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Question

I've just taken Excaliber's Sword and now I have to kill this giant serpent which appears in the next room, but I'm not sure how. There are 4 levers which I can latch on to with my metallic grip thingy and pull, but that doesn't really seem to be doing much. Any ideas how to kill this damn thing?!

Thanks

Answer 1

Shoot the bells to attract the serpent over to the levers (keep shooting it and it will stay steady listening to the ringing) then grapple the lever to drop iron spikes onto its head. You must do this for each pillar as the snake breaks them when it gets hit.

Answer 2

I got this from stella's walkthrough:

BATTLING THE SERPENT:
It cannot be defeated with normal weapons. Instead, you must use the objects at hand to bring it down, while dodging its spitting attacks and staying away from its powerful jaws.
There are 4 levers and 4 huge cylindrical bells on little islands out in the pool. Each lever is just reachable with the magnetic grapple from the shore or the broken bridge. Grappling and pulling a lever causes a metal cage to drop from above. The goal is to shoot each of the bells repeatedly with pistols so the ringing sound will mesmerize the serpent. Then quickly holster guns, grapple the lever next to the bell and pull to drop the cage on the serpent's head. This must be done four times in all. Each time you succeed, the serpent destroys that particular bell and cage and loses a fourth of its health.
Simpler said than done, naturally. Here are some tips, in no particular order, which will hopefully make things easier.

• Save manually before exiting the building. Then you can reload whenever you choose.
• Run toward the right bell and start shooting even before the first cut scene begins. When it ends, continue shooting and you may be able to distract the serpent before it even notices Lara.
• Alternately, skip the initial cut scene by pressing Escape/Start, then choosing Skip Cinematic from the menu. Unfortunately you can't do that for the cut scene when Lara falls into the water or the ones after you succeed in dropping each cage.
• Begin to grapple the lever before the serpent's full attention goes to the bell. You'll have a little more time that way. As soon as you see its head start to turn toward the sound, press Target Lock (to holster guns) then grapple then Interact (to pull).
• Don't tap the holster/grapple/pull keys repeatedly. It's tempting in the heat of battle, but a firm press on each one with a brief pause between actually works better.
• Or, set the combat mode to Advanced Hold (if it's not already). That way you need to hold the Target Lock button down to keep Lara's guns out but she automatically holsters them when you release the button. Then you can immediately grapple the lever without having to fiddle with the guns.
• The serpent is blind so it tracks its prey by sound. If its attention strays from the ringing bell toward Lara, stop shooting so it doesn't move in on the sound of her pistols. Then move to another bell and start shooting again only when close enough so the reticule turns red. It should then be attracted to the bell rather than Lara.
• If you succeed in pulling the lever but the cage misses the serpent, move on to a different bell and lever, giving the first one time to reset before you try again.
• Do the more difficult levers first, whichever those are for you. Then if you succeed, keep going. If Lara's nearly dead and you still have two levers to go, reload and try again.
• Or, do the levers in order from right to left, luring the serpent from bell to bell. I haven't had too much luck with this method, but several players swear they've done the whole thing "easily" by starting on the far right, where the serpent first comes out of the water. They suggest activating the first bell and lever from the shore, rather than the bridge. Then moving onto the bridge for the second and third, then back to the shore for the fourth (leftmost). This strategy may result in the bug where the left- or rightmost lever doesn't function. So you may want to skip it. See the bug warning below.
• When working on the two levers at the end of the broken bridge, sometimes Lara will grapple the wrong lever. Pointing the camera directly at the correct lever (using the mouse or right stick) and then turning Lara toward it (by tapping Forward) both seem to help.
• Several PlayStation users have recommend holding down the grapple button (Square) while working the other controls. That doesn't seem to work on the PC game, but maybe it helps on the consoles.
• A few players recommend using the rifle instead of pistols. It does allow you to target the bells from farther away, but sometimes the grapple won't reach that far. Try it if you like.
• Adjust the screen brightness if necessary. It's awfully dark down here. The Options menu includes Calibration for changing brightness and contrast settings. Or, just turn up your monitor/TV.
• Turn off the sound if you're easily worked up by dramatic music, eliminate that distraction.

BUG WARNING: There is a bug here, in which one or more of the cages get stuck and won't drop when you pull the lever. In many cases, if you switch to another lever and succeed in dropping that cage on the serpent, then the original "buggy" lever and cage will then work. Several players have suggested not pulling any levers before entering the tomb and then, when fighting the serpent, using the levers beyond the end of the bridge first, then the two near the shore. Eidos support recommends replaying the level, though perhaps just reloading from an earlier save will help.

all the best!!

Answer 3

You have to shoot the bell thing... then while the snake is staring at it, pull the lever to make this iron cage thing drop on the snakes head... then you have to do that with all the levers to kill the snake... Its pretty hard though... It took me a few tries before I could do it!
TIP: If you know the unlimited ammo cheat for the assault rifle it would make hypnotizing the snake easier!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

yo the first answer u got is correct.but here is a complete guide(every level) 4 that game.
http://www.mycheats.com/view/superguide/18471/tomb_raider__legend/xbox_360
o and the level(level u need help in) select is on blue letters to the right on that page.

Answer 6

they said it all but for more hlep with the game try

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr7/walkthrough/index.html