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Level 18--Catacombs
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

Level 18--Catacombs

Complete walkthrough for Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation's Catacombs level, including all 56 vessels, 4 secrets, and 28 kills.

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Complete walkthrough for Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation's Catacombs level, including all 56 vessels, 4 secrets, and 28 kills.

Starting Pickups: 273

Starting Secrets: 44

Starting Trophies: 25

Starting Vessels: 24

This Level Pickups: 34

This Level Secrets: 4

This Level Trophies: 1

This Level Vessels: 56

Ending Pickups: 307

Ending Secrets: 48

Ending Trophies: 26

Ending Vessels: 80

Total Kills This Level: 28 (excluding 2 Air Wraiths that self-destruct)

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Return to the Catacombs from the large elevated alcove. Continue into the room with broken columns. In the SW corner are 3 (empty) vessels (25-27 of 169) that you need to break.
  2. 2
    Continue north into the room with the button on the wall. To your right is a carved pillar. Pull it once to the west, then push it south all the way against the far wall. This will open the door to the west. It will also release an air wraith, which will fly around and do minor damage to you until you can get rid of it.
  3. 3
    Go through the door to the west. Run diagonal right off the ledge so that you avoid the deep chasm around the pole. Go up the stairs to the north and then follow the path to the left. Turn right in front of the vessels and go stand or crouch by the cross-shaped statue on the ground. The wraith will fly into it and self-destruct.
  4. 4
    Make sure you're all the way down on the lowest ground near the cross. Crouch and shoot the 2 vessels (28-29 of 169). Note that vessels like the green metal one to the east are not breakable.
  5. 5
    Go south up the short ramp and shoot the 4 vessels (30-33 of 169) that are against the west wall.
  6. 6
    Go back east and south down the stairs and shoot the 3 vessels (34-36 of 169) across the chasm with the pole.
  7. 7
    Jump/grab onto the pole and slide to the bottom. Go west and push the lever, opening up a new room around you. (NG+1801)
  8. 8
    Save here, because the next sequence might take a few tries. Ahead of you are 2 dangling ropes and an elevated crawl space containing Secret #45 to the left in the south wall. You need to swing from the first rope to the second and then from the second to the crawl space lip. Keep trying until you latch onto that lip.
  9. 9
    Pull up into the crawl space and drop down the other side for Secret #45 -- red shotgun shells (274), flares (275), and large medipack (276).
  10. 10
    Safety drop through the adjacent hole, taking some unavoidable damage. Rotate right to see a large room ahead of you and down a level, but for now head up the stairs to the east.
  11. 11
    When you come to the square hole in the path, crouch and shoot the 3 vessels (37-39 of 169).
  12. 12
    Then make a standing jump/grab to the far side of the square hole, pull up, and get the blue shotgun shells (277).
  13. 13
    Drop through the square hole and slide down a ramp and into the water. Rotate left, swim a short ways along the left wall, and pull up at the base of the stairs.

Tips:

  • This level contains FIVE large medipacks and one small medipack. You should be able to make it through the level without healing.
  • There are 28 skeletons in this level, and you won't have the ammo to defeat them all. The strategy has to shift from defeating skeletons to avoiding them. This is going to mean leaving some pickups (most shotgun shells) behind and carrying out your mission more hastily.
  • Be especially vigilant about making frequent Saves and scoping out your path and destination with Photo Mode (a feature that allows you to pause the game and look around) before getting in motion.
  • Remember that every time you move from one area to another (e.g., from the Catacombs to Alexandria), you get a free life refill.
  • Stella's guide refers to the statues used to defeat the air wraith as

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