The City of the Gods

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Teotihuacan - The City of the Gods
General information
location	Teotihuacan, Mexico
Date	Pre-Columbian era
Objective	Go deeper into Teotihacan and proceed to the Sun Pyramid.
Par time	70 minutes
Secrets	15 (SS1 & SS:XB) 16 (SSHD & SSVR)
Game information
Previous level	Valley of the Jaguar
Next level	Serpent Yards "Inner Sanctum" (SS:XB)

The City of the Gods is the third level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter, the sixteenth level of Serious Sam Classics: Revolution, and the seventeenth level of Serious Sam: Xbox.

Plot

Sam, having acquired the crystal skull, makes his way to the large Mayan city of Teotihuacan. He must get towards the Sun Pyramid and activate the time portal, so he'll be closer to completing his mission.

Secrets

1. (Serious Sam HD only) Starting at the beginning of the level, blow up all of the 2-headed snake statues. One above the doorway of the first courtyard, one above the doorway of the courtyard with the minigun, one above a house in the same area as the third statue (same house with the cannon secret), and one before the building that you enter to get to the underground complex. When you blow them all up, a teleport will appear in front of the building with the underground complex, leading you to a secret area with some rockets, and a giant 2-headed snake statue. Blow up the statue to return back to the area you teleported from.
2. After exiting the starting area, follow the wall to the right and cut down the tree near the house, revealing a secret area with a Large Health.
3. Opposite of #2, there are some cannonballs in the lower leftmost corner of the courtyard.
4. In the upper rightmost corner of the first courtyard (near the temple), there's a darker section on the wall to the left. Blow it up to reveal a secret armor.
5. Opposite of #4, in the upper leftmost corner, pick up the health pill to trigger a secret "bloodbath" (spawns three Major Bio-mechanoids on top of the walls, each spawning one at a time).
6. In the temple with the scary mask, as you enter it, look to the right to find a fallen pillar/column. Blow it up to reveal a secret corridor.
7. From #6, follow the corridor to find a room with some cannonballs. Destroy the column in the middle to reveal a secret SBC Cannon.
8. In the next courtyard, with the XM214-A Minigun, there are some trees on the left. Behind the third tree is a teleporter to the "yard of strange-looking heads". To exit the secret yard, enter the temple in the end, opposite of where you teleported from, and touch the blob-like thing.
9. Still in the same courtyard, there are cannonballs behind the building opposite of the entrance.
10. Before the underground complex, there is a house with a 2-headed snake statue on it (with said entrance behind you, to top-right). As you approach the house, you will hear some giggling. Enter it (the door is a shadow, and has no texture) and sidestep to the right quickly, to find a secret "lost Spanish cannon" (which will shoot almost immediately as you enter the house). Also make sure to immediately destroy the cannon because otherwise it can kill you quickly.
11. In the village before the underground complex, go to the wall opposite of the entrance and look to your right. There is a large health behind a house.
12. When you enter the building that leads to the underground complex, in the middle of the hall, there is a pillar above you with an Extra Large Health. Blow it up with a rocket and collect the health.
13. After sliding down a slide, after #12, in the Kleer Skeleton mini-arena, blow up the wall to the right in the hall you're currently in to reveal some secret items.
14. Opposite of #13, blow the wall to the left to reveal a "secret poker game" and a trio of Zumb'uls.
15. In the windy corridor with the spike pits, jump into the first wind tunnel opening on your right and walk in to find a secret passage. When you see an item and pick it up, in the secret corridor, a tiny Cucurbito will spawn (two on Serious difficulty). Quickly kill him with the cannon to avoid taking heavy damage.
16. In the lava cave, go to the wall on the right and follow it. Behind the half-submerged building is a small ledge, in the lava river, with some rockets.

Related achievements

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

	Balls of Steel
	Find all 3 Cannons in Teotihuacan - The City of the Gods.

Trivia

• This level is split into two parts in Serious Sam: Xbox; The City of the Gods and Inner Sanctum. Inner Sanctum lasts from the half of the level from when the player enters the building that leads to the underground complex until the end of the level.
• After the hall from secret #10, the player can jump below the slide and slide down to get some health, armor and Serious Packs, but there are some spikes at the end. The only way to exit it is by sliding from the sides and rocket jumping out when they are near the spikes.
• The yard of strange-looking heads has enemies of various sizes, from tiny Arachnoids, Common Aludran Reptiloids, and Beheaded Kamikazes to giant Kleer Skeletons, Marsh Hoppers, and Reeban Electro-Fishes. This is a callback to the Serious Sam: The First Encounter's second secret level, Sacred Yards, which also features enemies of various sizes and enemies that spawn when scenery objects are destroyed.
• The slide and Kleer arena with the secret poker game and ammo depot reappear as a classic area in the Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem level Siberiade. Like in the original, it is also possible for the player to die in the spike pit below the slide if they jump while sliding down; however, they cannot rocket jump out of it this time around as kinetic damage energy is no longer applied to living puppets, including players.
  • The Zumb'uls are absent, this time being replaced by Sirian Werebulls.