-
-
This is Part 3 of our complete Killzone 2 Walkthrough, featuring Mission 2: Blood Meridian.
-
-
Mission 2: Blood Meridian
- YouTube: Killzone 2 Walkthrough - Blood Meridian Part 1 (Time: 9:55)
- Drop off the Invader and head into the center of the battle. Move from cover position to position.
- Symbol! Before doing anything else, break for the left side of the battle toward a doorway in a small alcove. When you approach it, turn left and you'll see another small, hidden alcove, with the Helghast symbol inside.
- Head up the small staircase ahead, where a few troops are gathered around a map.
- After you've got your orders, turn right and head to the door there. You can plant a demolition charge on the door with Circle. Follow the prompts, then step back a ways and press R1 to detonate the charge.
- Head through the now-smoking door. Turn right to find the way forward.
- Intel! Before heading into the hallway, look in the right corner of this first room for the first Intel case of this map. Be careful -- if you drop down the ramp just ahead, you won't be able to return for the case.
- Follow the hallway and Garza will tell you about Helghast troops ahead. Grab some cover and take out all three as quickly as you can.
- Now turn to the right, where more Helghast troops will be appearing. Hit them hard and fast or they'll come down the hallway and try to flank you. You shouldn't have too much trouble, even though you're outnumbered.
- Symbol! When you're done in this room, stand where you entered it and look into the room as if you just came in. To the left is a fence you can't cross. Look up for a Helghast symbol up on the wall.
- Proceed down the hall. Watch out for troops on the walkway above. Head through the door into a stairwell and take out the one or two enemies there along the way.
- Head up and keep moving. Helghast troops are filing into the canal behind you, but you can just ignore them. Instead, take cover in the next room and toss a grenade or two across to the Helghast holed up across the walkway.
- Finish those troops up and you're free to go across. Follow the halls until you exit into a cutscene, showing you your next target: a Helghast Heavy trooper.
- This guy is easier than he looks. As Garza will repeatedly shout, shoot him in the head to make him double over in pain. In doing so, the minigun trooper will expose his back to you. Shoot the glowing square tanks in the center of his back. A few turns of this and he'll eventually explode.
- Execute that maneuver by taking cover to the right of the area. Here you can move up without taking fire and get close enough to really see what you're doing. You shouldn't really take any damage at all.
- Trophy Alert! Kill the Heavy in less than a minute and you'll receive the Giant Killer trophy.
- Open the valve on the door to the left to go forward. You'll enter another tight canal. Sprint down and take the stairs at the end to where ISA troops are fighting Helghast along a walkway. You'll hear someone yelling for anybody (read: you) to go up top and take a mounted gun to them.
- Move ahead and left. Look for a staircase. That's where you're headed.
- Symbol! As you climb the stairs, look at the left wall at the top, behind a railing for the map's second Helghast symbol. You'll be approaching it from the side. It's also straight to the left of the mounted machine gun ahead.
- Grab the MG in the window at the top of the stairs and lay into the Helghast below. Mop them up and then return to the ISA troops to cross the walkway.
- YouTube: Killzone 2 Walkthrough - Blood Meridian Part 2 (Time: 8:55)
- Move to the Helghast side of the area and head right to a staircase. Take it up and kill the two troops in the room with you. Then go across and descend to where another ISA squad is fighting.
- Go to the door and turn to the right. A stream of Helghan close-range fighters will soon come pouring down the ramp ahead, plus more will come from the left. Stand your ground and fight through them, taking cover in the doorway. Don't push forward just yet.
- To the left and up high is a mounted machine gun. When you've repelled the charging troops, you can grab a ISA rocket launcher that's lying on the ground near the door, beside the stairwell. Use it to take out the gun.
- YouTube: Killzone 2 Walkthrough - Blood Meridian Part 3 (Time: 7:42)
- Proceed up the ramp to the right. This will take you up to the mounted machine gun position, where you might have to mop up an additional soldier.
- Symbol! The third Helghast symbol on the map is located straight in front of where the ramp exits, when you reach the area with the mounted machine gun. Walk straight from the ramp to the back wall and turn right. The symbol is located behind a chain link fence.
- Proceed through the door into what appears to be an apartment building.
- Intel! The hall you're in will turn left, then back right. This second intersection houses a small alcove to the left with the map's second Intel case. It's easy to miss, but it's also almost in the open. Just check the corners carefully.
- You'll find an elevator next. Take it up and you'll exit just beneath the Arc Cannon you're tasked with destroying. There's also a contingent of Helghast troops guarding the weapon, below you to the left.
- Take the walkway to the corner. You can shoot down from here at a couple of exploding barrels, which will thin the Helghast. You'll also link up with some ISA troops to help you push through. When you reach the end of the walkway, you'll find a staircase leading you down into the fight.
- Push along with the other troops forward, looking for explosive barrels to ease your way. There are more troops down and to the right, and you can reach them and presumably flank the main force, but it's difficult and you take a lot of fire. Instead, just grab cover and stick with your men.
- Move forward across the walkway and clear out the Helghast on the outside. Your next objective is to clear the doorway to your right. A grenade does the job well.
- Intel! When the room is clear, check just below the raised walkway with the railing for the last of the map's Intel cases.
- Symbol! Take the steps up from the intel you just grabbed and walk out the doorway. You may recognize this area from when you were on the lower level. Stop just past the doorway and do a 180. Just above the door you just exited from is the Helghast symbol.
- Go across the walkway. You're entering rooftop areas now and nearing the Arc Tower. As you come up the stairs to the roof, you'll take heavy fire from the front and right.
- From the stairs, snipe the one or two soldiers right in front of you, then run over and take cover facing to the right. Clear the troops -- there are at least two or three straight ahead and another sort of to your left, who can hit you while you're taking shots at the others. Keep your head down and focus on each one in turn.
- You can now vault the cover ahead or take the stairs to the left to push forward. Look for a yellow button at the back of the area near the cover you jumped and hit it. As soon as the cannon opens, open fire on the glowing lightning cells to destroy them. You only have a few seconds.
- You'll probably only blow one of the cells before the cannon closes to fire again. When that happens, quickly grab cover at the sandbags and turn around, because Heglhast reinforcements have just shown up to take you on. These are close-range SMG troops, who will charge straight at you.
- TIP: Garza will probably get knocked out. Keep shooting the troops and leave him there to bleed -- the arc cannon will open up again in a second. When it does, shoot the other cell. Even if you fail to do that, Garza will get back up on his own.
- When the arc cannon opens to vent again, shoot the other power cell to destroy it. You'll watch a cutscene and the mission will end.
