4-5: Laundry Day

4-5: Laundry Day

As you open the next door you get a brief CS in which you see a flamethrower mini-boss burning some bodies - you know what you have to do here, right?

The problem with this particular fight is that your partner makes it nearly impossible to complete it gracefully!  He makes certain that he stands in your way to keep you from making the shots you need to make to take out the tanks if you play conservatively - you cannot just let the flamethrower trap you in this room - and you cannot rely on your partner to be smart about taking it down despite the fact that he yells out to target the tanks on the guys back!

Taking out a Heavy Flamethrower Boss

The easiest way to do this is to quickly switch to your sniper rifle and very quickly put five rounds into the tanks - causing them to explode.  If you do this without moving he will not block you and that lets you take out the first heavy flamethrower guy.  Did you see that I said "the first heavy flamethrower guy" there?  Yes, there is another one - and taking him down means getting out of this room before he enters it!  Note that this battle is as close as this game has come to adding grief code, which is actually pretty stellar for this sort of game!

So after you take out the first flamethrower immediately exit the room and go straight ahead - there are some tables and crates in the middle of this area you can circle around - just let your partner engage the second flamethrower and you put some well-placed shots into his tanks at the same time, and voila!  Dead flamethrower!

Now co-op open the gate in the back wall here and exit the area - take out the last few mercenaries and then enter the elevator shaft for a nice CS in which you deliver the kid and get your reward.  The enemy is now storming the hospital and you get a graphic novel CS that shows some of the future.