• This is part 4 of our complete Gears of War 2 game guide, featuring Act 2 Captivity.

  • Captivity

    1. Further along you'll descend slightly into an area with even more prison capsules.
    2. Collectible! Stranded's Journal. Just as you enter this flat room, turn right. An offshoot area has a crate, and just behind it, a journal on the ground.
    3. Go past the cages and you'll be engaged by some drones and a boomer. Grab cover and pummel them before continuing to the beast barge.
    4. Aboard the barge, look down the ship toward the right. Grab cover because you'll be dealing with another big Locust, a Grinder, coming down that elevator.
    5. The Grinder itself isn't extremely hard to kill, but it has a huge gun -- the Mulcher. This thing is a chain gun that can tear you up very quickly if you let it.
    6. Fortunately, the grinder is big and slow, so once you're in cover, it's an easy target and you're next to invulnerable. Make quick work of it and go up the elevator.
    7. TIP: If you grab the Mulcher, you'll be able to use the very powerful gun, but you'll be much slower. Also, you can't fire the gun without setting it down or mounting it on cover, so that means your reaction to enemies is slowed as well.
    8. There are two levers inside the barge. The one on the bottom level opens the cells, but there's nothing inside. Go to the top and clear out the Locust soldiers, then hit the lever up top.
    9. That starts the barge moving. You'll face some flying reavers and a nearby barge. The barge's chief threat is the troika it carries. Try to clear that off.
    10. After a moment, you'll crash into the other barge. Clear the immediate vicinity and board the other vessel.
    11. Go down the ramp on the second ship and hit the lever to open the cells. You'll go down to the lower level, where Locust will attack from the nearby ridge and lower a bridge to the barge.
    12. Snipe or otherwise clear the Locust soldiers shooting down on you, keeping an eye open for a grinder. He's your priority, because his weapon is far more dangerous than those of the other Locust.
    13. When the way is clear or it's to your advantage, charge up the bridge and finish up the soldiers. Grab the Mulcher, as it's helpful, and any ammo you need.
    14. Follow the path through and you'll be attacked by a mess of enemies, including bloodmounts and a kantus. Grab cover and set up your Mulcher to quickly mow down everyone.
    15. Keep going all the way down. You'll pass more prison pods and a raised drawbridge, then encounter a bloodmount and some tickers. Just beyond them is a kantus.
    16. You'll fight some more drones as you move down, and before long come to a collapsing building with a sign that says "Lunch." Look left here for another path that has some ammo, then double back and clear the Locust on the right.
    17. After you kill the kantus and the drones here, a reaver will drop in. Don't bother taking cover; this thing will chase you around. Hit it with your strongest weapons and avoid its rockets.
    18. TIP: You can dive under a reaver if you're fast, which leaves it confused and vulnerable.
    19. With the reaver down, keep heading forward. It'll seem like you have a ton of options for paths here, but they ultimately lead to the rooftop of a burning building ahead. All of the paths contain lots of ammo, so if you need some, just look around. You'll also face pockets of Locust drone opposition along the way.
    20. Either head up the burning staircase on the left or loop around on the right and head up the back stairs, but make for the roof of the building when the Locust troops are cleared out. There's more ammo here, so fill up.
    21. Make your way into the structure where there's a roof, as the other entry points are about to fill with Locust. You'll be dealing with grenadiers and drones, as well as a kantus.
    22. Stick close to your squad. Locust will be charging at you from the left and right, so use something like the Lancer or Shotgun to inflict maximum midrange damage. There's not a lot of cover, so find safety where you can.
    23. The Locust will come at you in waves, but you only need to survive for about a minute or two. After that, the mission ends.

  • Intestinal Fortitude

    1. Collectible! Car Gold Magazine. Go to the left wall and look for a squarish item on the floor near the wall. It's under a chunk of roof. You should get the Pack Rat Achievement if you've been following this guide.
    2. Head into the Riftworm's intestine. Your first task will be to dodge the "digestive teeth," which are huge walls of flesh that drop down at regular intervals, hoping to crush you.
    3. The key is just to move quickly. Roadie Run over the raised areas that mark where the teeth fall. Go as soon as they rise and you'll have no problems.
    4. TIP: If you want a demonstration of what to do, sit tight a second and watch as your squad mates brave the hazard.
    5. Once you clear the first set of teeth, you'll come to a set that moves both laterally and vertically. There's safety in between each set, however, so just take your time and dive through when the way is open.
    6. Next you'll come to a hole that spews small ticker-like creatures. They're just as weak as tickers, however, so use bursts of Lancer fire to thin them out.
    7. Go a little further and suddenly the intestinal tract will fill with debris (read: poop). You don't want to be a part of that, so you'll have to outrun it.
    8. Collectible! COG Tags. This one is tough. At the very beginning as you're running from the debris, hug the left wall. Right before you come to a bend that leads right, you should find a set of COG tags.
    9. Roadie Run along the path and just keep moving. You'll turn into some of those small Locust guys, but you can ignore them for the most part.
    10. Roadie Run along the path and just keep moving. You'll turn into some of those small Locust guys, but you can ignore them for the most part.
    11. Before long you'll come to a giant sphincter. Blast the hole with your guns and it'll open to allow you through. More little enemies will be after you here.
    12. Follow the path to the right to a Thin Membrane. Cut it with your saw.
    13. Put your head down and run. Enemies will pop up but they can't hurt you if you keep moving. Haul down until you hit a dead end and look up for a car that's hanging off a piece of gullet. Shoot the car and it'll fall, creating a bridge.
    14. Run across and keep going until you hit another thin membrane. Cut it to escape the poop.
    15. The paths ahead are covered by jets of green acid. You can stop the jets temporarily by shooting the glowing green orbs in the center. The acid kills you instantly if you get a shower of it, however.
    16. There's ammo down the lower right path, but the way through is to the left. Knock out the sprays, then run through.
    17. Try to keep moving. Stop on the darker parts of the path, quickly shoot the next acid nozzle, and run through. Before long you'll clear them.
    18. Next you have to brave pools of acid. Keep to the thin path and move slowly to avoid getting melted.
    19. When you're through that, you'll come to a chamber that's toxic. You have to run through, but the longer you're inside, the lower the visibility.
    20. Make for the green light. The path is twisting and you'll feel turned around, but avoid dark areas and make for light areas and you'll be fine. Before long, you'll come to a patch of flesh you can cut with the saw to escape.
    21. You're now entering the vascular system. Follow the path until you reach the heart. The two tan and pink hoses running into it are arteries. Cut them with your Lancer to open a way out, and escape before the chamber fills with blood.
    22. You're messier but you're not done yet. Continue forward, killing the erupting minion creatures as you go. Soon you'll come to another doorway to cut through, and another heart.
    23. Sever the arteries again and you'll open a path that leads upward and out. Follow it and you'll hit a checkpoint. Keep going and you'll come to the third, biggest, heart.
    24. This time it's a battle. The minion creatures sprout up all over the place in here. Keep your Lancer reloaded and shoot them down as they appear.
    25. Make yourself a hole to the heart start cutting arteries. There are two on each side. Cut them both as fast as you can, then run to the other side and cut it too.
    26. TIP: You have to do both arteries in one go because the whole chamber fills with blood extremely quickly. If you screw up for some reason, you'll drown before you can correct your mistake.
    27. Cutting all four arteries gives you a cinematic, the end of the mission and act, and the Heartbroken Achievement. It also opens up the Kantus character for you to use in multiplayer.

  • Dirty Little Secret

    1. Move around the outside of the facility until you come the front door, to the right of all the parking out front. You can explore out here, but there's nothing to see, so head inside.
    2. Inside, keep going until you come to a vault door. The room to the left contains a couple of options for pistols.
    3. Follow Jack through the hallways. You'll find a Scorcher flamethrower, which you should take, and a button to restore power.
    4. You'll take another path back to the Centaur. Use the button to open the door to the right when you enter the warehouse room and you'll come to a two-story room that soon fills with wretches.
    5. The Scorcher is good for killing lots of wretches fast. There's more ammo for it on the second story, if you take the first set of stairs up.
    6. After the battle, Dom and Jack will direct you to a valve that opens a door. Open it to return to the Centaur.
    7. You're now saddled with a huge box of explosives that you need to carry back to the vault door. You can only use your pistol during this and you can move quickly or corner well.
    8. Walk to the door you just opened coming back out, which has a small freight elevator. Go into the room and wretches will attack you.
    9. An effective way to deal with these wretches, if you can't hit them with your bullets or they're too close, is to just melee them. You shouldn't have much trouble despite their numbers.
    10. After a moment, the door ahead will open. Keep going through, fighting off wretches along the way. You'll turn right in the next room, which looks like a restaurant.
    11. The vault door is in the distance, but wretches will drop in from the ceiling. Kill them from a distance if you can or melee them, then drag the explosives to the door. That ends the mission.

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