top and climb down the ladders you see and safety drop onto the balcony. Go up the steps and pull down the two wall switches. Each switch gives a cut scene of a gate opening somewhere.

 

Safety drop to the wire-mesh floor below go to the far left corner and climb a ladder. A door opens for you so exit back into the room with the pit. Go to the right and down some stairs. Turn to the left to kill a thug (27) and pick up shotgun shells (22). Go to the area the thug came from and go through a red curtain. You can see the curtain easier if you light a flare. Use the Maintenance Key in the key lock to open the door. Enter the door and go to the back of the room. Pull down the wall switch and get a cut scene of a gate opening. Turn around and kill a thug (28) for a small medipack (23). Before you leave the room, look in the right corner and pull down another wall switch. You get a cut scene of a door opening somewhere.

 

Exit through the curtain and see stairs down to your left. First go straight into another room. Kill two thugs (29,30) and pick up flares (24) and a small medipack (25). You can see another room behind a glass wall. Exit and now go down the stairs. You see a receptacle for an item that you do not have yet. Go to the right and go through another curtain. Jump onto a box and pull up into the door in the upper left wall. Follow the tunnel to a room with a closed door in the corner. Push a movable block forward to the back wall. Turn to the right and push a movable block forward one space. Then exit the room and notice the movable block now completes a ladder climb. Climb the ladder and near the top, back flip to a chandelier. Then jump to a lower ledge. You get a cut scene of a trap door dropping and you see some water.

 

Safety drop to the floor and go back into the open door and the room with the boxes. Pull the box back into the hole. Go around to the front to push it into the room. Go through the open door and back to the room and push the box against the other box at the back wall. Return to the room behind the red curtain and use the wall switch again to close the door in the wall. You get a cut scene of the door closing. Return back and climb the ladder in the hole. You can get into the room using the ladder because you have moved the boxes out of the way. The door in the corner is open so enter and you are in the room behind the glass wall. Go around the wall to the opposite corner. Use the Trapdoor key in the lock and a trap door opens beside you. Climb the ladder into the room and pick up the Elevator Fuse (26).

 

Go outside the room and place the Elevator Fuse in the receptacle. The door in the left elevator shaft opens. Jump to the ladder and climb down to the bottom. Turn around and enter a large room. Run to the far wall to get secret #1, Golden Dragon (27), Uzi’s (28), large medipack (29), and three Uzi ammo (30-32). Climb up the ladder and back flip to the floor.

 

Go to the right elevator shaft and climb down the ladder to the bottom. Turn around and run down the corridor. You see the fence where the secret was located. Enter a large room and kill three thugs (32-34) on the floor and two thugs (35,26) on a high balcony. Pick up flares (33) and a small medipack (34) from the dead thugs on the floor.

 

Go to the stage and see the two gates that you opened with wall switches. Safety drop into the hole in the floor. You land in water pool. On one side you see a wide corridor. Swim there to stand up in shallow water. Go straight to the back wall and see a crawl space to your right. A flare is very useful in this area. Swim in the hole and follow the tunnel to pick up a crowbar (35). Swim out and go straight to the far wall. Stand up and wade to the wall to pull down a wall switch. Return to where you fell into the water and continue straight. Turn right at the wall and you find a ladder in the corner. Climb the ladder to pull back up into the room near the back curtains.

 

Go back to the stage and enter the right open gate. You see a key lock.  Use the crowbar on the receptacle at the back wall. Exit and go to the other open gate on the opposite side of the stage. Enter the room and climb a ladder onto a ledge. Follow the drawbridge and jump to the other ledge. Pick up the Backstage Key (36) and return to the key lock you saw earlier. You can see boxes behind the torn curtains. Use the Backstage Key in the key lock and the door opens. Enter the door and follow the corridor to a backstage area with many boxes.

 

Save the game as the backstage area is filled with five thugs (37-41). I went back to the stage to shoot them at a distance in the key lock room. You should let the thug with two big guns kill Lara just to see him put his guns away. I thought that it was very funny. When the big thug dies, pick up the Roof Passage Key (37) and an Old (Music) Score (38) from his body. From the other thugs pick up a large medipack (39), small medipack (40) and two shotgun shells (41,42).

 

Go backstage and run to the back wall. Use the Roof Passage Key in the key lock to open the gate. Enter the gate and run to the ladder and the view changes. Climb the long ladder and pull up to a corridor. Run down the corridor to the outside balcony as the level ends.

 

End of the level

Pickups: 42

Kills: 41

Secrets: 1 out of 1