Spec Ops: The Line - Chapter 1: Evactuation

Make your way up through the desert and go through the motions as instructed to learn the buttons for the game. You'll be asked to take cover, aim, vault, sprint and eventually rappel down to a street. While walking through the street, you'll be prompted to change weapons and vault over more debris. It's a rather peaceful stroll until you come to the distress beacon. While Lugo is checking the beacon, do a 180. You'll see a jeep to the left and just in front of the nose of the jeep will be your first piece of intel!

*Achievement: Spotter

After you investigate the area, a group of enemies will appear on a tank looking over you. Adams will point out that the bus has a bunch of sand in it. When everything goes south, shoot out the window to bring the sand down on them. This should wipe out the three on the tank so just check for the one man to the left. Kill him and move on.

You'll come to an area with a large billboard on the right side and a few enemies scattered around. Just make sure you take cover and you should be fine. There's no need to push forward until everyone is dead. When you've cleared the enemies, move up and take cover behind a long barrier with stripes. There will be a man on a turret inside of the bus ahead. After a moment, you'll be prompted to hit the command button to trigger the stun command. This will cause one of your squad mates to lob a stun grenade into the bus. Once it goes off, kill the gunner and any others you can while they are stunned but make sure the gunner is first, though. Mop up any survivors and then get on the bus by using the stairs.

Walk through the bus and you'll come out the back of the bus. You'll instantly take cover behind a jersey barrier. When you gain control, you'll learn how to point out enemies to your squad. If the enemy happens to be at a distance, Lugo will use his sniper rifle. This is a very useful skill. Lugo is great for cleaning up your flanks, particularly if they are elevated.

Travel further ahead to another set of jersey barriers. Stay behind them and a group of enemies will start marching towards you. This is pretty standard fare in this game. Just let them come and clean them up as they approach. Kill the group of five or so enemies. Go past where they were and into the shipping crate just beyond. Make your way through the crate. When you go to exit the crate, you'll learn how to execute enemies.

After the cutscene, you'll come to a large open area with a turret in the distance but directly up the middle. Your squad will take cover here while you will need to make your way up the left side. Keep moving until you get behind the turret and then unload to kill the gunner. He'll have company but you should have a great angle on them so it shouldn't matter. After they are dead, more enemies should appear off to the left by the shack. Kill the two that appear (move back a little if you need better cover) and then move forward to finish the mission.

*Achievement: They Live

Run up the dunes ahead and you'll come up to a crashed plane. Take cover behind the various plane parts and take out a weapon that allows for a silencer. Your original two weapons as well as the Micro 9mm have this ability (it is denoted by a "silencer" symbol in the lower right hand corner). When you have one such weapon equipped, press up on the D-Pad to equip it. Take out the enemies just ahead of you with the silenced weapon.

You'll start behind the enemy and should be able to take out three or four enemies. Try to hang on to a Rifle for this section because there's quite a bit of ranged combat. Make your way up on the left side because it provides better cover. Keep moving up until you come to a luggage container.

Stay at this point for a minute and try to clear out as many enemies as you can. There's no timer for using the Attack command so feel free to use your squad to take out ranged enemies if they're a little out of range.

When you're looking good, move right first and then move up towards the plane. You're going to have to go into the underbelly of the plane. When you do, watch out for the couple of guys coming down the stairs at you. There should be about 3-4 of them and at least one will have a shotgun so keep your distance. If you catch them on the stairs, they'll be fish in a barrel. Before leaving the underbelly of the plane, check to the left side to find a red/orange Black Box.



As you come up the stairs ahead, make sure you turn around because the enemies will be behind you, not amongst the seats. There may be one in this compartment already so kill him and move up into the stewardess' area between seating areas. Take cover behind one of the walls and clear out the next room before continuing.

You'll continue forward and find two soldiers in the next room about to be executed. If you're fast, you might save one.