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Before Ratchet enters the city, make sure you have loaded up on all ammo and have purchased any new weapons that you want to have, at the MegaCorp kiosk.
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From the top of the stairs, by the front entrance, turn left and walk across the bridge. There are small metal baracades to hide behind. Up ahead at the far end of the sidewalk, are several Thug Elite Henchmen. Once you walk past the baracades, the guards will start to fire (even from very long range). Best advice is to hide behind the first baracade and load the Vaporizer. Zoom-in all the way using the target ring. When it flashes red, fire 1-2 shots to take them down.
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Now it's safe to walk across the bridge and up the steps. Inside the next room behind the glass doors, are 3 more Thug Elite Henchmen. Walk across the flashing floor sensor to release the doors. Load the Megarocket Cannon and jump to the doorway. Fire 1 missle at each of the henchmen, dodging their plasma fire or strafing from left to right [L2+R2]. Once the coast is clear, go inside, clean up all the bolts and grab the Nanotech health cube. Go left and up the stairs.
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This is an ambush waiting to happen! There are several small circular baracades. Behind some of the baracades, are Thug henchmen (you can see the tops of their heads). Load the Megaturret Glove and toss 1-2 sticks up the sidewalk. This will take care of any nearby annoying chickenbots running around. Hide behind the first baracde. The henchmen will immediately start to fire on the baracade (and it's not holding all that well!) Load the Megarocket Cannon lock-on the target ring and fire. Shoot-down his buddies at the fountain.
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INSOMNIAC MUSEUM: Once the area is quiet, go to the central fountain. Climb the fountain and jump to the top ring. On top is a teleport pad but it's disabled. LOOK TO THE CLOCK TOWER Wait for 3:00 (or just after). Unfortunately you have to do this at 3:00am in the morning, so you may want to temporarily reset your PS2 console game clock from the configuration menu. The teleport pad will be active. Press [triangle] and teleport to the Insomniac Museum on Planet Burbank.
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Once the henchmen are gone, walk to the left. There is another Thug henchman, hiding behind a baracade right at the very end. Give him one good missle shot from the cannon. Take care of all the chickenbots with your trusty wrench or load the Walloper (anything that doesn't consume ammo). Whack all the crates and grab all the bolts. At the other end of the building, there's a glass courtyard with a glowing platinum bolt. There's a hole in the bottom of the glass wall. Load the Spiderbot Glove and toss one spider nearby.
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Guide the spiderbot through the hole in the glass wall. Run under the platinum bolt and walk the spider over the flashing floor sensor. This releases the glass doors on the other side. We will now have access to that bolt. Walk the spider out the other side and find something (preferably a henchman), and detonate.
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Now that this area is quiet, go back inside the building, and out through the other set of steps to another courtyard. There are several Thug henchmen hiding behind a baracde dead ahead. Load the Megarocket Cannon The auto-aim target ring will pick them up right away. Fire 3 shots to clear out the baracade. If you can't get a clean line of fire, run to the grassy area on the left, hide behind one of the palm trees and fire 3 missles before they get a chance to move.
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On the far side of the courtyard, there is another fountain. On top of the fountain is a Nanotech Boost Station. Climb the fountain and grab the boost (you will need this for the Nano to the Max skill point). Jump back down and whack all the crates. Go to the left, and take care of another henchman wandering around and several yappy chickenbots. Once the area is completely cleaned out, go back to the glass courtyard area and grab the platinum bolt. Don't forget to shoot-out all the wall lamps for lots of bolts.
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Once done, walk up the steps and take the hoverpad elevator to the top. Load the Megarocket Cannon. This is another ambush. There's a henchman close-by hiding behind the far baracade. Duck behind the closest baracade and fire a missle. Once he goes down, 3-4 Thug henchmen come running out of the room on the right and go to the left. Carefully, move up to the next baracade and scope out the situation. Run into the room on the right and whack the stack of crates at the end, for lots of goodies.
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Run back to the hardened steel baracade. You should be able to see all the henchmen up ahead blocking your way. Load the Vaporizer and using the auto-aim target ring, peg them off one at a time. Now go up and clean-up all the bolts and don't forget the Nantoech health cube. Take the nearby hoverpad elevator back down to street level. This is going ot be interesting? Henchmen everywhere!! At the bottom of the elevator, run to the small metal deflector baracade on the right.
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With the Megarocket still loaded, take down the 2 henchmen firing on you out in the open. After they're gone, look up ahead to the 2 small circular baracades, one on each side. There are henchmen hiding inside them. At this point, I chose to switch over to the HK22 Seeker Gun. Fire 1-2 sets of drones over the baracade. The drones will find and dive on the henchmen. 4-5 drones are needed to take down each henchman, so fire 2 at each baracade. Once they are gone, go between the buildings and collect all the goodies.
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Work your way up the street, blasting all the baracades as you go. There's 12 henchmen in all before you reach the hoverpad elevator at the back of the last building. Be very careful to watch your ammo. You may end up switching from the Megarocket to the HK22 seeker. The last 3-4 henchmen right at the back, I took down with the Vaporizer, from long range. It certainly did help to have shock-mod on the rifle and cannon. Clean-up all the bolts along the way, and ride the hoverpad elevator at the back. NICE VIEW!!
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The level of detail of the graphics is simply stunning! Even the roof structure details and shadows are all there. Take a minute to enjoy the work of the game designers! Up top, inside the building, are 2 kiosks. A Megacorp kiosk and and MegaCorp Armor kiosk. Spend the 60,000 bolts and buy the Electrosteel Armor. It will help deflect 50% of incoming fire. You'll need it for the next section. From here you can SAVE GAME and go back to the star explorer using the hovertaxi, or go on to the next section. MISSION COMPLETE.
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