Lara's London Home
By John Lincoln

walkthrough from the author


First artifact:
Go into the gym and complete obstacle "7"; pull the lever round the corner which opens the door to the poolroom below. Go into the poolroom and watch the front door of the house open, then go into the dining room and push the push switch; this will open a trapdoor in a pool outside.

Go outside and follow the assault course to the left. When you get to the end you will find the Pool. Jump in and swim through the door and into another room. Climb out and make your way down to the next room. Jump on the slopes until you land on a flat pillar, run jump and grab to the next pillar and side jump to the next slope. Jump onto another slope and then jump and grab onto the climbable pillar. Climb up and monkey swing across, drop onto the slope and jump on the slopes to land on another pillar. Jump to the next and into the next room.

In this room there is a cog switch, which opens a door to the right. First of all, run to the door to trigger the boulders, then run back and pull the cog switch 5 times. Then quickly run back to the door and jump through it into the next room. In this room there is a big pillar with a raised block on top of it (take note). Run around the corner and into a corridor with timed fires. Make your way through the corridor (note that you can avoid alot of fires by crawling under them), go to the end and collect the artifact.

Second artifact:
When collected, a door will open in the lounge leading to the ballroom. Collect the revolver and its ammo and go back through the corridor. The raised block on the pillar has now lowered, allowing you to climb up. Climb the long ladder up and to the left. kill the bat, jump through the gap in the wall leading back outside. Make your way back inside the house and go into the lounge and then into the ballroom. In the ballroom there is a pushable block. Push it out of the way and shoot the grating behind. Save your game! Crawl through into the next room and collect the second artifact; as soon as you collect it spikes fall down, so jump off the ledge and quickly shoot all 3 gems in the lion's mouths behind the now-open doors. You have to shoot all 3 gems to release a door before you get killed by the quickly descending spikes above. Go through the door.

Third artifact:
Go into the room and notice the shut gate on the left up high. In this room there are three coloured squares: red, green and blue, and three pushable objects: red, green and blue. Blue goes on blue, red on red, green on green. Make sure while you're doing this you don't push any objects on wrong squares even if you plan to move it later, because as soon as you do the puzzle is impossible and won't work. After you have done those 3 go through the gap in the curtain, and there are two of the same in here: red on red, and blue on blue. After this is done the gate that you saw when you came in is now open.

Go through the gate and crawl through the
crawl space to the left; push the switch at the end to open a door in the gym. Turn back and drop back into the room. An orange door has now opened in the room leading to the kitchen. Go through and make your way into the gym, climb up the pole and jump back to a ledge, crawl through the gap and then get on the rope and swing to the next one. On the second rope swing to the top of the pillar straight ahead near the monkey climb. Jump up and monkey climb across, go through the gate and slide down the slope, jump to the slope ahead and jump back and forth on these two slopes leaning on the right so you can eventually get to the ledge on the right. Jump over the gap and do another slope jump to get to the artifact on the left. Pick it up and a gate will open in the pool.

Fourth artifact:
Go into the pool room and drop into the water. Go through the open gate and pull the
underwater switch inside; this opens another gate in the pool. Come up for air and go
through the next open gate. Swim through the tunnels (note this is not a maze and only has
one route) until you find a gold door. Go up to it and press action to pull it open. Go
through and keep swimming until you see a block lower and an underwater switch. Pull the switch (which will open a gate at the top of the poolroom) and go through the gap back into the main pool. Climb out and climb the ladders in the pool room to get to the diving board at the top. From here you can see the artifact ahead. You need to shoot the gems in the 2 lions' heads on the left and right wall of the poolroom. This will cause 2 ropes to lower, allowing you to swing to the next artifact. Collect the artifact and a gate will open outside.

Fifth artifact:
A ghost was released when you picked up the artifact. Dive down and climb out, go to second floor main hall and down the corridor with steps leading down on the left. In this room the ghost should die near the sculpture on the floor. Go outside and through the open gate. In this room there are invisible blocks and a monkey climb leading to the artifact. You can see these blocks in the mirror on the left; use the mirror to make your way to the large pillar, then jump up and monkey swing across. Drop down and another gate leading to the hedge maze will
open outside. Then collect the artifact and use the mirror again to make your way back on the invisible blocks to the exit.

Sixth artifact:
Go through the open gate to emerge in the hedge maze. Make your way through the maze and be aware of a dead end which isn't one. You should now get into another maze with a camera view; make your way through the maze to find the sixth artifact. Pick it up and another gate will open at the top of the assault course, but you need a snowmobile to get up the slope in there.

Seventh artifact:
Go back through the maze and follow the assault course until you get to a turn on the left. There is a jump switch on the side of a pillar; pull this and a gate will open behind you in the hedge leading to a snow leopard and a snowmobile! Get on the snowmobile and drive to the open gate at the end of the assault course. Go through the gate and drive up the ramp leading to the snowmobile course. Make your way through the course, make sure you do all the jumps! If you get stuck read the "hints" and "bugs" sections in the read-me file. After you have made the jumps, two gates should be open. Go though and smash the shootable window, climb in and grab the Seventh artifact (Dagger of Xian), which will raise a block in the main hall leading to the attic.

Eighth artifact:
Climb out and pull the level on the wall near the slope. This will open another gate down a passageway on the right. Drive through there to emerge at the start of the snowmobile Course. Drive back down and make your way back to the house. Go into the main hall second floor and get on the block. Climb up to the attic and grab the final artifact!

Rescue Lara:
As soon as you pick up the eighth artifact, the house starts to fall down and you get a view of a door opening to the left of the lounge. Slide downs the slope back into the main hall, avoiding the boulders and fires, and make your way into the final room. There is a pressure pad in there which opens the main gates outside! But it is timed, so step on it and run outside to the open gates. You can hear a chopper coming to save Lara. The house starts to crumble and pieces of rock fall from above. If you can't get through the gates, then go back to the pressure pad and try again and keep trying until you make it! Once through the gates the level ends

Secrets:

. One is in the library
. One is in the assault course
. One is the snow mobile course

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