Pass Card
A Pass Card is a electronic device found in the Offshore Rig Levels, in Tomb Raider 2.
They are only found in this part of Tomb Raider 2. They come in four colours; the colours are Yellow, Red, Green and Blue.
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Pass Cards temporarily replace keys in this section of Tomb Raider 2, as Lara is in an Offshore Rig where everything is electrical, and the Pass Cards seem to fit this technological environment.
Pass Cards are inserted similarly into their receptacle as a key. The Pass Card Slots are the same colour as the Pass Card itself, so confusion of where Pass Cards go is at a minimum (that at any one time, you can only have only one pass card).
Some Pass Cards are dropped by enemies, and so they must be killed in order to get it. Some Pass Cards are found in glass containers, or in small holes in the ground. One Pass Card is guarded by a killer electronic saw, which requires a Machine Chip in order to deactivate it.
All the Pass Cards in the Offshore Rig Levels open doors, no other function.
Pass Card Appearance
As said before, the four colours are red, blue, yellow and green. In total, in the two levels, there are five pass cards (the Red Pass Card is used twice, and it is unknown whether this is the same pass card each time).
On each pass card is the symbol of the Dagger of Xian seen repeatably throughout the game. On the back is a mess of electronic equipment for the Pass Card Slot to analyze.
Locations of Pass Card and Receptacle
The following information will show the vague location of the Pass Card and its slot.
Offshore Rig
Yellow Pass Card
The Yellow Pass Card is the first Pass Card found in the Offshore Rig levels. It is dropped by one of the two guards (the one with the gun) that Lara will encounter when she breaks out of her prison cell at the beginning of the level. The Pass Card goes into the Yellow slot near the two doors in a small control room aside the large plane chamber. When the pass card is slotted in, one of the two doors open.
Red Pass Card
The Red Pass Card in this level is dropped by a guard in a long hallway. Obviously, you have to kill him to get it. It slots into a Red Receptacle at the top of a barrel trap in the hallway to the left of the small corridor opened by the Yellow Pass Card. The slot is guarded by a Fiamma Nera Rig Boss armed with a gun and a Doberman.
Green Pass Card
Main Article "Green Pass Card"
Found in a large aquatic chamber accessed by a trapdoor.
Diving Area
Blue Pass Card
The Blue Pass Card is found in a small hole in one side a huge sloped room. Lara jumps from atop some catwalk to the area above the Pass Card, and slides into the small hole. Once found, Lara takes the obvious tunnel back to the catwalk above, and utilize the Pass Card in the blue slot at one end of the metal pathway. Beyond lies the Perimeter Hallway and a new, more powerful enemy (The Flamethrower).
Red Pass Card (2)
The Red Pass Card is seen being hacked away by a saw, and a Machine Chip must be inserted into an electrical panel near it in order to turn it off. The Machine Chip is dropped by a guard in the central chamber, the same area in which the Red Pass Card Slot is. Once inserted, the door opens, and Lara now has access to the actual Diving Area.
