Mad Bomber Missions

Mission Two: Subway Disaster

If you missed Mission One, don't worry about it; that was the opening scene of the game that acted as the tutorial. These missions don't appear to be available until you do some of the initially available ones.

Anyway, someone's planted bombs in the subway, and it's up to you to ferret them out. Head down through Grand Central Station and follow the yellow markers until you see a man flying into a broken section of the tunnel. Follow him and defeat his friends, then use Spider-Sense to find a map on the table nearby. That will reveal the presence of bombs…in your very room! Attach yourself to the pipes and web them up to prevent them from detonating.

A larger bomb is hidden away in the tunnels above you. Follow the trains until you find it, then wait near the metal plate that's covering it up. When you get a new prompt to web one of the trains, do so, then drop down and follow the instructions on the mini-game that appears to disarm the bomb. The mini-games at this point won't be too difficult to get done with.

Another bomb is located nearby, at the rear of a drain pipe. To clear the water, find the smashable wooden panels in the train tunnel nearby, break them, then flip the switch on the other side to shut down the water.

One last bomb is hidden away near the train switching machine. Flip the switch here two times to pull out the train that obscures the bomb. When it's defused, you'll have to help stop a runaway train from presumably causing havoc. This is another face-button game; press the buttons as they pop up on the screen to slow the train down before it explodes. You don't need to hit every button that pops up, but you will need to hit the bulk of them. When you stop the train, you'll warp back up to the streets, where apparently everything is fine. Yay!

Mad Bomber 3: Jetpack Bombings

A lengthy mission that sees you, at first, running around the city to disarm bombs. You won’t have to disarm all of them; some of them can simply be kicked into the ocean. Eventually you’ll run across the eponymous jetpack bombers, who’ll run off and leave you bombs to defuse. The bombs definitely start to become more challenging here, so stay on your toes! Periodically you’ll have to catch one of the jetpackers and defeat him. If you get close enough to them, you’ll note a green targeting reticule over their bodies; use your web button to drag them down to street level, and either jump onto them and ram them into buildings to defeat them, or just unleash a few combos into them.

Mad Bomber 4: Carlyle’s Plan

Time is against you here, so quickly swing your way across the city to the George Washington Bridge. A number of bombers will be clustered around another large bomb, so use your super attacks to defeat them quickly before defusing it. When you do, you’ll see a bomb go off in a factory nearby, so head over to the entrance and move inside!

Things start happening quickly here. You’re going to be faced with three pressure valves and a few enemies when you see Carlyle. You have to defeat the enemies, then move all of the valves so that their readouts are in the green. They all have to be in the green at the same time if you want to stop the flow of chemicals to the fire. It’s not as difficult as it sounds, assuming you can defeat the enemies quickly enough to work unfettered. You’ll be able to see all of the pressure readouts when you work on any of them, so move to the most dangerous valve first and work backwards from there. If you move quickly, you’ll be able to shut off the energy and move on.

Eventually you’ll find a larger group of enemies that’s attempting to airlift a chemical tank out of the factory. You need to destroy the tank before they can abscond with it! You have plenty of enemies to deal with here, but you should auto-lock onto the tank if you get close enough to it. Bash it until it explodes, then ignore the rest of the enemies and follow Carlyle through the upper door here. A few button mashes to escape the factory, and you’ll be done.

Mad Bomber 5: Death to J. Jonah

More bombs, this time in the Daily Bugle building itself! You have to defuse the bombs while engaging in some button-mashing sequences to take out the bombers. The bombs are complicated, especially when you have to deal with the incredibly twitchy number-matching sequence, but you’ll have a couple of minutes to solve each one.

After Jonah’s helicopter takes off, follow it as closely as you can until a cutscene plays and Jonah falls out the back. You need to grab him as he falls, then resume your pursuit of the helicopter; if you get too far away from it, you’ll both be toast. The chopper will fire rockets as you as you chase it, but they won’t deal much damage to you unless you intentionally run into them.

Eventually, you’ll be able to land on a building, where the helicopter will begin attacking you. It will vary its attacks in a predictable pattern. At first, it’ll fire rockets at you from the tail end, so activate your dodge and reflect the rockets back towards the chopper with one of your face buttons to damage it. After that, it’ll launch a cluster of mini-rockets at you, then follow along with some gunfire. The minirockets are difficult to avoid; you might want to hop off the side of the building and stick to the opposite side of it from the helicopter. The gunfire can be outrun fairly easily. The rockets will bust open the ducts and vents on the rooftop, which will reveal healing items for you to pick up.

When the chopper goes down, you’ll have seen the last of Carlyle…for now.

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