Crysis PC Game - Walkthrough: 02 - Recovery

Capture Communications Trailer

Not much to see here. Just move straight ahead and drop down, then Prophet will clear up your objective for you.

Find Hostage in the Village

Prophet lets you know that a hostage from the research team is being held in the village just ahead. Your goal is to rescue this person post-haste. By doing so, you'll get your first real taste of the outstanding squad combat featured in Crysis.

Begin by heading up the road. Hop in the nearby half-track and drive it a little ways forward. Go slow, as an enemy truck will be joining you shortly. Jump into your turret when it approaches and blow away the gunner and his buddies.



Exit the truck and proceed forward cautiously. Head up the first path you encounter on the right. KPA soldiers are everywhere, so use your cloak and move quickly from one rock to the next, or drop and crawl forward. By now you should know the drill.

Wait until the North Koreans get close, then start blasting with the shotgun if you've got the ammo. Whatever you do, don't stop moving, as this crew is loaded with grenades and isn't shy about using them. Don't get cocky, either. The KPA use the brush really well for camouflage in this battle, so be absolutely sure that you've killed all of them before poking your head up. Nothing ruins Nomad's day faster than an unseen enemy with a shotgun.

Secondary: Access North Korean Tactical Network

Keep moving up this jungle path and Prophet will radio you about a North Korean base just ahead. He then gives you the secondary objective of accessing the KPA tactical network once again to determine what the bad guys are up to.

Use your cloak to get close to the base. Hide behind the buildings on the left, then move further up and hunker down behind the corrugated metal fence while your cloak regenerates. Crawl around the fence with your cloak activated. Creep up the path slowly. A patrol will come around the corner. Blast them when you get into a good shooting position.

Then proceed further and get close to the KPA in the station itself. Gun them down, too. Access the network just as you did before. Click on speed for a change and run around to the front of the base. Shoot the troops here and load up big time on FY71 ammo and grenades. A precision rifle and a rocket launcher that can come in handy down the road are also located here. Shame you can't carry everything.

Incidentally, you can take the easy way out and lob a grenade into the base. Unfortunately, this both kills all the KPA and blows up the tactical network hardware, causing you to fail the mission. So tread lightly unless you love cool ka-booms.

Find Hostage in the Village (Again)

A KPA truck may show up on the road below as you're leaving the base, so move cautiously. It's best to take a peek down from the outcropping looking over the road. If the truck shows up, pull up your scope and kill the gunner and his friends. Or drop some grenades. Six of one, half-dozen of the other.



Turn speed on when the way is clear and zip down the road and to the left toward the village. Cloak and clear out the patrol here. Psycho now radios to say that he'll provide backup when you enter the village. The first in a long line of unfulfilled promises.

Use cloak again to cross the bridge. Stay on the road, as there are mines to the left and right. Get ready for one huge firefight with half the North Korean army. Specific strategies don't work in this section, as you wind up being hunted by a dozen or so soldiers in this small shantytown of shacks, machine-gun nests, and a garage. Just be very cautious and use cover and cloak constantly. You can also set up shop in the garage, ducking inside to regenerate your cloak on a regular basis. Snipe as many enemies from long distance with the scope on the FY71 from this location, too.

When everybody's dead, scrounge ammo from the corpses and buildings. Then check out the town hall. It's the big building dead ahead (just look for the flag). Storm inside and blast the handful of guards, then check the computers upstairs for info on the hostage. It seems he or she is being interrogated in the town school. Collect the ammo and grenades upstairs, then move outside and back down the street towards the school.

Infiltrate the School and Find the Hostage

As with the town hall, the school is easy to locate as it's the only other big building in this flyspeck of a burg. Run around to the main entrance, then enter the building. Edge around the corner to the right and get ready to blow away the two KPA troops that will confront you on the stairwell.

Head upstairs. Listen carefully and you'll hear voices from a room down the hall to your right. Did somebody say CIA? Move up to the closed door there for a brief tutorial in North Korean interrogation techniques. Huh, thought it would be a lot more brutal than that.

Psycho appears. Gee, thanks for the assistance a few minutes ago, buddy. A cutscene depicts Psycho bursting into the room and freeing a female research assistant who had been working with Professor Rosenthal. She's pretty freaked out about how her team unearthed an ancient artifact. It first looked like a statue left behind by an unknown civilization, but turned out to be some kind of beacon that they apparently "woke up." At any rate, she's pretty sure that something on the island doesn't want people there, and flatly refuses to go back to the dig site.

Destroy the KPA Tanks

Just after the girl finishes her story, you get the depressing news that the KPA have rolled some tanks into town. Of course, Psycho tells you to take care of them while he stays behind looking after this comely former hostage. Gee, what a hero.

Head up to the roof of the school, grab the frag grenades there. They're of little or no use against armor, though, so follow up by leaving the building and heading towards the ocean. Use your cloak or max speed to make sure you survive the trip.

Right beside a couple of KPA metal trailers near the shore is a shack stocked with loads of ammo and two missile launchers. Grab one of the latter (you can only carry one at a time) and head back to the tank. Three rounds should blow it to kingdom come. Then go back for the other one and use it to detonate the second tank when it arrives.

Get to the Rendezvous Point

Psycho radios an all-clear when the second tank goes up in flames, which Prophet follows with a request for everyone to meet at a rendezvous point. Check your map, then leave the village using the exit opposite to where you entered. Move right into the jungle. Power jump twice up some rocks and head toward a waterfall. Prophet then tells you to join him.

Proceed to Prophet's Location

Move right of the waterfall. Jump up on more rocks. Head up another jungle path. Use cloak to get to a convenient rock just ahead and to the right. Hunker down and watch for the KPA to approach. Be very, very patient here. The brush cover is thick, which makes it tough to spot enemies, let alone actually shoot them. Cloak is invaluable here. Snipe the enemies with the scoped FY71, then move in to mop up at close range with the shotgun.

After you've killed everyone, you receive another message from Prophet. This time you're to hook up in the cave system farther up the path that you're currently on.

Head Upriver to the Cave System

Another KPA patrol arrives after you move just a few feet down the path. Repeat the tactics you just employed to slaughter their comrades, sticking close to the ground and using cloak as often as possible. After the battle ends, scrounge up some ammo. Most of the KPA troops here seem to be toting shotguns, so you should be able to max out your ammo pretty quickly.



Keep moving up the path until Prophet radios with a warning about more KPA just across the stream. Run down to the stream on your left before you get to the crossing. Don't reveal yourself here or you'll get blasted to bits by the North Koreans hiding in the high ground above the water. Instead, switch on your cloak and crawl forward. Cross the stream and move behind a huge rock to the right.

Wait for the KPA to reveal themselves and then start wasting them with the shotgun. The one-shot kills that the shotgun provides are a necessity here, due to the sheer number of enemies that will rush you. Use cloak whenever possible. Again, be cautious before moving out of cover. There are lots of North Korean soldiers here, including a couple that like to hide themselves in the reeds downstream, and they can take you out quickly with shotgun blasts of their own.

Once the carnage ends, take the path leading up and to the right. Head for the waterfall you glimpse through the trees. You soon find Prophet, who admits that the "research assistant" just rescued was actually a CIA agent keeping an eye on Professor Rosenthal. He doesn't seem to know what's actually going on here, though. The two of you head into the caves and the level comes to a close.

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