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BIOSHOCK WALKTHROUGH
by Chris Vig (chris.vig@gmail.com)
"I'm Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question:
is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow?
No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God.
No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something
different. I chose the impossible. I chose...
RAPTURE.
A city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where
the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where
the great would not be constrained by the small. And
with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your
city as well."
- Andrew Ryan, founder of Rapture
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i. TABLE OF CONTENTS [c00s01]
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This file is a walkthrough/game guide/reference for the video game BioShock. It
contains an explanation of the basic game concepts, a complete walkthrough of
the game, tips and notes, and lists of all the audio-diaries, plasmids, gene
tonics, little sisters, research rewards, craftable items, and weapons upgrades
available in the game.
To quickly skip to the section you want to read, press Ctrl-F (or whatever the
keystroke is for the search function in your browser) and type the code for
that section - this will quickly take you there.
i. Table of Contents....................................................c00s01
ii. Version History.....................................................c00s02
iii. Copyright Information..............................................c00s03
iv. Contact Information.................................................c00s04
v. Acknowledgements.....................................................c00s05
1. Introduction.........................................................c01
2. Basic Game Concepts..................................................c02
a. Game Controls.....................................................c02s01
b. Status Menu.......................................................c02s02
c. Death.............................................................c02s03
d. Items.............................................................c02s04
e. Money.............................................................c02s05
f. ADAM/Little Sisters/Big Daddies...................................c02s06
g. Machines..........................................................c02s07
h. Audio Diaries.....................................................c02s08
i. Denizens of Rapture...............................................c02s09
j. Weapons...........................................................c02s10
k. Custom Ammo.......................................................c02s11
l. Weapon Upgrading..................................................c02s12
m. Plasmids..........................................................c02s13
n. Gene Tonics.......................................................c02s14
o. Inventing.........................................................c02s15
p. Researching Enemies...............................................c02s16
q. Security System...................................................c02s17
r. Hacking...........................................................c02s18
3. Walkthrough..........................................................c03
a. Plane Crash.......................................................c03s01
b. Welcome to Rapture................................................c03s02
c. Medical Plaza.....................................................c03s03
d. Neptune's Bounty..................................................c03s04
e. Smuggler's Hideout................................................c03s05
f. Arcadia...........................................................c03s06
g. Farmer's Market...................................................c03s07
h. Arcadia Pt. 2.....................................................c03s08
i. Fort Frolic.......................................................c03s09
j. Hephaestus........................................................c03s10
k. Rapture Control...................................................c03s11
l. Olympus Heights...................................................c03s12
m. Apollo Square.....................................................c03s13
n. Point Prometheus..................................................c03s14
o. Proving Grounds...................................................c03s15
p. Endgame...........................................................c03s16
4. Tips and Notes.......................................................c04
5. Frequently Asked Questions...........................................c05
6. Reference............................................................c06
a. List of Audio-Diaries.............................................c06s01
b. List of Plasmids..................................................c06s02
c. List of Gene Tonics...............................................c06s03
d. Little Sister Locations...........................................c06s04
e. Weapon Upgrade Locations..........................................c06s05
f. Research Rewards..................................................c06s06
g. Inventable Items..................................................c06s07
7. Achievement Information..............................................c07
8. Conclusion...........................................................c08
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ii. VERSION HISTORY [c00s02]
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0.1 - 8/24/07 - First version of guide. Completed introduction, basic game
concepts section, and walkthrough up to the end of the Medical Pavilion
level. Tips and reference section still under construction. Information which
still needs to be added is indicated by the {} curly braces.
0.2 - 8/25/07 - Fixed some content errors and spelling and grammar mistakes in
version 0.1. Continued walkthrough to the end of the Neptune's Bounty level.
Began adding reference information, including audio diaries, plasmids, gene
tonics, and little sisters locations.
0.3 - 8/25/07 - Finished walkthrough to the end of the Arcadia level. Added a
ton of extra reference information. Corrected some errors in version 0.2.
Began adding weapon upgrade locations and research rewards to reference
section. Began adding inventable items information.
0.4 - 8/26/07 - Added clarifying information about big daddy/little sister
locations. Finished walkthrough to the end of the Arcadia Pt. 2 level. Added
a lot of new reference information. Corrected some errors from version 0.3.
Changed some formatting and added some information to the top of the file.
0.5 - 8/27/07 - Fixed some errors and formatting. Reorganized the plasmid and
gene tonic lists according to HOW they are obtained, not WHERE. Completed the
research rewards section and added achievement information. Finished the
walkthrough to the end of the Fort Frolic level. Added some more reference
information.
0.6 - 8/27/07 - Completed walkthrough to the end of the Rapture Control level.
Added some content suggested by readers and clarified a few things. Added some
more reference information. Thanks to everyone who's sent suggestions - keep
them coming.
0.7 - 8/28/07 - Fixed some spelling and content errors in 0.6. Added frequently
asked questions section to deal with some of the more common questions I've
been getting. Added some tips and other content from readers. Reworded
explanation of big daddy/little sister spawn system. Completed walkthrough
to the end of the Olympus Heights level.
0.8 - 8/29/07 - Minor update, completed walkthrough to the end of Apollo Square
and added some minor odds and ends. I'm hoping to have the guide completely
finished by this weekend.
0.9 - 8/30/07 - Added some content suggested by readers. Added Xbox 360
achievement information section. Completed all reference section information.
Completed walkthrough to the end of Point Prometheus. Added a few other minor
items.
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iii. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION [c00s03]
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This guide is copyright 2007 by Christopher Vig. No part of it may be
copied, used, or incorporated into any other guide. If I find it used in this
way without permission I will request that your file be removed, and if it is
not I will take legal action under the DMCA law. However, this guide may be
freely reposted and transmitted so long as a) no money is charged for it, b)
the file is unmodified, and c) my name is still attached to it.
I HAVE PUT A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION INTO THIS GUIDE,
AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU RESPECT MY REQUESTS IN THIS SECTION.
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iv. CONTACT INFORMATION [c00s04]
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If you have any questions or comments about this guide or need something
clarified, please e-mail me at chris.vig@gmail.com, or send me a message on
Xbox Live (my gamertag is TheCrimsonOmen). You can also send me anything you
think should be added and I will put it in (with credit to you). If you have a
question about something, you might be able to get a quicker answer by checking
the Frequently Asked Questions section (section 5).
I don't ask for donations or anything like that, but if you found this guide
useful or helpful it would be nice to get an e-mail letting me know my efforts
were appreciated.
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v. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [c00s05]
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I would like to thank...
- my wife Hannah for putting up with me through all of this
- 2K Games/Irrational for making such an awesome game
- The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for taking 3+ months
to process my employment authorization application, leaving me with a LOT
of free time to write game guides :P
- Everyone who's e-mailed me with kind words about this guide, you are very
much appreciated
- Matthew P., LakotaSilver, Adam D., ghettomurph, crifer, Michael C., Preston
W., and everyone else for explaining how to get into the secret room in the
Tea Garden
- Dan P. for a tip on dealing with Houdini splicers
- NeoJedi Knight for clarifying how to get the Sander Cohen achievements
- Jason for reminding me about the thin hacking puzzle tiles
- Dominick P. for pointing out something about the Peach Wilkins encounter
- Ian T. for a tip about melting barriers
- TFGoose, Orchyboy, and Chenna for clarifying some things about big
daddy/little sister patrol routes
- Brendan K. for a tip about the first big daddy fight
- CodeHxr, Nitramuse, Tony B., Bruno H., Dee Rye, Cody M., and everyone else
for some information about telekinesis, trapwires, and Kyburz's office
- shadowsdieaway for his guide about the audio-diaries, which helped me find a
couple I was having trouble locating
- Torbjorn S. for a hacking tip
- Shadrow for reminding me about an area I forgot way back in the Medical
Pavilion (I haven't added this yet but I will in the next version)
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1. INTRODUCTION [c01]
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This is a walkthrough/guide for the game BioShock. It is based on the Xbox 360
version of the game, but I'm assuming that most of it should be applicable for
the PC version as well. Having clicked on this guide you probably already
realize that it WILL include spoilers, but if not, this is your warning - turn
back now.
First, a little about the game - BioShock is a hybrid FPS game developed by 2K
Boston/2K Australia studios (previously known as Irrational Games), released
for the computer and Xbox 360 console in North America on August 21, 2007. It
is currently the best-reviewed game ever for the Xbox 360, with a score of
97/100 on Metacritic and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The game focuses on a secret
underwater city named Rapture. It was created by a billionaire named Andrew
Ryan, with the goal of creating a utopian society where the great and powerful
would not be constrained by the poor, and where the world's elite could live
without being bound by morality, government, or religion. The game begins with
a plane crash into the ocean near the city's surface entrance. You, the lone
survivor of the crash, take a submarine down to the city to search for help. As
soon as you arrive, however, you realize that things have gone horribly,
horribly wrong...
This guide is divided into eight sections. Section 1 is the introduction, which
you're reading now. Section 2 covers the basic concepts of the game that you'll
need to know to survive in Rapture. Section 3 is a complete walkthrough of the
game from beginning to end, which will explain exactly what you need to do in
each level. Section 4 is a miscellaneous tips and notes section for things
which don't fit into the other sections. Section 5 is a frequently asked
questions section which answers some of the more common questions I've gotten
about the game. Section 6 is a reference section which lists details about the
different weapons, powers, items, etc. you can obtain in Rapture. Section 7 is
an explanation of how to get all of the Xbox 360 achievements in the game.
Section 8 is the conclusion.
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2. BASIC GAME CONCEPTS [c02]
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This section will explain the basic concepts of the game which you will need to
know to survive in Rapture.
== A. GAME CONTROLS [c02s01] ==================================================
Left stick - move
Click left stick - crouch
Right stick - look
Click right stick - zoom (if weapon allows it)
X - reload/inject EVE (in plasmid mode)
Y - jump
B - use first aid
A - interact
D-pad - change ammo
Hold down right on D-pad - get a tip
Left bumper - switch to plasmid mode/cycle through plasmids
Hold down left bumper - bring up plasmid selection menu
Right bumper - switch to weapon mode/cycle through weapons
Hold down right bumper - bring up weapon selection menu
Left trigger - use plasmid (in plasmid mode)
Right trigger - fire weapon (in weapon mode)
Back button - map/goals/radio/help menu
Start button - game menu
== B. STATUS MENU [c02s02] ====================================================
BioShock includes a very full-featured status menu, which is used to access
information about the game, your location, what you're supposed to be doing,
etc. Note that if you're ever stuck and not sure what to do, you can hold down
right on the D-pad for a few seconds, and the status menu will come up with a
hint which usually explains exactly where you need to go and what you need to
do. The status menu has several screens, which are cycled through by pressing
RB and LB. These include...
MAP - the map shows a map (duh) of the current level you are in, including
points of interest like machines and quest goals. Areas you have not explored
yet are greyed out, making it easy to see where you still need to look. It's
almost always a good idea to explore as much of the city as you can, as you
will usually find weapons, ammo, items, and even gene tonics and plasmids, not
to mention audio diaries which greatly elaborate on the backstory of BioShock.
Note, however, that some areas will occasionally be closed off to you, with no
way to access them. This usually means that they will open up once you
progress a little further in the storyline, so don't sweat it if you can't
figure out how to get into an area.
GOALS - the goals tab shows what you should be doing now. Don't be afraid to
spend some time looking around and exploring the side areas, however.
MESSAGES - this screen allows you to replay any of the radio messages you've
received from the denizens of Rapture, as well as to replay any of the audio
diaries that you've found.
HELP - this screen contains help files on many of the items and game concepts
in BioShock. The game has a context-sensitive help system which is very
useful - position the reticle over the item you want help on and press the
back key, and it will automatically take you to the appropriate help page.
Note that your health and EVE are shown in the bars in the top left hand corner
of the screen. Your current money and ADAM can be seen by pressing Start. The
Start menu also shows how many little sisters there are in the current level,
and what their status is (alive/rescued/harvested).
== C. DEATH [c02s03] ==========================================================
Unlike most FPS games, BioShock does not end if you die. In fact, there is
almost no penalty for dying at all - instead you are simply reincarnated at the
nearest Vita-Chamber machine, with all of your weapons, money, and items
intact. All the damage you did to your enemies stays as well, so if you're
having trouble with a boss or encounter you can just wear them down over
several attempts. In my opinion, this makes the game almost a little TOO easy,
but at least it saves you the aggravation of repeated reloads and retries.
== D. ITEMS [c02s04] ==========================================================
There are many useful items you can find and use throughout Rapture. You can
get these off the ground, from containers, and from dead bodies, by putting the
reticle over the item and pressing the A button. Items which you can pick up or
interact with in some way will usually be highlighted - regular items in white
and quest/story items in gold. The available items include...
WEAPONS AND AMMO - self-explanatory.
MONEY - used for machines. See the money section for more details.
FIRST AID KITS - when used (by pressing the B button) these will return a large
portion of your health. You can carry up to 9 of these at a time.
EVE HYPOS - these are like first aid kits, except for EVE. They look like blue
syringes. You use them by pressing X when you are in plasmid mode. Like the
first aid kits, you can only carry 9 of them.
AUTO-HACK TOOLS - these allow you to automatically hack an object, without
having to do the pipe mini-game. You should save them for emergencies and
exceptionally difficult to hack objects.
FOOD/DRINK - there are several different types of food/drink available in
Rapture. Unlike other items, these are consumed immediately as soon as you
pick them up (you can't carry them around with you). Some of them increase
health/EVE, some of them decrease them, some of them increase one and decrease
the other. Press the back button with the reticle over the item if you're not
sure what it does and the help screen will tell you. Usually the health/EVE
bonus you gain is small compared to first aid kits/EVE hypos.
RANDOM JUNK - after a while in Rapture you will begin picking up a lot of
random items like rubber tubes, brass shell casings, batteries, etc. You can
take these items to a U-invent machine to craft useful items like auto-hack
tools and special ammunition.
STORY ITEMS - you will occasionally need to collect items as a part of the
game's storyline. The status menu shows you what you need to get and where it
is.
== E. MONEY [c02s05] ==========================================================
The currency of Rapture is the dollar, and you will find plenty of it as you
explore the city. Most of it comes from fallen enemies (press A to search their
corpses), but it can also be found in containers and lying on the ground. You
need money to use many of the machines located in Rapture (with the exception
of the genetics-related machines, which either cost ADAM or are free of charge,
and the Power to the People machine, which is free but can only be used once).
== F. ADAM/LITTLE SISTERS/BIG DADDIES [c02s06] ================================
Purchasing genetic upgrades from a Gatherer's Garden requries ADAM, a form of
genetic material which is harvested from corpses by little sisters. Each little
sister has a big daddy which follows her around and protects her. Before you
can approach the little sister, you have to kill her protecting big daddy. Once
you do, walk up to her - the game will give you the option to either rescue or
harvest her. Harvesting kills the little sister, but nets you 160 ADAM.
Rescuing her only gets you 80 ADAM, but as compensation, Tenenbaum will
occasionally send along care packages for you which include ADAM and some other
useful items. The choice is yours, and will have gameplay and storyline
consequences down the road.
The big daddies and little sisters have a rather complicated spawn system which
is worth explaining to prevent confusion. Basically each level has several
patrol routes where the little sisters may be found. There will ALWAYS be a big
daddy somewhere along the patrol route - they quickly respawn after you kill
them, even if all the little sisters in the level are dead. They may or may not
have a little sister with them when you encounter them. If they do not, they
will eventually go to one of the little sister holes in the wall and bang on it
to summon a little sister. The big daddy/little sister will then patrol for a
while, and the little sister will eventually crawl back into the wall. The big
daddy will then start wandering the area again, and eventually head back to a
little sister hole to summon another little sister.
Each level has a set number of little sisters (from 0 to 3) that you can kill.
The big daddies will be able to summon the little sisters until you have
harvested the number alotted for that level, and then no more will come out
when they bang on the holes (they'll keep trying, though).
A simple (but time-consuming) way to easily find ALL of the little sisters for
a level is to locate a big daddy patrol area, and just follow him until he
summons a little sister. Kill the big daddy, harvest the little sister, and
then wait and listen in the same area for the big daddy to respawn. Find him
and repeat the process, and you should be able to get all of the little sisters
for that level. NOTE THAT YOU MAY NOT FIND BIG DADDIES/LITTLE SISTERS IN THE
SAME LOCATIONS AS NOTED IN THE WALKTHROUGH. If you find one somewhere radically
different from the places noted in this guide please let me know.
== G. MACHINES [c02s07] =======================================================
There are several different types of machines that you will encounter in
Rapture, each with a different function. Most of them require money to use. The
different types of machines are...
GENE BANKS - these can be used to change the plasmids and gene tonics you have
equipped. They are fairly common, and you can usually find one shortly before
an important boss fight or encounter. They cannot be hacked.
GATHERER'S GARDEN - these special machines are fairly rare. They are used to
purchase plasmids and gene tonics, as well as extra slots and other upgrades
(like increasing your maximum health/EVE). They are unique because they only
accept ADAM for payment. After you encounter a little sister you can usually
find a GG machine nearby. They cannot be hacked.
VENDING MACHINES - these sell all kinds of useful items like first aid kits,
film, ammunition, EVE hypos, food, etc. You need money in order to use them.
They can be hacked to lower their prices (hacking them will sometimes also
unlock extra items for purchase).
AMMO BANDITOS - these are like vending machines, but they only sell ammunition.
VITA-CHAMBERS - when you die in Rapture, the game does not end - you are simply
resurrected at the nearest Vita-chamber. Note that this isn't a
checkpoint-type reload - everything you did before you died is still in place,
INCLUDING the damage you've done to enemies. See the "death" section for more
details. Vita-chambers are used automatically, you can't interact with them in
any way.
BOT SHUTDOWN PANELS - if you accidentally trigger an alarm, you can use these
panels to turn it off and make the flying drones go away. This costs money
(usually $20). Bot Shutdown panels cannot be hacked.
HEALTH STATIONS - these stations completely replenish your health for a small
fee. Enemies can also use them, but you can hack them to make them poison your
enemies (and heal you at a discount).
POWER TO THE PEOPLE MACHINES - these rare machines will do one upgrade to one
of your weapons free of charge. However, they will then shut down and can
never be used again, so make sure you choose your upgrades wisely. These
machines cannot be hacked.
U-INVENT MACHINES - you will eventually start collecting random junk from
around Rapture. You can bring this stuff to a U-invent machine to create
useful gadgets like auto-hack devices, special ammunition, etc. Inventing an
item does not cost any money, but consumes the items used to create it.
Hacking these machines reduces the number of items required to craft anything.
== H. AUDIO DIARIES [c02s08] ==================================================
Throughout your adventures in Rapture you will stumble across audio diaries
left by the former inhabitants of the city. They are often hidden in
out-of-the-way locations, so they give you a little extra incentive to explore
the nooks and crannies of Rapture. After you find a diary, hold down the A
button for a few seconds to listen to it. These don't do much for the gameplay,
but a LOT of the (extremely involved) storyline is filled in by these diaries,
so it's definitely worth your time to check them out. I'll try to note where
they all are in the walkthrough, but I can't guarantee that I've found them
all. If you find one I don't have listed here please shoot me an e-mail and
I'll add it.
== I. DENIZENS OF RAPTURE [c02s09] ============================================
You will encounter several different types of enemies on your exporations
through Rapture. Each type of enemy requires different strategies and is
vulnerable to different types of ammunition. Also note that the enemies you
encounter will become stronger as the game goes on, so a thug splicer you
encounter in Hephaestus will be much stronger than a thug splicer you encounter
in the Medical Pavilion, for example. The enemies you will find in Rapture
include...
THUG SPLICERS - these humanoids are armed with melee weapons. They're not tough
to deal with, just keep them at range and take them out with your guns. You
can also stun them with electrical damage and club them to death with your
wrench. Vulnerable to anti-personnel ammo.
LEADHEAD SPLICERS - humanoids armed with firearms. These tend to be pretty
spastic, so you'll have a good advantage if you can get the drop on them and
go for a quick headshot. You can stun them with electricity, freeze them in
place, or light them on fire to get them to stop shooting at you. These
splicers seem to have many more hit points than the others. Vulnerable to
anti-personnel ammo.
NITRO SPLICERS - these are armed with explosives. They carry around boxes of
grenades to throw at you, and can also use proximity mines. Use your
telekinesis plasmid to throw their own explosives back at them. Otherwise you
can just stay out of their throwing range and kill them with firearms. They
also like to toss down a smoke bomb and run away if you get too close to them
or do too much damage to them. Vulnerable to anti-personnel ammo.
SPIDER SPLICERS - these splicers are pretty nasty. They move very quickly, can
jump to incredibly heights, and can climb on walls/the ceiling. Their primary
attack is melee, and they can also throw their sickle claws at you from a
distance. Having the gene tonic which shocks enemies which touch you is
useful, since it'll root them in place for a moment to let you damage them
after they hit you. Fire attacks are also useful since they continue to damage
for some time afterwards, meaning you don't have to keep them in the reticle
while they're scrambling around. Vulnerable to anti-personnel ammo.
HOUDINI SPLICERS - these splicers use plasmids to become invisible and
teleport, making them incredibly annoying to fight. Their primary attack is a
fire-based plasmid. Try to find a covered position and wait for them to
reappear, and then shoot them with firearms. Hacked security bots and turrets
are very useful against these guys, since they seem to be able to track them
even when they're invisible. They are also heavily armored against fire
damage, which is the Houidini splicer's primary attack. Vulnerable to
anti-personnel ammo.
BOSS SPLICERS - you will occasionally come across a boss splicer, which is a
regular splicer which is tougher and deals more damage. These are usually
characters involved in the storyline.
BIG DADDIES - the Rosies or Bouncers, also known as the Big Daddies, are the
charming fellows you see on the cover of the game. They usually appear while
escorting around a litle sister, and are not hostile to you unless you attack
them or start pestering their little girl. Bouncers are the melee variety of
the big daddy, and are armed with gigantic drills. Rosies have rivet guns they
shoot you with from a distance, and can also use proximity mines which land on
the ground and explode when you come near. These are basically the toughest
enemies in the game, and require some preparation in order to fight
effectively. You'll need to base your game plan around what you have available
to you in your surroundings - security systems, water, oil slicks, explosives,
try to use everything you have against them. The good news is that, since you
initiate combat against them, you will usually have a decent amount of time to
set up your trap. Whatever you do, don't just go blindly rushing in with guns
blazing, as you will almost certainly be headed to the Vita-Chamber.
Armor-piercing and explosive ammo are the best to use against big daddies. If
all else fails, you can just let yourself die and keep rushing them from the
Vita-Chamber, since whatever damage you do to them before you die persists
after you die. Just wear them down over time. After you kill a big daddy and
deal with the little sister, another one will usually appear to start looking
for the little sister. You don't have to fight these, but you can kill them if
you need the extra money. You can also temporarily convert them to protecting
you with a plasmid power (see below). Vulnerable to armor-piercing and
electrical ammo.
ELITE BIG DADDIES - these start showing up later on in the game. They are
basically just bigger, nastier versions of the rosies and bouncers you
encounter earlier on - they don't require any special tactics other than what
you would do with the normal big daddies.
LITTLE SISTERS - little sisters cannot be approached or damaged until their
accompanying big daddy is dead. More details on them in the ADAM section.
SECURITY BOTS - these are usually summoned by a security alarm, which goes off
if you stand for too long in front of a security camera. They carry machine
guns and will fly and follow you around. Thankfully they're not hard to deal
with - armor-piercing and explosive ammo works very well against them. You can
also "stun" them with electrical ammo, and then hack them so that they PROTECT
you instead of attacking you. Bots will also follow you around until they are
destroyed or deactivated, making them a nice helper for boss fights
Vulnerable to armor piercing and electrical ammo.
== J. WEAPONS [c02s10] ========================================================
BioShock is an FPS game at its core, and you will have a wide variety of
weapons to select from throughout the game. To use your weapons you must enter
weapon mode by pressing RB. You can cycle through your weapons by pressing RB
again, or bring up a radial selection menu by holding down the right bumper.
Your weapons can also be upgraded and use different types of ammo - see the
ammo and weapon upgrading sections for more details. The weapons you can obtain
include...
WRENCH - standard melee weapon, can be used to knock locks off doors. You can
shock splicers with electrobolt to stun them, and then club them to death with
the wrench. There are also several gene tonics that upgrade your damage and
speed with the wrench.
PISTOL - low clip size, slow firing, but pretty accurate. Useful for pulling
off a headshot if you can surprise a splicer. Takes normal, armor piercing, and
anti-personnel ammo.
MACHINE GUN - this is a basic SMG, with fully automatic fire and a large clip
of 40 rounds. Useful against multiple targets and fast-moving enemies like the
spider splicers. Takes normal, armor piercing, and anti-personnel ammo.
SHOTGUN - big, loud, and deadly at close range. It is fairly slow firing
though, and only has four rounds per clip. Takes regular buckshot, explosive
buckshot, and electrical buckshot.
GRENADE LAUNCHER - shoots several different types of explosives. I'd save this
one for boss fights, since using it properly can take a little bit of planning
and preparation. Fires regular frag grenades, proximity mines, and heat-seeking
RPGs.
CHEMICAL LAUNCHER - sprays several different types of chemicals at your enemies
with varying effects. Shoots napalm (fire), liquid nitrogen (ice), and
electrical gel (electricity).
CROSSBOW - a powerful crossbow. Has a small clip size and a very slow rate of
fire, but does massive damage when it connects. Also has an extremely accurate
zoom function. Shoots regular bolts, incendiary bolts, and trap bolts. Regular
bolts can sometimes be retrieved from corpses and the environment.
CAMERA - not really a weapon, but it is selected and used like one. More
details on this later.
== K. CUSTOM AMMO [c02s11] ====================================================
Each gun has several different types of ammunition it can use, including
regular, anti-personnel, explosive, armor-piercing, electrical, etc. These
ammos can be found on the ground, purchased at vending machines, or crafted at
U-Invents. Each enemy is vulnerable to different types of damage, so you can
use an appropriate ammo against each enemy to make things go a little easier
for you. The different types of ammo are...
REGULAR - generic all-purpose ammo.
ANTI-PERSONNEL (pistol, machine gun) - designed for use against unarmored
targets (i.e., the splicers).
ARMOR PIERCING (pistol, machine gun) - good against heavily armored targets
like big daddies and turrets.
EXPLOSIVE (shotgun, grenade launcher) - good against basically anything.
ELECTRICAL (shotgun, chemical launcher) - good against electrical equipment
like turrets, cameras, drones, etc.
PROXIMITY MINE (grenade launcher) - sticks to the ground and blows up when an
enemy comes near.
HEAT-SEEKING RPG (grenade launcher) - tracks enemies with a heat signature,
like splicers.
NAPALM (chemical launcher) - shoots fire. 'Nuff said.
LIQUID NITROGEN (chemical launcher) - freezes enemies in place, letting you
smash/melt them. They will thaw if you leave them for a few seconds though.
STEEL BOLTS (crossbow) - these standard bolts shot from the crossbow are unique
because you can pick them up from walls and corpses and reuse them. They have
a chance to break on every shot, but this can be reduced with a weapon upgrade
available at Power to the People machines.
INCENDIARY BOLTS (crossbow) - light the target on fire when they hit.
TRAP BOLTS (crossbow) - lets you create the electrified trapwires you often see
in Rapture. They embed themselves in the wall (or other object) and then shoot
out the trapwire directly behind themselves until it makes contact with another
object. Make sure you get out of the way before the trapwire fires or it will
shock you. These trapwires do a large amount of electrical damage to the first
enemy to walk through them.
Using the correct type of ammunition will make your fights go MUCH smoother.
Against the easier splicers regular ammo will do the trick just fine, but
against big daddies, bosses, and tougher splicer fights you'll need to use the
rarer ammo to avoid a lot of unnecessary trips to the vita-chamber.
== L. WEAPON UPGRADING [c02s12] ===============================================
You can also upgrade your weapons to increase their power, speed, or other
characteristics. This is down at "Power to the People" machines, which are
scattered throughout Rapture. These machines are very rare, so make every
effort to hit them up when you see them on your map. Each machine will do one
upgrade to one of your weapons, free of charge, and then cease to function
forever, so make sure you choose your upgrades wisely. Note that upgrades are
permanent and will remain on your weapon for the rest of the game. The
locations of the weapons upgrade machines are listed in the reference section
of this guide.
== M. PLASMIDS [c02s13] =======================================================
Plasmids are a type of genetical modification to your body, which gives you
"magical" powers like telekinesis, shooting fire out of your fingers, etc. To
enter plasmid mode, click on LB. You can then use LB to cycle through your
plasmid powers, or hold it down to bring up a radial menu to select which
plasmid you want to use. To "fire" your plasmid power, pull the left trigger.
Plasmids, unlike gene tonics (see the next section), are active powers which
must be triggered to have any effect. Using them consumes EVE, which is
measured by the blue bar underneath your health bar in the top left corner. You
can replenish EVE using the blue hypos found throughout Rapture, or from some
of the food items in the game. There are also some gene tonics which restore
your EVE when you heal, eat, successfully hack a device, etc. The plasmid
powers available in-game are listed in the reference section of this guide, but
some of the more important ones are...
ELECTROBOLT - This is, in my opinion, the most useful plasmid in the game,
since it instantly shorts out any security system element, allowing you to get
close enough to photograph/research it and hack it. It can also open
shorted-out doors, stun splicers and big daddies, fry anyone standing in
water, and is generally just an all-around useful power.
TELEKINESIS - Extremely useful against anything that launches grenades or
rockets at you, since you can just grab them and throw them back. You can also
use this power to grab items that are just out of reach. Telekinesis can also
grab trapwires out of the wall to disarm them. CodeHxr also suggests using
telekinesis to toss objects at enemies (this can do massive damage) and also
to hold corpses in front of you as meat shields to block some incoming fire.
INCINERATE - Lights enemies on fire. It can also be used to light oil slicks
on fire, and melt ice which is blocking your path (you'll need to do this
several times in the game to get into certain areas).
HYPNOTIZE BIG DADDY - This plasmid can ONLY be obtained from the care packages
you get from Tenenbaum for rescuing little sisters. It converts big daddies
to defend you temporarily.
You only have a limited number of slots in which you can "equip" your plasmids.
Each time you gain a new plasmid you will be given the option to either place
it in one of your slots (replacing the plasmid which is already there, if any),
or store it in your gene bank for later use. You can visit a Gene Bank machine
at any time to swap out your plasmids and gene tonics, free of charge. You'll
want to do this frequently to adapt your strategies to your enemy and
situation. You can also purchase new plasmid slots from the Gatherer's Garden
machine, up to a maximum of six.
There are several ways to obtain new plasmids. You can occasionally find them
on the ground in Rapture (they will look like glowing bottles with a colored
liquid inside). You can also get them from researching enemies (see the section
below on the camera and research). However, the most common way to get new
plasmids is from the Gatherer's Garden machines, which sell plasmids and other
genetic upgrades. Purchasing from a Gatherer's Garden requires ADAM, and the
only way to get ADAM is from the little sisters. More on that later.
== N. GENE TONICS [c02s14] ====================================================
Gene tonics, like plasmids, are genetic modifications to your body. However,
unlike plasmids, they provide passive effects which are always active and do
not need to be triggered. There are three main types of gene tonics - physical,
which provide things like damage resistances and increases to speed;
engineering, which increase your hacking skills; and combat, which do things
like increase your damage or skills with particular weapons. Like plasmids, you
have a limited number of slots for each type of gene tonic. Also like plasmids,
you can purchase additional slots (and tonics) at a Gatherer's Garden, if you
have the ADAM for it. You can also switch out your gene tonics at a Gene Bank
machine at any time. A complete list of the gene tonics available in the game
can be found in the reference section of this guide.
== O. INVENTING [c02s15] ======================================================
You will eventually begin collecting random items with no apparent purpose,
like rubber tubing, batteries, brass shell casings, etc. You can bring this
junk to a U-invent machine and use it to craft more useful stuff like auto-hack
tools and custom ammunition. This doesn't cost you any money, so you
essentially get a little extra gear for free. Not bad. There's also a storyline
mission later on where you'll have to use the U-invent to craft a special item.
More on that in the walkthrough section.
== P. RESEARCHING ENEMIES [c02s16] ============================================
Eventually you will obtain a research camera, which is used just like a weapon
- select it with RB and take a picture using RT. The camera takes film as its
"ammunition", which can be obtained from vending machines, enemies, containers,
and the ground. The camera allows you to "research" your enemies by taking
photographs of them. Every photograph is given a score based on its quality -
pictures where the subject is well-framed, in action, or where there are
multiple subjects will score higher. You can also obtain gene tonics which will
increase the score for every picture you take. However, taking multiple
pictures of the same target will reduce the score of the picture, and if the
score gets too low the game will simply not take the picture (therefore you
don't have to worry about wasting film on useless pictures).
Each picture you take will increase your progress towards the next research
level on that type of enemy. Each new research level will provide a bonus
against that type of enemy, a plasmid/gene tonic, or some other type of reward.
It's therefore worth your while to do as much research as possible, especially
against the tougher enemies like big daddies and spider/houdini splicers. When
you see an enemy up ahead, break out your camera, and once you get in range try
to snap as many pictures as possible as quickly as possible. Film isn't hard to
find in Rapture, so don't worry about wasting it. Personally I'd keep
photographing each subject until it doesn't give you any more research
increases, ESPECIALLY against the rarer enemies like big daddies and
spider/houdini splicers. You can usually take 3-5 pictures of an enemy before
the score gets so low that the picture won't be taken.
Each enemy has 5 research levels - after you get to level 5 you won't be able
to take any more pictures of that enemy, since there's nothing left to
research. Usually levels 1, 3, and 5 provide damage increases against that
enemy, while levels 2 and 4 provide more specialized bonuses.
Note that you can also research security camera elements like turrets, security
cameras, and and bots. An easy way to do this is to zap them with electrobolt
so they're "stunned", and then run in and grab a bunch of photos before they
come online again. You can also research little sisters - each level for them
gives you a bonus to your maximum health and EVE.
== Q. SECURITY SYSTEM [c02s17] ================================================
Rapture has a security system which protects some of the more sensitive areas
of the city. There are three major elements to the security system - cameras,
turrets, and bots. All three of these elements can be researched with the
camera. The security system can also be hacked so that it protects you and
attacks your enemies. If you can prepare an area's security system in advance
for an important or difficult fight, it will make things much easier for you,
since the turrets, cameras, and bots will be fighting FOR you, instead of
against you. This is a good strategy to use against big daddies.
CAMERAS - security cameras can often be found scanning important areas of the
city. You can see where the camera is looking because it emits a red circle of
light on the area the camera is pointed at. If the camera sees you, the light
will turn white, and you have a few seconds to get out of view. If you don't,
the camera will trigger an alarm, and security bots will be summoned to hunt
you down. The alarm lasts for sixty seconds, but it can be cut short if you
run away from the area where it was triggered or use a bot shutdown panel (see
the Machines section). When the alarm is triggered, a red countdown timer
appears on the right side of the screen to show you how much time is left.
Cameras can either be avoided, destroyed (use explosive or armor-piercing
ammo), or hacked. You can sometimes get close enough to hack a camera without
it seeing you, but a better bet is to shock it with the electrobolt plasmid or
electric ammo, which will temporarily put it out of commission. You can then
get close enough to hack it without worrying about an alarm being triggered.
Hacked security cameras will sound the alarm on enemies, and will summon
allied security bots to attack them. An alarm timer will again appear, but
this time it will be blue instead of red. Hacked cameras have a green light
instead of a red one.
TURRETS - turrets are automated weapons platforms that attack you on sight.
There are several different kinds, including machine gun, flamethrower, and
rocket launcher varieties. Like cameras, they can be shocked with the
electrobolt or electrical ammo and hacked, or else just outright destroyed.
Hacked turrets have green lights instead of red, and attack your enemies
instead of you.
BOTS - bots are summoned by camera alarms, and can occasionally be found lying
on the ground. See the enemies section for more details on bots.
== R. HACKING [c02s18] ========================================================
BioShock includes a hacking mini-game, which allows you to (among other things)
convert security system elements to your side, open safes and combination
locks, reactivate bots, and reduce prices and increase stock at vending
machines. You can usually hack items by walking up to them and pressing the X
button. This brings up a screen which shows you the difficulty of hacking the
item, and what you will get if you successfully hack it. Pressing A will take
you to the hacking mini-game.
The game is essentially a "tile" type of game where you have to rearrange
pipes to redirect a flow of energy from a starting point to an ending point. At
the beginning of the game, all the tiles are flipped over. Press A to flip over
a tile, and press A again to swap the flipped tile with whatever you have in
your "storage" or "buffer" (shown on the left side of the screen). Essentially
you have to connect the starting point with the ending point before the blue
energy flow gets to the end of the pipe or touches an alarm or overload tile.
If the energy flow reaches the end of the pipe before you connect it to the end
tile, the system will overload and you will take a small amount of damage.
This sounds complicated, but it's easy with a little practice. You just have to
be efficient at rearranging the tiles. Try to flip over as many as you can at
the beginning (before the energy starts to flow) so you can see what you have
to work with, and then go from there. There are also a few special tiles...
OVERLOAD TILES - look like little orange explosions. If the energy gets routed
to these tiles the device will automatically overload and you will take a
large amount of damage.
ALARM TILES - look like little fire alarms with a red dot on them. If the
energy gets routed to these tiles an alarm will go off and bots will be
summoned.
RESISTOR TILES - look like zig-zag electrical resistors. These greatly slow the
speed of the energy flow, and buy you a little extra time to complete the
circuit if you're having trouble.
FAST FLOW TILES - these are very thin pipes that show up late in the game. They
are basically the opposite of resistor tiles, they speed up the energy flow
instead of slowing it down. Try not to use them if you're short on time.
If you're having too much trouble with a particular hacking puzzle, you have
two options available to you - you can either use an auto-hack tool (obtainable
from vending machines, containers, and U-invent machines) to automatically
hack the item, or you can "buy out" the hack and spend money to complete the
puzzle. The more difficult the puzzle is, the more expensive it will be to buy
out the hack.
There are also several achievements you can earn from hacking...
Hacked a Safe (10 GP) - Successfully hacked a safe.
Hacked a Security Bot (10 GP) - Successfully hacked a security bot.
Hacked a Turret (10 GP) - Successfully hacked a turret.
Hacked a Vending Machine (10 GP) - Successfully hacked a vending machine.
Skilled Hacker (40 GP) - Complete 50 successful hacks.
===============================================================================
3. WALKTHROUGH [c03]
===============================================================================
This section is a complete walkthrough for BioShock, and will explain exactly
where you need to go and what you need to do to complete the game. I will also
include optional areas, but I'll indicate that you don't need to go there if
you don't want to. Also, I'm not going to bother writing "search the room for
useful stuff" or "search the corpses and containers", it should just be
assumed. Always check every single container and corpse you find, you never
know what might be in it. Listing what you can find in every single room in the
game would be a monumental waste of time, so I'll only mention the really
important things like quest items and new weapons. Also, I'll try to mention
where you'll meet scripted enemies, but random splicers seem to respawn and
appear in somewhat random locations throughout the game, so your mileage may
vary. BioShock, more than any other FPS game, has a very dynamic environment,
and you might not find splicers or big daddies/little sisters in the same
locations or doing the same things that I did, so keep your head up. Compass
directions are given as shown on the game map, with the assumption that up is
north.
IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE SEE THE LITTLE SISTERS/BIG DADDIES LOCATION GUIDE IN
THE REFERENCE SECTION TO CLEAR UP ANY CONFUSION ABOUT WHERE TO FIND THE LITTLE
SISTERS. THEY MIGHT NOT BE IN THE EXACT SAME POSITIONS AS NOTED IN THIS
WALKTHROUGH.
== A. PLANE CRASH [c03s01] ====================================================
The game begins with a quick cutscene on an airplane, which promptly goes
crashing into the ocean. After the title screen, you wake up bobbing amongst
the flaming wreckage of the airplane. Avoid the flames and swim forwards to the
lighthouse-looking structure ahead of you. Climb up the stairs and go through
the door. It'll slam shut behind you, and lights will come on, revealing an
incredibly creepy statue of Andrew Ryan glaring at you from above. Check out
the plaques and artwork, and then head down the stairs at the back of the room.
At the bottom of the stairs is a bathysphere, a primitive submarine-type
device. Climb in and pull the lever, and then settle in for the ride. Make sure
you have a nice view, because your first look at Rapture is really quite
impressive. Sit back and enjoy the ride, there's nothing else to really do
here.
== B. WELCOME TO RAPTURE [c03s02] =============================================
After the splicer massacres Johnny and fails to break into the bathysphere,
you'll get a transmission from Atlas. Pick up the radio to the left of the door
and listen to what he has to say. Go forward from the bathysphere, turn left,
and head up the stairs. Turn left and watch the splicer get cut up by the
security system. Jump over the debris by pressing Y, and pick up the wrench in
front of you (it'll be highlighted in gold) by pressing A. Smash the debris
blocking the door with the wrench, and click LS to crouch under the door.
There's a splicer at the top of the stairs who will throw a flaming couch at
you. Get out of its way and continue up the stairs. The splicer will charge
you - club him to death with the wrench, then turn left and head up the stairs
on the back wall. At the top there's a Gatherer's Garden machine with a free
Electrobolt plasmid on it - pick it up and the game will go into cutscene mode.
Ouch. When you wake up, you'll have your first plasmid power - electrobolt. See
the game concepts section for details on what plasmids are and how to use them.
Search the room for useful stuff, and then use your electrobolt plasmid on the
sparking lever next to the door. This should override the short and get it open
for you. Walk into the tunnel, and watch the plane's tail section come
crashing in. You'll have to go up into the plane and through the emrergency
exit to continue on through the tunnel.
Go to the end of the tunnel and through the Securis door. You should enter a
large, dimly lit room. To the right, near the leaking window, is a corpse with
an EVE hypo. There's another hypo in the left wing. Explore the room until the
splicer enters (I'm not sure exactly what triggers it), and then kill him. Use
Atlas's one-two punch - zap him with electrobolt and then club him with the
wrench. The airlock door should open and another splicer will come through.
Kill him and continue through the airlock.
Head up the stairs and into the lobby, and kill the flaming splicer. Go through
the sliding doors and take the open elevator up. Note that you now have a quest
arrow which will direct you exactly where you need to go. Head right and kill
the splicer blubbering over the stroller. Pick up the revolver in the stroller
and walk through the doors into the Kashmir restaurant.
OPTIONAL: Head down the stairs along the wall to the right. There'll be a
splicer trying to get through a door at the bottom - kill him quickly. The
other splicer he's arguing with will open the door to see what's going on, so
take her out too. Go through the door and search the room for some money and
other goodies. Walk back out and you'll see two splicers scrounging around in
the pool of water by the window. Hit the water with the electrobolt and you'll
electrocute them both - this will also earn you the "Toaster in the Tub"
achievement for 10 GP (if you don't already have it). There's an audio-diary
(New Year's Eve Alone) on the table. At the other end of the room you'll see an
entrance to the Footlight Theater - you can't get through this way though. Head
back up the stairs.
Turn right at the top of the stairs and go into the bathrooms, killing any
splicers you find. There's a ghost scene in the women's bathroom, and an
audio-diary (Hole in Bathroom Wall) on the rubble at the end of the room. Head
into the men's room and through the hole in the wall of the last stall.
Head over the lighting fixture to the balcony on the other side of the room.
There's a radio transmission from Atlas here about the little sister on the
floor beneath you. Go down the stairs against the wall and watch the scripted
event. Yikes. Clearly you do NOT mess with the little sisters unless you are
VERY well prepared. Grab the pistol off the ex-splicer and smash through the
lock on the gate to your right.
OPTIONAL: Search the theater for loot. Nothing particularly exciting, though.
Turn right at the Vita-chamber and head down the hallway, killing splicers as
you go. When you get to the stairs there'll a pair of splicers standing in a
pool of water - you should know what to do by now. Head down the stairs to the
lobby area.
OPTIONAL: Search the bathroom to find some health supplies.
Get yourself healed and make sure you have some EVE ready, there's about to be
a fairly large battle. When you're ready, approach the door to Neptune's
Bounty. It'll slam shut and a security alarm will go off. Back away from the
door, as a flamethrower turret will appear and start trying to barbecue you.
Splicers will start appearing as well, jumping from the stairs into the pool of
water in the middle of the room. Use your electrobolt plasmid to zap them as
soon as they touch the water. You'll get a panicked radio transmission from
Atlas, who'll open the door to the Medical Plaza (at the opposite end of the
room from the door to Neptune's Bounty) for you. Head through, jump over the
debris, and walk into the room with all the TV screens.
The doors will slam shut, and you'll be subjected to a video rant from Andrew
Ryan. Splicers will start trying to smash through the windows, but Atlas gets
the door at the back of the room open for you before they can break in. Head
through and press A at the airlock door to take you to the medical pavilion.
Completing this area earns you the "Completed Welcome" achievement for 10 GP.
== C. MEDICAL PAVILION [c03s03] ===============================================
Turn right at the entrance hallway and head down to the foyer. There's a
vending machine against the east wall to your left - time to spend some of your
hard-earned cash. Look behind the receptionist's desk for a whole bunch of
goodies. There's also an audio-diary (Released Today) sitting on the desk.
Turn around and head to the door to the right of the vending machine, which
leads to Emergency Access. You'll need to hack the security bot to get through
(see the section on hacking above if you need more details). Take your new
friend and round the corner, where you'll stumble on a dispute between two
splicers. Kill whichever one survives, and then head back to the desk at the
back of the room, where there's some health, ammo, and an audio-diary (Adam's
Changes).
Head up the stairs to the balcony area, and hit the Emergency Access Control
switch (it'll be highlighted in gold). Access will be denied, and the door
behind you will open. Atlas explains that you need to get the key from Dr.
Steinman before you can continue on.
When you flip the control switch, the door behind you will open,
releasing a splicer. Kill her, go through the door, and turn left down the
hall. There's a little room at the end with a machine gun and an electrical
override switch that returns power to the Medical Pavilion foyer. The door at
the back of the room will open and a bunch of splicers will spill out. Let your
security bot go after them, and head back down the hallway and out to the
foyer.
Take out the splicers on your way back to the foyer, and climb up the stairs at
the back of the room. The door to the main area of the Medical Pavilion should
now be open. Head on through and follow the hallway down to a door, where
there'll be another ghost scene. Use the door control to the right of the door
and head through.
Pick up the audio-diary (Higher Standards) on the wall in front of you. You're
now in the main Medical Pavilion area, which has a number of different
businesses and areas. On the other side of the wall, once you round the corner,
is a turret, so zap it with electrobolt and hack it (you'll be doing a lot of
fighting in this area so it's worth your while to not destroy it). On the right
side of the room is a storage closet with another turret for you to hack.
On the south wall of the room (left from the main entrance) is a knocked over
directory sign with the names of doctors and businesses on it. On the wall next
to it is another audio-diary (Limits of Imagination). There is also another
audio-diary (Love for Science) on a crate near the health station in the middle
of the main area, and another one (Parasite Expectations) on the desk behind
the wall at the entrance to the main area (i.e., directly across from the
turret). There is a fourth audio-diary (Vandalism) in the little alcove on the
north side of the main area, sitting on a chair next to a vending machine.
Head to the west end of the room and go through the door marked "Dr. Steinman's
Aesthetic Ideals". Go through the tunnel and enter Dr. Steinman's area.
Rounding the corner you should see him crouching on the ground muttering to
himself, but as soon as he sees you he takes off down the hallway to the right
and explodes it behind him, leaving a huge pile of debris. There's a nitro
splicer standing on the balcony above you tossing grenades - if only you had
some way of grabbing one and using it against the debris... hmm...
This is one of the few times in the game where it's not really clear what you
need to be doing. Basically you need to get the Telekinesis plasmid so you can
grab a grenade from the nitro on the balcony and use it to blow up the debris
blocking your path to Dr. Steinman. There are ads on the wall advertising that
the Dandy Dental clinic is giving away the telekinesis plasmid as a
promotion, but heading back to the main Medical Pavilion area and finding the
Dental Services area (it's down the stairs right by the tunnel to Dr.
Steinman's area) reveals that it's completely frosted shut. There's an
audio-diary (Freezing Pipes) at the lower left corner of the ice pile that
reveals why.
OPTIONAL: At the southwest corner of the Dental Services entrance area is a
supply closet with a door that's shorted out. Hit the switch to the left with
your electrobolt, and head in to collect your loot.
So we need to find some way to melt the entrance to Dental Services. The name
of the crematorium should give you a hint that that's where we should be
looking. The entrance to the crematorium is in the SW corner of the main
Medical Pavilion area, so head up there. There should be a lady pounding on the
door who soon meets a grisly end. Kill the splicer who comes through the door,
and head on in. There's an audio-diary (Surgery's Picasso) hanging under the...
ahem... "creatively" rearranged photo on display to your left.
Head into the back of the crematorium. There's a security camera at the south
end of the room, near the furnace - zap it and hack it.
OPTIONAL: Find the furnace control on the side of the furnace, next to the
gurney with the corpse on it. Press it and wait for the body to be cremated.
When it comes out, it should have a gene tonic (Hacker's Delight) sitting in
the ashes.
Head up the stairs in the SE corner of the room. Terminate the splicer, and
then crouch and crawl through the little hole in the wall next to the jammed
doors. Your Incinerate plasmid is on the floor next to the broken Gatherer's
Garden machine. Put it in your empty plasmid slot, and then get ready to use
it, as you're about to be ambushed by splicers. Fortunately for you, they're
stuck outside the storage room, and unfortunately for them, they're standing in
an oil slick. Light the slick on fire (it extends into the storage room through
the crawlspace) and watch them go up in flames.
Head back downstairs and go down to the Dental Services area. Use your
incinerate plasmid to melt the ice blocking the entrance, and head on through.
Kill the splicer in the entrance area, and head through to the right. There's
a shotgun and some ammo sitting in the middle of the room, but as soon as you
pick it up the lights go off and you are ambushed by splicers. Kill them all
and the lights will come back on, revealing that you're in the main lobby for
the dentistry area. The business we need to go to for the Telekinesis plasmid
is Dandy Dental, at the east end of the lobby. There's an audio-diary (Useless
Experiments) by the entrance.
Head on through into the lobby of Dandy Dental. If you want you can hop over
the receptionist's desk for some goodies. Head into the main area and check out
the view from the windows. The plasmid you need is at the broken Gatherer's
Garden machine, at the end of the tennis practice area at the north side of the
clinic. Pick it up and equip it - you'll have to replace one of the plasmids
you already have. Personally I'd suggest keeping electrobolt, since it will be
useful for dealing with security systems once you get back to Steinman's area,
but the choice is up to you. You can always swap your plasmids out later once
you get to a gene bank machine. If you want to practice your telekinesis skills
you can activate the tennis machine and practice catching and throwing the
balls it launches. There's also an audio-diary (Testing Telekinesis) leaning up
against the tennis machine's control panel.
Head back out to the Dental Services lobby. There should be some splicers
entering the clinic just as you're leaving - you might want to try getting
creative with the telekinesis plasmid to kill them.
OPTIONAL: Head southwest past the Painless Dental sign and round the corner.
You'll pass a row of windows which will be shot out by a turret trying to kill
you. Hop through the windows (you'll have to crouch) and either destroy or hack
the turret. You can unlock the door to Painless Dental with the control on the
north wall. Head through to the surgery room. In the SE corner is a desk with
an audio-diary (Plasmids are the Paint) and a gene tonic (Speedy Hacker). On
the east wall is a crawlway with a grate covering it. Crouch and whack the
grate off with your wrench. Follow the crawlway to a storage room with some
nice goodies in it. You can unlock the door with the control on the wall and go
directly back out to the main Dental Services area lobby.
OPTIONAL: Past the windows you went through to get into Painless Dental is
another clinic, Chompers Dental. The door to this clinic is also locked. Use
your telekinesis power to grab the key off the hook on the wall that you can
see through the broken window. Use it to unlock the door and head in. Zap and
hack the camera in the left corner of the room. Go through the door on the far
wall, kill the splicer, and zap and hack the camera. Hack into the safe under
the camera for some nice goodies.
OPTIONAL: Back near the entrance to the Dental Services area is the entrance to
Kure-All. Open the door and head on in, but make sure you have your telekinesis
plasmid selected and ready to go. If you practiced with the tennis machine at
all, this is where it pays off. As you enter the clinic, turn right. You'll see
a turret launch rockets at you. Grab them with your telekinesis power and fling
them back at the turret to blow it up. Go through the door to your left. If
there are any splicers in the clinic clear them out, and hack the camera in the
far NE corner. In the NW corner of the room with the camera is an audio-diary
(Enrage Trial). Along the wall to the left should be a crawlway covered by a
grate. Bash the grate in and follow the crawlway to the storage room. On one of
the cabinets there should be a new gene tonic (Wrench Jockey). Head back out to
the dental services area.
So you've got your telekinesis plasmid, time to head back up to Steinman's
area. You'll probably hear the nitro splicer still banging around up on the
balcony. He should start tossing grenades at you again - if he doesn't, you
might need to shoot a few rounds in his direction to get his attention. Use
your telekinesis plasmid to grab one of the grenades, and then launch it at the
debris covering the door that Steinman fled through. This will clear the path
for you, allowing you to continue on.
As soon as you enter the hall, there's an audio-diary (Symmetry) hanging on the
wall to the right of the corpse in the wheelchair. Continue on down the hall.
The way will initially be blocked by a gate, but Steinman will come running out
of one of the side rooms and send a bot after you. A turret also appears out of
the floor. The gate opens, and Steinman runs again. Either kill or zap and hack
the bot and turret, and continue on. If you check the hole in the wall with
water pouring out of it on the left side, you'll find some ammo and other loot.
There's also a free gene tonic (Static Discharge) sitting by the corpse leaning
against the wall across from the hole.
OPTIONAL: Enter the side room on the right (north) side of the hall. Watch out
for the camera at the far end - zap and hack it when you get a chance. Hack the
safe under the camera for some nice loot. There's also some ammo and other
items on the desk in front of the camera. On your way out, pick up the
audio-diary (Aphrodite Walking) from the cabinet by the surgery table.
All right, time to put an end to Steinman's insanity - for good. Head through
the doors at the end of the hall and watch the scripted event. Dr. Steinman is
basically a Leadhead Splicer with a whole ton of hit points. Other than that
he's not particularly tough or difficult to kill. Anti-personnel ammo is very
effective against him. If you have your incinerate plasmid slotted you can also
make use of the oil slick behind the operating table to light him on fire.
Killing Dr. Steinman earns you the "Defeated Dr. Steinman" achievement for 15
GP.
You should get a radio message from Atlas reminding you to get the key and head
back to the Emergency Access area. Search Steinman's body to get the Emergency
Access key, and check the corpse on the operating table for an audio-diary (Not
What She Wanted).
OPTIONAL: Head down the stairs to the flooded area underneath the observation
area. There's a desk with a safe on it which contains some first aid kits.
Follow the arrow back out of the surgery room and towards the main Medical
Pavilion area. There should be some splicers coming out to greet you - if you
hacked the turret in the hallway it should take care of them without much
difficulty. Continue on until you get to the tunnel heading back to the main
Medical Pavilion area.
Heading into the tunnel you'll hear the door leading to the main area
collapsing, blocking you in. Thankfully the other door on the north side of the
tunnel (which was previously blocked) has opened up. Head on in - you should be
just in time to see a Bouncer get blown through the window and land in a
flaming heap on the floor. Head through the door and watch the cutscene - Atlas
wants you to kill the little sisters, while Tenenbaum wants you to rescue them.
Harvesting her will give you 160 ADAM, while rescuing her will give you only
80. However, if you rescue several little sisters, Tenenbaum will send along a
care package with 200 ADAM and some other treats (note, however, that you will
still gain more total ADAM from harvesting than rescuing the girls). The choice
is up to you, and has storyline consequences down the road, about which I'll
get into more detail in future versions of this guide.
Atlas encourages you to visit the next Gatherer's Garden machine you find to
pick up some new Plasmids, and lo and behold, one appears at the north end of
the room. Time for some shopping. This GG sells the Enrage plasmid, armored
shell and EVE link gene tonics, and maximum health and EVE upgrades. There's
also an audio-diary (Gatherer Vulnerability) on the floor next to the GG
machine. Pick out which upgrades you want and head through the door on the east
side of the room.
This takes you back out to the main Medical Pavilion area. There may be some
respawned splicers wandering around, so keep an eye out for them. Head back to
the east end of the room. On the way to the foyer, you will encounter another
little sister and big daddy. The good news is more ADAM - the bad news is that
you actually have to fight the big daddy this time. This one is a bouncer - the
melee type with the gigantic drill on his arm. If you hacked the turrets in
this area earlier, try to fight the big daddy where the turrets can shoot at
him. Use whatever explosive or armor-piercing ammo you have, and try to keep
him at a distance - the drill is fairly painful. Be generous with the use of
first-aid kits as well. If you die, you'll respawn at the Vita-Chamber in the
dental services area in the basement - just head on up and finish the fight.
Another way to do this fight (Thanks to Brendan K. for the tip) is to drag the
big daddy to somewhere where the turrets can shoot at it, and then
continuously shock it with electrobolt so it can't move or attack you. The
turrets will cut it up pretty quickly and you'll get by without taking any
damage or wasting much ammo.
When you've killed the big daddy rescue or harvest the little sister. If you
want, you can head back to the GG machine in the lounge and pick up some new
upgrades. Otherwise, head back through the doors at the east end of the main
area and down into the foyer.
Head down the stairs and through the door to emergency access at the far end
of the room, killing any splicers you see. Go back up to the emergency access
control switch and flip it using Steinman's key. The door opens up, revealing
a bathysphere. Hop in, pull the lever, and head off to Neptune's Bounty.
Congratulations, you've just completed the Medical Pavilion.
== D. NEPTUNE'S BOUNTY [c03s04] ===============================================
The bathysphere will drop you off at a dock with a rather grisly display in
front of you. Climb up the stairs and around the column - you'll find a vending
machine and a gene bank where you can swap out your equipped plasmids and gene
tonics (see the Machines section above for more details).
Hop over the debris and continue through the door ahead of you. You'll see a
spider splicer up ahead of you, but thankfully you don't have to deal with her
just yet. Continue through the door at the end of the hallway, which takes you
out into a large open area with a wharf, multiple splicers, and a big daddy/
little sister. Let the big daddy duke it out with the splicers for now, you've
got some other things to do.
Head down the ramp into the lowered area in the center of the room.
Immediately underneath the ramp is a turret - go ahead and hack it, it'll help
when you fight the big daddy. There's another turret underneath the wharf on
the far side of the room - same deal there, zap it and hack it. Immediately
behind that turret is an audio-diary (Bathysphere Keys).
Now that you've got the security system on your side, you can take out the
big daddy. This one is a rosie - she's armed with a gigantic rivet gun that
seriously hurts. Try to keep her in the center of the room where your two
turrets can shoot at her. Harvest or rescue the little sister, and head up on
to the wharf at the south end of the dock.
Continue through the door and turn right at the end of the hall. This takes you
to a balcony type area with a gene bank and a Gatherer's Garden. Unfortunately,
if you look to the left, there'll be an RPG turret launching rockets at you, as
well as several splicers you'll have to take out. Use your telekinesis plasmid
to toss the rockets back at the turret and destroy it. Clear out the splicers,
and head to the GG to spend your ADAM. Head down the stairs towards the giant
"Fontaine Fisheries" sign.
OPTIONAL: to the east of the GG and gene bank machines are two holes leading to
a lower area. Go through the right one and drop down to the lower area. Zap and
hack the camera, and look in the other alcove - you'll find some loot and a
deactivated security bot for you to hack. To get out of this area and back up
to the balcony, you have to jump out of the hole in the west wall, down into
the water, and climb up the stairs.
OPTIONAL: at the Fontaine Fisheries sign, continue going down the stairs into
the flooded area. Turn right and head around the corner. Continue following the
hall until you get to a gate protected by a combination lock. Hack the lock or
open it with the code 5-3-8-0 and continue through. There's an audio-diary
(Timmy H. Interrogation) and some other loot here. You can use your telekinesis
power to grab the stuff through the gate at the back of the room. Head on back
up to the Fontaine Fisheries sign when you're done.
Stock up at the vending machine, and then climb over the boxes leading to
Fontaine's Fisheries and head in. You'll enter a room with a dead lady and a
bunch of health and ammo. Pick up what you need, and then activate the door at
the far end of the room to ask for entrance. Peach Wilkins will answer the
door, but he won't let you in until you do a favor for him. He wants you to
head up to the wharfmaster's office in the upper wharf and grab a research
camera for him. Unfortunately, before you can go, a spider splicer appears.
These guys are very tough, they can scramble up walls and across ceilings and
move very quickly. Do what you can to stay alive, but don't sweat it, as Peach
will send the security system after the splicer, chasing her away. He sends out
a grenade launcher as a parting gift and sends you on your way.
Follow the quest arrow back out of Fontaine's Fisheries, up to the balcony with
the machines on it, and turn right. The gate to the upper wharf should now be
open. Kill any splicers you find, and head on through.
OPTIONAL: Turn right after passing the gate, and then immediately turn right
again. You should see a section of metal grating on the ground that's broken
inwards. Follow the crawlspace to the end and you'll find an audio-diary
(Fontaine Must Go) and some loot.
Continue on up the stairs to the upper wharf area. You should come to
a sliding door which leads to a little room with some proximity mines and other
ammo. Keep heading forward. You'll enter a larger area with a big daddy/little
sister and some splicers. Take out the splicers, and head to the fish cleaning
table directly across from the door where you entered. On it is an
audio-diary (Finding the Sea Slug). Go through the archway towards the
wharfmaster's office - there'll be an RPG turret there, zap it and hack it as
it will come in handy when you fight the big daddy. Kill the big daddy (use
your proximity mines if you want to) and rescue or harvest the little sister.
On the ground on the west side of the room (near the hole the little sister
crawls out of) is another audio-diary (Masha Come Home). Remember the code
7-5-3-3, you'll be able to use it later. There's another audio-diary (Picked Up
Timmy H.) on the corpse by the hole - it also has a code, 5-3-8-0, but it's for
the interrogation room and we've already been there.
Head through the archway towards the wharfmaster's office. Watch out for the
camera at the top of the stairs - it's too high up for you to hack it, so just
zap it and run. There's an audio-diary (Watch Fontaine) by the vending machine
at the bottom of the stairs. Run up the stairs, you'll see yet another camera
on your right - this one hackable. Continue down the hall and into the alcove
on your right. Whack the lock of the door, and immediately duck for cover into
the right corner, just past this desk. This will give you cover from all of
the turrets which will be trying to kill you - an RPG turret in the right
hallway, a machine gun turret in the hall straight ahead, another RPG turret
in the center of the south wall, and yet another machine gun turret in an
alcove in the SW corner of the room. There's also a camera above the last RPG
turret. Destroy or hack them all (remember to use your telekinesis plasmid on
the RPG turrets), and search the room and corpses to find some nice loot.
OPTIONAL: crouch and head through the crawlway in the SE corner of the room.
There will be a camera directly above you when you enter the room, but it's too
high to hack, so zap it and grab some cover at the other end of the room. There
you'll find a safe, a nice selection of ammo, and an audio-diary (Have My
Badge). Head back out when you've got everything.
Break the lock off the door in the SE corner of the room, and head through the
hole in the wall. Pick up whatever ammo you need and swap out your plasmids and
tonics at the gene bank (if you want to). Turn right and head down the hall,
past the Vita-Chamber. At the end of the hallway will be a small office, with
the research camera sitting on a desk. This will update your objectives -
Peach wants you to snap some photos of three different spider splicers and
bring them to him before he'll let you into Fontaine's Fisheries. Take a photo
of the splicer through the window for your first shot. Note that you can check
out the Researching Enemies guide above if you need more info on how to use the
camera.
Head back out of the office and down the hallway. As you turn the corner past
the Vita-Chamber the wall should explode out, and you'll have to kill a couple
of splicers. Hop through the hole in the wall and onto the tarp thing - there's
a plasmid (Security Bullseye) there for you to grab. Kill the splicer beneath
you, zap and hack the security camera, and pick up any ammo you need from the
bandito. There's also an audio-diary (ADAM Discovery) on top of a crate along
the west wall.
You're now in the room that was on the other side of the blocked door from
where you fought the last big daddy/little sister. Basically what we have to do
now is take three pictures of (different) spider splicers and take them back to
Peach Wilkins. You should have one already from the wharfmaster's office, and
we'll get the other two on the way back to Fontaine's Fisheries. Continue
through the south door, and pick up the audio-diary (Eden Leaking) immediately
in front of you. Head through the door into the tunnel, and hack the camera on
the right wall. There's an audio-diary (Fontaine's Smugglers) on the bench
immediately beneath the camera.
OPTIONAL: Head right at the intersection and go into Jet Postal. Kill the
splicers, and look on the table immediately to the left of the entrance for an
audio-diary (Death Penalty in Rapture). Continue into the back room - there'll
be a spider splicer crawling around on the ceiling. Snap a photo or six (that's
2 out of 3) and take her out. Zap the camera in the corner (it's too high to
hack) and grab whatever you need from the shelves. Also, the vending machine in
this room sells film, so now is a good time to stock up, since the initial
supply you get with the camera runs out very fast.
Head into the Fighting McDonagh's - there will be several splicers and a little
sister/big daddy here. Stock up at the vending machine, switch out your
upgrades at the gene bank, and kill the big daddy when you're ready. Head up
the stairs into the main area of the bar - there are two audio-diaries here.
One (Smuggling Ring) is on a table near the 123 Beer sign, and the other
(Working Late Again) is on a table near the window looking out over the city.
OPTIONAL: Head through the door behind the bar by zapping the sparking door
switch - this leads to the wine cellar and storage area. Kill the splicers, and
head through the door directly across from the entrance. In the corner of the
room is a desk with an audio-diary (Rapture Changing). Go through the
crawlspace into the little closet, and zap and hack the turret. Open the safe
for some nice loot. Head back into the main cellar area, then break through the
grate into the crawlspace at the other end of the room. Following the
crawlspace to its end will take you back out to the entrance to the bar, and
you'll also find another audio-diary (Meeting Ryan).
Head to the upstairs section of the bar, and clear out any splicers. Walk
through the door that's directly in front of you at the end of the hall as you
climb up the stairs - this will trigger a spider splicer spawn behind you. Snap
a photo (3 out of 3, booyah) and kill it.
OPTIONAL: Head back into the room at the end of the hall. There's a safe and
some other loot at the back of the room.
OPTIONAL: Head up the second set of stairs, to another hallway with two rooms.
One of them has a combination lock - you already got the code from an earlier
audio-diary, it's 7-5-3-3. Head in and you'll find a rather depressing pair of
corpses, along with an audio-diary (Saw Masha Today). If you walk towards the
money in the corner of the room, the painting will blow outwards, revealing a
new gene tonic (Shorten Alarms).
OPTIONAL: Zap the shorted-out door switch on the other room on the top floor of
the bar. Inside is a splicer, some loot, and another audio-diary (Arresting
Fontaine).
OPTIONAL: Go into the bathroom at the foot of the stairs. You can kill the
splicer inside by zapping the water. You can pay 5 dollars to get into the
bathroom stalls, which each have some ammo and other loot inside.
So now we've got our three spider splicer pictures, and we need to head back
to Fontaine's Fisheries to give them to Peach Wilkins. Follow the quest arrow
back out into the tunnel, and kill the splicer and his turret. Head through to
where you jumped down from the wharfmaster's office. The gate will now be open,
letting you back into the upper wharf. Keep following the arrow down the stairs
until you get to the balcony area with the Gatherer's Garden and Gene Bank
machines. The spider splicer that tried to kill you earlier at Fontaine's
Fisheries will be waiting for you, so if you're missing a spider splicer photo
now's your chance. Note that this splicer seems to be a lot tougher than
regular ones. There'll also be a free gene tonic (Wrench Lurker) sitting on
the railing near the machines.
Head down the stairs and back into Fontaine's Fisheries to talk to Peach. He'll
let you in, but makes you give up your weapons by putting them into the Pneumo
past the door (you'll get them back, don't worry). Drop by the Gene Bank and
make sure you have Incinerate and Electrobolt slotted, as you'll need them
shortly. Use incinerate to melt the ice on the floor and pick up the gene tonic
(Focused Hacker).
Head through the door and down into the open area. You'll be ambushed by Peach
and his men - unfortunately you have no weapons but your wrench, but you do
have your plasmids, so make use of them. Try to hack all the security system
elements you can to get them on your side. You can also lure the enemies into
the pool of water on the right side of the room and zap them with electrobolt.
If you die you'll respawn at the Vita-Chamber just outside the entrance to
Fontaine's Fisheries. Once Peach dies the doors at the back will open,
revealing several more splicers and a turret. Kill them. You will earn the
"Defeated Peach Wilkins" achievement for 15 GP after you kill him.
OPTIONAL: Search the side freezers for some extra loot. You'll have to use your
incinerate plasmid to open the doors and free up some of the goodies.
Head down the stairs at the back of the room and pick up your weapons from the
pneumo. Note that you will get all of your weapons back, but a lot of your ammo
will be missing. This is normal, it's not a game bug (thanks to Dominick P. for
confirming this). Continue on down to the bottom, and you will find your very
first Power to the People (i.e., weapons upgrade) machine. Choose carefully,
since the machine can only be used once.
OPTIONAL: Search the freezer to your left as you come down the stairs. At the
back of the room is a safe, and on a table next to the safe is an audio-diary
(Putting the Screws On).
Head into the west freezer, where you'll see a brief ghost cutscene. Use your
incinerate power to melt the ice blocking the exit at the back of the room, and
head through. You'll get a radio transmission from Atlas, and then you move on
to the next level.
== E. SMUGGLER'S HIDEOUT [c03s05] =============================================
This is a very quick level. Start out down the tunnel, and grab any loot you
need. Ahead of you is a flooded area with a Vita-Chamber and a Gene Bank
machine if you need to switch your upgrades around. Continue to the end of the
flooded area and up the ramp. There'll be a turret shooting at you from behind
some crates - zap it and hack it. Grab the audio-diary (Meeting with Fontaine),
and continue on down the other ramp. This takes you to a ledge with a view of
the submarine, where'll you get a transmission from Atlas asking you to press
the switch to open up the submarine. Head on in to the control room ahead of
you and do so - you'll have to jump over some debris and bash a lock off of a
door to get there.
This triggers an event - eventually Atlas will tell you head down to the sub.
Follow the quest arrow down, but watch out for splicers.
OPTIONAL: After you head down the second set of stairs there'll be a locked
gate to your right. Bash open the lock. Inside you'll find an audio-diary
(Kraut Scientist) and some ammo and other goodies. If you look underneath the
stairs you'll see some money - it's just out of reach, but you can grab it with
your telekinesis plasmid.
Continue on into the submarine bay. You'll get there just in time to see it
explode, sending Atlas into hysterics. Time to get the hell out of here. Follow
the quest arrow through the door with the flashing red lights. Immediately
inside the door you'll find a broken crate with some loot and an audio-diary
(Offered a Deal). Pick it all up and head down to the end of the hall. There
you'll find a bulkhead door leading to the next level - Arcadia. Told you this
one was quick.
== F. ARCADIA [c03s06] ========================================================
In this level you'll start picking up a lot of random junk for use in U-Invent
machines. There's not much to do with it, just pick up everything you find and
wait to get to a U-Invent, where you can see what you've made with everything
you've collected so far.
Head down the hallway, past the Vita-Chamber, and up the stairs to the door,
jumping over/crawling under debris as needed. Bash the lock off the door, and
head on through. Wow, trees! Been a while since you've seen those. Turn left
and head across the bridge - on the north wall you'll find several doors. Near
the leftmost door is a park bench with an audio-diary (Seeing Ghosts) next to
it. You'll hear someone shouting for help in the background - ignore him for
now, it's just another splicer.
OPTIONAL: Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me with this info - directly across
from the entrance is a door with two torches on either side, one lit and one
not. Use your incinerate plasmid on the torch that's not lit to open the door.
Inside you'll find a TON of ammo and other loot.
OPTIONAL: The two leftmost doors are marked Arcadia Glens, head through one of
them. This leads to an antechamber area before the entrance to Arcadia Glens,
which is unfortunately completely blocked off by debris. There is, however, a
ghost cutscene and two audio-diaries - next to the park bench on the left side
of the room (Big Night Out), and next to a chair and knocked over table on the
right side of the room (Mass Producing ADAM). Head back out when you've got
them.
Head through the rightmost door, marked Rapture Metro/Arcadia Glens. This is
where the shouting you heard earlier is coming from, from a Houdini splicer.
This is the first time you will have encountered these guys - they are fairly
nasty, since they can teleport, turn invisible, and shoot fire. Grab some
photos when he's visible, and then just follow the blurry area around and shoot
him when you can.
OPTIONAL: Going straight ahead from the entrance will take you to a small
flooded area with some loot. Head back like you're going towards the entrance,
but turn left instead, following the sign to the Metro. Go past the stairs and
you'll find another room with some more loot (make sure you check out the table
with the mask on it).
The splicer will lead you up the stairs to the right of the entrance, up to a
gardening supplies storage area. Finish him off, and then check out the table
to the right - there's an audio-diary (Arcadia Closed) with a Gene Bank next to
it.
OPTIONAL: Check the crawlspace directly across from the audio-diary for loot.
You should see "Who is Atlas?" posters inside (Storyline hint? Maybe? MAYBE???)
OPTIONAL: Head into the other crawlspace on the south side of the room for
some more loot. Going in here will trigger a splicer spawn in the storage room
behind you, so be careful when you come out.
Head through the door marked "Rapture Metro". This will take you to a balcony
above the Arcadia Glens antechamber area where you found the audio-diaries
earlier. There'll be a splicer on a balcony across the open space shooting at
you, and another one on the balcony you're on. Kill them both. You can use your
telekinesis plasmid to grab some spare ammo from the balcony across the open
space, or to loot the corpses over there.
Continue through the door at the end of the balcony. You'll enter a room with
several splicers and a turret. Move forward into the room so you're out of the
line of sight of the turret, kill the splicers, and then zap and hack the
turret. Stock up at the vending machine if you need anything.
OPTIONAL: To the left of the door where you entered is a shorted-out door. Hit
the switch with electrobolt and head in to grab some loot. Head back out.
OPTIONAL: Go through the door marked "Employees Only", in the SW corner of the
room down a little hall by the stairs. You'll see a splicer walk around the
corner and get pwned by one of the electric crossbow trapwires (you'll get to
use these yourself later on). Take note of what happens to him - make sure it
doesn't happen to you. Jump over or crawl under the wires to grab the loot in
this room. You can also use your telekinesis power to throw objects through the
wire, which will set them off. Way in the back is another crawlspace protected
by a trapwire - head in to find a bunch of ammo and a safe. Another crawlspace
door in the back takes you out to the main room.
Head down the stairs down the hallway in the SW corner of the room, kill the
splicer, and keep moving forwards, following the signs towards the Rapture
Metro. Turning the corner, you'll find you are at the entrance to Arcadia
Glens, only on the right side of the barricade this time. Head through the door
and enter the Glens.
OPTIONAL: Turn right as you enter. Ahead of you will be your first U-Invent
machine. Walk up and use your junk to make some nice loot for yourself.
OPTIONAL: Head down the stairs by the U-Invent machine, into the flooded lower
concourse. Turning left you'll find a corpse and a small alcove protected by a
trapwire that both have some crafting junk on them. Head back up. You can
continue on down the concourse now if you want, but we'll be heading back later
anyway.
Head left from the entrance to Arcadia Glens. You'll come to a small area with
a Gatherer's Garden machine and, conveniently, a big daddy/little sister. Take
out the big daddy (you're literally right next to a Vita-Chamber, so it
shouldn't be too difficult) and harvest/rescue the little sister.
OPTIONAL: Head in to the Waterfall Grotto through the doors by the
Vita-Chamber. We'll be coming back here later, but no harm in clearing it out
now. In the left corner is a U-Invent machine and a corpse with some nice loot.
In the other corner, by the sign, is a staircase down. There's a park bench by
the stairs with an audio-diary (The Market is Patient) sitting on it. Head down
the stairs. This room unfortunately has a rather difficult security system
arrangement, so we're going to take it out now to make things easier when we
come back. You should see a splicer in the flooded area at the bottom of the
room. Kill her, and then jump down and run across to the stairs at the other
side of the room (you'll have two turrets shooting at you). Turn left at the
top of the stairs - you'll see a security camera. Zap and hack it, then turn
left and zap and hack the first turret. It will start shooting at the second
turret down in the flooded area, which should buy you some time to get down
there and zap and hack it. There's an audio-diary (Offer a Better Product) on
a brick near the second turret - pick it up. In the SE corner of the flooded
area is a passageway to another room. Head in, and zap and hack the
flamethrower turret you'll find there. There's also a Gene Bank machine and
some loot. Head back out, and pick up an audio-diary (Early Tests Promising) on
a crate next to the water wheel. Finally, head back up the stairs near where
the security camera was. Zap the sparking door switch to reveal another room
with some loot and another audio-diary (Heroes and Criminals). Follow the quest
arrow back out to the hallway.
OPTIONAL: Head down the stairs in the SW corner by the Vita-Chamber. This takes
you back down to the lower concourse, where we were earlier. There's a Houdini
splicer down here you need to kill. At the corner up ahead is another staircase
where you can get back up to the main hallway, close to the Tree Farm/Rolling
Hills entrances. Watch out for the camera. For now continue on down the lower
concourse. You'll come to an open area with a vending machine - stock up on
film and whatever else you need. In the SW corner is a flooded storage room
with a Houdini splicer, some loot, and U-Invent and Gene Bank machines. In the
NE corner is a crawlspace door which leads to a small room with some loot and a
safe. Next to the crawlspace door is a door which leads back to the main
hallway, near the Tree Farm/Rolling Hills entrances. Again, watch out for the
camera.
Head through the door into the Rolling Hills. There'll be a splicer and an RPG
turret waiting for you - zap and hack the turret and let it kill the splicer.
You can hop up the waterfall to a ledge with some extra loot. If you look at
the map, you'll see that there should be a passageway to another area - it's
blocked now, but don't worry, it will open up soon. There should also be a big
daddy/little sister patrolling through this area - drag it back to where you
hacked the turret and take it out. Near the stairs heading out of the area
there's a park bench with an audio-diary (Shouldn't Have Come) next to it.
Head down the stairs and keep following the quest arrow towards the Rapture
Metro. Whoops, this triggers an event - Ryan's trying to kill the forest. Atlas
asks you to find Julie Langford, the lady who grew the forest, and ask for her
help to repair it. Thankfully you're right next to her office. Head through the
Research Laboratories archway and zap/hack the camera (it'll come in handy
later on). If you turn left and go down the hall there's an Ammo Bandito if you
need to stock. Head through into the offices - you'll get a video transmission
from Langford at the entrance. She wants you to head back to Waterfall Grotto
to grab a sample of Rosa Gallica. Follow the quest arrow back out to the hills,
but watch out for the splicer who will charge you. Try to drag them back to
where you hacked the security camera to trigger an alarm. Keep following the
quest arrow back to Waterfall Grotto.
OPTIONAL: When you get to the stairs heading up in the lower hills you'll see a
Houdini splicer standing by the entrance to a cave which was previously
blocked. Follow him in and take him out. Right by the entrance is an
audio-diary (The Saturnine). Search the room for other loot.
OPTIONAL: Once you go up the stairs, the other area that was blocked off
earlier has opened up as well. It's another Saturnine cave with a Houdini
inside. Kill it and search the room to find some crafting junk.
Once you get to the Waterfall Grotto for the second time you'll see a bunch of
splicers standing over the corpse of a Houdini. Kill them all - there's a free
gene tonic (Security Evasion) by the body. Head down to the lower part of the
grotto, by the water wheel - the roses are growing on a bush right by the
wheel. Picking one up will trigger a spawn of splicers coming down the stairs
behind you. If you hacked this room's security system earlier they'll take care
of them no sweat.
Follow your quest arrow back all the way back down to Julie Langford's office.
She'll ask you to send the rose through the pneumo, and then opens up the door
for you, letting you into her office. Immediately inside you'll find a free
gene tonic (Hacking Expert) on the desk and an audio-diary (What Won't They
Steal) on the floor. Turn right and head on up to Langford's office. She'll
turn off her security system so it doesn't attack you. Grab an audio-diary
(Teaching an Old Hound) off a desk in the next room. There's a vending machine,
a U-Invent, and a Gene Bank in the room after that. Follow the quest arrow to
the tunnel, which takes you up to Langford's office. She unfortunately meets a
gruesome end as soon as you get there - note the code she paints for you on the
window as she dies (9-4-5-7). Wait for the gas to clear and then head into the
room through the side door. Grab the chemical launcher (new weapon) off her
desk, and search her body for an audio-diary (The Lazarus Vector).
Use the code on the safe in the back wall, behind the painting - it contains
another audio-diary (Lazarus Vector Formula) and the key to get into the
Farmer's Market area, which is where we're headed next. The diary gives you a
shopping list of stuff you need to get to create the Lazarus vector, which will
bring all the trees back to life. Once you've collected it all, you need to go
to a U-Invent machine to craft the vector, and then bring it back to Langford's
office to release it into Arcadia. That's still a long way down the road,
however.
First for the chlorophyll - usually whenever I played through this part I had
already collected the chlorophyll I needed by the time I got the formula. One
of the audio-diaries in Langford's office suggests that the Saturnine have been
stealing it, however, so if you still need more try killing splicers
(especially the Houdinis with the weird masks) and searching their caves in the
Rolling Hills.
The other two items (distilled water and bee enzymes) will take a little more
effort to get - we need to go to the market area of town to get them. Head back
out of Langford's office, but watch out, since there will be splicers and the
security system is also now active. Try to hack all of the security elements
you can instead of destroying them - you'll need them later on. Once you get
back to the Rolling Hills you'll get a transmission from Atlas telling you to
head to the market to look for the other ingredients. Exit the Rolling Hills
where you entered and then immediately turn left to enter the Tree Farm (watch
out for the security camera). There's an audio-diary (Arcadia and Oxygen)
leaning against a crate just inside the entrance.
Head south down the wide hall and turn left at the end - there'll be
a weapon upgrade machine on the wall to your left as you turn the corner. Keep
following the quest arrow east. At the entrance to the Farmer's Market area
you'll find another Saturnine (Houdini) splicer with chlorophyll. Head through
the archways and pick up the audio-diary (Maternal Instinct) on the stairs.
Head on through past the sign, and you'll reach the bulkhead door leading to
the Farmer's Market. We're leaving the Arcadia level for now, but we'll be back
soon.
== G. FARMER'S MARKET [c03s07] ================================================
So we've come to the Farmer's Market to collect the items we need to finish
creating the Lazarus Vector to resurrect Arcadia's forest. You should have all
the chlorophyll you need - if not, you'll have to grab some off the Houdini
splicers in Arcadia once you head back there. That leaves us needing 7
distilled water and 7 bee enzymes. Both of the items can be found throughout
the Farmer's Market level, but both are concentrated in different areas. Search
all of the containers and corpses you find, and keep an eye out for the items
sitting on the ground - they should be highlighted in gold.
Walk up to the pneumo by the Farmer's Market sign - there's a corpse with some
enzyme on the ground and an audio-diary (Bee Enzyme). This should give you a
hint where you need to go to find the bee enzymes. Continue through the
door and follow the tunnel to its end. Walking out into the main market area
you'll be just in time to see a Houdini go flashing past. Kill him, but watch
out for the RPG turret through the door to your right. Also try not to get to
far down the hall to the left, as there's a camera down there, and having a
Houdini splicer, an RPG turret, and four security bots attacking you at once
can make things very hectic. When the splicer is dead, zap and hack the turret
and go down the stairs.
OPTIONAL: Go left down the hallway. There'll be a security camera in a corner
above a the door past the first little shop on your right, zap it and hack it.
On the counter across from the camera is an audio-diary (Pulling Together).
Go behind the counter, and zap and hack the turret. Check the safe for loot.
Don't go through any of the doors yet, we'll be coming back this way later.
At the bottom of the stairs you'll see a free gene tonic (EVE Link 2). Head
left - in the alcove is a Gene Bank and some loot. Continue on into the
courtyard area, but watch out for splicers. You might also see a big daddy and
little sister, so kill them if you do.
OPTIONAL: Go through the door with the combination lock - the code is 0-5-1-2,
although you don't find this out until MUCH later in the game. There's a ton of
ammo and other loot behind the door.
OPTIONAL: Go through the door behind the counter with the ripped banner above
it - there'll be a thug splicer crouching around the corner in front of a
U-Invent machine, along with some loot and a distilled water (quest item).
Watch out for trapwires.
OPTIONAL: Go through the other door behind the counter. There's a big daddy
corpse with an audio-diary (First Encounter) on the floor beside it. Go down
into the flooded area. At the back of the room there's a desk with yet another
audio-diary (Hatred) on it.
Head up the stairs from the courtyard to the balcony. Turning right and
following the balcony takes you back to the entrance area, so don't bother
going that way. Go through the door that's not marked "Employees Only". You'll
see a security camera in the shop across the hall - zap it and hack it,
quickly.
OPTIONAL: Go back out and in through the "Employees Only" door to find some
loot. There's a crawlspace door at the back of the room, crawl through to find
an audio-diary (Desperate Times). Hop up on the crates and bash in the grate.
Crawling through the vent will take you to a room with two corpses hanging on
meat hooks (lovely) and another crawlspace opening to the store where you
hacked the camera.
Head down the hall towards the Worley Winery sign. You'll find an audio-diary
(Water in Wine) on the floor immediately in front of the door. Sounds like
someone's been putting distilled water in their wine... hmm... HMM.... let it
never be said that this game is subtle in giving you hints. To drive the point
home, there's a distilled water on the ground nearby.
Head through the door and into the tunnel. You'll come to an intersection -
ahead is the Worley Wineries, where you can find the distilled water, and to
the left is the Silverwing Apiary, where you'll find your bee enzymes. You can
do either one first, but for the purposes of this guide we'll go to the Apiary.
Turn left and head on in.
As you enter the door you'll see a splicer getting attacked by bees from the
hive on the ground. Kill him. If the bees come after you, run back out into the
hallway (you can light the oil slick on fire and run through it to get the bees
to stop following you). On the counter directly in front of the entrance is an
audio-diary (ADAM Explained). To your left is a Gatherer's Garden, and to your
right is a Gene Bank. If you have the Scrounger gene tonic now's a good time to
swap it in, cause we're about to be doing a lot of container searching.
Head through the door at the back. This takes you to the bee hives themselves.
Basically the game plan is to use the switches in front of you to release smoke
into the room, which forces the bees back into their hives for a short amount
of time. Hit the switch and immediately head down onto the floor and start
searching as many hives as you can (don't forget to use your scrounger tonic to
look again if the hive is empty). Splicers will spawn and enter the room, but
ignore them for now, just focus on finding enzymes. When the bees start to come
out again, run up onto the balcony and deal with any splicers that follow you -
the bees should take care of the rest. If you still need more enzymes, hit the
other switch and repeat this process.
Once you have all the enzymes you need, head back out into the tunnel and turn
left, into the Winery. On the other side of the wall, on the little raised
area, is a security camera and turret. Zap/hack them both. Between them is a
safe with a bunch of cash and some distilled water. Search the rest of the room
for distilled water. There's also an audio-diary (Functional Children) on a
table on the east side of the room, and a vending machine in one of the
alcoves.
You probably still don't have enough distilled water, so you'll need to head
down into the cellar, taking the stairs at the back of the room. There's a ton
of splicers down here, along with a rosie and possibly a little sister, so keep
your eyes open. There'll be a distilled water on a crossbeam as you walk down
the stairs, and another one on the floor near the U-Invent at the end of the
hall.
Keep searching the basement as you continue on here, there's plenty of
distilled water everywhere and you should have no trouble finding the ones you
need.
OPTIONAL: Continue down the stairs to the flooded area at the very bottom of
the cellar. Go straight ahead into the alcove directly in front of where the
stairs let out and you'll find a Power to the People machine for another weapon
upgrade. Circle around the basement area - there's a lot of splicers, distilled
water, and loot lying around. If you head into the NW "quadrant" of the
basement, you'll find a little bedroom area. Inside is a bunch of chemical
launcher ammo, some other goodies, and a gene tonic (Photographer's Eye).
Head back up the stairs when you're done exploring the basement, stopping at
the U-Invent machine to craft your Lazarus Vector. This should trigger a
transmission from Atlas and bring back your quest arrow to guide you back to
Arcadia. You've already explored the entire Farmer's Market level, so no sense
wasting time, just follow it back to Arcadia.
== H. ARCADIA PT. 2 [c03s08] ==================================================
As soon as you enter Arcadia Ryan will send you a radio message and then
trigger an alarm, sending security bots after you. Try to zap and hack one of
them, this will take some of the heat off of you so you can run (or you could
just destroy them all, your choice). Follow the quest arrow back to Julie
Langford's offices in the Rolling Hills. The way should be mostly clear, but
watch out for stray splicers.
Once you're there, head up to her office on the top floor, and put the vector
into the contraption by the window. This is going to take a while, and Ryan is
sending his goons after you, so time to batten down the hatches and get ready
to fight. Follow the quest arrow back down to the front entrance and hit the
switch to seal the door (you might have to deal with a few splicers breaking in
from side doors on the way down). Now you've got a few seconds to set up some
defenses - use proximity mines, the cyclone trap plasmid, the security system
elements you hacked, etc. - if you have it, you can even use the hypnotize big
daddy plasmid to get the one patrolling around the offices to protect you. Once
the splicers break in, just try to stay alive, but don't sweat it since if you
die you'll just respawn at the Vita-Chamber by the tunnel up to Langford's
private office. You'll have to keep killing splicers to get the event to
progress. About half way through Atlas will send you a care package of stuff
through the pneumo tube by the entrance. When the vector finishes cooking,
you'll get a transmission from Atlas - run back upstairs and hit the switch on
the right side of the machine to release the vector back into the forest. This
will earn you the "Restored the Forest" achievement for 15 GP.
Follow the quest arrow back out to the Rapture Metro entrance, near the door
to Langford's offices. On a bench to your right as you enter is an
audio-diary (The Great Chain). Pick it up, head down to the bathysphere, and
pull the lever to head to Fort Frolic.
== I. FORT FROLIC [c03s09] ====================================================
Welcome to Fort Frolic, the "arty" section of town. Head on in once the level
finishes loading up, and you'll get a transmission from Atlas instructing you
to head to the Metro station directly in front of you down the hallway. There's
a U-Invent and Gene Bank in the alcoves to your left, as well as some gambling
and fortune telling machines scattered around. Near the Metro entrance, to the
left, are some display cases with health and EVE inside - you can smash the
windows with your wrench if you need the loot, but this will trigger an alarm.
When you're ready, head into the Metro station and walk up to the bathysphere.
This triggers an event - meet Sander Cohen, your antagonist for this level. At
least you get a respite from Atlas and Ryan's bickering for a while. Head back
out into the main hall.
Once you get out you'll notice the way back is blocked a LOT of trapwires.
Cohen will spawn a bunch of spider splicers, which will come crawling at you
across the ceiling - if you've still got some spider splicer research to do,
now's the time. Kill them all, and Cohen will open the doors to the rest of
Fort Frolic for you. Head on in - stop to stock up at the vending machine if
you need anything, and then walk into the main atrium.
Listen to Cohen's spiel. He's waiting for you upstairs in the Fleet Hall, but
there's some optional content to explore here first. You may also find a big
daddy/little sister in this area.
OPTIONAL: First, head to the south end of the atrium, by the vending machine.
Zap and hack the security camera, and then continue on into the southern mall.
As you walk in, you'll see some splicers duking it out. Kill them all, and pick
up the audio-diary (Come to the Record Store) sitting on the stool by the
flaming sign. Check the women's bathroom for loot (watch out for the turret),
and the men's bathroom for a rather creepy statue. Head back out and follow the
hall to the west. There's a Gene Bank ahead of you if you need to make any
upgrade switches. Head into the Sofia Salon (the door on the right side of the
hall). There's some loot, and if you head to the room way in the back there's
an audio-diary (The Wild Bunny) by a frozen guy sitting at an armoire (be sure
to check out Cohen's brilliant poetry in the diary). Head back out and continue
down the hall past the Gene Bank. In the corner of the bar up ahead is a
security camera - zap it and hack it. Sitting on the bar counter is another
audio-diary (Artists' Feud). Continue heading down the hall - there's an ammo
bandito up ahead. Across from it is the entrance to the Marquis D'Epoque cigar
store. Head in, and zap and hack the turret. Head down the stairs - you'll find
a U-Invent machine, and in the other room is a Power to the People machine and
another audio-diary (Fancy Cigarettes). Note the code on the ground next to the
corpse (7-7-7-4), you'll need it later on. Follow your quest arrow back out of
the south mall to the main atrium.
Head on up the stairs to the upper part of the main atrium. There's an
audio-diary (Stood Up Again) by the trashcan at the top of the stairs, near the
entrance to the Fleet Hall. There's also a Gatherer's Garden machine up here if
you have any spare ADAM.
OPTIONAL: Head into the Cohen's Collection art gallery, on the south side of
the upper atrium. Turn the corner and there'll be an audio-diary (The Doubters)
on a table with some bottles. Head up the stairs and zap and hack the turret.
Open up the safes for some loot - this will spawn a houdini splicer behind you.
Let the turret take care of him, and head back out to the atrium.
Go through the door into the Fleet Hall. You'll first head into a concession
area with a security camera. Zap it and hack it.
OPTIONAL: Head up the stairs to your right as you enter the room. There's a
Gene Bank machine halfway up, and at the top of the stairs is a room with a
bunch of film, some loot, and an audio-diary (Musical Insult). Sander Cohen is
in the room just across the hall, but he won't talk to you yet or let you in.
Head back down the stairs.
Go to the elevator on the south side of the concession area. Pressing the call
button will trigger a spawn of a bunch of splicers behind you - let the
security system take them out. Go up the elevator, and turn left to enter the
main theater area. Watch the scripted event - Cohen wants you to take a picture
of the corpse. Snap a photo of the unfortunate pianist, and Cohen will tell you
to head back down to the atrium.
OPTIONAL: At the top of the stairs, near where you entered the theater, is a
hall which takes you to the boxes along the sides of the room. Search them for
some loot. If you head to the south wing, you'll find that one of the boxes is
locked - the one next to it, however, is not. Head into that one, and then hop
over to the balcony of the locked box. You'll get a sarcastic message from
Cohen congratulating you on your athletic prowess, and a free gene tonic (Alarm
Expert).
OPTIONAL: Hop down from the balcony with the gene tonic, and head through the
door directly behind you. Following the hallway you'll get to an area guarded
by two turrets. Zap the turrets and quickly run and hack them - in the alcove
behind them is a safe. Check out the vending machine - all it sells is film and
food, however. You can go through the sliding door across from the machine to
get back out to the concession area.
Follow the quest arrow back out to the atrium - Cohen has unveiled his, ahem,
"masterpiece", a statue with four picture frames. Use the statue - this will
install the picture you took of Fitzpatrick in one of the frames. It turns out
that Cohen wants you to assassinate three more of his enemies, take pictures of
their corpses, and install them in the quadtych. If you do this, he'll
reactivate the Metro so you can go face down Andrew Ryan. Your status menu has
the details on where to find these guys.
First up: Martin Finnegan. Head up the stairs to the upper atrium, and Cohen
will unlock the hall to Poseidon Plaza for you. Head on in. On the left wall a
little down the hall is an audio-diary (The Iceman Cometh). Go through the door
and turn left down the hall - Finnegan is ahead of you. He's a Houdini splicer
and disappears quickly. You get frozen solid briefly after you enter the hall,
but quickly break out. When you do, you'll see a row of frozen statues -
Finnegan is the one on the far left, near the door. Walk up to him and kick his
ass when he thaws. He's basically just a Houdini splicer, nothing special
(don't try using cold damage on him, though). He drops a new gene tonic (Frozen
Field). Snap a photo, and then head back out and add it to Cohen's work of art.
OPTIONAL: Use your incinerate plasmid on the ice piles in the freezer to find
some loot, including a new weapon (the crossbow).
Next on deck is Rodriguez. Head back to the tunnel to Poseidon Plaza, and use
your incinerate plasmid to melt the ice blocking the door. Head through into
the plaza. You'll be attacked by a bunch of spider splicers - watch the
ceiling to see where they'll drop down. You may also encounter a big daddy and
little sister in this area. Stock up at the vending machines if you need
anything.
OPTIONAL: Head to the south end of the main hallway area, into Sinclair
Spirits. Zap and hack the security camera in the corner above the entrance
hall, and then look behind the counter - you should see a button. Press it to
open a door which will let you down into the flooded basement of the store. In
the basement you'll find a safe and a Power to the People machine. The "statue"
in the basement here is actually a spider splicer, so kill it. Head back up to
the main hall - you'll notice that the "More Items Downstairs" sign has now
lit up, and you can head down the stairs to a flooded area. NOTE THAT YOU HAVE
TO KILL THE SPLICER IN THE FIRST ROOM IN ORDER TO OPEN THE STAIRCASE OUT IN THE
HALL. It's not the button that triggers the grate (like some people have told
me) but killing the splicer. Head down the second staircase, you'll come to a
large open room. Way back in the corner is a free gene tonic (Extra Nutrition
2) and some other loot. Turn around - whoa, were those statues there before?
Nope. Kill 'em all and head back up.
OPTIONAL: Turn left past Sinclair Spirits and down the side hall. On the left
side of the wall you'll see the entrance to Robertson's Tobaccoria. Inside
you'll find an audio-diary (Guns Blazing), and an area secured by a
combination lock. The code is 7-7-7-4 (remember it from the last tobacco shop?)
Zap and hack the camera inside and to your left. Collect your loot and head
back out.
Continue down the hallway to the east, and enter the Eve's Garden strip club.
You'll see a ghost cutscene as soon as you enter.
Head down the hallway behind the stage. You'll see another ghost scene, and
when you get to the door there will be an audio clip played. When it
finishes, the door will open to let you in. Search the room - there's a safe,
some money, and an audio-diary (Pregnancy). Head back out, and you'll hear
Hec