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This is part 9 of our complete Gears of War 2 game guide, featuring Act 5 Aftemath.
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Escape
- You'll get back to the surface, but you're not out of the woods. You have to shoot down enemy reavers.
- These reavers are weak. Only a little bit of troika fire will drop them. Fire bursts at their pilots or across their bodies to take them out.
- If any get in front of you, you can spin around by pushing the Left Thumbstick to either side. Marcus will spin in his chair and man the rocket cannon instead. This is effective, but it's rare you'll have to actually use rockets in this fight.
- Just keep knocking down reavers until you escape. There are a lot of them, but if you make a strong effort to shoot the enemies as soon as you see them, you should never be in mortal danger.
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Boss Fight: Hydra, Stage Two
- The Hydra appears again, wanting to make you a snack. Its snaky arms will grab hold of your ride and try to reel you in.
- When the arm clamps on, aim the troika right down at the unmoving closest part, and unload. You should be able to hack the tentacle right off.
- When it flounders, the Hydra will send rockets your way before skating past you to attack from the front. Shoot it with rockets as it does.
- The Hydra's goal when it's in front of you is to ram you. As it flies at you, put a rocket down its throat to seriously hurt it.
- Back to the troika. Shoot down the rockets and keep the arms off your reaver. This whole process will repeat again twice more, with the Hydra flying to the front to charge you again.
- Keep doing what you're doing and put a rocket in its mouth that third time to win the fight. That's the end of the chapter, and nets you the And the Horsey You Rode In On Achievement.
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Desperate Stand
- You come out into a full-on battle. Kill the reaver that drops into the courtyard, then follow your squad through the door to the left.
- Outside, you need to shoot down on a landing pad that Locust forces are storming. Take position along the wall for cover.
- Collectible! COG Recon Report. Go all the way right from the staircase when you enter this area, until you come to a place where you can step down. Go down there and to the right until you find a blue square on the ground.
- YouTube: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough: Chapter 5 - Desperate... PT. 1 (Time: 7:36)
- Take up over positions and start taking down Locust. A reaver will take up a spot on the platform, but it can't do much but hurl rockets at you, so duck when they come. Shoot it until it dies, then move to the right when you've cleared the platform.
- The next platform fills with drones and a reaver as well. Kill them to get the door open.
- Ahead you'll take up positions on the wall to the right to shoot down at Locust near some parked cars. It's a straightforward fight until a boomer shows up to the far left.
- TIP: Behind you are lots of weapons and ammo, including grenades and mulchers.
- After the boomer's down, two reavers will land to the left. Keep them busy a second and a King Raven helicopter will show up to help out.
- Cross the bridge to the next area. You'll have to defend the communications array using a mounted turret.
- This isn't that tough. Try to line up the reavers as they're coming in and hit them hard with the turret. You can move on when you've killed six.
- Continue to the next location.
- Collectible! COG Tags. This one is in a similar location to the last one. While the Locust are amassing forces over the railing, run far to the right. Look for an area that is lower and head down. Go to the right and find a pair of COG tags. Make sure you get this collectible before wiping out the Locust forces below.
- Head back to where you entered the balcony. Behind you are some weapons; the Mulcher and mortars being particularly effective in this fight.
- ACHIEVEMENT ALERT! This is a good place to use the Mulcher mounted on cover. Kill 30 enemies with it and you'll earn the Organ Grinder Achievement.
- You shouldn't have much to worry about from the various drones. Keep firing and taking them down, using a Mulcher or whatever weapon is handy.
- TIP: You may want to save the mortar for the second half of this fight, as it is highly effective in that capacity.
- YouTube: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough: Chapter 5 - Desperate... PT. 2 (Time: 5:17)
- There are quite a few drones to kill here, but this isn't a hard fight at all. When they're dead, toss the Mulcher and grab a mortar.
- Two brumaks show up on the far right and far left of the main gate area. Get in position with your mortar and wait until they get within range. You have time to fire a test shot if you want, which will help you gauge how far you need to fire that shot.
- When the brumaks get close, mortar them as they open fire on the COG forces. It shouldn't take more than one shot each to bring both down.
- Killing the brumaks ends the chapter and nets you the You Are the Support, Son Achievement.
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Free Parking
- Take cover as you enter the courtyard and watch as a Locust patrol moves into the area from the archives building. Look up to the second floor for snipers. Tag one to start the battle.
- You'll need to clear out all the drones before you can move up. Just keep popping up and shooting them. Make the second-floor snipers your top priority.
- After a few waves of drones, you'll have some flamers to deal with. There are two, one from each side. Pop their tanks or just gun them down.
- With all the Locust cleared out, head to the door to the far left to enter the archives. As you go in, a flamer will appear to fight you. Blast it, then take out the drones that follow.
- YouTube: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough: Chapter 5 - Free Parking PT. 1 (Time: 9:24)
- Around the corner, you'll face drones and a kantus on the stairs to the right. Dom is on the floor above helping out.
- As the last of the drones goes down, a grinder will kick down the door to your left. Concentrate fire and move back toward the doorway where you entered to avoid getting shot up.
- TIP: There's a sniper rifle on the second floor where Dom entered the fight.
- Go through the door the grinder opened. You'll exit the archives into another large courtyard, again filled with Locust.
- Hit the troika gunner first, who is dead center, then look for the kantus who is nearby. When they're both dead, mop up the various drones that are spread across the entire area.
- Knocking down the drones brings maulers into the arena from either side. They'll take a long time to get to you, however, so tear them up from a distance.
- When you're done with maulers, two bloodmounts enter from the door across from you. They will quickly make their way to you, so if you can do damage to them in the meantime, make it count.
- After that, it's a matter of cleaning up the last of the enemies. When you've done it, cross the courtyard to the door on the far end. Use the valves to open the grate.
- You'll exit onto a street that's the scene of a bitter fight. After the reaver crash, get to cover and take down the grinder to your right.
- All that's left is regular fighting with drones. Kill them all and grab ammo.
- Collectible! Jacinto Sentinel Newspaper. When the way is clear, go right to where the grinder was. You'll see a wall separated by a gap you can walk through. Go around to the right side, past a concrete barrier to find a newspaper half-covered by garbage.
- You'll split up as you take the path to the left. The right path has you sweeping a parking garage and providing cover support. The left puts you in the thick of things as you move across cover up the street.
- A reaver lands on the street almost straight away. Kill it or outlast it and it will fly off.
- Keep going and clearing out drones on either path. If you take the right path, you'll come to a car you can kick down to street level to provide cover for Dom.
- You'll reunite a second later. When you do, look to the left of the street for Locust grappling hooks. Shoot them down to keep the enemies from reaching you.
- Now look down the street for a grinder. You shouldn't have trouble pounding it into oblivion when it's all alone.
- Up ahead you'll get the Hammer of Dawn from the center of the street. Snag it, tossing whatever gun you can part with. It's recommended you hang on to your workhorse weapon, the Lancer, as there is lots of ammo for it.
- YouTube: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough: Chapter 5 - Free Parking PT. 2 (Time: 8:42)
- The Hammer works as a targeter for a larger weapon. Point the Hammer's laser and fire it at the area around enemies; a wall or the ground, or even the bad guy itself, as long as it's exposed to sky. Stationary items work better than moving targets. After holding the laser on a position for a few seconds, a satellite-fired laser beam will descend from the sky and cook the target area.
- You can use the hammer to annihilate just about everything up ahead if you want. It doesn't run out of ammunition, like it does in multiplayer.
- You're facing a reaver and drones, then a grinder and a mauler. You can use the hammer to destroy just about all of them with relative ease.
- With the route cleared, head forward toward where the sunlight is turning orange, to the left. You'll go through the building.
- Collectible! COG Tags. As you emerge from the building where the light is more orange, look immediately to your left. You should see a gaping hole in the building you just exited. Head inside to find a set of COG tags.
- Go forward a little ways to trigger the next chapter.
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