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Wreck of the Maria Doria

A departure from the ho-hum get-the-key-to-open-the-door scenario, your first objective in this absolutely huge and somewhat tedious mission is to collect a trio of blue Circuit Breakers; your second is to escape alive. And if your idea of Tomb Raider fun is moving boxes, pushing buttons, and out-running (or swimming) timed puzzles, you're in for a treat here.

Circuit Breaker Search and Rescue
After you've punctured the flippered menace, stop on the pit ledge and take stock of your health. That is to say, make sure it's maxed out. Draw your guns and drop. Consider the big room you fall into to be a hub room, in that it links together the two halves of this mission.

Run under the diving board toward the big green crates. Pull and push them completely out of the way to reveal a pair of hallways. Take the right hallway to the inverted ballroom - the first Circuit Breaker is close. You might, however, want to consider acquiring the first secret of the mission before you go.

Secret 1

After you've taken your would-be suitors for a spin around the ballroom's dance floor, head for the far-right corner of the room (from where you entered). Step up to the edge of the ramp and jump to grab the ledge above. Hook around to the left, drop and grab the ledge, and shimmy to the left past the center area to the next ledge. Pull up and go left.

The first Circuit Breaker is one death-defying jump and grab away.

Hug the outside wall as you dash between the railing and the wall, ready to make a grabbing jump. If you're successful, the first Circuit Breaker is yours. If you miss, you're dead.

Wreck of the Maria Doria, continued…