Streets of Rome


Shortcuts: RJ = running jump, RJA = running jump with action, SMP = small medipack, LMP = large medipack, hrope = horizontal rope.

Special tips in red. This level can be done with 0 medi using only regular pistols, except 1 revolver shoot to the bell. bocca della verità

The Truth Mouth (Bocca della Verità) exists really in Rome, at Piazza della Bocca della Verità, near the Colosseum. It's in the hall of a VI century church, Santa Maria in Cosmedin. This round stone was a drain cover of Cloaca Maxima. According to the legend, if a liar puts a hand in the Truth Mouth, the stone will cut it. Thus Lara isn't a liar.

1. Start with Mercury Stone in the menu / left to "Opera backstage" / do it / learn climbing, jumping, shimming / climb ladder / before learning crowling, jump to metal bridge for flares + 1 LMP + 1 SMP over the lower metal tower / 1st pool, underwater tunnel, 2nd pool / vertical underwater pit, pull up in room with 2 ammo, 1 LMP / hrope room (hrope can be ignored): at the groundlevel enter next depot / climb [action] shelves: flares / pull left empty rack: ammo / pull right empty rack: room with Truth Mouth, uzi clips, climb shelves (action) to get Secret #1 out of 3 / after hrope: another room with a Truth Mouth and shelves to climb: 1 SMP / switch to exit to streets.

2. Ahead and right, kill a dog coming from Fountain Square / flares on the tent of Antico Caffé Recco (jump from the fountain) / action at Truth Mouth #1, clearing way to Truth Mouth #2 [bats! tip: sprint away] / back to Mouth #2, climb a new block / climb a ledge with columns / RJ to get a SMP nearby / back to ledge with columns.

3. Stairs / get the terrace level, chairs, short bridge to other house, safety drop / shoot windows 3x (SMP, ammo, nothing but the possibility to jump to next house: wait) / down to courtyard / dog / pull door to open / another dog / a barrel room: 1 LMP, ammo on the crate / out to couryard / switch to open gate to Fountain Square (don't exit) / back to broken window #3 / jump now to next house / junction: right to nothing (roof), left to Gold Key / back to dogs' couryard to get Fountain Square / random dog near the gate where the Gold Key should be used.

4. Use the Gold Key / save the game: Larson ambush / tip: sprint left under Larson's fire, up stairs, fire him while sidejumping / back to the courtyard for 1 SMP / down to basement for Garden Key #1 / up where you shooted Larson / hrope / safety drop / switch to exit (don't exit) / left / blue ammo / a locked wooden gate you cannot open now/ / pan camera / get the revolver / pull door / laser sight at left / wooden locked gate at right / fire the lock by regular pistols while crowling, or use revolver with laser sight / save the game / enter, rats! / roll and sprint away to open air (don't need to fire) / back to get Garden Key #2.

5. Use both Garden Keys / enter the Garden / MOVIE: stone #1 (Mercury) out of 4 fixed on portal / forget the pool for now / follow the tunnel from the Garden up to the bell building / running jump to get the red roof where Larson and the other guy where / another RJ to ammo and 1 LMP / back to the bell building / another laser sight under the bell / combine revolver and laser / fire once the bell / get the regular pistols, you'll need them soon / find a hole on the left wall / RJ to a Truth Mouth, bats! Tip: trigger the bats, roll and jump to the bell building area, shoot them here / get the Mouth again / action to Mouth opens the upper tunnel.

6. Left, switch to transmute left bird / turn its column / right, up the new stairs (opened when rotating the column) / crowl under the pendulum, append, shimmy all right, pull up / switch to transmute right bird / safety drop / turn second column (right one) / exit to bell building area / enter the lower tunnel / don't get Saturn symbol now (= end level): you still have two more secrets to get!

7. Two more secrets to get: back to the "locked wooden gate you cannot open" of 4, actually t's open since you shooted the bell / dog inside / climb right shelves to get Secret #2 out of 3 / nothing from the other shelves (or a SMP, I don't remember) / back to the bell building / RJ to Truth Mouth again / "magic" alcoves (don't know the exact moment they are open) with 1 SMP and Secret #3 out of 3.

8. Enter the lower tunnel again / get Saturn symbol now / exit: end level / MOVIE: stone #2 (Saturn) out of 4 fixed on portal / Important Lara speech: put the remaining 2 symbols on the gate quickly, before that... Boom! [this will be clear at the end of next level]