Mission SA2
Maian SOS
Perfect Difficulty

World Record Time= 2:15
Strat Target Time=2:55
Level Difficulty=Very Hard
Restart Count=High

Objectives:
1: Sabatoge enemy medical experiment
2: Destroy captured Maian saucer
3: Activate distress signal

Things to know:
Staying alive is incredibly hard on this level. This is especially true at the 1st elevator. As you would like to stay there for as short time as possible, it's is therefore very important to time the cinema right so that the lift closes as you get there. Now, I understand there are differences between NTSC and PAL, I'm PAL, so I can only aid PAL people with the timing. The rest should be the same. Second most important thing to remember for this level is that you need lots of ammo. You need almost two clips to destroy the Maian saucer, but then you also need to save some for the end. Several times have I used up all my ammo before the last lift and died because I haven't been able to kill the last guards.

Strat:
This level is really nice with you about the timing of the lifts. If you're a novice (remember, this is for PAL), you can exit the cinema right away, then you need to be at the hole at 1:32 to make the lift. That's what I'm gonna assume for this strat. As you progress, and get better, you can exit the cinema later and later, I think the best players exit when Elvis' feet touch the ground.
Start out by having disarm ready, run over to the dude and wait for him to pull out his falcon before you grab it. You can hit him before he pulls it out, you'll know when to hit after having played the level a little bit. Now give the bed a little push so that it gets closer to the glass straight ahead, go to the corner and start firing at it. After five hits it will explode and break the glass with it. You should be able to do this in 7 seconds or less (not that it matters much for a 3:33).

Right strafe to the first door, open it, and disarm the guard while moving on to open the next door. Disarm the next guy too, then double press the A-button to bring forth your dragon. Straighten up and kill the two guards coming at you. Keep in mind that the higher you aim, the faster they will die, but these two generally die very fast anyway. Take their dragons if they're close to the central walkway, and leave the room. Take a look at your timer when you open the door, 0:20-0:23 is acceptable. Your ammo should be 25-35 bullets.

Turn left while right strafing and don't mind about the guard behind you that is sometimes there. If you've made enough noise in the previous room, there will be either one or two guards opening the next door to the left for you. Kill them fast, they die after one bullet, which is a relief! If there was only one guard here, there will be one a little farther down the room to the left. Kill him quickly and continue down the walkway. Kill the next guy who is approaching you and be sure to kill his friend on your right, too. He doesn't always die after one bullet, so just make sure he's dead before you continue.

Open the first of the double doors. I usually have 0:39 here. If I know I have a guard behind me I'd close the door behind me before opening the next. The pro way of doing this is to shoot at the experiment while backing, but for me it's faster (and saves ammo) to aim with the R-button and destroy it with 3-5 bullets.
OBJECTIVE 1 COMPLETE

If you don't have any guards behind you strafe out of the room, but if you've got guards on your tail, you have to straighten up and kill those first. Kill only the guards with dragons, and take their ammo, but you can also stun the falcon guards with one or two bullets. Ammo should be more than 20 at this point, and the timer should read 0:58

If you didn't have to straighten up to kill any guards, you will have to kill one later. Left strafe out of the room, to the left, and somewhere in this hall you'll meet a guard. Most often he'll be walking towards you, and if he does, you'll have to be really quick killing him. Continue left strafing down the slope hallway, hugging the right wall. When you pass the two guards use five bullets to stun the guard on the right. If you do it right they will only rarely hurt you. At the bottom you should have 1:15.

For 1.1 users (if you don't know what you are you're probably 1.1), tap c-down and you should be looking at the roof. Run out into the large room and throw your dragon up by the door above. If you have the "look ahead" function on, then this is not easy. This will also slow you down on other levels. To turn it off, press start, go to options, then select "control" and you can see "look ahead". Make sure it doesn't have a red dot by it.

After having thrown the dragon up on the platform, stand under the catwalk for 1-2 seconds. This is to get rid of the annoying guard who might block your way on the platform. Select disarm and run up the ramp and the dragon should be exploding any minute. Run and pick up the ammo, go through the next two doors and disarm the guard. Sometimes this guard will kill you, and you might wonder why you're supposed to disarm him and not just easily kill him. If you make any noise up here, the guards down in the warehouse will hear and you'll have a much tougher time at the lift.

Double duck through the hole while looking at your timer, 1:32 and you'll make it. If you have better than that, you might as well wait on the top here and remember to exit the cinema later next time. However, when you have 1:30-1:32, go through the hole, uncrouch in the air and make a mad dash for the lift. It should be closing now, and you can only pray that there are few guards in the area. If, after you've entered the lift, you're being shot at, strafe back and forth to avoid the bullets. Look where the bullets are coming from and hide from them as best as you can. The lift should open at the top at about 1:46. I think there's a lift every 23 seconds, so if you can't make the 1:32 one, go for the 1:55 lift.

If you've made it this far, you're done with the most difficult part of the level. There will be a guard at the end of the hallway. Be sure to kill him before he kills you. Switch to disarm after that is done, open the door and disarm the guard with his back to you. Take a look at your ammo. If you've got less than 50 bullets you're in big trouble! If you picked up all the ammo after the dragon explosion, you shouldn't have any trouble. Run up the ramp and to the left. Wait in the corner, not by the ramp, but the second corner, and aim (R) at the light blue top of the saucer. Fire a clip at it, but be careful, because a guard might appear in front of you. Shoot this guard and take his ammo, then move on to the lift.

The last guard by the lift should be easy pickings, but don't waste too much ammo on him, you still need to destroy the saucer. However, you need to be careful with the lift. If it's not there then activate it, and shoot another clip at the saucer, destroying it. If it's already there, I would double press B, close it and open it, and then proceed to shoot the saucer. If not the lift will go away and you'll have to wait 30 seconds for the next. Talk about bummer!
OBJECTIVE 2 COMPLETE

How much ammo do you have? If you have 20 or more, then stun the first guy out of the elevator and kill the other two. But you probably don't have as much. Take out your falcon and kill the first guard. If you don't have ammo for that either, disarm him. Hopefully the 10+ ammo you have now will be enough to kill the last two guards. While running shoot the guards, at least stun them, but I often find that's not enough. You need at least 5 bullets for the divider, that's the worst thing that can happen, not being able to remove the divider, hehe.

For the last part, activate the computer and hide in a corner.
MISSION COMPLETE
Mission Target Time: 3:33
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