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.

Paths into the jungle are crowded with enemy patrols. Shoot them from long range, as shown here, then cloak and move in closer to mop up.

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.

Thanks to your cloaking system, this KPA goon never saw it coming.

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.

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