Shai Gen

The Shai Gen corporation runs the northeastern part of the city, and has built it up with some exceedingly tall buildings. Their goons are the toughest around, so you're going to need to be fairly powerful to crash the party.

Before You Begin

Getting yourself up to level four Agility is possible here, if you haven't done so already. Climb a tall building as best you can (they can be murder to get up), then start hopping around, looking for the tallest Agility Orbs you can spot. You'll need around 250 - 300 of them to reach level four Agility, depending on whether or not you've done the foot races.

Level four Strength would also be adviseable. Kick your way to glory.

If you're looking to nab an easy supply point, the Bubble point, the westernmost one on your map, will probably be the easiest one to reach for you.

Some of the Shai Gen soldiers will be carrying Cluster Grenades on their persons. These grenades have a much larger detonation area than other grenades, so they're worth seeking out.

Lastly, the Watson HE99-X Firefly, a heat-seeking, 20-shell rocket launcher, can now be claimed for your own use. The easiest place to nab it is at the lair of Baltazar Czernenko, who resides in the P.C.N. Institute of Research in the northwestern corner of the islands. The large building in the southeastern corner of the research campus will have a pair of soldiers on it that pack the weapon. Getting to them can be tough, but when you manage to return the Firefly to a supply point, you'll be happy you took them on. For the rest of the game, the HMG weapon and the Firefly will be all you need to use to beat the remaining bosses.

Boss: Melissa Fang-Yin

Fang-Yin is Shai Gen's intelligence director. She resides in a large building with a bubble atop it in the southeastern corner of the island, to the south of the easternmost supply point on the island. If you can reach the Intellicenter supply point (approach it via the building to the northeast), that'll make a nice vantage point to start your attack. You can use your Firefly to knock out most of the soldiers in the surrounding buildings, then return to the supply point to replenish your ammo.

This James Bondish building is the home to Melissa Fang-Yin.

Fang-Yin resides in the uppermost satellite room of the structure, in the large glass bubble that's the most prominent feature of the building. There are plenty of soldiers on the outside of the building, but you don't have to clear the entire map out; most of the hostile enemies on your map will be on the ground level or in the highway that runs under the building, so they won't all be able to shoot at you. Tackle immediate threats first.

Getting to and killing Fang-Yin will be difficult, as there are only two entrances to the room, and the walkways in the middle will prevent easy delivery of rockets and explosives. Clean out the bodyguards first, then jump up to the top of the room and rocket Fang-Yin to death.

Boss: Thadeous Oakley

Oakley is Shai Gen's PR manager, who runs the public relations campaigns that keep the company in high regard with the people. Nefarious evildoer! He deserves nothing less than death! Anyway, he resides in a PR center on the northeastern corner of the island. You can either approach through the tunnel in the front or by swimming around to the back of the island and blasting one of the sets of doors there. The rear entrance is slightly easier.

When you enter, clear out the car showroom (what is this place?) then find the stairs in the central pod-like structure and start working your way up. When you reach the room at the top, kill off all of the bodyguards, and try to get up to Oakley as quickly as possible. He's got a couple of panels that protect him from fire from below, so get behind those after rocketing him and use them to cover yourself from the bodyguard fire as you stomp him to death.

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