She makes her way back to the chamber, but Bartoli has used the dagger and is carried through a portal. Before she reaches the artefact Lara is plunged into the catacombs beneath the Great Wall. Two guards follow Lara, but she escapes, shooting the guard and causing their vehicle to crash into a tree.īack in China, Lara opens the chamber holding the Dagger. Exiting the caves, she takes off in a jeep. She continues her journey inside the catacombs to find the Talion, a key used to open the door to the dagger. She finds and uses five prayer wheels to open a room to hold the Seraph.
There she is helped by monks in confronting the thugs of Marco Bartoli. She heads towards the Barkhang Monastery in Tibet via aeroplane. Lara dives alongside a submersible to discover the shipwreck, and searching throughout the remains she eventually retrieves the Seraph. She learns from an imprisoned Tibetan monk, Brother Chan, that the shipwreck carries an ancient Tibetan artefact called the Seraph. When Lara regains consciousness, she retrieves her weapons and makes her way through the oil rig. The Fiamma Nera have killed the rig's staff and are carrying out excavations on a sunken ship called the Maria Doria, a luxury ocean liner which was owned by Marco's father. Lara follows Bartoli aboard his aeroplane, but she is knocked unconscious.
After travelling to Venice, Lara makes her way through Bartoli's hideout and an opera house where Bartoli's men are plotting a heist. She is attacked by a thug who claims to work for Marco Bartoli, leader of a cult called 'Fiamma Nera' who has an obsession with the ancient lore. In the present day, near the remains of the Great Wall, Lara Croft investigates the legend of the Dagger. The Dagger was returned to its resting place within the Great Wall. The last battle fought with the Dagger ended when the warrior monks of Tibet removed the knife from the Emperor. By plunging the weapon into its owner's heart, the weapon has the power to turn its bearer into a dragon. The story of Tomb Raider II surrounds the mythical "Dagger of Xian", a weapon which was used by an Emperor of China to command his army. Tomb Raider II has an expanded version of "Croft Manor", the tutorial from the first game. Only when Lara collects the last of all three dragons in a level will she receive a bonus, which usually consists of medipacks and ammunition, and infrequently a new weapon. Instead, each secret is marked by a coloured dragon ornament: silver (or stone), jade, and gold, according to the difficulty of their location. Secrets no longer immediately reward the player with weapons or medipacks. The object of the game is unchanged from the previous game: each level must be finished by reaching the exit. Both are used to travel long distances across the map and can speed up on ramps or run over enemies. The two vehicles are a motorboat in Venice and a snowmobile in Tibet. The inventory includes pyrotechnic flares, which are used to light up dark corners. The range of weapons has been expanded to include a harpoon gun, a grenade launcher, an M16 rifle (which requires Lara to assume an aiming stance to fire), and automatic pistols, which replace the magnums from Tomb Raider. Lara can climb both horizontally and vertically and perform a mid-air roll used to land facing in the opposite direction. The crystal saving feature on the PlayStation version was eliminated, and instead the player may save at any time like in the PC version, save for a few special locations. Innovations in Tomb Raider II include new weapons, extra moves, and a set of vehicles. The gameplay of Tomb Raider II builds upon the basic set up of the original game.