Los Muertos

Los Muertos is the first gang that you'll come across in your travails. They're the easiest gang to take down, as their soldiers have the worst weaponry and the part of the city that they inhabit will possess the lowest rooftops, allowing you to jump around without too many problems. When you're ready to step up to the plate, follow the instructions in the Agency garage and grab a vehicle and head out through the shutters marked with the number one.

When you reach the end of the tunnel, you're going to find yourself in a little street fight with the city cops and a few Los Muertos. Feel free to get out, if you wish, and beat down some bad guys. Your first goal, though, as the Agency will tell you, is to head towards and retake an Agency supply point nearby.

Retaking Supply Points

Head towards the flashing symbol on your map to discover the supply point. You'll need to kill some Muertos to reach it, but when that's done, it's a simple matter of jumping to the supply point and pressing Y to convert it to your cause.

Supply points act as save points, health restoration devices, teleports (to other supply points around the city), storage devices for gang weaponry (the more supply points you have, the more weaponry you can store), and ammo and weapon resupply devices. Whenever you hit a supply point, you'll be able to resupply yourself with ammo for any weapon that you possess, and any gang weaponry you've picked up and returned to a supply point will become available for use. You're going to want to take over every supply point on the map.

With this supply point in hand, your next goal is going to be to find five or six Agility Orbs. That's all that you'll require to get up to level one in agility, which will in turn let you jump around a lot more effectively than you're capable of at the game's outset. If you're having trouble finding accessible Orbs, travel south to the beach and look for the carnival on the southeastern corner of the island. There are plenty of Orbs waiting for you there, all easily reached. Before you take on your first sub-boss, you'll probably also want to raise your Strength attribute to the first level, as well, since you'll gain another health bar by so doing.

Boss: Juan Martinez

Your first Muertos target will be Juan Martinez, the gang's treasurer. He's holed up on a rooftop to the west of the first supply point that you took on. When you have Agility and Strength raised to the first level, you should be more than capable of taking him down. You can feel free to travel around, gaining more Agility Orbs and other attributes before taking him on.

Later in the game, these jumps will look trivial, but for now, they can be difficult to make.

When you do move against Martinez, you'll want to be well-prepared. As you've probably discovered by now, submachineguns are currently your best weapon against the gangs here; the aiming reticule zeroes in a lot more quickly than do those of machineguns (if you've managed to find one), and they're powerful enough to drop most enemies with a few seconds of fire. Grenades also work well, as does your kicking when you get it skilled up. But pistols and machineguns are probably not going to help overmuch against your foes at this point. If you manage to find a sniper rifle (some of the gangsters that ride around in cars will have them), you can theoretically use that on some of Martinez's bodyguards, as well as Martinez himself if you manage to fire it from far enough away.

The catch is that Martinez is surrounded by bodyguards, most of whom will be a lot tougher than the normal run-of-the-mill thugs you've been facing off against thus far. Getting to him will be a somewhat longwinded affair of finding a way up to the rooftops, disabling groups of thugs with grenades or gunfire (switch to shrapnel grenades to pick up the grenades that the thugs drop), and fighting your way up to the upper levels of the area. Your shields will come under constant attack, so do your best to hide from fire when things get rough, but keep in mind that many of the soldiers will respawn if you leave the area; try to find alcoves and corridors to hide in rather than running too far away.

Martinez himself resides on a walkway connecting two of the buildings. He has plenty of health, but not enough to stop you. Get close to him, then nail him with gunfire or grenades to take him out. After Martinez is dead, you'll need to explore the city in order to find the other bosses that you need to kill.

Boss: Jose Guerra

Jose Guerra is holed up in a nightclub on the northeastern corner of the southern island of the Los Muertos district. You'll know it when you see it, since it's overrun with gang members. There's a supply point just to the west of the nightclub; grab it before heading in and resupply yourself with ammo and grenades.

There are three entrances to the nightclub. If you approach from the west (from the direction of the supply point), you can find a couple of gates leading to the parking lot behind the nightclub, which will let you grab a car and run down a few enemies if you enjoy that kind of thing. There's a large purple race marker near this entrance. If you approach through the front entrance, you'll have a difficult fight against multiple soldiers (you can thin their numbers by sniping them with an SMG from one of the neighboring rooftops). Lastly, if you head to the southeastern corner of the nightclub and jump in the water down below the rocks, you can find a hidden path leading up behind the club and into the carpark. You'll also nab a couple of Hidden Orbs this way.

If you attack from the rear, the enemies will cluster up on the steps, allowing you to blow them up with grenades.

If you take the frontal entrance through the gates, then you'll probably have a bit of an easier time taking down Guerra, assuming you survive through the gauntlet in front of the compound. If you approach frontally, Guerra will be located in the parking lot at the rear of the building, surrounded by cars, in a little alcove where he can't escape and where the lines of sight are quite good. If you can get down here (and you'll have to kill a lot of dudes to do so), you can pelt him with grenades after running down his posse and finish him off.

If you approach via either of the alternate entrances, though, Guerra will be located on a patio above the parking lots, forcing you to take the stairs up to reach him. A few waves of enemies will come at you, so make liberal use of your grenades to take them down, being sure to pick up whatever kinds of grenades that they're packing so that you don't run out. When you reach Guerra's patio, take out his bodyguards first, then try to knock him off balance with a grenade or a melee attack before finishing him off. Don't let him get the upper hand on you, though, as he can hit pretty hard himself with melee attacks, and will also throw grenades at you from very short range, which can quickly put a dent in your life meter, if not outright kill you.

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