• This is part 6 of our complete Gears of War 2 game guide, featuring Act 3 Ascension.

  • Ascension

    1. You need to pilot the Centaur up the mountain, which is pretty easy. You can take either path.
    2. TIP: As you go, your tank will take damage. Stop at any point and wait a few seconds and Baird will repair it, allowing you to take more damage. Just don't get shot in the meantime.
    3. At first you'll face troikas and boomers, but later on there are reavers among the Locust enemies. The key is to find the biggest threat and eliminate it first.
    4. The tank fires its rocket cannon quickly, so take advantage. On Hardcore difficulty, it takes three blasts to knock out a reaver, so hit it as fast as you can. Then mop up the other Locust.
    5. Be careful not to get pinned somewhere. The tank can be tough to steer, so remember that chiefly you can move forward and back. Steering sideways while going in reverse is a crapshoot, so try to keep things in between you and your enemies in order to lessen the amount of damage you take.
    6. Occasionally you'll come to a ramp. Use the A Button to activate the tank's turbo boost, allowing you to make the jump.
    7. Before long you'll come to a frozen lake. It's not huge, but you'll be attacked by mortars as you go across. Falling in the open holes means death.
    8. The tank barely handles on the ice, so this section can be frustrating. Go right to start. Take your time, as the area ahead will break up pretty thoroughly. Continue to the right until the initial mortars are finished, then make your way across between the holes.
    9. Go slowly in the second half as well, as a few more holes will open up ahead of you. You should be able to make it across without much difficulty before long.
    10. On the other side, two reavers land ahead of you. Blast them as fast as you can.
    11. The second frozen lake is easier, even though you'll come under reaver attack while you're crossing. Ignore the rocket fire and stick close to the right side of the first hole. As more open up, hug the edges as you turn to the right.
    12. A reaver will land ahead of you. Face it down without trying to dodge its fire, then cross to the exit.
    13. Go left and deal with the three boomers. When they're dead, as you continue up, you'll face another reaver. As soon as it's dead, a second will take its place.
    14. Keep moving up. A Locust checkpoint awaits through an archway. Destroy it and ahead a pair of reavers will drop to attack.
    15. Another reaver waits ahead, and then a pair of Seeders on the ridge far above you. Move back and hit them before they can destroy you with nemacyst mortars.
    16. Next is a pair of reavers. You know what to do. Try not to let them double team you with their rocket attacks.
    17. You'll approach a huge bridge before long, but it's out. Look to the right for a ramp you can jump with A.
    18. When you get to the other side, head up to the left. Two more reavers wait ahead, so back up to avoid their attacks, then pound them with your own.
    19. Another reaver will land on a rooftop to your right as you approach a bend. Kill it and go around to the right, where you'll encounter another Locust stronghold.
    20. This is a bigger fight. Kill the reaver on the path ahead of you, then turn your attention to the ground ahead. You can kill the big reaver down below from here, rendering it ineffectual against you.
    21. Now look for Locust boomers, which may be slowly making their way toward you. Kill them from afar as well, and turn your attention to the roofs and landings around the outer edge of the barrier. There's a troika there. Knock it out.
    22. As you approach, the tower to the left becomes a rocket-heaving nightmare. Blast the base to collapse it and take out the defenses on the left side of the base.
    23. TIP: Turn around and backtrack up the trail if you take too much damage, which is likely under the reaver dive-bombing you'll be suffering.
    24. Make your way down through the destroyed barrier. Try to kill the reavers as you go, and soon you'll come to a dead end. A corpser will open the way for you.
    25. If you thought driving in the daylight was annoying, get ready for a new experience as you have to start driving in pitch black with only a headlight. Despite the noises, just keep moving forward.
    26. Eventually you'll drop off a cliff and the power in the Centaur will go out. When it finally kicks back on, you'll face three corpsers.
    27. As soon as the light goes on, look for the corpser whose legs are back and face exposed. Shoot it quickly or it'll kill you.
    28. Repeat the process with the other two as soon as they expose their faces to kill them.
    29. Keep going. After another drop you'll be in a big chamber and three brumaks will appear to kill you.
    30. This can be tough because the brumaks fire a lot of ammo at a time. Pick one, probably the right one, and try to destroy it quickly with shots to the face.
    31. Now move back and sideways to get clear of enemy fire. The brumaks take a while to reload, so use the opportunity to target a second one and dump your ammo into it until it dies.
    32. Do the same with the final brumak, which should be easier now that its allies are dead.
    33. When the last brumak goes down, you'll end the mission and earn the Tanks for the Memories Achievement.

  • Displacement

    1. Follow the pathway all the way down until you come to a fork. Just ahead is a Theron Guard, a slightly tougher version of a drone you haven't run into yet.
    2. Therons are enemies that return from Gears of War and carry a weapon called the Torque Bow. There's a bow for you to grab if you take the right fork through the small tunnel. Use it by holding the Right Trigger to charge up a shot. When the reticule turns orange, take your shot. Otherwise, the explosive-tipped bolt will bounce off your target, rather than sticking.
    3. There's also a path here that leads down to the left. Take it for more weapons and ammo.
    4. Into the ruins ahead. You'll face some drones and a theron guard. Even more annoying is a gunboat armed with a troika strafing you on the left side.
    5. Ignore the gunboat for the moment. Clear out the drones ahead and move up. Watch that theron guard, as one good hit from his bow can take you out.
    6. Move up until you find some stairs that lead up to the right. There's ammo up there, as well as wretches. Kill them, then look ahead to see a flamer heading your way.
    7. Kill that flamer fast. There aren't many places to safely hide from his devastating flamethrower. Once he's down, you can mop up the kantus behind him.
    8. Now look to the gunboat. It's running sideways along the area and it is laced with orange glowing lights. Those are explosive crates. Hit one with some bullets or a torque bow bolt to destroy the whole boat.
    9. That should be about all of them. Kill the last of the Locust and gather up the ammo around the site.
    10. Collectible! Stranded's Journal. The mission's only collectible is back at those stairs where you fought the wretches. Go all the way to the top to find a journal beside the big door.
    11. Cross the boat to the other side. As soon as you do, new drones and some tickers will appear to oppose you.
    12. First look for a kantus standing behind the main force and drop him with some fire or a couple of torque bow bolts. Afterward, mop up the drones and move forward.
    13. As you approach the longer, thinner path ahead, you'll see a bloodmount. You have a lot of distance on it at first, so pick your shots and try to make a couple of good torque bow sticks.
    14. Through the archway are a kantus, some tickers and a few drones. Be careful not to get cornered in the tight confines ahead. Push through and you'll reach the pier.
    15. A gunboat lands and drops off a few Cyclops drones to fight you, which carry either Lancers or Hammerburst rifles. There's also a grinder at the far end of the pier to deal with.
    16. Use your torque if you have any against the grinder, then mop up the decidedly easier cyclops. When the way is clear, grab all the ammo you can and head to the rowboat.
    17. Aboard the raft, you'll have to defend yourself from multiple gunboats. Keep moving to each cover position as it becomes viable and just keep shooting. Grenades are pretty effective here if you can aim them well.
    18. Soon you'll clear those boats and have a few seconds of respite, after which you're immediately attacked by a boat with a flamer aboard.
    19. Kill the flamer by shooting the tank, then run aboard his boat. It's back to being attacked on all sides again, but this time the boats often will overlap one another.
    20. Start by fighting the boat on the left. Kill as many of the Locust as you can before a boat catches up to you on the right.
    21. Pop over to the other side and lay into this boat. If you thinned the numbers from the left well enough, you'll be okay to take your time and fight off this boat.
    22. TIP: The troika mounted at the front of the boat is ineffective against enemies that are too far behind you, but you can still use it to get a few good shots in as the boats approach, or at enemies that are close to the bow of either boat. Don't rule out the turret as being helpful to you.
    23. When the two boats are cleared, a third will appear on the left, carrying a grinder. Hit him first, hard, to eliminate that threat.
    24. TIP: The ammo box on your boat at the stern constantly respawns to keep you in bullets.
    25. After the grinder boat, you should have only one other standard gunboat to deal with. Kill it and you'll enter a tunnel. Sit tight while the ride gets bumpy and the mission ends.

  • Brackish Waters

    1. This entire mission is a boss fight with a sea monster called the Leviathan.
    2. Take a second to grab the ammo and the Lancer if you don't have one.

  • Boss Fight: Leviathan

    1. This thing looks scarier than it is, at least at first. Start by hanging back at the stern of the ship and watching for its tentacles. They'll appear either on the right or the left and slam into the boat between each set of crates.
    2. Gauge where the tentacle will fall and get close, then run forward and cut it with the Lancer saw. Do so quickly because if you take too long, the monster will capsize the boat.
    3. After four or so times doing that, the monster will try something new. It attacks the front of the boat with its teeth. Shoot it in its big blue eye to make it dislodge, then grab the grenades it leaves behind.
    4. The fish comes back, biting the bow of the boat again. Blast it in the eye and when it rears back, mouth open, run inside.
    5. You'll see some tentacles inside the fish's mouth. They'll turn blue at the top, meaning that tentacle is active. The blue one will attack you if you don't shoot it, but it's also your target. So shoot it.
    6. When you hit the tentacles enough the inner mouth will open. Toss a grenade in. You may have to repeat the process. With a proper hit or two, flames will shoot out of the inner mouth and the fish will withdraw.
    7. TIP: Aim high. The mouth bucks around a lot, but a high throw at least puts you in the ballpark. Too short and the grenade will hit the lower part of the mouth harmlessly.
    8. Back to tentacle attacks. Repeat the process of standing aft and running forward.
    9. Cut down the tentacles and the fish will bite the boat again. Blast the eye, run inside, and repeat the grenade process.
    10. The fish backs off, but only for a second. It'll bite down again. Get inside the mouth one last time with a grenade to finish the fight. It nets you the Water Sports Achievement and ends the mission and the act. You'll also unlock the multiplayer character Tai Kaliso.

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