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Being undercover is only dangerous when you try to get out...here's how you do it.
Developer
Reflections Interactive
Publisher
Atari
ERSB Rating
M
Rel. Date
21 June 2004
Genre
Racing Action
Players
1
Date: Thursday, July 29, 2004
Author: Jeff 'Judasen' McAllister

Mission One: Police HQ

Walk out the front door of your house and make a right turn to the garage. Hop in your car and make your way to the police station. It’s a simple straight forward drive with no fancy tricks. Once you get to the station, park your car out front and head inside the front door. The cop there will tell you the range is ready so head through the door to the left of him and the next door. Pull out your gun and make your way through the shooting range shooting only the red targets. Take your time and make sure you don’t pop the wrong targets. When you get to the end the next mission starts.



Mission Two: Lead on Baccus

When you exit the police station there will be a cop car in front of you on the road. Immediately jump in and start following the lead cop car to Baccus’ pad. When the first cop takes off, try to catch up to it quick, but then stay back a bit from it so you can watch where it’s going. If you are too close it’s easy for him to lose you by turning. Make sure you don’t get into an accident and if you do, try to recover quickly. It doesn’t take long for you to fail the mission from lagging behind. The drive is a pretty long one so keep your eyes open. When you reach the apartment, the next mission starts.



Mission Three: The Siege

Hop inside the cop car directly in front of you and drive to the left and make a right turn down the next street where there will be another cop car and some cops. Turn right again down the small drive way there and a quick scene will play showing Baccus hop in his car and take off. When you are back in control, drive forward and up the boards to jump over the dumpster. Continue to follow Baccus and try not to fall too far behind. He is a quick bugger and one wrong turn or too long of an accident and you will lose the mission a need to restart it. Keep following him until a scene plays and he crashes his car into a wall. When the next scene is over the next mission begins.

Mission Four: Rooftops

Now that you are back at your house, you need to make your way to the Gold Coast hotel and find the V8 that Baccus told you about. Drive your way to the hotel by following the map and take your time as there is no time limit. Once you get to the hotel, park at the arrow and start your way up the fire escape stairs. Enter the door at the top and go up the stairs to level two. Enter the hallway here and kill the enemy inside. Head to the far right of the hall and enter the last door on the left. Kill the two guys in here and take the Uzi off the bed. Now that you have some killer fire power, make your way back to the stairs and take them all the way up to the top. When you reach the top, you’ll come out to a service room which will lead to the roof. Open the door and kill the three enemies outside. When they go down take out the remaining few around the roof and head for the stairs leading to the next roof.



When you reach the bottom, a few more enemies will appear. Take out the two on the ground and the one up the stairs. When they are dead, head up the stairs your self and head to the right. Grab the health pack on the ground around the corner and introduce the rest of the enemies up here to your Uzi. When you have clear the rooftop of the 5 or 6 enemies, Head to the far side where the red sign is and grab the second healthpack of the ground by the door. When you are ready, enter the door and take the elevator down. When you reach the bottom, the doors will open and there will be 2 enemies in front of you to pop and one in the booth. Kill them and when you step out, there will be a few more to the left.



Kill them all and enter the booth across from the elevator and it will open the door to the garage. Go over and hop in the vette with the red arrow above it and leave the garage. You will be told not to wreck the car. If you do, mission failed. When you leave you will get rammed from behind. Jump out of the car and start firing at the car following you. When you have shot the car or driver or both enough, it won’t follow anymore and you are free to go to the meeting place without bother. Make sure when you are heading west, you stick to the left, uppermost road, since if you go up the right you will have to backtrack a good distance to reach the spot. Once you make it there the mission is over.

Mission Five: Impress Lomaz

Drive your way from your house all the way over to where Lomaz is waiting for you. It’s a pretty long drive but there is no time limit so take as long as you like. When you reach Lomaz, he will tell you that this is someone’s property whose you are going to destroy. Hop in the car with him and you will have 1:30 on a countdown clock to smash through each set of barrels. Each set will always be very close to the one just destroy, so keep an eye on your map to see where the green dot is in relation to your car so you know whether left or right and then once you see the arrow, go for it.



When you drive through the barrel stacks inside of the buildings where you drive up a small ramp, ease off on the gas when you go through so you don’t smack the top of the car on the other side coming out. Move from stack to stack and the last pile you need to get will be on the roof of a building. Drive up the wooden ramps and zip across the rooftop to end the test and to cue a cut scene. After you are done, drive back to where you met Lomaz originally and jump in the yellow car that was there. Now you need to follow the map to the Red River bar.



When you get there, park in front of it and enter the door at the arrow. Use the pistol to pop the bartender and the two enemies that appear on the far side and then switch to the Uzi to shoot up the bar. Shoot everything you can. Start with the glass case behind the bar, each level and then move to the glasses on the bar and even start shooting up the stools, jukebox and arcade machines. You only have a set time to do it in before the cops show up and the little meter bar will fill up as you destroy more and more of the bar. Fill up the meter before the time runs out and another scene will start where Lomaz tells you your next mission.



Mission Six: Gators Yacht

Head out the back door of your house and hop in your boat. Follow the white cone to the green dot that is under Miami on the map. When you get close you will see that it is actually a few buildings on stilts out in the middle of the lake. Cruise up to them but not too close. Stay far enough back that you can see the enemies and can target them with your gun. Stop driving the boat and take out the two enemies on the left building walkway and then the one on the right. When they are dead, cruise forward to the building in the center and there will be one or two more enemies around to take care of. When they are dead, pull your boat up beside the dock and hop out.



Head up the stairs and enter the door there. As you enter the main room, there will be two enemies inside. Take them both out and grab the two sticks of C4 there. When you have them, open the adjoining room and there will be an enemy with a hostage. Kill the bad guy and try not to hit the woman but there doesn’t seem to be any consequences if you do hit her. Grab the C4 from in here and make your way back down to your boat. When you get back on it, head over to the next destination on the map which is pretty close to you. When you get near the yacht, you will see the arrow of where to park. As you pull up to the rear, a guard will appear on the top and on the left. Take them both out while still standing in your boat and another will come on the right. Take him out and jump off the small boat onto the yacht.



Make your way up the stairs and there will be a door on the right hand side. Go through there and kill the two guards in here. Go through the next door and kill two more and there will be a place to plant the explosives. Make your way out of there back through the way you came and there will be another stair case going up and another door on the left side of it. Ignore that door for now and head up the stairs. Go through the door at the top and kill the three enemies there and run to the end of the hall. Go through the door at the end to enter the ship bridge.



Kill the enemies in there and plant the second C4 charge where it is highlighted. Make your way back out grab the health in the first room on the left as you leave if you need it. Make your way back down the hallway and out the door. Head down the stairs and go through the door that was on the left that you ignored. Enter it and go down the stair s and kill the four enemies down here. Head around to the right and plant the third explosive and you will have 30 seconds to get back to your boat. Run out and ignore the rest of the enemies that show up and head straight for your boat. When you are close to it, just hit X and you’ll be controlling it. Simply reverse until the mission ends.

Mission Seven: Trapped

For this first part of the mission you are inside a shopping mall and need to get out to the street and then to your hideout. To get through the mall is fairly straight forward and fairly easy. Simply follow the exit signs and try to not smash into the walls. Damaging your car in here a lot is a bad idea. From the start head right and zoom down the stairs. Make another right and again down another set of stairs with a cop car on your ass. Make two hard left turns and then a set of two rights. When you make the second right, head to the far right of the large food court area and drive to the end and make a left around the large grey structure at the end. Swing around left again and go to the end and through the orange doors there.



Make an immediate right and it will take you outside where two cop cars will show up. Go between them and make a left towards the hideout. The drive to the hideout is pretty straight forward until you get close to it. There will be three cop cars around the area that you need to watch out for. If they spot you then you will have to lose them before you can enter the hideout. Losing the tail isn’t the easiest thing in the world, so if you see a cop coming at you on your map, hide or just get far away from it. If you do get a tail, then lead them into on coming traffic and use the move out of the way at the last second technique and try to lose them around corners and alley ways. When you do eventually lose them, enter the drive way where the hideout is and make a right around the building at the rear until the scene starts.



After the scene you will be told to ditch the car. This is why you don’t want to have a lot of damage because you just need to drive the car into the ocean and if any little bump or scrape ruined this, it would suck pretty bad. Follow the map to the green dot at the water front and there will be a garbage dumpster with two boards leaning up it for a ramp. Drive up the ramp when you reach the green dot and the mission will be over.

Mission Eight: Dodge Island

Drive to the island and stop at the gate and let it open. When it does, drive through and go to the immediate right and pull up to the arrow. Get out and the scene will play. When you are back in control, jump in the car and drive through the glass window to the other side over the small gap. There will be a container that drops blocking you in so you need to do the rest of this on foot. Get out and shoot the enemy on the right between the containers. Make your way forward through the small alley and take out the rest of the enemies as you come across them.



When you come to a building, there will be one around the corner and one that will appear in the doorway. Kill both and make your way up the ramp and through the building. Kill the enemies in side there and the two outside through the next door. Head out of the building and go right and there will be three enemies around the corner there. Continue along the passage and make a right at the end to pop three more enemies. When you pass them, at the far distance two cars will pull up. Wait until the enemies get out and then gun them down. Take the car there and now you can drive through the rest of the area. Follow the open passages and there will be vans and cars that try to pull into opening between containers to block you.



You can go around all of them by using the ramps and opening beside them until you come to an opening that a truck will pullout to block. When it does, you need to go to the left and then a van will drive up and start ramming you. Like the last time you had someone chasing you, get out of the car and fire your machine gun through it’s windshield to take him out. When he’s dead, go through the pylons towards the car in the distance and it will be in front on the gates to get out of Dodge Island. Kill the enemy there at the car and then get out and hit the yellow switch to open the gate. Go through and a scene will play showing the bridge start to rise. Drive up and over it to complete the chapter. One time I actually didn’t make it up and toasted my car in the process. I had to run over to the ocean liner and jump in the water and swim over to the next piece of land where the green dot is that you would drive to.

Mission Nine: Retribution

When the chapter starts you are on the hunt after Gator and his escort car. Chase them and use the X button for Lomaz to fire at the cars. Concentrate on the escort car for now since you won’t actually be able to takeout Gator just yet. The path the cars take for the most part is random but about 4/5 times I hade the cars go different paths but always end up going through an alley way with two dumpsters and then they would hang a right and then a left onto an open highway where the next part of the mission would begin. When you are chasing gator, be sure to stay nice and close to them. If you fall too far behind the mission is failed, also be careful when you smoke the escort car that it doesn’t take you out as well by slamming into it.



When the next part of the mission starts, Gator will run into a building and a whole crap load of his body guards will appear. Keep Lomaz alive and smoke everyone in site. Grab the shotgun from the guy just inside the large doorway and go past the boxes. When you do, about 4 or 5 more enemies will rush in. Take them out and make a right around the corner to kill the guard there. Enter the door and now you will want to use the shotgun for a bit. Enter the door and kill the enemy that is in there. Grab the health pack and enter the next room and do the same. Go through the next door and it will go up a small set of stairs and take you outside.



Kill the two enemies there and hop into the boat. Follow Gator to the house on the water and there will be a few enemies outside. Now you can take your time since Gator can’t out run you anymore. Stay in the boat and keep a good distance from the docks and building and pop all the enemies that you can see. When all is clear, hop out of the boat at the arrow and follow the stairs up. Enter the room and there will be three enemies in here as well as one that will open the door on the right that you will walk past. When everyone is dead in here, go to the door at the far end and gator will be there. Don’t go through it though. Go back to the beginning where you parked your boat and crouch on the pier there. From here you will be able to look across and see Gator and his body guard. Crouch and whip out the machine gun and take them both down with out a single hit yourself.

Nice, France

Mission Ten: Get to Calita

Calita will give you a call while you are in your house and tell you that she wants you to meet her. Head down the stairs and out the front door and hop in your killer car. Make your way towards Calita’s position and you will get a cell phone call from her when you are almost there. She will let you know that she is taking fire and that you need to get there as fast as possible. You really do since she will have a health meter appear that cannot go empty and there is a good deal of running to do after you reach her. When you do get to her dot, jump out of the car and head down the alley where she is. Kill all the enemies there and she will start to run forward.



Try to stay ahead of her all the time so that you take the hits instead of her. Chances are you still have a lot more life left than her. Keep running with her and you will be making your way to Bad Hand’s van. Head down the street and make a left at the end. When you get there some cars will pull up and guys will get out. Kill them and head to the right down the street. There will be a van on the right but ignore it and go to the left where Calita leads. Kill the enemies there and watch as Bad Hand brings the van around. When he does, walk over to it to trigger a scene. Now that you are in the back of the van, you are the gunner and not the driver.



You need to take out all the cars that come up behind you and start to ram you. The easiest way to take them out is to wait until they get nice and close and target the drivers head. Since you will be bouncing and shaking all over the place from the ride, the drivers head will be nice and big the closer he is so that is the best time to shoot. Keep shooting at the enemy cars as they try to run the van until you finally reach your house.

Mission Eleven: Smash and Run

Now for a fun mission. For this mission you are required to steal three cars and drive them up into the tractor trailer one at a time. The only real hard part about this mission is getting out of the car when you put it in the truck and then getting another vehicle to get to the next car. From the start follow the road left and make sure you follow it to the highway. If you get lost or can’t find it, just follow the truck until it gets on it and then boot it to the first car. When you reach the first dot, it will be in an underground parking lot. Ditch the bike inside and jump in the car. You should be able to grab the car and be out on the street before the truck comes by.



When it does or if you were slow and it already has gone by, catch up to it and drive the car up the rails on the back. Make sure you are dead lined up since you can miss very easily and total the car to kill the mission. Once you get the first car up, jump out of the car and you’ll be on the ground. Now you need to grab another car, but try to grab a motorcycle if possible. They are a lot quicker than most of the cars in this area and you need some definite speed. Grab a bike and start to the next green dot. When you get to it, drive the bike into the courtyard and over to the small garage on the right side. Jump off and go through the door and jump in the car.



Again, boot your way to the truck and you should be able to reach it before it hits the winding roads. Drive the second car up and jump out. Try to nab yourself another bike and make your way to the third and final car. It will be in a dealership and you’ll need to smash the front window to get it. Smash through the window and hop in the car. This time you don’t need to drive up the rails of the truck You can just follow the truck into the compound instead of driving up the rails, but you need to make sure that you can catch up to the truck before it gets there. The road leading into the compound it very narrow and very windy and it’s easy to wipe out on. Keep a cool head and a heavy foot and you’ll be able to clear this in a few tries.

Mission Twelve: 18-Wheeler

For the first part of this mission you need to make your way to the docks and to the shipping yard. When you reach it, you will be told to find a way in. Drive your car through the front gate and hop out of your car. Start shooting at everyone you see and kill everyone in the area. There will be a lot of enemies here so make sure you only take on a few at a time by using the corners for cover. When everyone is dead, head over to the crane where the arrow is pointing and climb up the ladder. When you are up there, operate the crane and move it right and forward until you are on top of the container above the blue one. Pick up that container and move it back, to the left and forward and drop it. Move the crane back to where the blue container is and pick it up.



Move the crane to the starting position and go backwards and drop it on the flat bed truck. When it is on, get out of the crane and climb down the ladder and go over to the garage on the right where there will be a rig. Hop in it and back it up to the front of the trailer. Now that you have a fully loaded rig, head out through the gate you smashed through and follow the road to the docks. To make driving the rig much easier, press the back button and drive in first person view. Since you were a rambunctious person and set off the alarms at the shipping yard, there will be a lot of cops after you now. Smash through their road blocks when they appear and keep heading to the docks. When you reach it, pull in and drive under the crane to complete the mission.

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