The Great Wall - Tyrannosaurus Twins - "Extinct is Extinct" Achievement/Trophy

As you'll soon see, the cavern is inhabited by a pair of huge tyrannosaurs. If you aren't interested in achievements/trophies, you can approach this section any way you like, attacking and dodging in the open or running back to the tunnel and sniping from safety. However, the "Extinct is Extinct" achievement/trophy requires you to "defeat both T-Rexes with no evidence." If you only use pistols, the bodies will remain. If you use grenades, the dinosaurs will explode, leaving no evidence. You won't have enough grenades yet to do the job, so you'll need to start with pistols, then finish with grenades. In order to get the grenade launcher and other bonus items (below), you must find all three secrets. If you missed either of the first two, reload an earlier save or restart the level by letting Lara die. Then press Action/Enter to open the Passport menu. Page to the right and choose "Restart Level."

After climbing down the long ladder to the cavern floor, as shown in the last section, follow the passageway to the end.

Then enter the cavern and advance to the right, toward the skeletons on the ground.

There's a rumbling in the distance. If you played the original Tomb Raider, you can probably guess what's coming. A Tyrannosaurus rex (20) lumbers out of the darkness toward you. Run/jump past it toward the far end of the cavern...

...and into a narrow, dead-end passageway, where the huge beast can't reach Lara.

Retrieve SECRET #3, the Gold Dragon (10). If you've gotten all three secrets, you'll also receive a small medi pack, 2 pairs of grenades, and the GRENADE LAUNCHER (11-14) loaded with another 2 grenades. (You'll have other chances to acquire this weapon if you miss it here.)

Picking up the gold dragon also triggers the appearance of a second T. rex (21) out in the cavern.

Draw pistols, run forward, and lock on to either dinosaur. Then back up into the narrow part of the passageway...

...where the rexes can't go, and continue firing. (If you like living on the edge, you can, of course, do this out in the open.)

Shoot continuously until the first dinosaur's health bar is almost depleted, but don't kill it yet.

NOTES: Boss HP bars are enabled by default. You can toggle them on/off in the Controls menu.

Release the Action button, run out just far enough to lock onto the second rex, then hop/backflip into the safe tunnel...

Again, continue firing...

...until the second boss health bar is almost empty.

Now open your inventory and switch to the grenade launcher (hotkey 7 if you're playing with a keyboard).

Now finish them off. This should only take one grenade each.

When the second dinosaur explodes, the achievement/trophy should pop.

NOTE: If you notice roaring after killing both T. rexes, don't panic. This is just some tigers up above, which you'll encounter soon. They can't harm you now, though.

A WORD OF CAUTION: I HIGHLY recommend saving most of your grenades for the last two levels in the game. There are a few enemies there that are quite easily dispatched using grenades and very hard to kill otherwise. Now, don't say I didn't warn you. ;-)

When the coast is clear, return to the other end of the cavern, where you came in. Follow the passageway (on the left beyond the two skeletons)...

...to the low step. Vault up onto it...

...turn around, walk to the edge, then jump straight up and grab the ladder.

Climb all the way to the top. (Don't get off on the left where you climbed on.)

Follow the short passageway and drop down...

...to emerge near the zip line. Watch out for spiders here if you didn't shoot them all earlier.

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