Top 10 Tomb Raider 2 Secrets and Easter Eggs 

When I was little, my dad rented this for me from the local video store once. I was too scared to *really* play the game, so I spent all of my time in the manor... but I still got spooked by falling to my death sometimes, and later was so convinced that the butler was coming to kill me that I shut the game off with my heart pounding. XD I was a wimpy child.

Actually, dressing in warm fur coats but wearing short shorts when it’s freezing cold with snow on the ground is apparently the thing to do. Just take a stroll through my Walmart and observe the local populace.

When we were little my brother, and I spent hours in the last level catching the last bad guy in the walk-in freezer. We ended up with about 1/3 health when we managed to save. We then had the Croft Manor open for free roam at night.

The "Wheeeee!" at the end of that cut line about the slide is oddly wholesome

I wish they released the classic tomb raider games for newer consoles.

I thought that exploding code was a joke, but I didn't know it was a joke on the people who wanted a nude code.

Is My Absolute Favorite in the Series, besides being one of My first videogames ever played, and yes Venice Violins one of the best ost of Game history,

Tomb Raider 2 was the first 3D platformer I ever played and made me an instant fan of the genre. I remember how it freaked me out whenever Lara drowned in an underwater stage and it played that contorting animation.

Proper Lara! I miss her lol This is just the best Tomb Raider ever made, I spent hours & hours playing this when I was little.....never knew about the gun glitches! & I also thought exploding Lara was a joke, not the nude thing haha! Thanks Kai x

The poster is definitely Gianni Bartoli, as he was a magician, and the poster is in fact an edited Houdini poster. Great vid!

Theres just a charm that the old Tomb Raider games have that is nearly missing in the newer games. TR2 is easily my favorite in the series with Last Revelation and Angel of Darkness not far behind

Tomb Raider II is still in my top 5 video games ever made. Such a wide variety of levels and difficulty.

I remember finding a few glitches in this game on the playstation 1. You could bypass opening some doors and underwater gates by continually running and jumping / moving into the corners in such a way it would push her through the door to the other side and same for the swimming areas.

Also a note about her attire in tibet, she has to eject the sea plane wearing what ever she had and that was the pilots jacket. And nothing much else

Some trivia for the Floating Islands is that some peoples theorise that the lava in Temple of Xian is apparently boiling mercury just like in the real Emperor Qin’s tomb and that the islands are the result of Lara hallucinating after inhaling the mercury pools’ fumes, which seems to wear off by the time she gets to the Dragon’s Lair. However, I read somewhere (or saw in a TR2 developer stream, I can’t remember) that they’re actually based on a Chinese myth of floating islands (I can’t remember where the real ones were meant to be) containing either the gods’ or dragons palaces which IRL are the result of an optical illusion and/or mountain fog. (Dragons in Asia are seen as lucky & godlike, mostly benevolent beings unlike their western depictions) To ancient civilisations, such a phenomenon would be seen as divine and/or magical. So Lara was probably exploring a hidden mountainside or a cavern above the volcano under the wall ala the TRAE versions of Coliseum and Palace Midas, with her witnessing the floating island illusion first hand.

I'm really glad you've gone back to doing some tombraider content. I've been having the classic series on my mind tho I'm not very good at most of these games, there is still enjoyment in conquering levels with it's strict control scheme rather than having the more cinematic style of the recent ones. Keep it up, Kai.

Resident Evil and Tomb Raider were my fav game franchises growing up. It's sad to see what happened to TR 😔

I'm 32 and I REMEMBER in tomb raider there was this rumor that in Lara's pool in her mansion there was a statue with a trident, if you jump JUST right you could rip her shirt off! WE BELIEVED THIS! And I spent at least 30 to 60 mins. Trying this... 😂🤣😂🤣 just the TECHNOLOGY alone to "rip" a shirt off wasn't even a thing back then other than in movie sequences.😂

I remember getting my first discman and putting the game disc in, much to my surprise you could listen to the music if you skipped the first track! That snowmobile song and the violin song got a lot of playtime in my youth!

YAY I HAVE BEEN WANTING MORE TOMB RAIDER VIDEOS FROM YOU

I love your secret and Easter Eggs videos, dude. They are always quite informative and interesting especially with these classic entries. That Opera level kinda reminded me of the Opera House Lara is in at the start of Tomb Raider Chronicles. Keep up the great work. ☺️

I had never played Tomb Raider when I was younger I was only interested in Resident Evil and I downloaded it in the morning and this video made me more excited.

Omg, Kai...I needed this. Haha. Tomb raider 2 is the first game I remember playing when I was little.

This game is not only the best in the series but my favorite game ever! Thanks for the great easter eggs:)

Bro what a coincidence. I'm getting back into classic tomb raider and this shows up. Hell yeah thanks. Also check out the tomb raider 2 multiplayer mod. Its so cool and fun to play with friends

The last level took place in her mansion where you have to fight off invaders. There was also an easter egg cutscene inspired the nude raider chest urban legend where she is about to take a shower and before taking her bathrobe off she breaks the fourth wall by saying “don’t you think you’ve seen enough” before shooting you.

Actually, Toby Gard wanted to make a port of Tomb Raider for the N64 back then. The problem was that Eidos and Core Design refused to give him an adequate amount of time to get the port done; as he wanted to implement the N64 analog stick to better suit the gameplay. In other words, Gard wanted to make a Tomb Raider port cater to the N64's hardware needs instead of just slapping a half-baked port on to the system and call it a day.

Ironic, that i started to play the older Tomb raider games last month. I mean, i am kinda 90 kid. But i never played any of the Tomb Raider games. Until Tomb Raider Legend, and loved the Tomb Raider 2013 Trilogy and the new Lara Croft. But, i never liked Underworld that much, and it killed Lara for me. So that is why i enjoyed the 2013 reboot a lot more. But after i watched your Tomb raider easter eggs video, you kinda convinced me, to give the older games a try. ;) Now, i gotta say, i like both Lara´s equaly. sorry for my bad english. greetings from germany.

LOVE THIS VID. It was perfect timing. Im off work an needed something to chill and watch. And i had lots of memeries with this. Thanx for making the rest of my day.

Great Video Kai! I've been excited to see more TR content on your channel. I was pleasantly surprised to learn a thing or two about a game and franchise I thought I knew everything about. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more TR content throughout Tomb Raider month.

Incredible game. I spent many hours sat at my PC, curtains closed, sound turned up, scared to death and being absolutely rubbish at this game. But damn it was amazing. I'm glad I had most games like this on PC though as they looked so much better than the console versions.

Man, I still need to play the Tomb Raider series...

1) I just discovered this TR top 10 series by ribbon and was sad to see it is done only up to TR2, please make more!! 2) A list of interesting levels: no mention of Maria Doria (begins sweating) where floor is literally on the top all of the time, but then entire section dedicated to it was redeeming :D

I just started playing Tomb Raider (2013) for the first time, just an hour beforehand you posted this

"To use the slide... Weeee!" Omg that is too adorable! I've been a fan of Miss Croft since I was a kid in the 90's and having never heard that, I have to say it brightened my night!

YASSS! You’re doing classic tomb raider videos 😭💓✨

I still have a Lara croft ps1 memory card

Great video I used to love it when you grab a secret piece and then the music starts to play loved the soundtrack

this was the first game I ever played (I think) I always used to lock winston in the freezer lol, I could never reach the secret room in time I would always get lost in the maze. u brought back a lot of memories with this video my guy, good video

Great vid! Please do more on TR. I love all your RE stuff and seeing this is really cool.

Brooo I was not aware of the T-rexs in The Great Wall level!

Never heard of the Titanic thing, and never saw that swimsuit outfit! This game always has something to learn about, thx!!

With the Great Wall. It wasn’t just wear and tear. Some villagers used to dismantle or take the stone/bricks from the wall and used it to make houses or huts out of them.

My favorite thing is the moving eyes on the wall of the monetary. I always thought they were just a plain texture but a couple of the eyes move. around.

My favorite TR game. 🥰 I can't believe I just heard Judith Gibbins say "Weeeee" 🥰🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great to see this old Tomb raider game getting some attention.

On 6:10, that's a bit of a stretch on that argument. The reason why she's back on the Great Wall is because the first level ends with her near the closed door that gives access to that sacrificial chamber (and that whole level inside the Great Wall). From that point on, she changes her quest to find the dagger(?) that supposedly opens that door, same object that the antagonist is searching for and eventually finds first, then prompting them to return there. Still, since they are way inside and under the Great Wall, that place is really likely some sort of alternate/parallel dimension. GJ on the vid!

Oh man I really hope you do the rest of the early tomb raider games. They were so good, so iconic. The shark in 3 scared me more than anything when I was younger, lol

I've waited for this video for ages! Yes, Kai!

Ah, good old lock the Butler in the freezer feature. Classic. Other than the mansalughter, of course... TR2 was always my favourite in the series, so thanks for the vid. I still boot it up on my old PS2 every now and then.

Here’s fun fact: if you put the disc in a cd player, you can listen to the music and ambience tracks. I learned to play the tribal drum track that way as a child. I don’t actually know if this works with a legit version, I only had a pirated PAL copy from Thailand.

15:16 this music always gets me! Nothing makes me more nostalgic to PS1 than this music because it was on the Demo 1 disk that was the first thing i booted on the system. It's magic.

I know the chances of you seeing this are slim but I wanted to thank you for doing this. I suck at video games but do like to help solve puzzles and things of that nature. With you playing the game thru, I get to watch what happens in games I've absolutely come to love, Resident Evil. And a few others. It's a heartfelt thanks 😊.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught the prayer wheel reference in the TR movie. Great video!

Weird! I just played a Tomb Raider game for my channel and busy editing it, and now this shows up?? Awesome, bro. As always, great content! 😁

Kai did it again... amazing video of my favourite game in the franchise! Didn´t know about the weapon glitch...that looks VERY useful. Greetings from Argentina!!

Finally a tomb raider video, cheers from Germany my man!

Ah so happy you have finally done some more Tomb Raider stuff! One of my fave TR games ever! :D

Wow! As a tomb raider fanatic I can’t believe you had things I didn’t know about! Great video!

I love the way the only English word the Tibetan monks seem to know is "DIEEEE!"

I loved this game and loved this video. As a kid, I knew basically everything except the window glitch. Too bad the movies weren't based off the more interesting parts in the games, because their plots really suffered imo.

Only one of the best game series ever! Love the vid!

I never finished this game back in the day. I think it was a combination of being really difficult and me moving on to other things. I was stuck on the level, The Deck. It wasn't until over a decade later that I would stumble on Badassgamez's walkthroughs and actually finished it. Then I went on to finish TR5 and 3 with No med packs and finding all the secrets. I'm about halfway through TR4, but haven't touched it in a while.

always love your content dude, be it resident evil - or any game from the 90s

My favorite of TR series! This needs a remake !!!!

So many childhood memories unearthed. Thanks for sharing. Gonna dust off my PS1 now.

Tomb raider chronicles on pc had a second cd level editor theres a website that people have uploaded there own old skool tomb raider games some of which are amazing

1:34 I always thought I was one of the few people who did this. But I was blown away that everyone had put Winston in the Freezer lol. I was too young to be using the Internet so I didn't know til' many years later hahaha

I remember when this game came out and going to rent it from Hollywood Video lol. Good times, I really do miss this Lara, I mean the new Tomb Raider games are ok but they don't really give me the same ooh and ah feeling like these ones did.

Huh. Did NOT expect a look at oldraider from this channel. Not complaining, 1 and 3 turn into actual cronenberg horror and 2's jade dimension deserves more attention from PS1 horror fans. Good video yes :)

I love the little background music you play at 12:00, Thats the same sound that plays on one of the Demo Discs on the PS1!

I've gone through my whole life and haven't played any of the Tomb Raider games. Hope to see a playthrough of one of the games on the channel one day!

In the remaster, in the level "Wreck of the Maria Doria," you can see severally pictures of the Titanic. It's presumed to be the Titanic, but could be the Olympic as well.

0:40 wow! What a mansion.

That demo 1 soundtrack near the end hit me hard.

There's an album on tidal called tomb raider. It's a selection of music from the first 3 games played by the royal philharmonic. Worth a listen.

Damn I still haven’t finished this great game! I need to get around to it! I always loved this game growing up but some sections were pretty tough and frustrating(although fun) so I never got through it fully... but I will now!

I still remember that song that comes on around 15:00 from a very old demo disc that you sneaked in ;D

I love these types of videos!

It's worth mentioning, and most people may know this, but if you put the PlayStation Disc in your CD player you get the entire soundtrack to listen to. I used to listen to the electro drum snowmobile track all the time 🎶

9:35 when the bus driver adds some throttle on the rural road

TR2 is both hard and creepy. Love the vibe of that game. good times back in 1998!

I love how you're branching out into other game series. This was a very interesting, unexpected and enjoyable video you made. keep up the good work man and have a good one!

Glad the removed the giant jellyfish, 40 fathoms alone triggers my thalassophobia 😂😂 Still looking forward to playing Barkhang monastery and Temple of Xian sections on TR2 remastered they look so cool

I frickin love Venice violins. I also thought about how nice it would be to get a remake of the old games.

The Andrea Doria sunk off the coast of the US, not Italy. It was an italian ship on the Genoa - New York City route, yes, but it collided with the Stockholm less than a day before reaching NY.

the PRAYER WHEEL is a total reference to the the movie "The Golden Child" starring Eddie Murphy, is an action-comedy i think from the 80s, Murphy has to go to the tibet and roll the "Prayer Wheel" to talk to the monks

I just hope the next instalment of the series give more classic tomb raider fantasy element (like trex, mystical world, yeti, or any that unrelastic crazy thing) that the classic tomb raider had. Don't ge me wrong, I love the crystal dinamics Reboot series, they bought a lot of new mechanics, instresting characther and some of survival element that I very enjoyed. but I just missed the feel of fighting wolf, tiger, T-Rex, even the yeti, or floating statues

Yes! Tom raider an silent hill videos coming back!

Thanks for always making great top 10 videos! 💖

Just found your channel, love the raider 2 and you just posted this today? Insta sub my guy.

I always somehow knew the maria doria was inspired by the Titanic ship cause many of the architexture and level design reminded me of the Titanic. The stern looks so much like the Titanic in many ways

I think the Opera House level being the way it is, derelict, with shards of glass, crumbling floors and roofs, no seats and barely standing is not a product of the 90s lack of hardware but a product of the real Venice opera house burning down entirely in 1996, one year before TR2 was released. Actually it was very in touch with reality at the time the game was released.

I don't know why but I have a feeling old tomb raider and new tomb raider videos are about get a lot more views

I know if you pop the ps1 disk into a regular CD player, you can listen to all the in game music. There's a secret track also of a remix version of the title track.

Tomb Raider 2 holds a special place in my heart, as it was a demo version of Venice that was my introduction to the series.

I just noticed that Nathan Drake wears a very similar brown jacket in Uncharted 2 in Tibet. I wonder if that is a reference. I appreciate that you mentioned Nude Lara. Among us kids back then there was a rumor that when you collect every dragon figure, you get to see Lara shower in the end.

i grew up on tomb raider 2 i leave winton in the freezer lol ,my original playstation i had resident evil )original) twisted metal 2,need for speed 2 (which i have my 2 records for rank 10 ) tomb raider 2 , crash bandicoot ps1 demo disc . great video Kai very detailed and very knowledgable

One of the best chapters of this game was The Wreck of Maria Doria, imo. The ambience was fantastic for 90s. I wish I could play a remake of this chapter. I can't imagine exploring an upside-down shipwreck with Lara with 2021 graphics.

The ship Andrea Doria actually sank near the US not Italy. It was struck by the Stockholm about 230 miles from NYC 😊