I’ve been to the strip, and it looked a lot like it does in the game; no, it was more chaotic in real life, and much more dangerous. HA!
The Strip –
You get two new decoys, I mean teammates. Get out your sniper and move up while looking down the street, but be quick or you will miss the guys that appear. Try to stay where you are and snipe as many as possible. Move your team to cover, then you should go around the big bus on the right. You should run into a few guys nearby, so take them out and keep your team moving up. Get them behind the big van looking down the small path, then you should slowly move your squad along the path, in case some stragglers pop up.
Set your guys behind the nearby taxi at the end of the path, and then you go all the way to the left, and poke around the big bus. There will be one guy back here, for some reason. Then move to where he was and direct your team to a small block that houses a tree (not the one near you, but down the way a bit). This will get the nest moving and a bunch of enemies will get set. They tend to try and flank you from the left side, along the sidewalk, so be ready. Get to where your guys are fighting, and then simply crouch and stand behind some cover to take out the red spots on your map. Move your team to new cover after a while and keep up the routine. Work your way to the next path, where there should be two guys near its end. Watch the news.
Go around the bus, and send your team to the truck across the way. Go to the other side of the road and more bad men with guns will appear. Get your fellowship of goodness behind another tree stand and be ready for more guys to take the sidewalk. Move them to the next tree stand and keep low as you handle the situation. Eventually move your team into the cars on the street. Should have all the enemies done in. There is an outfitting station in the streets, but you don’t need it, unless you do for ammo.
When taking on the next area, I found that sending your team to the white car at the end of the path works best as you take cover behind the blue truck. They should take out the guys around them, and you should aim for the enemies that move around by the palm leaves across the way. Check the map for anyone left on the either side, and then move toward the wall of the casino when the coast is clear; may be one or two left over.
Go into the building and go through the door. Stack your guys up on the white doors, then send them in to take out a bad dude. There are two doorways into the office, but use the door inside the small room to the left. Send them in with frag and clear, then you go inside through the other door. Tossing a frag to the far corner might get a few, then just send in your guys to mop up. Grab a GLOCK 18 from the ground, it is a cool gun. Send your guys into the next room to end the mission.
Calypso Casino
Go through the door to the right, and stack your men on the door at the end. Set a mark on one of the guys, then come back and snake the other door. Look to the left to set one of those guys as a mark. You will send your band in with frag and clear, then you go in and take out the guys to the left of your door. Then go over to their position and move them along the rows of slots. When they go up, more guys should pop up. They will try to flank your teammates, so you need to snake through the slots and get them first.
Move your team to cover in the next section, then get them under the truck in the center. Men with dirty mouths will pour into the area and attack from all sides. You should cover one side, then move your team to the other side, and eventually get over there yourself; or at least that is what I did. And then make your way to the small room, where one or two guys might be hiding. Pick up a Desert Eagle if you can, and then get some more ammo from the box of goods.
Enter the next area and make your way to the rapple point; use it. Go around the vents and put your guys on the openings, then you flank the bad guys from another point in the vents. Just send your team into the next room and you will take out all the bad men. Then send your team into the hallway through the doors in front of you, they should get both guys from both sides.
At the end of the hallway, to the right, stack your guys on the door and tell them to enter and clear. Then follow and mop up. Go up the stairs and put your bff on the computer. Get ready for some guys to pop up that you were not expecting. They will pop up from the left and right stairs. Then go out the door to the right to clean up, then stack your team on the door on the other end. Somehow, these two did not hear the magnificent gun fight outside, but send in your team to clear their ears out.
Get to the floor and follow the path through another door; there may be a new in hiding. Stack them on the first door, and send them in there guns blazin’. Then go through the next two doors, and stack your guys on the doors at the end of the hallway. Send them in for two more guys, and then go up the sets of stairs.
Stack ’em on the door as you watch the scene. Set a mark and send ’em through, but you keep a read on the door across the way. Move in when all is well. Send your squad into the next section and put them behind the center thingy. Then wait behind cover as some more terrorists drop in. Clear them out however you please. Then send your gang up the steps, and quickly send them back to the center thingy. Peek and shoot as you wish, then send them back up the stairs when all is well again. Surprise! more guys will appear when they get to the top, so bring them back to the ground and pick off the enemies where needed.
This time you can go up the steps and no more fighting, that is if you cleared them all out, so be on your toes. From here, choose to go up with the stairs on the walkway, the other is behind some doors. Repeat the process on this level, then again, and again until you can’t go up through these stairs. Take the path through some doors and then up to the next level, which is surprisingly clean.
Past the save point, go through the doors, then go into the room on the left for some ammo. Stack them up and snake the door. Set a mark on the guy on the floor, then position yourself so that you can shoot the guy on the stage through your scope as soon as the door opens. Again, might be overkill, but just look cool saving the hostages. There are three more guys in the other room and once they are gone you can claim the hostages. Go to the last checkpoint to end this mission.
Casino Floor
Go forward and notice the two paths to the other side. Send you mates to one side as you take the other. You should be able to direct them from your side, so inch them forward; there are only two guys between both sides, but there are more on the floor that may come up. When you reach the end, about five enemies drop from the skies, so handle them and regroup on the stairs. Send your team to cover on the floor as you stay on the steps and direct traffic. Move them closer to the center gambling pit so that more guys drop into the fray, and be ready for them to attack from both sides. After that it is just a matter of killing the ones in the pit.
Take the stairway to the right and stack your team on the door. Snake it and try to mark both guys, then send in the good guys and make sure you watch the door across the way. Set your team behind some of the blue things and help them clear the area. Go forward to end this mission.
VIP Escort
I say assault the captors from above by using the skylight on the patio. Set your team to the fast ropes, then send them in when you get a read on the guy holding the hostage. Take him out, send in your team, then do your best to provide support from above. Tossing down a flashbang might help before you go down. Mop up and claim the prize. Make sure you make him follow you.
Follow the path and round the corner down a hall, get the lone ranger before he gets you. Stack them dudes on the door and tell them to frag and clear, but make your follower hold in the hall. Keep a read on the door across the way as your team clears the room. Quickly send them to the next door down some steps in the same room. Then you come out the door up top, and be ready for a guy to approach from the upper level. Send your guys to clear and then take cover behind the obstacle at the top of the bottom set of stairs; the thing with the railings that you can see across the room to the other stairs as guys pour out. When your team clears out the room they were at, send them to one of the tables near your set of stairs. Then you need to take cover on the upper level behind the little walls next to the real walls up here, but be sure to clear out the guys on the walkway that can see you. With you and your team, the area should be cleansed in no time.
Send them to the opposite set of stairs, go get the follower, and then get some more ammo. I don’t care what you get, so long as you have something with a good scope. Join the team and get to the top of the first set of stairs, look at the hallway, but don’t go inside. Look as far as you can down it and then toss a frag down there to clear it out, then send your team in the hall just in case. If no one is left, just get your friend and make your way to the chopper outside to end this mission.
Have the SCAR, PSG1 (or whatever), Eagle, Frag, and Flashbang.
