tomb raider anniversary temple of khamoon walkthrough

The original had the temple of Bastet, the Egyptian cat god, sort of off on the side from where you entered the room. It's good!īotta: Right, so this area was another one that we did a good deal of repositioning of the elements of the room to give the room more symmetry and make it have a common theme to it.

Toby: That's the theme of this whole Egypt level, isn't it? You guys went move crazy. Kneeling statues, because obviously, based on the old Karnak pharaohs, and it's really good to see that, now we're able to do justice to the concept of having these sitting chaps around a room.īotta: Yeah, we really liked the idea of the statues moving very early on so that became the theme of how we wanted to recreate this room, was put the statues in, but then make them move about. Toby: This room literally, in the original, I think was just sort of four blocks or something along each wall that you had to really really imagine hard was supposed to be statues. So I think it gives the room a little more believability while keeping all the thematic, and important elements in there. So we duplicated the sphinx and put another one on the other side and aligned the room along a central axis anchored by that big pillar in the middle. So when we were remaking it, we sort of wanted to add some symmetry to the room and a little bit of balance to it, so it didn't seem such like an architectural hodgepodge. When we were remaking it we went and looked at the original, and as Toby was saying, they tried to cram a bunch of stuff in there, you know, the obelisk, and the sphinx, and this giant door.

And that's going to be that, but I remember being slightly disappointed by the size of the Sphinx in the original one, and that shaped the later level to come.īotta: That's right. Toby: In the original, this was pretty much the whole Egypt area that was supposed to be themed around this one room and the goal was we're going to put a Sphinx in, and there's going to be a huge door at one side that's going to lead into the sanctuary of the Scion where you're going to pick up the Scion. It became the focus for the level, so this first area is 'trap-less', as sort of a soft lead-in to the level, but quickly we ramp up and have all sorts of 'nasties' in the level to thwart Lara at every turn. Tomb Raider: Anniversary - Designers' Commentary EGYPT - TEMPLE OF KHAMOONīotta: So this is the beginning of the Egypt level, we were trying to sort of theme each of the chapters of Tomb Raider Anniversary around a certain theme.

Tomb raider anniversary temple of khamoon walkthrough