The Descent:OMS

The Big Drop: 4 seconds

• Lara goes over first falls in slow motion, she should fall a ways before landing hard on the fast moving
torrent of mud and water. Flotsam of driftwood and small chunks of wood hut shards should tumble along
side of her.

The Torrent: 7-8 seconds (Very much like the Slide of insanity mesh)

• Lara can negotiate herself left and right on a wider section of fast moving mud and water.
• A large sharp boulder is in the center of this first section, the player will need to go to the right or the left of
this to survive.
• A fallen hut can be seen over the larger right path, a clear way is evident on the left.

A Fork in the Road: 5-7 seconds

• If she stays center, she slams into the sharp rock with full force and dies a brutal death.
• If Lara goes right she explodes through the brittle wood hut in slow motion, the screen flashes with the red
veil, goes de-saturated and double vision for a second.
• If she goes left (The harder way) she will travel safely but will do a small tumble down a small fall that
converges with the right path.

Plane Graveyard: 8-10 seconds

• The next section has a series of iconic plane pieces, both in and out of the active play-space.
• The player must dodge left and right to dodge the pieces that are jammed in the river.
• Each time the player hits a plane section, she will go into a heavy reaction and take damage, three such hits
in a row will add up to a death.
• The plane pieces will be shattered when Lara goes through them.
• A Large tree is situated in an island of remaining earth with large roots lurching this across the left side.
The right side looks more open.
• The left path has a dense root path and one larger section that sends her in a spin with heavy damage.
• Both paths funnel Lara over the last main fall in slow motion, slamming her into the hull of a B25 bomber.
• When she lands, the entire plane shifts violently downward and gets lodged over the epic precipice of the
largest falls.

Grab the chute: 15-18 seconds

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• Lara is pushed through the hull and pinned by the rush of water near the upside-down cabin.
• The camera is facing Lara, the player has limited movement with the left stick where she can lean left and
right.
• A parachute hangs to her right, but it’s out of reach.
• Lara goes into an aim mode with her pistol to shoot the hook(s) that holds the parachute
• If they can’t shoot down the parachute in time Lara will fall out of the plane to her death
• Once she shoots down the parachute, Lara will need to smash the “X” button to put on the chute Not sure
about this beat. (Den: Pull the spike)
• I suggest she falls through the breaking glass instead of pulling the lever like the Jurassic Park Two scene of
splintering glass in the RV as Kyle suggested.

http://movieclips.com/xAPw-the-lost-world-jurassic-park-movie-over-the-cliff/

Pull the Chute: 7-10 seconds

• Lara will fall fast, the camera looking up at the shrinking bomber she fell from. The player must hit the “X”
button to pull the chute.
• As the first chute deploys, it breaks away from the harness, sending Lara tumbling again
• Lara spins in the air and she must find her emergency ripcord, the player has 5 seconds to hit “B” before
dying.
• If the player hits the second button in time, Lara jerks up out of frame for a second and is in the parachute
pose.

Avoid the Trees: 15-18 seconds

• Lara will fall through a bank of clouds where she can steer her parachute left and right over the river
forming from the waterfall and treetops are under foot
• Lara descends into the forest, she will have paths to the right and left to negotiate around, if she hits the
trees she will spin and take light damage.
• If Lara takes too many consecutive hits from trees she will die a horrible death, impaled on a broken
branch.
• If she avoids enough obstacles she will make it to the cut down sequence.

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