Infiltrate the Research Dome

Head up the road to the excavation site. Strickland soon radios and directs you to the research dome, where Rosenthal can probably be located and a lot of questions answered.

A veritable regiment of North Koreans is patrolling the jungle here, forcing you to proceed cautiously. Keep your cloak up as much as possible. Try to sneak by some enemies, as even your nanosuit isn't a match for five or six troopers all blasting away at you at the same time. Slipping past unnoticed is easier here, too, as some of the KPA spotlight their positions with laser-sighted SMGs and flashlights.

The excavation site itself is a large-scale version of the base infiltrated earlier, with even more watchtowers and machine-gun nests. You'll first need to take care of a machine-gun nest on the left across a shallow ravine. Cloak, get as close as you can, then use your scope to snipe the gunner in the head.

Storming the dig site requires some finesse and a lot of careful cloaking.

Hide in the brush until your suit-power regenerates, then cloak again and move to the main entrance of the dig site. Snipe the guard on the watchtower directly ahead and then scramble for cover behind the large containers to the left of the gateway. At this point you'll be into a huge scrap with a dozen or more KPA grunts. As usual, rely on the cloak and take cover often. Use the shotgun as much as possible, as you need to take enemies down with single shots to avoid getting swamped by their superior numbers.

Once everything has been cleared out, move further into the base and find the road leading down to the research dome. Watch for the machine-gun nests. Cloak and snipe the guard manning the gun on the left first, then take cover behind the corrugated metal wall and eliminate the remaining KPA as they attack. After this, cloak and move forward to take care of the other two nests on the right, as well as a watchtower off to the left.

Run into the dome, pausing briefly to shotgun the dimwitted KPA guard who runs directly at you out of the main doorway. Grab the FY71, shotgun, and pistol ammo in the corridor on the way to the actual dig site. Open the door and watch Professor Rosenthal arguing with a North Korean general via video uplink. Apparently the North Koreans are holding Rosenthal's daughter hostage and are engaged in dangerous experiments with what seem to be carbon-based machines that predate mankind by two million years.

After some ominous additional talk about these living fossils, everything goes haywire. An electrical surge of some sort flash-freezes Rosenthal and ices up the entire room. Command tells you to get the hell out of the dig site and get to a downriver extraction point marked on your map, and the brass apparently means it this time.

Professor Rosenthal finds out first hand what he's discovered beneath the mountain.

Proceed to the Extraction Point

Now you need to backtrack to the boat you spotted below the dig site. Lots of KPA stand in your way now, though, as reinforcements arrive just as you leave the research dome. Night has now fallen, making it even tougher to spot enemy soldiers.

The first crew of North Korean cannon fodder can be found just outside the excavation pit to the left. Cloak and blast them quickly with the shotgun. Stay cloaked and head back to the main entrance into the site encampment. More KPA can be found there, along with a half-track. Snipe the gunner, then take his place in the turret and kill his buddies.

Proceed back down the jungle road. You can take the truck if you want to try a kamikaze run through the KPA troops now lining the path, but you face so much firepower that your ride stands a good chance of getting blown to bits. Staying on foot makes the most sense, as does trying to keep out of sight.

Cloak and crawl through the brush on the right of the road. Watch for laser sights and flashlights, and try to avoid contact whenever possible. About two-thirds of the way back you can simply drop down to the shoreline and make your way to the boat. Thankfully, there are no KPA in the boathouse.

Hop in the boat and head off toward the point marked on your map. You won't get far, though, as you have to take the boat over a waterfall almost immediately. Even if you survive this without blowing up or getting jammed on the rocks, you have to abandon ship just up-river as the North Koreans have set up a barricade.

At any rate, keep low and keep cloaked as soon as you lose your boat. That damned chopper is back, too, so you need to stay down to avoid getting strafed or blown to kingdom come by a rocket. Climb onto the beach on the right side and cloak to creep past the guards and the trucks by the bridge. Don't bother trying to engage anybody here, as if the tons of KPA don't kill you, the chopper will.

Slip into the river on the other side of the bridge and run for your life. The chopper trails you all the way to the extraction point, forcing you to keep moving all the time. Keep the cloak up as much as possible, being sure to go prone and get under the cover of brush or long grass whenever you need a breather to regenerate suit power. At least the swampy terrain provides a lot of scrub to hide beneath.

Keep plowing through this marshy terrain and you'll eventually reach a spooky cemetery. Interesting spot for a pick-up.

The KPA may have nanosuits, but they don't have good soldiers to wear them. Somebody needs to tell these guys that they have a cloak feature.

Secure the Extraction Point So the VTOL Can Land

Your work isn't quite done yet. The LZ is still hot, so you have to clear the area before Vulture 26 can pick you up. Head to the far side of the cemetery wall to confront a brand-new enemy—KPA soldiers in nanosuits. Nomad tells command that they seem to be cut-rate nanosuits, but still, these guys can cloak just like he can, so they're a bit of a threat.

Well, they could have been a threat. As it is, however, the idiots wearing the suits seem to have a fetish for heights. So just sit back and wait for them to leap onto the big rocks outside the cemetery walls, then shotgun them at your leisure. Blast a handful of these nanosuit-clad goons and the VTOL will come down to whisk you away.