[Necromancer]

Interval 07 - Redirection

Alice Wade

When you reach the top of the elevator that you take here, poke around a bit, download data from the laptop, listen to the messages on the phones, etc. There's no one to kill here, but there is some interesting backstory.

You'll have to climb up the elevator shaft to proceed. When you reach the upper level, again, just start checking the offices for miscellaneous clues to the storyline. There are relatively few soldiers to begin with, but they'll start popping up more often as you proceed. Indeed, most of this level is one big fight, making it fairly enjoyable; there aren't a lot of difficult-to-find routes or anything like that. Don't miss the Health Booster in a conference room right near where a heavily armored foe appears. Be careful, as the next heavy armor soldier actually wields a Type-7. Luckily, when he goes down, you'll be right outside Harlan Wade's office, where Alice Wade is waiting for her knight in shining psychic aura.

After you take Alice back to the elevator, you'll have to ride up with her, resisting the urge to sing Aerosmith's "Love in An Elevator" at the top of your lungs, killing off the soldiers as they open up the doors on the subsequent floors. In point of fact, you don’t even really need to kill these guys; just hide in a corner of the elevator, across from Alice, and the doors will usually shut on their own accord after a few seconds. Of course, it's more fun to pop a few caps.

Eventually, the power will go out, and Alice will stay behind while you check out the floor beyond. Bad things will happen, as they are wont to do, and you'll be forced to climb up the stairs to the roof.

Flight

Things continue to go poorly for you at the beginning of this level. Wait until the doors in the first room blow open, then head out onto the roof to start attempting to track Alice back down. You'll need to kill your way through the soldiers here, then head back inside the building to try and cut her off before she can make it to the garage. You'll actually see her at one point, where she'll run from a strange blue ball floating outside the window; check the waiting room below her to find a Health Booster.

After moving on for a bit, you'll discover what the blue lights were, as you'll run across a pair of UAVs that'll bust through a window and start to fire frickin' laser beams at you. These guys can put a good hurting on you, but they can be taken down with a single well-placed shotgun blast, so lure them into a hallway to do the deed. There are more of these guys up ahead, so quicksave often and be ready to backtrack if they get the jump on you.

When you reach the stairwell, you'll need to get off on the fifth floor, but before you do, go all the way to the bottom to grab the Reflex Booster there. After bypassing Genevieve Aristide's crappy little office, fight your way to a power switch on this floor, then return to the elevators and head down. You'll eventually wind up in the parking garage; fight your way back up to ground level to end this mission.