Somalia

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“This is how we say hello in our country.”

Approach the ladder in front of you and press A to climb it. Walk into the building and jump down into the hole in the floor. Walk forward a little and you’ll be below another hole in the floor.  There are real live enemies up there so check to make sure none of them is looking down at you. Your partner will take a position below the hole with his hands clasped. He is ready for you to “step jump”. Walk up to him and you’ll step into his hands and he’ll raise you up so you can see up into the next room. Don’t be too quick to crawl all the way up there. You can still fire and clear out the room with just your head sticking up before you completely expose yourself. Once the room is clear, push forward on the L stick to climb the rest of the way up. You don’t want to leave your partner down there in the hole, so press A to turn around and give him a lift up to you.

Always ready to help a brother out.

Exit the building through the door and immediately find some cover behind the concrete barriers to your right. You’ve stepped in a big pile of angry Somalis with weapons. There are several to fight along this street, but going back to our training we found that by putting our partner in an aggressive hold position he would attract all their attention and we could get a good way up the street along the right side and take a lot of enemies out from up close, including melee kills (step right up to the enemy and pull the right trigger). Move your partner up the road as necessary to continue to clear the enemies. When you have cleared everyone from this area a bell will sound (very similar to the tone you heard when an objective was completed in Gears of War).

Be glad you don’t have Gears of War’s Dom with you here. You’d get lots of healing practice.

When all is clear go around the corner of the building and you’ll be immediately pinned down by two snipers. You don’t have to actually do anything at this point because a cut scene begins and you discover that you’ve just completed your first objective by finding Clyde. He jumps in and takes care of this little obstacle for you. Then after the snipers are gone he shows you what a personable and friendly guy he is by telling you where your next objective is hiding out.

We don’t think this guy is going to be doing any sniping for a while.

It’s time to try out a little co-op shield action. You can see in front of you that the door of the car is glowing green. This is called a clue. Run up to the car door and press A when you get to it. You will rip the door off of the car and put it in front of you as a shield. Call your partner over to regroup and he will fall in behind you. You can now proceed up this street holding the shield for protection while your partner stands behind you killing off your enemies. As long as you keep the shield between yourself and the enemies you’ll sustain no damage whatsoever. There aren’t more than 6 enemies or so out here and you want to get to the open gate on the left just a short way up the road. Once the enemies are cleared enter the gate and walk up into the hotel to get the cut scene beginning the next section.

Get close enough to an enemy with the shield and you can press A to melee them with the shield. There is an achievement for doing it 30 times!

You have found your second objective. Mo’Alim is on a balcony up above you and he sent in a little welcoming party. This will be your first non-training experience with “back to back”.  You automatically enter back to back mode, so get to killin’ as quickly as possible. You won’t stay in this mode the whole time, so be ready to run and take cover when it ends. Take cover behind the nearby planter when the back to back sequence is over as another wave of Somalis is coming through the entrance at the far end of the room. When that wave is cleared, there will be yet another wave of 4 or 5 Somalis. When all are gone, your partner will let you know that there might be a way up to the balcony by pulling on a chain. The chain can be a little hard to see if you’re just looking around for it, but hit the Back button to pull up your GPS and it will show you right where to go.

GPS – “Get Past Stuff” when you can’t figure out where to go.

Walk up to the chain and press the A button and your partner will join you to give it a good yank and bring down a big section of balcony. Now that you are up on top, you have to work your way around the balcony to get to Mo’Alim on the other side. Obviously he isn’t alone, so you’ll have to fight through Somalis on the way. Keep your head down as they can shoot at you from the side as well as from the front. Use the teamwork skills you have learned to get past them and eventually to Mo’Alim and take him down without prejudice to complete the objective.

This would be how we say “good bye” in our country!

You’ll get a brief cut scene showing what a complete tool Clyde is (again) and then you’ll be tasked with making it to the extraction point. Run forward along this path and around the corner to the left. At the end of the next path you will be in the marketplace square. It will be recommended in no uncertain terms that you should use co-op snipe to take out the fuel tank up on the balcony with the turret gunners to get them out of your way.

Take a position behind the stand in front of you and enter co-op snipe mode. Your partner will get into position and you’ll change to co-op snipe view. You both aim at the fuel tank and fire, blowing up the tank and wiping out the turret gunners nearby. Of course this will bring waves of Somalis into the market that you now need to fight your way through. You have to get up onto the balcony with the turrets. Use your training and take your time to get through the Somalis and it won’t take you long to get there. When you get the cut scene with Clyde leaping tall buildings in a single bound, you’re ready to step jump up onto the balcony with the turrets.

We had to heal our partner here once, but it was good for an Achievement so we weren’t too upset.

When your partner raises you up, don’t jump up there too quickly. Take out the lone Somali that is still standing up there. (We’re not asking how he survived the fuel tank blowing up, but whatever.) When he’s out of the way, crawl on up and pull your partner up behind you. Immediately take a turret gun by walking up to it and pressing A. You’ll now get waves of Somalis coming at you from the marketplace square from the way you came. We’re unsure of the number, but a fair guess would be 15 to 20 Somalis before you’ve finally killed enough and secured the Extraction point and completed the objective as well as the Somalia Mission.

Now THIS is how you secure an Extraction point!

“It’s going to get real busy, real fast!”

 

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