Lara ran through the Thor room without getting hit once by lightning and then she sped through the Damocles room without getting hit by a falling sword either.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=44...aider&hl=en

Here's Tomb Raider 3 Jungle Level in under 1 minutes 10 seconds:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=79...98598&hl=en

I didn't know there was a shortcut by the quicksand at the beginning of the level that lets you skip the entire level!!

Here's Tomb Raider 3 Thames Wharf Level in under 25 seconds:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1...speed&hl=en

Once again this person found a shortcut that allowed Lara to skip the whole level!!

More Tomb Raider Speed Runs from this same person here:

http://tombrunner.freewebpage.org/index.html

Edited August 29, 200620 yr by j7wild

OMG! that's incredible - St Francis Folly took me about 3 weeks to complete - lol!

i've never tried to whizz through a TR level - i'm such a wimp

The guy had obviously played that level over and over, he knew how to scale up and down those platforms with such ease !! (how many times did I make Lara fall to her death on those !!)

And even now I think I've only managed once, to get to the "secret" that's at the very bottom through the door that opens when you stand on a "pressure pad" at the top of the platforms (you have like 5 seconds to descend to the bottom before the door closes)

a very dedicated player indeed..

I'm not too keen on the "level skipping" shortcuts though - what's the point in missing half the game ?

..... I'm going to have to see what time it takes me to do the level 8 mins ? pfffft more like 8 hours for me lol

Hi!

It's cool to watch! I think you only do stuff like this when you've done everything else with the game, and you know every corner by heart. However, i think it would be more fantastic if he got all secrets and he only got one (Talking about the jungle run).

Something else I noticed, in the speedrun of the caves, was the health bar. Some of those jumps/falls would have killed her...on a normal game anyway... and again... no secrets found!

Like I said... it's fun to watch but it has no soul, imo.

BPanther

I knew about the short-cut in The Jungle... I used it once to do a speed-run of that level. I didn't do it as quickly at that guy, but in less than two minutes anyway.

That Thames Wharf speed-run is quite impressive. The quickest I've been able to do that level is 45 seconds.

OMG!

I LOVED watching them But I still need 1 more to watch

You know, in the Thames Warf, I tried my hardest to get over to that building across the pit, but all i found was a secret off to the right. I might have to try that one.

I once tried to a speed run of St. Francis Folly, but every time i went to make a jump, she would never jump and she would die.

It would be awesome to see more speed runs of TR!!

Those vid are insane! I wonder how many times he played it to get that ggod.

The first time my dad played Thames Warf he accidently found that shortcut, and at first he didn't realise that he'd basically skipped the whole level. He called me into the room and showed me, going "Ben look at this level! it's ridiculous! I think the game's broke!". After looking up the walkthrough he then tried to do the level the proper way and decided that he prefered the shortcut method . Thinking about it, he must have been one of the first people to find that shortcut 'cause he was playing London just a few days after the game came out (went there first! big mistake!). I must tell him some time

Those vids are also on YouTube, MMan is a real master. He owns Tomb Raider

He must have the PC versions, or he is really good at recording with the TV. If these are the PC versions, does anybody think that they would work on the PS versions/