Rolling Boulder

Rolling Boulder
Occurrence	Tomb Raider Tomb Raider II Tomb Raider III The Lost Artifact The Last Revelation Tomb Raider Legend Tomb Raider Anniversary
Strategy	depending on the situation evade to the side or run from it

Boulder

The Rolling Boulder (also Rolling Ball if spherical) is a very common trap in the Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Games. These spherical or almost spherical rocks come tumbling down slopes and threaten to squash Lara when she's in their path.

Prior to Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation, the balls are not physics based, and will only roll in one direction at a constant speed, until they hit a ledge, wall, or a slope that faces the other way. However in the fourth game it is physics based and it bounces and rolls according to the terrain.

The boulder was not featured in Tomb Raider Chronicles and The Angel of Darkness.

Boulders always kill Lara instantly unless she is in a vehicle. She bleeds extensively in the first three games when flattened by a boulder.

Occurrence

Tomb Raider

• Tomb of Qualopec

One of the passages in the entrance chamber of the Tomb of Qualopec contains a boulder.

• St. Francis' Folly
• Tomb of Tihocan
• City of Khamoon
• Natla's Mines

In Natla's Mines the boulders Lara encounters are actually lava boulders.

• Atlantis
• The Great Pyramid

Tomb Raider II

• The Great Wall

In the level The Great Wall Lara has to run from a number of rolling boulders.

• Opera House

In the Opera House Lara is once again confronted with several boulders of different sizes at once.

• Barkhang Monastery

In the Tibet levels Lara is confronted by a similar trap made out of giant rolling snowballs, the avalanche.

• Temple of Xian
• Floating Islands

Tomb Raider III

• Jungle
• Caves of Kaliya
• Temple Ruins
• Madubu Gorge
• Temple of Puna

The Lost Artifact

• Willard's Lair

Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation

• Coastal Ruins

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

• Bolivia - Tiwanaku

The first real trap in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend is a giant boulder. Lara encounters it when going upstream after climbing the vines, using the rope and traversing a narrow ledge. To evade it, she can stand on the right side.

There is a comparable rolling boulder in the Game Boy Advance version of the game: Bolivia. It will come tumbling down the hill from the right. Simply climb back up on the left to evade it, it will roll past and disappear.

"That was too close."

--Zip in Legend after Lara narrowly escapes a boulder in Bolivia.

• Ghana - Pursuing James Rutland

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary

• Tomb of Qualopec
• St. Francis Folly

similar Traps

• rolling Spike Balls

Besides boulders there are barrels, avalanches, rocks and more that will make you jump out of the way.

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