Sunday 14 October 2007

End of Level Battles

Tomb Raider Legend

Ran Into trouble

The first encounter of trouble comes at the end of Bolivia,
It all breaks loose at the end of the level cutscene. You will find yourself in a very difficult situation. As soon as you regain control of Lara after the cutscene, run over the walkway Jumping the gaps as they appear, trying to avoid being killed by the helicopter. Jump over the final gap and pull yourself up onto the platform, you then have to defeat the mercenaries, It’s simple to do this. Move and dodge their attacks while moving, use cover when needed, I found rolls and summersaults and bursts of bullets to be useful.

Tokyo

Defeating Takamoto

For this one make sure you have plenty of ammunition, best weapon for this is the shotgun and assault rifle. When you have entered the lift and reached the top there will be a cutscene, this is where Lara will battle with Takamoto.
You will find yourself on the bottom floor and Takamoto on the upper walkway at the start, for a better fight you need to be on the same level as him. To get onto the upper walkway, use ladders on the vertical poles, these are behind the statues, when doing all this you need to avoid turret guns. At the top right hand side of the screen is a orange bar, this represents Takamotos health.

Takamoto uses a weapon that sends out low and high level shockwaves; dodge the shockwaves by rolling or jumping. To stay alive you have to dodge the shockwaves while shouting at Takamoto. I found It easier to take cover and shout Takamoto with the shotgun first, when he moves from pillar to pillar I used the assault rifle, keep at It till his orange bar is gone, once this has occurred you will get another cutscreen.

Ghana

Defeating Rutland

You are better starting off with the pistols, Rutland has two kinds of attacks, he throws grenades, and he slashes Lara with a fragment you need. You can dodge the grenades because they have a timer on them, he is better defeated using the combat lock. The problem is when you have shoot Rutland enough, he uses the pillars to heal, simple solution, shoot Rutland enough keeping you distance, wait till Rutland jumps onto the pillar, use the yellow cancel button on your control to reveal the grapple points and shoot them. Next time he goes up onto the pillars to refresh his health, connect the magnetic grapple to the pillar and pull It down. Repeat this for all the remaining pillars. Then finish Rutland off with the assault rifle.

Kazakhstan

The Unknown Entity

The unknown Entity can Inflict large amounts of damage, so watch out. Soon as the cutscene ends run to and enter the magnetic gun in the centre of the room. Locate the creature and press L1 to get hold of it, now aim at one of the bursts of energy cracklings between two small lobes and fire, If you got It right the creature will disappear for a short time. Then you have to jump out and pull one of four levers, situated on the walls, you have to repeat the grab, fire and pull lever process for all four levers.

I found It much quicker and easier to use a method of rolling and somersaulting to pull the levers.

During the cutscene, the fragment was revealed (It’s protected by a energy shield, plus four larger orbs that are lowered from the ceiling)
Remount the magnetic gun and shoot each of the large orbs with R1, the idea is to get them to swing and discharge crackling between the smaller orbs, you need to move all four large orbs into position quickly as they will soon swing back to where they started.

Once you have them in place, the electrical discharge get stronger and the shield to the fragment disappears. This is when you get off the magnetic gun, and use the grapple to retrieve the fragment. You will get a cutscene.


England

Beating the Ugly Snake

Firstly you have to get the creature under one of the metal cages, to do this you simply fire at the tower to sound a bell, the creature will then temporally pay attention to the bell and investigate. When this happens use Lara’s grapple on the lever at the bottom of the tower, you must repeat this on all four towers to defeat this monster.



Bolivia

The Looking Glass

This is the most toughest part of the game, mercenaries appears from all directions, man two turrets, while mercenaries walk around attacking Lara with grenade launchers, pleasant?

Excalibur is the most powerful weapon Lara has, so the first task is to take out the two soldiers manning the turrets, while finding them eliminate other mercenaries, then find and eliminate the mercenaries using the grenade launchers. Remember to be on the guard, as the attacks don’t stop till you get a cutscene, this will take place when you have killed the last mercenary.
Now Lara is faced with another challenge, The Unknown Entity Part two.
This creature will circle the platform and launch projectiles at Lara, these will detonate when they hit the ground, get caught and you will suffer. Always hold L1 thoughtout the battle, this maintains the lock-on for better targeting, attack it with Excalibur. This creature has the capabilities to dodge a lot of Excalibur’s shockwaves, so try to be accurate as well as wary of the creature’s attacks.

When the creature falls to the ground, make a attack using the yellow cancel key on your controller, make it fast and quick attack as It’s not down for long, If you managed to attack the creature the health bar won’t charge fully, move to a safe distance and carry on with you assault, but if you missed, the creature will have full health. You will have to carry out this process of attacking with Excalibur and attacking when it is down until its health gauge is virtually empty, then you can give the killer blow and win the battle.

2 comments:

Duncan said...

Good report, Michael. Any images you can add to it to illustrate the lesson?

Michael914 said...

Thank you Duncan. Having a surf about to see what I can find.