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Game Name: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Genre: Platformer / Action / Adventure Series: Tomb Raider Gamespot Score : 8.0 / 10 IGN Score: 8.0 / 10 Developer: Crystal Dynamics, Buzz Monkey Software, Nixxes Software and Robosoft Technologies Publisher: Eidos Interactive, Feral Interactive Links: Introduction. Peru: Mountain Caves. Peru: City of Vilacabamba. Peru: The Lost Valley. Peru: The Tomb of Qualopec. Greece: St. Francis Folly - Part 1. Greece: St. Francis Folly - Part 2. Greece: The Coliseum. Greece: Midas's palace. Greece: Tomb of Tihocan. Egypt: Temple of Khamoon. Egypt: The Obelisk of Khamoon. Egypt: Sanctuary of the Scion.

Lara goes through the opened door. Inside she fights two mummies and have to solve a puzzle to open the path. The puzzle is to make the diagrams in the rotating colums to match the diagrams in the wall. To match that, rotate the first left column twice and rotate the diagonally opposite column twice. This will make the center square to rise. Climb that square and proceed. Lara will come to a big room with a Sphinx in it. There is a small door at the belly of the Sphinx, which requires two Ankh Keys to open. On the sides of room, there are 2 doors which leads to place, where Ankh keys are kept. But, to go near that doors itself, Lara have to climb the walls and jump so many ledges. And on the top of the head of the Sphinx is the last weapon, Dual Mini SMG. Lara takes the Gun and goes through one of the door. There is a mechanism which must be activated to proceed. The mechanism is as follows: The room is square in shape with a pillar at the center hanging from top to center. And there a...

Lara comes to a room, where there is a big pillar at the center and four bridges to the sides of the pillar. But, all the bridges are closed. Lara finds a switch at the left, which opens on of the bridge. On going near the pillar, through that bridge, Lara finds an item, Eye of Horus in one side of the pillar. Then, Lara jumps down to the pool at the bottom of the pillar. There Lara finds a path. New traps are there in this place. The mechanism of this trap is two big stones coming out from the opposite walls and smashing each other and goes inside. Lara have to carefully run through this traps. Lara then reaches the bottom of a very height room. Lara must then climb the room and reach the top, where there is a way that lead to the first room but at another side, where Lara opens the second bridge and gets the second item from the other side of the pillar. On her way to open the thrid bridge Lara encounters another trap in the wall. This trap is placed in between the ledges, where shar...

Temple of Khamoon is the first area in Egypt. Egypt has some nice architectural puzzles with excellent graphics. I completed this area very fast in very short time. So, I dont remember all the complete details in this area and here I will post only the main puzzles in some main areas. On start, Lara was locked in a room. She climbs that room with the help of ledges and goes to an open area, where she encounters the first of the new kind of enemy, Mummy. In this area lies a pillar which has four differently shaped slots on it in the middle of a pool. Also, there are two sphinxes with doors on it and a Big door. Lara then opens one of the sphinx door and goes inside it. In that room, Lara fights a few leapords and activates a lever, which makes 6 giant statues in that room to come near. Immdiately, after activating the lever, run fast and jump over the statues one by one to reach the platform at the end of the room. Then, proceed and Lara goes to a room with small pond in it and a dog st...

Lara comes to a room full of water and many mechanisms. To get of this room, Lara must unlock the movable wooden platform, which is locked the bottom most place and guarded by some Alligators. This wooden platform will help Lara to get out of this place. But, Lara have to work out many things here to unlock the wooden platform and to keep it in right place. There are two handles that increase/decrease the water levels and Two crates to keep over the two buttons at the bottom. Also, there are number of medipacks and an artifact is also here. Without much difficulty, I unlocked all but the artifact and was ready to get out of this place. But, I started thinking about getting the artifact and wasted some time, roaming here and there. My friend who got irritated by my worst ideas to get the artifact, pressured me to get of there. Because of him, I left that artifact and proceeded. Again, Lara dives into a pool of water and swims underwater and comes to a place with a large land and a big ...

There is a big statue at the entrance itself. Its hands are broken and there are four slots around its legs. On one of the slot, a golden bar is fixed and the other slots are empty. The objective of Lara in this area is to find the other three Golden Bars. There are three doors in that room. Each room has some excellent puzzle and provides Lara with a Lead Bar. In one of the room, the Lead Bar lies in a large pillar, but is inaccessible. Lara then finds a path underground where the pillar's supports are situated. Lara breaks all the three supports which makes the Lead bar to fall down and breaks the lower part of the pillar. Lara picks up the Lead Bar and goes to the room above and finds that the whole room is collapsed. There, she jumps through the ledges and broken pillars to get some medipacks and also she finds a way, in which lies the level to open one of the three doors at the Midas's Palace. Another is a Fire Room. This room has a pond at the bottom and is full of pillar...

Lara comes to a small room with a floor broken at a place. There is water under this room and Lara dives through the water and reaches another room, which leads to The Coliseum. On entering the Coliseum, Lara encounteres a few Gorillas. She kills them and then climbs the broken walls and pillars of the Coliseum to reach the Balcony. There is gate in the balcony, but its locked with a key. Lara activates a lever there to open a door below the balcony. When she was getting into that open door, suddenly two gorillas and 2 leopords appear. She fights them and goes inside and in there she finds the Balcony Key. She comes back to the Balcony and open the Balcony Door, with the key she just obtained. In there is a ladder, to climb to the top of the Balcony. There are some awesome views of the whole Coliseum from the top of the Balcony. Lara uses her grapple to swing and get the adjacent broken platforms. On searching the ruined walls of Coliseum, Lara found a Dual 50 Caliber Pistols and also ...

First I went into the door, Poseidon. It has an excellent water puzzle, in which Lara have to bring a wooden piece to the second floor. Initially the wooded piece is locked inside a gate under the floor. There are two cubes which when pushed near the mouth of dolphin statue, reduces the water level in the room. When the cubes are moved away from the castle, the water level is raised. By adjusting the water level, and moving the wooden piece, Lara gets the Blue Poseidon key and also, she gets an artifact in here. Then, I went into Atlas door. In there is a narrow path, which elevates as its goes inside. At the far side is a statue holding a big globe, with two switches at its back. On both the sides of the path near the center, there is a ledge which leads to the platform above. The key is kept below the statue. But, the way is blocked by sharp spikes. On shooting the buttons behind the statue, the sharp spikes go in. But, the big globe on the statue's hand looses and rolls down. La...

Lara is now in Greece. After the investigation done in Natla Technologies, she found that the next piece of Scion is in Greece at St. Francis Folly. So, to get that she comes here. On entering there, Lara fights two dogs. Then she climbs the pillars there and jumps from pillar to pillar and finally comes to the place, where there in a painting of a warrior in the wall with shootable points all over his body. Shooting some series of points will unlock various gates. The first thing is to shoot the two points as shown here, to open the gate there and to find the next shootable points. Shooting at the following points of the painting will open the small gate guarding the Ninth artifact. After shooting go to the left side, where Lara came from jump the two platforms and get the Ninth Artifact. On shooting the above points, it will open the side gate, jump through that and Lara will now find the next series of points which will open the gate directly opposite to that artwork. The points to ...

This is a Small and the final area of Peru. Lara comes to a place, with a tribal face drawn on the ground. Exactly at the the front of that face, there is an elevated path. Once Lara steps inside that path, a big spherical stone rolls down through that path. Immediately Lara jumps out and three gates get closed in that elevated path. Lara has to go through two doors in that room and unlocks two locks and unlocks the thrid lock in that main room itself to go through that closed path. Lara jumps down and finds a movable object with a Small platform at its top. Position that object between the face painted floor and Right door. Now, Lara goes up and goes through one of the door, with the help of the platform she fixed down. On nearing the key, the floor breaks down and Lara climbs up through the walls and push the level down, which opens one of the gates. Also, Lara gets her Seventh Artifact here and now Lara comes back to the main room. While coming back, Lara jumps down into a pit on th...

This is a FANTASTIC and Big area with nice sceneries and some GREAT fight. The overall Objective is very simple, but it takes much time and skill to complete. The exit path is behind the water falls, that lies at the start. But since, the water is flowing at high speed, Lara cant enter exit way. So, Lara have to activate and close the Dam above, to get the path. To, close the path, She has to activate the mechanism at the side, which requires 3 Cog. 1. One Cog lies left to the Pond at the start, where Lara fights two wolves. 2. Another Cog lies up the hill, where the waterfall originates. Go uphill along the river's side. The place where Lara gets the Cog, there will be a level. Activate it to open the gate underwater, within which the second Relic (Kero Mug) lies. But, Lara cant get that Relic now, because of the fast stream of water. 3. Getting the final Cog brings in great adventurous fun. On the way, Lara gets her Fifth Artifact. This artifact lies in a small recess in the wall...

Two wolves welcomes Lara to the City of Vilacabamba. Lara shoots them down and then again have a small fight with a bear, near the huts. The key to the Next Gate is nowhere to be found. So, Lara dives into the water pool at the center of the town. She swins under the water and comes out of another pit. After searching that area for about a minute, She gets the Village Key. But, before proceeding, Lara climbs the Huts, goes above and gets the Fourth Artifact of Peru. Then, Lara goes through the Village gate, by opening it with Village Key. On going through, She comes to a place with some wolves and a Big Gate, which is locked. There are two paths at each side of the gate and these paths leads to the Unlocking mechanism at the top of the gate. Lara opens both the locks and the gate opens. After a short running, she reaches the next area of Peru, The Lost Valley. Click here to see the Level Statistics.

I very eagerly started this game and have no patience to watch the Cinematics. I skipped all the Cinematics and started playing straight away. In exploring the game area, I think Lara is very skilled than my favourite Prince in Prince of Persia. But for me, Prince is THE BEST. In the game start, Lara stands near the Entrance of Mountain caves in Peru, separated from her Guide. Lara then jumps through the rocks and reach the Gate above there. But the gate is locked and her Guide have no clue about opening the Gate. So, she again jumps through the rocks there and presses a yellow button directly above the big gate. Then, a scene appears, in which the big Gate opens and a pack of wolves come out and kills Lara's guide, followed by some action stunts performed by Lara. She, finishes all the wolves and goes into the Gate. She carefully crosses a narrow path with Sharp Darts shooting out from the small openings in the wall. After that, she comes to a place, which has a small staircase. I...

In 1945 New Mexico, a bomb explodes, engulfing a town and revealing a strange structure, from which a winged creature flies out. In Calcutta 1996, Lara Croft is approached by Larson Conway, who introduces her to Jacqueline Natla, who wishes for Lara to find a piece of an artefact called the Scion, located in the Peruvian mountains. Lara, having searched unsuccessfully for such an artefact with her father in the past, agrees to go. Lara starts her search for the Scion in Peru Mountains at the game start. Lara then travels to Greece, Egypt and finally to a Lost Island throughout this game. This game is a collection of EXCELLENT puzzles and great fights. I like the boss fights very much, but other small monster fights are not very interesting. Even though the puzzles are very much better than the puzzles in Prince of Persia, Lara Croft cant beat the fighting style of my favourite Prince.