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Venice

In this first foray into Bartoli's world, you almost immediately embark on a key-finding mission, and conclude with a mad boat race to the exit. Along the way you'll learn to battle human and canine baddies while acquiring the skills you need to drive a powerboat like a champ. Not an easy task. And only if you're good, and we mean really good, will Bartoli's henchmen be the ones who sleep with the fishes.

Ciao, Baby!
Use the starting point alley to clear the piazza of that bad dog. Once you enter the piazza, the best order of battle seems to be the sniper on the balcony to the right, then the henchman who come from the main building.

There's no need to start a war on more than one front. Only after the sniper is down should you take on these uglies. Use the entire piazza to keep your distance. The extra room ensures Lara's jumping and barrel-rolling abilities can be used to their fullest

Once the bad guys are down, jump into the water and swim under the big doors. Hit the switch on the far end of the platform. It opens a door in the main building, above. Swim back to the main building, hit the switch inside, and begin climbing. One switch later, and a little more climbing, you'll find yourself on the roof. Shoot out the window, keep your gun to the ready, and blast through the door you opened from the boathouse. Hit the knife switch at the end of the arched hallway - the door above and to the left of the boathouse is now open.

Retrace your steps to first window you shot out, turn left, and leap-jump to the sniper's balcony above the piazza. Frisk his body for the coveted Boathouse Key.

The Boathouse Key is on the balcony, dead ahead. At least this bad guy wasn't a complete waste of your ammo.

From the balcony where you got the Boathouse Key, work your way back toward the arched hallway. Stop at the window to the left of the hallway, shoot it out, and step up.

Stand with your heels on the back edge of the sill and get ready to run, jump, and grab.

Run, jump…and grab the awning. Pull yourself up, turn left, and hop across the awnings and into the switch room. The switch opens the doors to the second part of this Venetian saga. Return to the Boathouse and use the key to open its doors. But before you abuse Bartoli's boat, take out the bad guy who you unleashed after you open the Boathouse doors. You have to swim to the main building to kill him, but it's worth the effort - a pair of Automatic Pistols is the reward for searching his lifeless corpse.

You can jet the boat all the way to the sewer room; or you can pause for a moment and claim the first of two secrets in the mission. The choice is yours.

	Secret 1
	Secret 2

Venice, continued…