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Items: 7 |
Kills: 1 |
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| The City is extremely short but can be quite frustrating, with Sophia Leigh blasting away at you. Take note of these hints to quickly get you through. | |||
Know Thy Enemy
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Sophia Leigh is a formidable enemy, and it's particularly annoying that you have to dodge her attacks as you make your way up the building. Recognize that she fires one large triple bolt, then ten double bolts before needing to recharge for her next triple bolt. If you make your moves during her recharge times, you're more likely to get to a safe location before she fries you. Sophia will not fire at you, when she is busy trying to keep up with you, so make use of that time to continue moving. Neither will Sophia fire at you when she is laughing at you, so that's also a good opportunity to move. Finally, recognize that Sophia doesn't need to physically hit you to score damage on you. The green smoke from the blasts is enough to inflict a little damage, while a direct hit from a pair of her bolts can take away as much as half of your health. | ||
Green Bolt Hustle
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After many attempts at this level, I've decided that the most effective way to get through this level is to simply rush to the top as quickly as possible. Only hide in safe locations when absolutely necessary, but keep moving. Lara will take a little damage from the explosions, but if she keeps moving, and Sophia is busy climbing up after Lara, then it will be hard for Sophia to score a direct hit. After killing Sophia, you can make your way back to the ground and collect any items that you may have missed. | ||
First Things First
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From the office, Lara will need to cross the open ledge and climb onto the first ledge. The best place to pull up is at the ledge to the left of the ramp. You can get there with a well-placed running jump. Then it will look like you have swing hand-over-hand to get across to the next ledge, but that's too slow. A running jump and grab will get you there in a hurry. If you need a place to hide, Lara can hang off the back side of the next ledge, but the place you really want to go is up to the higher ledge. | ||
Shooting Gallery
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On the next ledge, is a catwalk. There's a button on the far end of the catwalk. As Lara runs down and back along the catwalk, you'll get the distinct feeling that you're a clay duck in a shooting gallery. One could swear that Sophia laughs hardest when Lara's on this catwalk. The only tricky part about this is that you might have difficulty figuring out what the button did. It drops open a trapdoor above the small metal ledge, which is to the left of where Lara pulled up. | ||
Climb! Climb! Climb!
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Through the open trapdoor, you'll need to climb up twice more to get to the upper catwalk. From here, some people may wonder where to go next. Notice the wire mesh on the side of the pillar on the far end of the catwalk? That's scalable, but you're probably wondering how you're suppose to get to the wire mesh, because there isn't any ledge at the base of the pillar. You need to do your fly-on-the-fly-paper impression. All the better, since you don't want to be hanging around when Sophia catches up to you. | ||
You're Toast!
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When you get to the ledge above the wire mesh, you might wonder where to go last. Notice the crawlspace ahead? That will get you up onto the highest ledge. From there, you're just a running jump and grab to the catwalk that Sophia's standing on. Oh yeah, did we mention that you can't kill Sophia with conventional firepower? Here you are cowering behind this great big electrical box as Sophia continues to lob those explosive green bolts at you. Notice that little panel on the electrical box? | ||
I'm Toast!
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Don't think Lara's impervious to the kind of current that fried bad gal. Don't step onto any metal ledges that are directly in contact with the catwalk that Sophia was formerly standing on, or you will meet a similar fate. You can cross over from the building that you're currently standing on to the building that Sophia's was formerly standing on by jumping across from the previous ledge. From there, you need to find some way to shut off the juice before picking up the artifact. | ||
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