This is the walkthrough and video walkthrough for Tomb Raider II: Starring Lara Croft. Find all the secrets and puzzle solving below. The video walkthrough was extracted from Youtube thanks to Tartancroft and the text walkthrough thanks to Stella.
1. The Great Wall | 2. Venice | 3. Bartoli’s Hideout | 4. Opera House | 5. Offshore Rig | 6. Diving Area | 7. 40 Fathoms | 8. Wreck of the Maria Doria | 9. Living Quarters | 10. The Deck | 11. Tibetan Foothills | 12. Barkhang Monastery | 13. Catacombs of the Talion | 14. Ice Palace | 15. Temple of Xian | 16. Floating Islands | 17. The Dragon’s Lair | 18. Home, Sweet Home | Croft Manor (Tutorial)
18. Home, Sweet Home
As soon as you gain control, hurry around the bed and use the GUN CUPBOARD KEY, which is already in your inventory, to unlock the closet door. You’ll notice the DAGGER OF XIAN is also in your inventory. Unfortunately you can’t use the dagger to change Lara into a dragon. So you’ll have to fight the bad guys the old fashioned way. Inside the closet, in the far left corner, is the SHOTGUN along with some shells. There’s more ammo—27 boxes of shotgun shells in all—along with 2 packs of flares and 1 small and 2 large medipaks. You may not have time to pick them all up at first, so go for the gun first.
Two thugs with bats and a Doberman will enter the bedroom through the door leading in from the MAIN HALL. To keep the fight simple, stay on the shelf in the closet, wait and shoot these enemies as they approach. Then gather any stuff you didn’t have time to pick up at first. When you go out into the bedroom, an armed thug crashes through the balcony window on the right. Take care of him and grab the box of shells he drops.
Depending on how long you take in the bedroom, 2 more bad guys may appear. You can wait for them to come in or go out to the MAIN HALL and meet them as they come up the stairs. Take care of them and head down to the main entrance.
The front door is standing open, and 2 more dogs and 5 more men are waiting outside. You can draw them to you by stepping outside just beyond the doorway then hopping back into the house. They’ll enter a few at a time. First come 2 men with guns and 2 dogs. If you move back from the door, you can take them out while side-flipping back and forth to avoid taking too much damage. Shortly after this, another thug with a gun and one with a bat come in. One of them drops a small medipak. If you wait in the MAIN HALL for a few more minutes, another bad guy with a bat will come through the door and you can shoot him.
If you’ve run out of ammo or just want the satisfaction of finding every item, exit the mansion, turn right and go through the opening in the stone wall into the assault course. Go over or around the low wall with the blue flowers growing on it into the grassy area at the end of the assault course. Near the last little tree on the right, you’ll find another box of shotgun shells. Grab it and return to the front of the house.
As you stand in the gravel drive near the parked vans, another dog comes out of the darkness near the low hedges and fish statue, followed by a gunman.
When you’ve taken care of them, the final enemy, a thug with 2 big guns, comes through the gate leading to the assault course (i.e., to the left of the front door when facing it). This last mini-boss is similar to the guy in the crate room in the Opera House. His guns can do quite a bit of damage, so get a lock on him and jump back and forth from side to side while shooting. Or, try getting behind him and chasing him in circles while shooting. He’s hard to kill but when he falls, that’s the end of the game.
Congratulations! You did it! Off to the showers to clean up and unwind.