Q - "Wow! You don't write like a 15 year old hard core gamer that lives with their parents and has nothing but time on their hands! Your teachers must be very proud of you!"

A - Indeed, 20 years ago, my teachers were quite proud of me. 1 or 2 of them still are. I am in fact, 37 years old, do not have nothing but time on my hands and have to compete with three kids ages 8-11 for the Playstation. I finished the game the first time with about 8 hours total playing time and wrote the first draft of the completed walkthrough from memory in about 4 hours. I've reached the point now where I can complete the game, including both Revisited levels, in just over 2 hours.

Q - You are an incredible writer and you make me HOT! Will you marry me and let me have your children?

A - Yes, however my wife insists on being the Maid of Honor and that she videotape the conception of the children.

Q - "When I am in the Catacombs in Temple Church and I am trying to leave the tunnels, there are three guards that attack me before I can get to the door. I can't beat them and the game won't allow me to open the door. What do I do?  I'm extremely frustrated with this."

A - Then there are two ways to approach heading out of here
1 - Run like hell back towards the beginning so the new guards don't have a chance to find any guards to wake up,
or
2 - Be patient, carefully head back toward the beginning and draw the guards to you 1 by 1 so you don't get beat to death by a large group.
I don't recommend trying to fight more than 2 guards at once.  While Sophie's assistance in a 2 on 2 fight is, at best, a decent distraction while you take out 1 guard and at worst she just plain gets in the way, in a 2 on 3 fight you don't have a chance.

Be patient, draw them to you 1 or 2 at a time and you'll make it through, I promise.

Q - "I found the UV light to discover the symbols written on the protecting glass in front of "La Joconde (Mona Lisa)" but there is something missing... I've passed almost hours for searching what could be missing."

A - You must pass the UV light over EVERY SINGLE SYMBOL on the Mona Lisa before you will be given the cryptogram.

Q - "I have got to the Nike room, and have followed your instruction in your walkthrough regarding the use of the Priory ring to open the display case but am having problems opening it.  Langdon keeps repeating phrases that it isn't the right thing to do, and Sophie suggests looking around the room. Now, looking around the room i have come across a glowing symbol on the wall near the bottom of the staircase, but am not able to do anything with this.

A - First things first, at the display case, walk up to it and press "examine" once.  Pan the camera so that it is over the open hole and open your inventory and use the Priory Ring.  A drawer will open with your prize inside.  Everyone that has had problems with this has been because they did not have the camera centered on the hole the ring goes in. As for the glowing symbol on the wall, stand near it (up against the railing) until you get the "examine" prompt, then look on the rail itself.  Your last secret of this level is lying there.

Q - "I can't get the #$%&ing window open in The Louvre!"

A - By pressing (A on the XBox, X on the Playstation 2 and E on the PC) repeatedly, watch the icon on the bottom of the screen and you will see it is slowly turning a brighter shade of green - that is building up Langdon's strength . . . .as soon as it reaches its brightest point, the icon changes to the L & R icons (The W and "mouse forward" icons on the PC), at which point you must quickly push the L & R sticks (or push the W and move the mouse forward simlutaneously) up.  If you wait too long, Langdon loses his strength and you must start again. I would recommend getting the hang of this procedure quickly, as you will use it frequently throughout the game.

Q - "hi..ive finished the game and im revisiting the louvre,ive figured out all the puzzles in the paintings..now what do i do to get out?"

A - You can't. You're screwed. You have to leave your Playstation on forever now. I'm kidding. Oddly, there is no other way out of here after you are done except to save and then exit back out to the Level Select menu. I have no idea why they did it that way, sorry.

Q - "Hello the walk through you did was very helpful but I can't get out of the Louvre Revisitied I solved all the puzzles but it won't let me leave! Oh and I can't turn off the plystation because we do not have a memory card so if you can help my sister and I would be very thankful."

A - What do you and your sister look like? Oh yeah, and never play a full length adventure game without a memory card.

Q - "Where is the Saved Games folder on the PC version?"

A - They are in your Shared Documents folder, in a folder labeled "the da vinci code"

Q - "Where can I read some of your other walkthroughs, because you are an AWESOME author!"

A - You can't. This is the only one I've done. But thanks!

Q - "Iin the mansion while in the bedroom you are to use the priory ring on the dresser to get the vulcan statue. It is not working for me any suggestions?"

A - You are then, one step too close to the drawer.  As you are just standing there in the room . . . .examine the dresser.  Move the camera around until the locked drawer is highlighted, then go in your inventory and use the Priory Ring.  Point here being, do NOT examine the dresser, then push examine AGAIN when the drawer is highlighted. Your Priory Ring does not work if you are "examining" the locked drawer itself.

Q - "How in the world did you find Da Vinci's Ballista in the Bank of Zurich level?"

A - I searched every damn cubicle in that room until I found it. It was, of course, in the last one I looked in. Same thing with the coin hidden in the Deposits and Server Room downstairs from there.

Q - "Hello. I'm 13 years of age and I'm stuck in Westminser Abbey."

A - You should find your parents. You shouldn't be walking around alone in a place like that.

Q - "Just wondered if there was a way of collecting the secrets without completing the whole level again?"

A - No, sorry . . . .gotta do the whole level start to finish again.  It sucks, but thats how they made it.

Q - "I got this game for my PC and installed it, but it won't work. It just closes down and goes back to the desktop. I've got a killer processor and tons of RAM. This game should play easily. Whats going on?"

A - It's a 99.9% chance that it is your video card. Not that there is anything wrong with your video card or its capabilities, but for some reason this particular game is incredibly touchy about what video card it is going to work with. In fact, if you read the box, it even plainly states in the System Requirements that there are certain NVIDIA cards it won't support at all. If you have an NVIDIA video card and this game works for you, consider yourself lucky.

Q - "What do i need to do if on the saint sulpice level, when I examine the puzzle, tom keeps saying that the symbols don't look familiar?"

A - First of all, you need to tell me what game you're playing because there is no "Tom" in this game, but in the event you actually mean "Robert" then look around in that upstairs area, you'll find an alphabet chart to help you decode the symbols.

Q - "I made it to Rosslyn Chapel Revisited, but not everything you describe is working. What's up with that?"

A - You've got to have every single secret in the game, including Da Vinci's Inventions. Then it will work.

Q - "I made it to Rosslyn Chapel Revisited, but not everything you describe is working. What's up with that?"

A - YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE EVERY SINGLE SECRET IN THE GAME, INCLUDING DA VINCI'S INVENTIONS! THEN IT WILL WORK!

Q - "I made it to Rosslyn Chapel Revisited, but not everything you describe is working. What's up with that?"

A - GRRRRR!

Q - "I am aware that one needs to use the black light on the map in Sauniere's office in The Louvre, but it isn't giving me any sort of option for using the black light. I stand in front of the map, access my tools menu, select the blacklight and the 'use' option, but the menu only retracts and my character does nothing.  Is there some sort of action button i need to press in order to use the all ready selected blacklight? I don't recall needing one to read the encryption written over the Mona Lisa."

A - You will not be able to do anything to the map at all until you have "examined" the statue on Sauniere's desk that points to it. It's a small detail a lot of people miss, and if you go back and read the walkthrough carefully, it does say "examine all the objects on the desk".

Q - "ya estoy en la puerta de salida y sophie acaba de derribar al segundo guardia, el guardia deja una pistola en el suelo y al tomarla aparece en mis pies, en la lista de inventario aparece un cuadro verde (sin nombre) no puedo usarlo. camino con ella y no se suelta ni se cae, parece que eso me impide salir y al intentarlo aparece un mensaje, te paso imagenes."

A - Estoy apesadumbrado, pero no hablo español.  Estoy utilizando un traductor en línea para crear este mensaje. Envíe por favor su pregunta (en español) al marcelohincapie@yahoo.com  él escribió el walkthrough traducido para mí y estará alegre contestar a su pregunta.

Q - "I was wondering if the walkthrough for The Da Vinci Code (PS2) is mostly the same for the PC game."

A - With the exception of the controls, the PC, Playstation 2 and XBox versions of the game are all identical.  The walkthrough works with any of them.

Q - "If I enter the cheat Et In Arcadia Ego in order to unlock all bonuses, and Apocrypha to unlock all visual database entries,  do i get more puzzles or painting or visual arts, music etc. by entering those two cheats? (note that i found EVERY secrets already).

A - Your secret retrieval is duly noted (you looking for a cookie here?), however I honestly couldn't tell you.  I have yet to use a single cheat code in the game.

Q - "Will you be doing any more walkthroughs on a webpage like this?"

A - Only if I find it financially advantageous.

Q - "You are an incredible wiseass."

A - Yes. Yes I am.

Q - "Will you do my homework for me so I can finish this game."

A - There will be a fee, and I hate Geometry, so if its Geometry, its going to be EXPENSIVE!

Q - "Can I link to your webpage?"

A - Absolutely

Q - "Can I post the text version of your walkthrough on my website?"

A - Write me an e mail and send me a link to your site. As long as you will be posting it in its entirety with no exclusions and all proper credit remains intact, I will most likely grant you permission. With that said, I am strongly opposed to censorship in any form, so if you are going to bleep out words you don't find "appropriate", go ahead and take this as a "kiss my ass" right now.