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What's the regular way?
1 of 19: Head off to the right of the gate and explore around.
2 of 19: To start on the long journey to the gate's control panel, find the door with the padlock on it. (It's directly across the water from the big beached ship.)
3 of 19: Bash the padlock off the door to open it.
4 of 19: Soon after you pick up the .357 Magnum from the table in the room beyond, three cops will come through the door that's ahead of you and attack.
5 of 19: After checking the room for supplies, run through the door and on to the large outdoor area where the hunter-chopper is flying around.
6 of 19: Save your game before going out there, then ready your SMG or .357 and keep running around.
7 of 19: There's lots of cover, and the chopper's barrages can't hurt you much if you're sprinting as it fires, so there shouldn't be much to worry about there. You will run into a few cops to take down, but your chosen weapon should do that for you very quickly.
8 of 19: TIP: If you get too badly injured, restore your save and use your knowledge of the area's layout to run to where you need to go more quickly. Before long, you should be able to make the entire run to the building with the wide-open doors without losing much health or armor at all.
9 of 19: After shooting down all the cops in the building (use the large open containers for cover), search around for supply crates.
10 of 19: Then run up the stairs on one side and shoot all the new cops who appear, crouching and using the large wooden railing segment as cover.
11 of 19: Use the big containers to hop across to the walkway on the other side of the room, where you'll find another .357 Magnum on the floor along with the SMGs that the cops dropped.
12 of 19: Move through a large room with wooden crates blocking its other exit, then kill off a few more cops and go down some stairs to find health and armor rechargers on a wall. Be sure to use them before going back outside.
13 of 19: Head forward past a couple of large containers, then turn right at the big dirt mound and quickly shoot down another cop.
14 of 19: It's then a short run to where a ladder is on the right. (If you find yourself running down the walkway next to the water that has the white hand railing, you've missed it.)
15 of 19: Climb to a spot near the top of the ladder, then lob a frag grenade into the control room to blow up the two cops inside.
16 of 19: Then quickly run in and use the two powerful guns mounted in the windows to blast that lousy chopper!
17 of 19: You won't be allowed to destroy it, but it'll be heavily damaged and will limp off in defeat (for now).
18 of 19: Now you can use the nearby control panel to open the gate.
19 of 19: TIP: If you didn't completely drain the health and armor rechargers you passed by earlier, visit them again before returning to the airboat. Also, check for a supply crate hiding around a corner outside near the rechargers.
