When consuming enemies, use different attack powers such as the Whipfist or the Blade to see different animations. Each attack power has a few animations to show off.
When jumping, use a dash just before landing. If timed correctly and if the drop was not too great, you should land at near full speed.
Select the "Extras" option at the main menu. Select "Cheats", then enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. A message will appear to confirm correct code entry.
Body Surfing
Enter Right, Right, Left, Down, Up, Up, Up, Down as a code to unlock Alex Mercer's devastating body surfing ability.
Quickly switch to Armor and Blade after the cinematic ends. Having Infected Vision will help. Stay away from the Boss until he starts to jump. After he lands, attack him with an Air Blade Slash. He will become stunned after a few good hits. Grab him and repeatedly punch. If you are taken down to critical level, use a Devastator move to stun him.
Defeating the Time Square Boss
Contrary to popular belief this Boss battle is easy. Long before the battle, purchase all upgrades that allow you to do +3 Devastator attacks, upon max health. It is also a good idea to get all the upgrades you can via "Consume". The Boss is massive. Notice that under her life bar are other bars. These are some what the Boss' stabilizers, making her vulnerable only after you have severed them. At the beginning of the battle she will do a scream attack. Be careful. Scale up a building or whatever else you have to do. It is very easy to avoid. You will also have Hunters and Infected chasing you. Use the full body armor and claws/blade. Max out your health by running around and consuming. It is easy and the only issues you might have are Hunters, though with the upgrades one hunter can nearly boost your life to max, allowing for maximum Devastator attacks. This is one of your first Devastator attacks you will learn. Scale a building, boost over to her, fall, and initiate the attack. You will see quickly that the Boss' stabilizers are being damaged. Note: Every round the stabilizers' life will increase, meaning that you have to follow the tactics in the same way, and it will just take slightly longer. Strike her with the Devastator. You should have a chance for more, unless she does multiple attacks (green orbs that track you, spitting concrete and screaming). The armor reduces the amount of damage inflicted, allowing you enough time in between attacks to initiate the Devastator again. Once the stabilizers are done, she will fall and you can attack normally. She will then retreat (leaving you plenty of red life orbs to consume) before shooting out of the ground again, with more stabilizer life and "backup". Ignore the backup. This tactic works nicely, but if you get low on health, run away from her view and keep consuming. After she falls a total of three times you will have defeated her.
Note: You can most likely do this trick with any helicopter. Do the mission where you have to steal a helicopter to find the right hunter. You are told to go fly over the Infected area and scan the Infected water towers for a suitable enemy type. Instead of doing that, fly to the Infected area and start shooting the Infected water towers that are around all infected the areas. You get about 8,000 experience points for each. Shoot 25 of them and you will get the achievement or trophy Xbox 360 PlayStation3 for killing the Infected water towers without them hatching. As long as you properly hijack the helicopter and no one suspects you as an enemy, no one will attack you while this is going on. One water tower requires one missile. Make sure to steady it so you do not waste missiles. One flythrough with this helicopter can net you 1,192,000 experience points, assuming you can find one water tower per missile. You can get even more than that if you use your machine gun. After getting about 500,000 experience points, crash the helicopter and repeat the process again from the checkpoint.
Note: This trick only works once you acquire the ability to hijack helicopters and have Infected Vision, received later in the game. Hijack a helicopter. Once you do so, activate Infected Vision. Look for the bright orange water towers scattered throughout the level, primarily in the Infected areas. Shoot them with the helicopter's weapons. For each water tower you destroy, you will receive 10,000 experience points, which are important this far in the game. Note: Water towers respawn continuously for unlimited experience points.
An easy way to get experience points is to get a helicopter, preferably without alarm. Go to any Infected area and search for water towers containing Hunters. These are easily found by going to the area where the crows are circling. This indicates where an Infected water tower is located. Lock on to it and blow it up with a rocket. It should only take one with a direct hit. You will receive 8,000 experience points per water tower. With 200 rockets in an attack helicopter you can get 1,600,000 total experience points. Then using the machine gun, destroy forty more towers. You can then use the remaining homing missiles to blow up a hive for more points. Get another helicopter and repeat the process. The water towers will respawn after a short amount of time.
Experience points for Orbs
The experience points awarded for each Orb that you pick up is based on how many Orbs you have already collected.
Hint Orbs
1: 5,000 each
10: 7,500 each (and 10,000 bonus)
15: 12,500 each (and 25,000 bonus)
35: 15,000 each (and 50,000 bonus)
Landmark Orbs
1: 2,600 each
10: 5,000 each (and 10,000 bonus)
25: 9,750 each (and 25,000 bonus)
100: 15,000 each (and 50,000 bonus)
125: 17, 250 each (and 60,000 bonus)
150: 20,000 each (and 70,000 bonus)
Finding Infected water towers
Squawking crows usually circle the Infected water towers, making them easier to find.
As soon as you unlock the Infected Vision you can see the water towers that are infected. They will glow the orange color like any other infected.
Successfully complete the game under the Normal difficulty setting.
To do this trick you will need the ability to Jump Kick so that you can fly towards the first helicopter of The Strike team. You can also use the Whipfist's Grab upgrade to latch onto an enemy helicopter. Double Jump can also be useful. To start, jump up and Jump Kick or use the Whipfist Grab to latch onto the first helicopter. Do the button event to kill the pilots. Fly up as high as possible and look for the next target. Make sure to use the Lock On ability. Jump out of the current helicopter and Jump Kick towards the next helicopter. You can keep doing this as long as there are helicopters. If you fall, quickly use the Whipfist Grab. Note: This can be very challenging but if done successfully you can attack numerous helicopters without ever touching the ground.
Successfully complete Story mode. You can now replay Story mode with all powers and upgrades previously unlocked.
Earn a "Gold" rank in all events. Note: This may also unlock some Radical events.
If you want to use or find a Thermobaric tank after the mission where one appears, go to the event "Rolling Thunder". Hop in and cancel the event to use the tank. If you cannot find it or do not know if you have unlocked it yet, pause game play, select "Events", then "Kill" and scroll down until you find "Rolling Thunder".
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