MAIN SECTIONS

WALKTHROUGHS

GENERAL GAME HELP

LEVEL EDITOR

KATIE'S SITE

TR COMMUNITY

SITE DETAILS

Living in Europe?
Try Amazon.co.uk instead.

YOUR MAIL MAKES MY DAY!

You should be sainted!! I cant thank you enough, your walkthroughs have kept me from boredom while wasting a summer waiting for my leg to heal. (I broke it falling off a bike!) Your time put into this is much appreciated! –Anonymous

You are a 'fix it' legend and have kept me sane on more occasions than I care to remember. –S.T.

THANKS FOR WRITING!

Lost Artifact Overview & Walkthrough

Lost Artifact Overview

This short, stand-alone sequel to Tomb Raider 3 was released in the spring of 2000. The storyline centers around Lara's search for a fifth artifact created from a piece of the same meteorite featured in TR3. The quest takes our heroine from the late Dr. Willard's Scottish castle through the Channel Tunnel to the Paris Catacombs and the Poissy Zoo. In Paris, she meets an old enemy who is also seeking the artifact.

A demo version of this game is available, but unlike the Unfinished Business and Golden Mask expansions, you must buy the game in order to play the whole thing.

Platforms: For Windows and Macintosh only.

Saving Your Game: You can save your game as often as you like. However, there is a bug that may prevent you from saving at all. Fortunately this is easily fixed. See the bug note at the start of the walkthrough for details. (PC and Macintosh savegame files are available in case you make a bad save, want to skip a level, etc.)

Secrets: There are three secrets in each level except the last, which has none. Unlike previous games, the secrets in "The Lost Artifact" are more like side quests or hidden areas than just single pick-ups. As in TR3, a chime sounds when you locate a secret, and the stopwatch in the main inventory ring indicates the number of secrets in the current level and how many you've found so far. This also appears on the statistics screen at the end of each level. As always, my walkthrough includes the location of all secrets.

The Lost Artifact & Windows Vista, XP or 2000: You'll need to do a bit of tweaking to get the game to run under Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000. My Downloads and Tech Support Links pages include more information.

Becoming an Expert Raider: The Lost Artifact uses the same controls as Tomb Raider 3. If you've never played Tomb Raider before—or even if you have—I encourage you to check out my TR3 Controls and Gameplay Tips & Strategy pages. They include pointers on moving Lara through her environment, conserving health and ammo, using the menu and inventory systems, and much more.