Mission 3: Carver Media, Hamburg
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Mission 3: Carver Media, Hamburg
In this mission, Bond must rendezvous with Paris at the Carver Media party in Hamburg. He'll then need to sabotage the Carver Media Center and escape. To succeed in this mission, retreat to cover when you face multiple guards. They appear in bunches and they will cause trouble if Bond fights several at once.
Bond starts out atop a stairwell. Select the SMG 45. Proceed halfway down the stairs and, from the landing, shoot an unsuspecting security guard at the bottom. An alarm goes off. Back up until the guardrail of the stairs protects you from enemies coming up the stairs. Crouch down and wait for a couple more guards to run upstairs. Gun them down as soon as they appear.
When you have killed several guards and no more approach, go the rest of the way downstairs. Slowly make your way into a room with a card table at the center, watching for guards. Retreat to cover again if you see any. Explore this room. You'll find Heavy Armor behind a crate and a Door Remote on a shelf. Take both items.
Go to a panel on the wall near a pair of overhead doors. Press O while facing the panel to open the doors. Look through the doors. You'll see a guard walking behind a glass wall. Shoot out the glass wall and then shoot the guard. Duck back into the room with the card table and kill any guards who try to chase you as they come around the corner.
When the guards stop looking for you, go back through the door. Enter the glass-walled room with the Central Computer in the middle. Sneak in and watch for another guard. Shoot him if you see him. Take a tour of the loop of hallway surrounding the computer room. When you know you've killed all of the guards, use the PK7 to destroy the Central Computer.
You'll find most of the doors in the nearby hallway locked, though you can open one of them. Quickly kill the guard inside of the room and enter. Collect an Elevator Card from a shelf in this room, then get two Med Kits from behind the shelf. Go back into the corridor, watching for new guards. Locate an elevator. Press O while standing next to a panel near the elevator and it will open. Get inside and press the elevator button to go up a floor.
Upstairs, don't run into the hallway. Instead, select the Assault Rifle and switch to Sniper mode. Walk just outside of the elevator and peek around the corner. You'll see several guards in the room beyond and you must pick them off by leaning and sniping before you enter the room. When you can see no more guards in Sniper mode, run into the room and kill anyone you missed. Collect Med Kits and walk along a hallway plastered with huge images of Carver's face.
The hall ends in a large room with Paris standing in the center. Walk up to Paris and talk to her. As she converses with Bond, Carver and his henchmen will approach and capture him. Bond wakes up in an interrogation room with no weapons. Have him approach the large mirror on the wall and use his Cufflinks gadget while facing it. The mirror shatters, revealing a new room.
Run straight ahead and collect a PK7 from a table while a guard shoots at you. Immediately backtrack into the interrogation room and prepare for the guard's onslaught. If he fails to come around the corner, strafe out and kill him with the PK7. In the new room, collect a large Med Kit and a Door Remote from the floor. Watch the door because a few more guards will probably burst in and attack. Gun them down as soon as they enter the room.
When the flow of guards stops, approach the power console located behind a divider in this room. When you get close to the console, press O to cut the power to the building. Exit through the door the guards used to enter. You have come back to the loop of hallway surrounding the glass-walled Central Computer room. Run around and fight several guards, using cover or strafing to avoid critical damage.
Enter the room where you found the Elevator Card earlier. Go back through the Central Computer room and approach the pair of overhead doors. Press O to open the doors, then immediately go back into cover. A large group of guards waits behind that door. Kill them as they come toward you. When no more come, sneak up to the edge of one of the doors and use Sniper mode to pick off the rest.
When you finish killing the guards, proceed through the room and up the stairs to the spot where Bond started this mission. Go through the door here to complete the mission.
Mission 4: Pressing Engagement
This mission takes place in a newspaper plant. The loud printing machines make it difficult for you to rely on the sound of footsteps in certain areas, so you must compensate with extra vigilance. This mission features civilians whom you must not kill. Fortunately for you, they wear easy-to-spot white. To complete this mission, Bond must find Gupta's briefcase and retrieve the hidden encoder.
Equip your Assault Rifle. Walk around a corner and gun down a guard standing in a doorway. Walk through the door near the guard. You'll find a small room with a treasure trove consisting of two Light Armors, two Med Kits, and an ammo box. Take everything, exit, and continue down the hallway.
The hallway empties out into a lobby. Approach the lobby from the left side of the hallway. Then you will see a guard on the right side of the lobby. Kill him, then venture into the lobby, watching for a second and possibly a third guard on the left. Inside the lobby, turn left. Proceed downstairs toward a massive room filled with paper machines.
As you approach the room filled with paper machines, stick to the right side of the hallway. Before you actually enter the room, switch to Sniper mode and look up at a ledge on the left side of the room. A sniper! Stay just far enough back in the hallway so he can't shoot you, then lean out of cover to gun him down with the Assault Rifle.
A second sniper lurks on that same ledge, a little farther away. Also, two snipers wait on a ledge on the room's back wall. To deal with the other sniper on the left ledge, run straight into the room. Get very close to a massive paper roll, making sure that it sits between you and the snipers. From the cover of the paper roll, lean out and shoot the lone sniper.
Now run forward and slightly to the right, into the cover of a second paper roll. This roll sits closer to the back wall of the room and you can see both remaining snipers from here. Use the old lean-and-snipe trick to take them out. In the back, left corner of this room, well-hidden behind the paper rolls, you'll find a gold 007 icon. Collect it. You'll see two doorways leading out from the right side of this room. Go to the doorway closest to the hall that brought you into the room.
As you approach this doorway, stay to the left or right. Lean into the doorway and you'll see a guard standing between two paper rolls. Use Sniper mode to lean out and pick him off while remaining behind cover. After you kill the guard, advance past those two paper rolls. You'll find a stalled forklift, several chairs, and a briefcase lying in the center of the floor. Approach the briefcase and press O to retrieve an Access Card.
Return to the lobby area. Find an electronically locked door in this lobby that you haven't taken yet. Get close to the door, select your Fingerprint Scanner, and use it on the door.
Beyond the door you'll see a short hallway. Go through the second door on the right into a small room with file cabinets and art on the wall. Walk forward and slightly to the right, then stand to the left of a file cabinet pushed against the back wall. Face the cabinet and you'll find a wall safe. Walk up to the wall safe, which remains locked. Use the Fingerprint Scanner to unlock it, revealing an Encoder. Take the Encoder.
Make your way back to the noisy room with the paper machines, but take it slowly and watch for enemies. A few new guards have appeared since you last went there and they'll greet you in the hallway.
In the paper machine room, take the exit you haven't yet used. It leads to a hallway where guards hide behind paper rolls. Though you can see the guards over the rolls, and they can see you, nobody can shoot over the rolls. When the nearest guard isn't shooting, quickly strafe out from behind your roll and gun him down. Do the same with the other guard.
Another large room. Snipers lurk on ledges on the left and right sides of this room. You'll also find an endless supply of guards on ground level. If you like, you can now kill both snipers. Run full speed through the room, mostly ignoring your enemies, until you reach a hallway on the room's other side.
Run into a short hallway on the other side of the large room. When you reach the end of the hallway, you win the mission.
Mission 5: Hotel Atlantic, Hamburg
This mission tasks Bond with meeting Paris at a hotel swarming with Carver's agents. You'll find the mission difficult because of the large number of reappearing enemies and, thanks to Kaufman, a very tough hired killer. Bond must talk to the bartender, activate the elevator service, and meet with Paris to complete this mission.
You start out in a parking garage, beside your car. Immediately select your PK7 and gun down the two nearby guards, using your car as cover and popping out occasionally to fire a shot or two.
Notice a locked metal door near your car. You'll return here later. For now, cross the garage and walk through an ornate wooden door that leads to the hotel. Follow the hallway around two bends. The hallway opens up and a bar appears on the right. Kill a guard standing in the hallway then strafe toward the bar and kill the guard standing behind it.
Two doors lead from this hallway, one locked and one not. Take the unlocked door and enter the real bar area. Immediately after entering, sneak behind a mini-bar to your right and kill a couple of guards near the center of the room. Also kill the bartender who shoots at you. Get behind the main bar. Quickly collect ammo from behind the section of bar that extends out into the room, then get close to the remaining bartender and press O to talk. Bond will hold a brief conversation, ending when he shoots the bartender.
Walk over the bartender's body to collect a Key Chain. Select your Assault Rifle and go through a small door behind the bar, just a few steps away. Through the door you'll find a room with a central pillar. Kill any guards in here and collect three Med Kits from the floor around the base of the pillar.
This room has three exits, including the door you came in. One leads to the inoperative service elevator and another leads back to the "fake" bar in the hallway. Take the exit leading to the hallway and follow it all of the way back to the parking garage where you started this mission. In the parking garage, approach your car. Go through the metal door behind it. You'll enter a small room filled with crates, ammo clips, Med Kits, and Light Armor. Take everything from the floor, then press a switch on the wall to activate the service elevator.
Quickly, return to the room with the central pillar, killing guards as you go. From here, find the entrance to the service elevator. Enter the elevator and press the button panel to go upstairs. Upstairs, exit the elevator and immediately turn left. Take the door right next to the elevator. Follow a short loop of corridor, killing a guard, and go through a second door.
Now you enter a large, opulent hotel room dominated by a grand piano. You'll see stairs leading up to a second floor, but you can't take them yet. After a brief talking sequence, you must fight Kaufman, plus guards who will occasionally wander in to join the fun.
After you kill Kaufman, walk up either flight of stairs. We recommend using the small curving stairway near the back of the room rather than the grand staircase. Access the small stairway from a kitchenette. Upstairs, walk into the bedroom and talk to Paris. She will now follow you. Go through a door to collect Gas Bombs in an adjacent bathroom.
Go back downstairs, using the small curving staircase. Downstairs, kill any guards who have reappeared and exit through a set of double doors. Turn left and follow the hallway around a corner, battling guards. You'll find a golden 007 and Heavy Armor on the floor, with a strange electrical barrier beyond these items. Take the gear, then backtrack to the doors leading to the grand piano room.
Approach the base of the grand staircase. To the left of the staircase waits the door you entered before your fight with Kaufman. Take this door and follow a short hallway beyond it. Go through a second door and look around. Nearby you'll see the service elevator you used to come up here. Get inside the elevator and press the button to go downstairs.
Run full speed to the parking garage where your car waits, strafing and gunning down guards whenever possible. Run to the driver's side door of your car and you win the mission.
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