The 13th Floor

• Secret #1 out of 3
• Secret #2 out of 3
• Secret #3 out of 3

• The level is sectioned in many part (too many for me): very often a door is closed behind you and no return is possible.
  This makes quite hard the search for the Secret #3.
• There are slightly different path to the end.

• As far as I know this is the first case in which Lara has to kill a non-dangerous, unarmed and surrended "ennemy" to play fully the game. I mean the "don't shot" orange man just before the Iris. I agree for tigers, monkeys, cobras, dogs, bats, rats, T-Rex, wasps, Shivas, zombies and whatever, and bad human, like Bartoli's gang, guardians, Larson, Sophie Lee, and so on, but I cannot understand why the heck you have to kill that orange man to open the door of the last secret: by the way he has no key, no card, nothing! It's absolutely uncorrect.

1. Start / left, HK single shoot to grate to open it / LMP / crawl MOVIE showing Secret #1 and SES / crawl ahead / laser: drop and crawl / get 1 LMP at blind end / other side: junction / right: crowl to room with SMP, clips, your hammer (very important) / left (shoot grate): crawl to laser hallway / crawl / get Secret #1 out of 3 / back to starting hallway, where you will find 2 "new" laser coming from nothing.

2. Follow (running) the higher laser, but not too closely, say one square away, then, when the lower laser is about to hitting Lara, jump the lower laser landing still behind the higher one, crawl to the safe place (keep crawling and save the game).

3. Ladder / MOVIE / clips on the way / MOVIE / at locked grate use your hammer, don't shoot! / [alternative: shoot the lock, fall in a room with SES, hit his face with a single HK shoot using laser viewer / climb up getting 1 SMP on the way] / room with vertical ladder and laser / clips in alcove / climb ladder at rigth: the left path of the laser is longer than the rigth one / clips at the end / shoot the plate with holes / caution! kill the guard: hit his face with a single HK shoot using laser viewer / drop down on the 19th-Floor.

4. Laser near the WizFiz Cola dispenser / use the crawlspace at the corner (2 grates to shoot) / MOVIE / to get the card: walk into sleeping boy area, walk back to wall in the narrow space between table and wall: don't touch the table / action to get the card / use the card nearby to open a room with SMP and clips / walk out of the sleeping boy area / get the lift to go down at 16th-Floor / MOVIE

5. Kill the guards: hit their faces with a single HK shoot using laser viewer / left / use the card / hologram room / don't shoot! guns on the ceiling! / press button to exit and to open a door at the end of the descending hallway / kill the guard at the beginning of the descending hallway: hit his face with a single HK shoot using laser viewer / room with orange man / 2 buttons / get the CD on the floor after one button pressed / back to lift and up to 19th-Floor / if you killed all the guards at first single shoot, the sleeping boy is still sleeping! / kill him if you like blood ... (single shoot to face) [alternative: he's wating for you with a friend: kill both saving ammo as you can] / go to the computer after the WizFiz dispenser / use your CD / climb into the (now open) grate / left hand is safer / save the game.

5. Learn the timing of the bombs: 1 (strongly flashing and closest to you) - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 (weak and far) / start near the broken grate / at explosion #5run out (don't jump) with action to get the pole, immediately go down for half pole, backflip to get the hallway of Secret #2 out of 3 / bombs pause if the timing of the backjump is correct / get the secret / run out falling down safely / quickly to left since bombs are restarting / beep-beep telling that the grate near the computer is now closed (trust me or climb back to see) / no return to 19-th Floor / save the game.

6. Large room with SES sentinel / metal bridge / hallway with lateral room: get 1 cloth and other goods in it / second metal bridge / metal stairs to go down / walk or run at the perimeter up to a switch / use the card / enter biology lab / caution: timed explosion of bugs box / get quickly narcotic bottle #1 and 1 LMP on the right shelves / ignore left shelves for now / run out quickly but walk while in the large room / box explode, don't warry / combine bottle with cloth and repeat with the SES sentinel the trick you used with the cook in the russian submarine / MOVIE / get the second narcotic bottle (but I haven't use it) from left shelves in biology lab: no danger: you are in a new section of the program where bugs have been forgotten / use the card where the sentinel was / enter and save the game.

7. Walk up to clips on the floor / get them / align Lara exactly in the center of the hallway checking that the HK viewer is aimed to the center (check the "V" on the door) / select weapon and go: then: door behind you closes (no return) and a SES is incoming from the door in front of you / with Lara aligned, use the laser viewer and kill him hitting his face with a single HK shoot / trust me it's easy / get a CD from him.

8. Use the CD on the computer / save the game / enter Iris Lab / no return / you can go to the final section of the level with or without Secret #3

9 [ without Secret #3 ]. If you don't care about the last Secret: shoot the guard, sprint under the guns (from ceiling) / enter room with orange man / MOVIE with Zip saying "Don' shoot that man" / just take up the HK near him (selecting the laser-helmet is equivalent) / MOVIE / enter the (now open) door to the Iris Control Room / no return.

9 [ with Secret #3 ]. If you want all the secrets: I think that the 2nd narcotic bottle may have a role here but other walktrus may tell you which, I don't know / the following works: start behind the corner where the guard cannot see you / walk following the guard up to the 2nd alcove / walk into it and crawl / use "see" command to check if the guard really don't see you and save the game again / when he is walking at your right so that he cannot see you, crawl few steps, then get up and run/sprint into next room, left side if possible (I'm not able to get into the room just by walking) / MOVIE with Zip saying "Don' shoot that man" / you're OK if the guard is not shooting you after the movie end, otherwise reload / disobey Zip / stay far from the orange man, select fast firing mode from the HK, and shoot him a lot (this is why I suggested to save ammo) without stopping firing until a short movie shows the door of Secret #3 opening / please read my complaint at the beginning of this document / save the game / back to that door sprinting under the gun on the ceiling / 5 guards to kill on the way (the walking one included) / crawl under the laser / get Secret #3 out of 3 af left / crawl under the laser and run to the (now open) door to the Iris Control Room (one floor under the door of 9.) / no return.

10. Up to the Iris Control Room / find the switch shutting off the power / timed run (about 10 sec.) / the following works: switch, rotate about 45 right, run with (diagonal) RJ, roll, (diagonal) sprint, rotate right, run down until pan camera stops (ouf!), go right, automatic door to sprint into, curve right, sprint, curve left, sprint to Iris, action to get it / nothing in the neighbourhoods / find the end level hallway.