-Syphon Filter 3 Minigames-
1)BASIC STUFF
-Details
-Updates
-Legal
2)MINIGAME INFORMATION
-Intro
-Rankings
-Weapons
-Cheats
-Characters
3)TYPES
-Assasinate
-Eliminate
-Demolition
-Thief
-Biathlon
4)THE LEVELS
-Names
-Descriptions
-Unlocking
5)TIPS
-Assasinate
-Eliminate
-Demolition
-Thief
-Biathlon
-READ DOWN HERE FOR FAQ INFORMATION-
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1) BASIC FAQ STUFF
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DETAILS
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Written by: Aaron Baker Version: 1.0
Gamefaqs name: ABaker Last updated: October
Board name: wayalla Game: Syphon Filter 3
Email:
[email protected] System: Playstation
Created on: Wordpad Posted on: gamefaqs
What: My in-depth minigames FAQ for Syphon Filter 3
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UPDATES
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I hope to update this minigames FAQ as much as possible. I will update
it probably once every month. Everytime I find a new bit of information
that can help you, I will add it in here.
Version 1.0
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First release to gamefaqs
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LEGAL
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This FAQ is copyright Aaron Baker and can not be used on anyones site
apart from gamefaqs. It can't be sold or published in a magazine or be
used on anyone's site apart from gamefaqs. It can only be used for
personal and private use only.
Please, if you find this FAQ on any site apart from gamefaqs, please
email me! It will be delt with harshly.
This minigames FAQ (C) 2002 ABaker
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2) THE GAME
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INTRO
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OK, a new feature to the Syphon Filter series is the minigames. Here you
can practice all you want and get better on your skills at playing the
real game. The minigames have a mixture of levels, characters,
difficulty and objectives for you to play. This means hours of fun for
you. The minigames can be slected from the main menu by pressing X on
new game, and then go to minigames and press X once again. Here you can
choose your level, objective, difficulty and character.
Donn't worry, the controls are the same for the the minigames, except if
you changed them in the story mode.
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RANKINGS
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In the minigames, there are different rankings which determines the
hardness of the game, E.G: Trainee is the easiest and commander is the
hardest, once you complete the first, you can now move on to the next
difficulty if you want. Here are the difficulties.
Trainee: The starting difficulty, this is just for you to get what the
level and the game is.
Rookie: Next type, still very easy but a step up from the last
difficulty, just have a bit more practice at the level.
Agent: Now, it starts to get harder, more enemies, more bombs and harder
things. Be careful.
Special Agent: 2nd hardest, enemies are smarter and come in packs of 3
and 4. Don't hesitate.
Commander: No fooling around, the hardest. Watch out for headshots. If
you complete it, you are a master of Syphon Filter.
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AVAILABLE WEAPONS
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All the possible weapons to get in the Minigames:
Starting: you posses as a starting item at least once
enemies: enemies carry weapon and you can pick it up once their dead
9MM:
Small handgun, not very powerful using the Auto target or the normal
aiming, takes about 4 bullets to kill a normal enemy on Auto target mode
at the body.
starting-----enemies
Shotgun:
A very powerful weapon, kills every enemy in 1 shot. The only fault qith
this weapon is that it takes to long to reload which is really bad if
your facing alot of enemies at one time.
enemies only
Falcon:
A pistol that has the power as a shotgun. A normal auto aim will kill
the enemy in 1 shot.
Starting only
M16:
The only machine gun, each time you press fire, it fires 3 bullets. A
normal Auto target will kill an enemy with 4 bullets.
starting-----enemies
Sniper Rifle
Good for long range kills. Anywhere from the groin above will kill the
enemy in 1 shot in Manual aim.
Starting only
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CHEATS
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Well, if you have finished the game and got the End level and Super
agent mode, this makes the minigames easy,
SUPER AGENT:
Put it on for a one shot kill on all enemies, even on your least
powerful weapon.
END LEVEL:
This really takes the fun out of it, accept to end the level and go onto
the next difficulty. Good if your a cheater, but not for me.
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CHARACTERS
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Now, here is all the playable characters that you can use to play all
these magnificent minigames.
Gabe Lian Chance in armour
Desert Gabe Elsa Weissinger Formal Lian
Jungle Gabe Lawrence Mujari Bag Lady
London Gabe Teresa Lipan Ninja Gabe
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3) THE MINIGAMES
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All the playable minigames:
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Assasinate:
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All you have to do in this mission is eliminate all enemies. There is
about 2-6 of them. in trainee, there is only 2. But, there is 2 catches,
it has to be done in stealth which means you can't be seen at all
otherwise the mission will end in failure. To use stealth, you are given
a Sniper rifle (Great for stealth), 9mm (O.K for stealth but not
targeting) and a knife (Great up close). The other catch is that you
have to do it in a certain time limit, in trainee it's 9 minutes and in
agent it's 4 minutes. Time limits are big and the last 2 levels, you
don't have a sniper rifle and there is no time limit. The last level on
assasinate is the hardest, you have to kill every enemy with just a
knife, this is extremly hard because you have to get right up close to
them and sneak (crawl) and roll and use hte knife. You have to be
crawling to do the stealth knife kill otherwise the enemy will hear your
footsteps. If you arn't close enough to the enemy This minigame inproves
your stealth, thats why I play it. It helps me save ammo in the real
game by just killing most enemies in 1 shot, but you don't always have
the sniper rifle and lots of ammo for it.
My Rating: 9/10
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Eliminate:
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One of my favourite types. The objective for it is the name of the
minigame, all you have to do is eliminate enemies, there are 10 enemies
in trainne and 25 in Commander. Most enmies come in flocks from 2-6, but
alot of the time guys come single, which is easy. enemies only carry
certain guns such as: 9MMs, Shotguns, M16s. The most common is shotgun.
But you get to start off with a M16 and a falcon, I always use the
falcon first, and then finish with the M16 or if iv'e got full shotgun
ammo that I picked up, I maybe will use this. There is no time limit so
go wild. No stealth is required, but if you want to try with stealth,
you will find it impossible because you have to be in direct combat. The
enemy runs until he has located you then starts firing at you, fire back
and kill him. Always the lasat mission is very hard, you only have a
pistol with 6 bullets. You have to scavenge for more ammo. In the first
3 difficulty's (Trainee, Rooke, Agent) you have to seek out the enemies,
but in the last two, they are looking for you and are mad!
My Rating: 8/10
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Demolition:
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I don't really like this objective. When you start, you will notice that
you will have a guy next to you, he usually says 'Kick Ass'. What you
have to do is give him cover fire while he disarmes the bombs. He wont
help you fight if he is in the middle of disarming a bomb, so it's just
you against everyone that comes. He is the only guy with expirience to
disarm the bombs. They got this idea from Syphon Filter 1 level 2, where
you have to blow open the door on the subway to let through the bomb
expert to disarm the bomb and you have to protect him. Bombs just look
like a briefcase like on the 'steal' objective. It doesn't take long to
disarm all the bombs. Guys come from all directions and most come for
you first, so this is the one time that you need to get their attention
and divert all the bullets to you, because you can take them, but he
doesn't have any armour. As like all levels, rankings and objectives, it
gets harder as you go along, so as you progress, there is more bombs and
way more enemies. The first 3 ranking are very easy but then they start
to get very hard. Remember, protect that guy with your character's life.
This gets boring after awhile after you have to circle your defuser in
the middle because guys come from evrywhere around him.
My Rating: 7/10
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Thief:
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All you have to do is steal a briefcase and return that briefcase to the
starting place. The briefcase is usually surrounded by alot of enemies,
but sometimes the computer tricks you, puts it in a place where no
enemies are. this is tricky because your likely to go for a spot where
enemies are guarding and that fools you when the briefcase isn't there.
Also you have to do it in stealth, which means you can't be seen while
stealing it or geting back to the starting position. Also, you have a
time limit to do the level in. These 2 aspects make it hard to complete.
But, thief is challenging, think of it as Terrorist's have planted a
bomb somewhere in the district and you must find it and bring it back to
the bomb experts, the bomb is scheduled to go off in ___ Minutes and if
you are seen, they will detonate it, so you must hurry. Anyway, thief is
challenging and if perfects the skill off sneaking quietly around
people, these tecniques come in handy for 1st level with Teresa Lipan.
Enjoy the challenge. I think it is fun.
My Rating: 7/10
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Biathlon:
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Mah, I don't like this minigame, all it is is targets that you have to
shoot with a sniper rifle, just follow the trail to the firing position
and use L1 to aim, Triangle to zoom in, O to zoom out, and fire at the
target and if you successfully hit a target it will break. There is a
certain number of targets in 1 firing position and there is 4 firing
positions. on Trainee, none of the targets move, but as you progress,
targets start to move slowly and very fast, on the commander difficulty,
you have little ammo and just about all the targets move, which makes
this very hard to complete, I could never do it. here are the rules.
1)Only shoot from Firing positions, all firing positions are marked by
the end of the trail and a status callout (A thing that says a
characters name, points to something E.G). 2) Save ammo for use on all
targets, this means: Just say you are on the last set of targets, there
is 5 of them and you only have 6 bullets, then you fire 2 bullets and
miss on both of them, now you only have 4 bullets, and there is 5
targets left, it is impossible to finish a level if there is 5 targets
left any only 4 ammo left, get it.
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4) THE LEVELS
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Now, here is all the levels that are playable. Half of them you have to
unlock though. I have written a big description for each level and after
that how you obtain a secret minigame level:
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Whispering Woods Mortuary
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The burial place of Teresa Lipan, or was it (sp). A dark cemetary
situated in a town called whispering woods. It looks spooky when playing
because you are at a cemetery at night. People might rise from the grave
and become MONSTERS, sorry, of subject again. there is a path right down
the middle of the cemetery, I advise that you don't use it, this path
leaves you very open to head shots on the harder difficulty. On the
harder difficulty, I think you should use the high graves as a barrier
and a hiding place. But remember, it's dark so you can't always see the
enemy. Watch out for the walls in the corner on the minigame Demolition,
some guys jump over it without you knowing and kill your mate if you are
unaware. Also in whispering woods there is an underground section, there
is a shoot to get down there, kind of like a slippery dip. This time you
can jump down from a tall place and land and live. The underground
section leads to 2 rooms, 1 room has a bookcase and a strecher and the
other way is a corridor that leads to steps where you can get out, you
can also acces the secret area like this. The stairs puts you out next
to a house. This level is from the ening movie of Syphon filter 2 and
the starting movie of Syphon Filter 3. I tried to read the names on the
plaques but it's too hard to read. A nice, spooky level to play, the
first level I ever played in the minigames and it was fun.
New York Slums
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The poor district, too bad there is no poor guys around. This level is
also dark, it's like your trying to be robbed because your rich and poor
people wamt your money, but you pull out a gun and you show them who is
boss around here. Excpet your fighting hitman who want you dead, and
then maybe they will steal your gun, and then maybe your money, of sub
again. You can get acces to a shop, it doesn't have much space in there,
but just somewhere to hide if you need to catch your breath after being
chased by hitman around the block. In elimination, guys come from behind
and in front of you so watch out for the guys behind the most. there is
also secret rooms, well not secret at all actually, in fact a starting
position is in 2 of them. Find the entrance to one of them near a pile
of wooden boxes. I can remember when I first played this level and I
started in a room with a big glass window, and i went past the window
looking for the way out and I couldn't find it. I turned out it was
hidden behind a few boxes and I was trying to get out through the roller
door. Thief is very hard due to the open paths with enemies circling the
block. The level isn't as big as some but still good to explore fully.
They got the minigame level off Syphon Filter 2, where gabe has to
Rendevous with Teresa at the helepad. It happened after Gabe escaped
Stevens's Death Lab where Logan was Double crossed after trying to get
Lians vaccine, which he done successfully.
Colorado Bridge
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Not a very big level at all, the only main place where you can freely
explore without climing, jumping is on the bridge. the bridge isn't very
long anyway, it only has 3 trucks to protect you from enemies. There is
only 2 starting positions on this level, one at the beginning of the
bridge and the other is on the scaffolding. The scaffolding is small
rails holding the bridge up from below, if you drop, you will die. Get
on to the bridge or side of the bridge from here by climbing up as far
as you can and try to get as close as possible to the bridge and then
pull yourself up by pressing Triangle and then Up on the D-Pad. Doing
this on Eliminate at commander ranking is hard because of the time it
takes to get up and you can't hide behind the barrier, well you can but
your head and part of your body is still showing so the enemy can get a
head shot so easily. I like doing assasinate because I see an enemy,
hang from the bridge, and once there past be, I get up and crawl right
next to them and kill them with my knife or pick them off from where I
stood up. Try to explore the scaffolding espicially on Thief mode as
sometimes the briefcase is there, but not often. This level came from
Syphon Filter 2, as most of them did. Gabe was going through Colorado
when he came across this bridge that these tterrorists and the agency
where trying to demolish the bridge so Logan couldn't get past, he had
to eliminate the commander in stealth with a 2 min time limit and then
had to diffuse 4 bombs.
Washington Park
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A Huuuuuuuuge level and it is very well designed. It is the second
biggest level in the whole minigames. It ahs alot of features in this
level, from A statue of honour to tenniscourts and built up areas near
the start with tress on them, that looks cool. At one stage, there is 2
ways to go, to left is a path twisting around trees and if you go the
other way, you will come to a Jungle jim, this looks cool. You can climb
up it and be the king of the world, and no one can stop you because you
have a gun. Ahahahahah. Sorry, anyway, explore the jungle gym a while,
it is fun climing up and down it. keep on going and now you will come to
a hedge maze, this maze isn't hard and note that you can't use climb
(triangle) to climb on to the hedge, so this makes it harder, actually
this is easy, just follow the concrete path around, past lights and all
other ways leading off the track, if you want, you can explore the whole
maze. After a while you will come to the end of the maze, and come to a
building called 'Freedom Memorial'. You can't get acces to this
building. If you have played Syphon Filter 1, the freedom memorial was
one of the boss fights which was really fun and challenging, it took me
ages to kill Anton Girdeaux, but I liked him, espicially his French
Accent, 'Gabriel Logan'. Anyway, as you can tell this park level cam
from the original Syphon filter and is the length of the whole level
from Syphon Filter 1.
D.C Subway
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A normal sized level thats looks cool. All it is is two train tracks and
a big station in the middle with signs and information on it. Next two
both tracks is a little walkway where enemies love to walk, so look here
for enemies, they come out of back rooms. Bialthlon on this level is a
very simple track, start on once side of the middle section and follow
it and do a turn to the other side and go foward, like a U turn, but it
goes:
<<<<<<
| ^
| ^
| ^
| ^
| ^
| ^
Biathlon track:
^ = walk up
< = walk left
| = Walk down
In assasin, watch out for enemies in back rooms popping out to the
little walking track, they come out the side tracks. In elimination,
when enemies come from the little side walways next to the track, use
something for cover because the enemies can't come straight for you
because they can't cross the tracks. Note that no trains go by like in
Syphon filter 1. As you just picked up, this level came from syphon
filter 1, in fact, it is the first level in the whole 62 levels in the
syphon filter series. The original, and a great and fun level to play,
enjoy it.
Rhomers Fortress
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here we come to the longest level in all of the minigames, it beats at
least 2 levels from the real Syphon Filter 3 story mode, those 2 levels
are the Galaxy transport plane and the level called The Beast. You start
off on a hill inside what looks like a church, go left and left again to
see two missing windows and on eliminate, 2 guys jump down from there.
Explore every possible route, as you can get to alot of places. enemies
love having the shotgun on this level, I've only ever played it on
eliminate, so thats all I know, but I have played the level on Syphon
Filter 1. Watch out when you get on the beams about 3/4 of the way
through the level, It's easy to fall, trust me. Below you now is where
you have to go, yep. But how do you get down there, you can't jump
because it will be too far and you will die and have to start the whole
level again. that spiral thing that looks like a window is where you
have to go through, shoot it. Now you take the long, exhausting back
road to the end of the level. The end of the level is the path going
down into a door that you can't go in. During this level, you encounter
lots of different things, including a library, once again, it is the
same length as the Syphon Filter level 'Catacombs Lower level'. This
mission in Syphon comprised of 3 different levels, the first 2 are about
exactly the same which is boaring.
Phagans Warehouse
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You start outside and around you are warehouses containing boxes. This
level is a reasonable size and there is thousands of places to hide,
place to hide are inside warehouses, in rooms, Behind barricks and many
other places, never hide behind those drums, because they contain fire,
if it is is shot, everyone with in a certain distance of the barrels
will die. This is good for elimination, stay way back from the barrels
but still so you can see them, and when enemies come in flocks, shoot it
and all will die, this makes it easier to achieve your goal. In
assasinate, never fire at the barrels unless you are trying to kill the
last guy that is next to the drums, in that case you can shoot them, but
other times don't as it attracts the attention of the enemies and you
will be spotted and mission will fail, so avoid making noise at all,
same with the objective thief on this level. Another great tip for
assasinate is: Get up high in a warehouse that you can easily duck and
hide in, while your up high you should be able to see a fair bit of the
level, so be a true sniper and fire. Once again, this level was in the
original syphon filter, it is the 7th to last level, I never could find
the viral samples, so I gave up trying. Anyway, you are dropped here and
you have to get to warehouse 71 and find the elevator in the burning
wreck leading down to the Missile silo.
China Exhibit
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You are in part of the Pharcom exhibition centere, in the Ancient china
exhibit. A normal sized level, not huge like some, but not short like
others. This exhibits back ways is like a major maze, each statue you
come to you are given either 3 or 2 or 1 more ways to go, also note that
you can walk through the glass and it doesn't hurt you at all, buit this
can create noise in Assasinate and also thief modes, so be careful that
no one is around before smashing it. In no mission you really have to
smash the glass, but I do it anyway. Eliminate is also hard because if
your at a statue, tuns of guys can come from all different directions
and target you in head shots (only on the hardest eliminate difficulty).
Due to all the back wasy, thief can also be hard, because once again,
it's like a maze, just look at your radar if your having trouble, it
picks up the briefcase as a blue flashing dot, thats where you have to
go. If you need to, you can hide behind the pharcom boxes and when
enemies come past, usually they don't see you. This is a good method.
This level came form the second Syphon Filter, it is a exhibition in the
Pharcom centre. In this exhibit, Gabe has to eliminate Dillion Morgan,
an agency boss, Gabe has help from diffusing the bombs that Morgan has
armed, if Gabe and Teresa pop Morgan before all the bombs are disarmed,
the whole place will go up in flames because Morgan has a dead man
switch, which will set off all the bombs if that hits the floor.
Military Base
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A great level, there is actually two types of this level, one is the
normal outside snow stuff and there is also a little underground bunker
with 2 paths leading out into the fresh air. The bunker is the main
starting place. Once out into the cold snow, you will see a truck,
usually guys come and hide behind it, also there is drums which contain
fire. If you keep going around, you will meet some more enemies and come
to power lines and a power relay, watch out for an ambush on eliminate
as you approach the relay, about 4 guys come, most with shotgun, just
hide or kill them, I always die here, in fact, that is the only place I
have died on this level. It's not a very big level, about a 1/10 th of
the real level in Syphon Filter. Mabe they had to cut it short because
they where running short on disc space, anyway, this is a easy level but
not alot of ggod places to hide, except for the bunker. As I mentioned,
this level originates from Syphon Filter 1, where it is kind of a
stealth level, but if your seen, thousands of men come at you, so the
mission doesn't fail if you seen, it's just that if your seen, men come
towards you and you reach a checkpoint and die, when you are brought
back to the last checkpoint, you will still be counted as spotted and
the enemies will be flooding in, there is nothing to stop this, except
if you reset and play this level again. You also have to play this level
again as an escape level in 3 minutes but everyone is alerted so you
just have to kill them.
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UNLOCKING
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At the start of the whole game, 5 minigame levels are already available
for you to play, but 5 are hidden through out story mode. Unlock a
secret minigame area by doing what I say in each level:
HOW TO UNLOCK
Here is some special things that you can do to unlock a certain minigame
area.
Level 1: Hotel Fukushima
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All you have to do is rescue the prisiner across the street, sound easy,
well it's not. Try to eliminate 2 guys quickly and then everyone who
comes in that same room, who cares if you lose health, your going for an
extra level.
Type: Minigame
Level: Military base
Diff: very hard because of all the guys who come in and shoot st him,
but once your good at aiming, you can get this very easy.
My diff rating: 7/10
Level 5: Pugari complex
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Avoid putting a bullet in foreman jone's head, let him survive and this
will make your whole next part of the mission very easy, kill him and
you don't get the minigame and the truck smahes into the building
blowing it up and thousand of guys come. If you avoid killing, you get
the game and none of the truck + guys happen.
Type: Minigame
Level: Colorado bridge
diff: very easy, did it the first time I played the level without any
help from any walkthrough FAQ or anything like that. But most people
like putting a bullet in peoples' heads, but I left him alone.
My diff rating: 2/10
Level 9: Waterfront
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All you have to do Is blast through the level as quickly as you can, I
think you have to complete it in under 9 minutes to get the extra level.
Type: Minigame
Level: Warehouses
Diff: not very hard to do, but just run, ahoot and don't stop, look at
your map so you know whereto go and what path to go to quickly and
cutscenes take up time so just skip them.
My diff rating: 6/10
Level 14: St george Australia
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At the start of this level, get the sniper rifle in the back of the
truck next to the start, now kill all the enemies with it without bieng
seen. You must rescue everyone of the aborigines before you can be seen.
The only guys you can be seen by is the guy on the tower when your going
to the truck at the end of the level, and the guys surrounding the
helecopter for escape.
Type: Minigame
Level: Rhomers fortress
Diff: Hard to do, use all your training and snipe from far back as
possible if you can.
My diff rating: 6/10
Level 19: DC Subway
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Finish the level as fast as possible and you will likely unlock a new
arena. I think the time to beat it in is about 8 minutes.
Type: Minigame
level: Mesa Verde Exhibit
Diff: Easy, done it the first time around without even knowing how to
get the Minigame. Very Easy if I can get it so quick.
**ALSO**
Bonus minigame
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In level 1, when fighting Shi Hao and luitennants, kill all the
luitennants with the Air Taser (but make sure you save the prisinor as
well, other wise I found it didn't work).
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5) TIPS
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=Assasinate=
- When assasinating with a knife, always crawl and use roll to get
closer instead of running. The enemy can hear your footsteps when
running but not when your crawling and rolling.
- With the sniper rifle, anywhere above the groin will kill an enemy in
1 shot, so you don't always have to do a head shot.
- With the 9MM, you have to use a head shot to kill the enemy, 1 shot at
the body will alert the enemy.
=Eliminate=
- Try to use a one shot kill weapon as enemies usually come in groups,
the falcon is probably the best weapon.
- When people come in flocks, try to use a few head shots while coming
towards you to only face a few guys.
- Hide behind a wall and use the quick peek method and then fire to kill
enemies with a head shot.
=Biathlon=
- Use Triangle to zoom in to get a better look and aim on the target, I
always do this.
- Take short cuts on the red track, E.G cut corners on it if there are
no firing positions, do this if you now the track well.
- You can come a bit fowarder than the firing position and shoot, but
not to far otherwise parameter failed.
=Demolition=
- Mainly use the R1 aim to get a good idea of where the enemy is and
where he is coming from.
- Use your radar to see how close the enemies are to the guy and there
chance of hitting the bomb squad member.
- Act quickly as soon as the enemy comes and preserve your best weapons
ammo for the harder parts.
=Thief=
- Enemies are mostly blind, they can only see straight ahead of them,
use this to your advantage.
- Don't get real close to any enemy unless you need to to get to the
briefcase.
- The briefcase shows up as a Blue flashing dot on your radar if your
close to it.
