After the cut scene, you will be mounted on the back of a reaver in an attempt to escape the nexus stronghold. You will have very little control over the reaver, which will pretty much take you along a fixed path. You will be able to avoid incoming missiles by dodging from side to side and can shoot using the machine gun or a rocket launcher.
Soon after the start you will be prompted to view a turret, these things are nasty and will fire homing rockets at you. Be sure to take them out when you see them. Cruise through the level and take pot shots at anything you like. when you see a brumak directly in front of you shooting take it out and you will continue through to a new area. After you defeat the second brumak, you will see some fellow gears on the ground attacking some locust. The reaver will land here so you can kill the baddies. After the drones are dead, turn behind and to your left to kill a brumak that will break through a wall here.
After a brief cut-scene, you will find yourself being chased by Skorge on his super reaver, called a hydra. When play resumes, you will no longer control the reaver from the front, instead you will be facing backwards as you race down a tunnel. As you do, Skorge will come closer and closer to you, and his mount threatens to eat you. To stop it from doing just that, use the machine guns to blast him in the face, the mouth specifically and he will back off.
When the hydra backs off, it will fire a cluster of five missiles at you, using the same controls as previously, you are able to dodge these with a bit of timing. Suddenly, it will disappear and then burst through a wall right behind you and Skorge will fire up the turret on its back. At this point fire at the turret until he backs off, he will then in turn fire more rockets at you, up close and then when he drops back into the darkness so get your dodging shoes on. After several shots, he will come up close once more and Skorge will turret you, hit the turret and you will be treated to a brief cut-scene.
You will now be outside, amongst a forest with a bunch of reavers chasing you. Take down the reavers as they appear. They will always come from the back and move up on you very fast, they will shoot you with their turrets continuously and will randomly fire rockets. Don’t forget to dodge, by dodging back and forward constantly it will make it easier to avoid getting hit by the machine gun or rocket fire. After you finish off about 20 of these bad boys, you will start cruising therough an area full of dead and burnt out trees. At this point the reavers will back off. A cut-scene will play.
Skorge is back for more! This time though, he is not restricted by the tunnel so he will have a lot more freedom in his movements. He will charge straight up to you like he did in the tunnel before, and this time the hydra will use its arms to grab hold of your reaver, shoot him in the arms and then the mouth and he will retreat back a short distance and then charge past you, as he does, switch to the rocket launcher at the front of the reaver and blast him. He will try to eat you from the front too, hit him in the mouth with a rocket as he lunges at you and it will send him reeling behind you. He will quickly recover and fire some rockets at you.
Complete this cycle three times to defeat Skorge and complete chapter 1.
