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Lara's Home (TR2) is the trainings level in Tomb Raider II. It acts as a place for players to get familiar to the controls. Winston, Lara's faithful butler, follows her throughout the grounds; Winston does not enter the bathroom if Lara is in the bathtub.

The assault course

Lara's home from Tomb Raider II is more complex than the previous Tomb Raider as is houses more rooms, including Lara's bedroom and bathroom and a secret treasure room in the basement A timed outside Assault Course includes a zipline and water elements. The record for the shortest time of completion of the course is 1:03:9, by Wolff Morrow.

The mansion

To the right of the front gate there is a hedge maze and, at the end of it, an area with two statues, a box of flares and a button that opens the timed door to the secret treasure room.

The mansion also contains a kitchen with a freezer where Lara keeps food. The freezer door is opened and closed with the push of a button located outside the freezer. Fans of the game have discovered that Lara's butler can be locked inside the freezer as he moves slowly. The same can be done with the final boss in Home Sweet Home.

Next to the kitchen, where Lara's original assault course was located, there is a large living room complete with a stereo that plays the "Venice Violins" song.

The pool room is almost unchanged, except for the wall colors and the diver at the pool.

Rumors and bugs

There were rumors that the closed rooms from the first floor would open if the assault course is finished in an absurd short amount of time. The rumors are fake, unfortunately.

The roof of the mansion can be reached by preforming the "corner bug". Lara gradually goes inside the corner front of the house and the machine rejects her, sending Lara to the nearest possible surface, the roof.