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About Shogo |
Walk-Through
Level: 07_Avernus1
City of Ghosts
Objective #2: Proceed to CMC headquarters
Objective #3: Locate the central ventilation shaft
This is the MCA single-player level in the Shogo demo. If you played the demo, you know how this level will go (up to the Madison Tunnel, anyway). This is one of my favorite levels in the game. It's fun just to storm around the city. The parked cars and trucks will explode if you shoot or step on them (and damage you if you step on them), often revealing some armor or energy. All the signs in the town will break when you shoot them, so blast away.
In the cutscene at the beginning of this level, we meet Hank Johnson for the first time. He will help you through a good chunk of Shogo. This level is also where you first see the "put enemies right around the corner, ready to shoot" method of enemy placement. It's one of the more annoying things about Shogo, but if you're ready for it it's not too bad.
Blow up all the tanks and MCAs on this side of town, then go through the tunnel where the MCAs were. There are tanks waiting around the corner for you, in an alley mid-way through the tunnel, and at the other side of the tunnel. Around the corner there are two more MCAs. Right past them is the gate to the Madison Tunnel.
This gate will close before you get there, no matter what you try to do. Fortunately, there is an alternate route.
Blow up these tanker trucks. That will blow a hole in the building for you to enter. Jump down into the tunnel and follow it around, shooting the MCAs lurking around the corners. Eventually you will get to a lift. There are two MCAs waiting for you around the corner at the top of the lift. I like to grab the bullgut or spider, strafe off the lift, and blast them before they know what hit them.
At the end of this room is a switch that will open a door to the outside and a gate to the other side of Avernus. Before you jump down, fire a couple of spiders through the gate to eliminate the MCAs waiting for you. As you go through the tunnel, there is a road going to the right. That road leads to the ventilation shaft. Remember that for later. Go straight ahead and blast all the tanks and MCAs you find.
Eventually you will get here, the entrance to the Madison Tunnel. As you go along into the tunnel, Hank will warn you and then you will lose communications with Katherine. Soon there will be a brief cutscene with an MCA with a gun that will give you juggernaut envy. For some reason, the MCA explodes. Don't ask me why.
Follow Hank's directions and head back out the way you came in. Be careful, because there will be Fallen MCAs (including our old friend Samantha Sternberg again), tanks, and troops waiting for you. Dispatch all of them and head back to the road I told you to remember, the one that leads to the ventilation shafts. There are two cool-looking spider MCAs lying in wait for you.
This is the entrance to the ventilation shaft. Walk up to it to go on to the next level.
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