Walkthrough

Mission 1: Rendezvous With Destiny

Objective: Get to the nearest crossroad.

The opening to the game is more of a tutorial level than a real challenge; if you have Hints and Training turned on in your Game Options menu, you'll be given tips on how to move around, how to fire your weapons, and so on and so forth. This is true of the first few missions, but especially so for Rendezvous With Destiny.

After landing in Normandy, you'll soon meet up with Platoon Sergeant Hassay, a higher-ranking officer than you. You'll be able to command soldiers soon enough, but for now, it'll be Hassay doing the commanding. He won't force you into specific areas of the map, so you'll be able to move as you like, but you'll still have to follow him around if you want to end the mission.

Although your weapons were knocked off of your suit during the jump, Hassay has a .45 pistol that he'll lend you. It's not a powerhouse weapon, but it'll do fine for killing the two Germans that you come across in the course of the level. They're not just ordinary Germans, though; they're magical Germans with weapons that disappear as soon as they die, forcing you to soldier on with just the .45 at your side. There aren't any more enemies in this mission, though, so follow Mac until you reach another pair of soldiers.

Mission 2: Silence The Guns

Objective: Follow Mac's Orders

Now that you're on the ground in Normandy, you'll have to get to the busy business of supporting the Allied invasion of France. You won't be able command any troops just yet, and your only weapon is the .45 Pistol that Mac gave you last mission, so you're not even going to be all that effective in firefights until you find something with a little better accuracy.

You can suppress these Germans with your pistol if you fire quickly enough.

All you can do at the beginning of this mission is follow Mac and Leggett until they reach a farm zone. Your goal is to suppress the Germans across the way so that Mac can flank them and take them out, so get behind the low stone wall and start unloading your pistol rounds on them. You'll need to get used to taking cover while reloading, so try firing, kneeling, reloading, then popping back up and firing as rapidly as you can before repeating the process. It'll take a few clips of this before the Germans are suppressed, but when they are, Mac will handily pick them off, allowing you to move forward and grab one of their K98 rifles. This isn't going to fire nearly as rapidly as your pistol, but will let you make some precision shots when you're kneeling and aiming down the sights.

As soon as you get one, though, return to the stone wall; there are more Germans incoming. Leggett will start moving down to a building nearby, so follow him and start taking potshots at the Germans while Mac attempts to pin them down. You'll need to wait a few moments until Leggett and Mac both rush in towards the Germans; you'll be exposed if you attempt to move beyond Legget's position, so just wait for them to charge in and polish off the soldiers.

Next up are a pair of houses where two German groups will come rushing out of a truck. With the K98, you can likely pick off one or two of them from the same position as Leggett and Mac, so do so before attempting to flank. Leggett won't leave his position, so you'll be on your own; either left or right is a viable approach.

In the next farmyard, you'll come across an AA gun that you'll need to take out. Wait for Mac to fire here; he'll pick off one of the soldiers and suppress the rest, allowing you to flank to the left and remove the others from behind the lump of earth near the gun itself. After they're all dead, you'll need to blow the gun, using your handy explosive charges; follow the in-game tips for the precise button to use here.

With enough maneuvering, you can easily get behind these Germans and finish them off.

Unfortunately, Mac will send you alone into the stable off to the right of the path after you've blown the gun. You'll need to kill two Germans inside by yourself, so proceed slowly but surely. If you can get behind cover inside the stable, then you'll probably be best off with the .45 as your weapon here, thanks to its ability to rapidly fire at the Germans.

When you're through the stable, you'll have to assault another anti-aircraft position, this time with three or four different German groups defending it. Mac and Leggett will rejoin you, of course, and quickly dispatch a group of soldiers that take up arms behind an overturned cart. When Mac orders you to flank, you'll have the option of proceeding up either the left or the right, but the right is far preferable; just jump the stone wall and get behind the car and use your K98 to start sniping away at any Germans that pop their heads up.