Tower of Babel

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Tower of Babel
General information
location	Persepolis, Marvdasht, Fars Province, Iran
Date	Ancient Persia era
Objective	Find a way into the Tower of Babel and defeat the boss guarding the time portal.
Par time	50 minutes
Secrets	10 (SS1 & SS:XB) 12 (SSHD & SSVR)
Game information
Previous level	Courtyards of Gilgamesh "Ceremonial Halls" (SS:XB)
Next level	The Citadel "The Bridge" (SS:XB)

Tower of Babel is the ninth level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter, the twenty-third level of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution, and the twenty-fourth level of Serious Sam: Xbox. It is the fourth and final level set in the Ancient Persia era.

Plot

Sam has finally made it to the Tower of Babel, but he must collect three tablets in order to open its main door. Once he does, he will have to face the monster guarding the time portal within.

Secrets

1. After the starting room, head towards the exit of the ceremonial hall but don't enter it. Instead, turn left and you will see an opening in the wall containing a few cannonballs.
2. In the Chamber of Cosmos, between a pillar and the first staircase, there is a floor that you can jump on. After doing so, stick to the right or left walls and move along to get an Extra Large Health. If you try to get it by moving through the middle, you will be teleported back to the staircase (use this to leave the secret area after collecting the health).
3. After the narrow bridge, before the second staircase, head left of it to collect some secret sniper bullets.
4. In the room accessed using the elevator, visit one of its corners, in the middle of them should be mouse-sized holes. Shoot them with any weapon to summon "deadly midgets" (extremely small Sirian Werebulls).
5. Before exiting the Chamber of Cosmos, turn left after sliding down the ramp and spot a bouncer pad behind a lamp. Use it to access a secret area with some ammo, but immediately use the teleport located there after picking up the ammo as a Major Bio-mechanoid will spawn.
6. When you exit the palace and are outside, look to your left and you will see a humongous pillar with a warrior that has glowing eyes carved onto it. Destroy the pillar with a rocket to reveal a secret teleport to a movie set showing Sam fighting Ugh-Zan III at the Great Pyramid. Inside the set, destroy all miniature enemies and trees, and an extra large health will spawn. Be careful though, as firing a rocket or cannonball at Sam and/or destroying the pedestal he stands on will result in instant death.
7. In the courtyard with the third tablet, in the wall opposite of the entrance behind a statue is a darker section on the wall. Blast it to reveal an Invulnerability power-up.
8. In the courtyard following from secret #7, there is a health pill in a corner before entering the building and exiting the yard. Pick it up to spawn a "Mighty Gizmo" (a giant Marsh Hopper). Be warned that killing it will spawn many extremely smaller Marsh Hoppers.
9. After revisiting the first yard, go to the left of the entrance of the Tower of Babel to find a secret invulnerability power-up.
10. After collecting all tablets, go to the door that leads to the yard with the first tablet again for a secret "round 2".
11. (Serious Sam HD only) After entering the Tower of Babel, go behind the ramp-slide, behind the last pillar and look up. Shoot a rocket at the platform with the cannonball ammo to bring it down.
12. (Serious Sam HD only) From #11, shoot the wall behind the ammo with any weapon to make it push the cannonballs to you, or else you will be teleported and unable to pick it up.

Related achievements

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

	Once Upon a Time in Babylon
	Kill the boss and complete the Persia episode.

Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter

	Persia Master
	Complete the Persia episode in single player or cooperative.

Serious Sam Fusion

	Persia Master
	Complete the Persia episode in single player or cooperative.

Behind the scenes

• During Serious Sam: The First Encounter's development, this level was supposed to be the third level of the game called City Obelisk Yard. For unknown reasons, it was scrapped during development and repurposed for The Second Encounter.

Trivia

• The first half of the level, from the start of the level all the way to the checkpoint just before the player sees the Tower of Babel, is known as the Ceremonial Halls in Serious Sam: Xbox. The second half of the level, from seeing the Tower of Babel to defeating the Exotech Larva, is known as Tower of Babel.
• In the Egypt secret, the player can destroy all the miniature palm trees in the teleport to spawn an extra large health, and destroy the miniature version of Ugh-Zan III to spawn a Super Armor (only works in the classic and Serious Sam Fusion versions). Shooting the miniature version of Sam will result in the player receiving 1000 Explosion damage and then being instantly gibbed in the process (in Serious Sam: Xbox, the player will die normally and be blown away instead).
• The music used in the Serious Sam: Xbox second half of the level is reused in the Serious Sam Classics: Revolution-exclusive Bright Island level Crystal Cove.