Comprehensive walkthrough covering each chapter and detailed list of hidden treasures

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

The Basics

Introduction

In order to provide you the most comprehensive walkthrough for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, I’ve separated the guide into two main sections – Walkthrough and Treasure Hunting.

Walkthrough

This section will detail everything you need to get through each chapter. I’ll gloss over the cinematic scenes – which should be easy since they usually happen between missions – and guide you straight through the action. You’ll know when to anticipate enemies, how many you should encounter, proven combat tactics, and even point out where Treasures are along the way. This section is for the person that is playing the game fresh and wants to collect everything.

Treasure Hunting

This section is a detailed list of hidden Treasures in each mission. It won’t discuss combat, enemies (unless when absolutely necessary – when they’re a good ‘road sign’ along the way, for example), or anything related to the rest of the mission. It will only discuss where the Treasure are located and how to get them. This is for the player that has already played the game, but may have missed a few goodies along the way.

Note: For readers that are interested in the Walkthrough section of this FAQ, please keep in mind that I’ve approached the game with a decent mix of stealth and ‘run-and-gun’ tactics. That’s what works for me, and that’s how I feel I get the most out of this game. Keep in mind, however, that you may want to play around a bit and find different ways to approach each mission. If you’re a big fan of stealth gameplay, try finding ways to silently stalk your opponents as much as possible. If you don’t have the patience for stealth, have fun shredding enemies whenever they get in your way – unless a mission requires stealth, of course!

Controls

Button Action 1

Left Analog Stick Move Nathan
Right Analog Stick Move Camera
L1 Aim
L2 Arc Grenade
L3 N/A
R1 Run-and-Gun
Shoot (While Aiming)
R2 Reload
R3 N/A
X Jump
Square Melee
Triangle Dodge (in combat)
Circle Drop down (while climbing) / Evasive Roll
D-pad Left Change weapon
D-pad Right Change weapon
D-pad Up Hint (prompted)
Start Pause
Select Journal

General Tips & Tricks

Stealth

-Use stealth as much as possible. Not only will you incur less damage, but you’ll also gain double the ammo from dropped weapons (look for the ninja icon on dropped weapons)
-Move slowly – gently nudge the left analog stick – to keep your movement quiet. If you run, you’ll make more noise and draw attention.
-Watch enemies’ movements and patrol patterns. If they’re looking in your direction, chances are they’ll see you when you pop out.

Shooting

-As you might expect, head shots are better than body shots. Try to aim for the head as much as possible.
-Reload only when you need to – mistiming a reload can cost you your life.
-If you don’t have a clean shot or need to use suppression fire, use the blindfire ability while behind cover.

CQC (Close-quarters combat)

-Use CQC if an enemy is bold enough to run you. This is the best way to get rid of pesky foes within close quarters, since aiming a weapon can be tricky up close.
-Use combos and time your counters well. As soon as the action slows down a little bit, press the Triangle button to counter attack.

Cover

-Use cover as much as possible as well. Like stealth, you’ll take less damage and gain a strategic advantage over enemies.
-Shift from cover to cover as you move around a map. While moving from cover to cover, you’ll maintain near invisibility. Conversely, if you pop out of cover even for a second, chance are you’ll be spotted.

Walkthrough

Chapter 1: A Rock and a Hard Place

5 Treasures: (in order)
1. Wrathful Deity Statue
2. Saraswati Statue
3. Tibetan Snuff Bottle
4. Bhutanese Lime Box
5. Ghau Amulet Thogchag

After the opening cinematic, you take control of Nathan. He’s helplessly dangling high above a snowy mountain-side, as he grips for dear life to the tail end of a train-car. No time to guess how he got here, instead begin sliding left, hand over hand, until you’re on the other side.

Tip: Notice how that yellow bar saving your life is bright yellow? Get used to it. Most every object that is brightly colored yellow of that same hue indicates that it can be climbed, shimmied, slid upon, or otherwise used to navigate the level. Look for these golden clues if you’re ever stuck and don’t know where to monkey around.

Once you’re on the other side of the train-car (you’ll be hanging from its undercarriage now), begin slowly climbing upward. You’ll be forced to climb along the car’s right side and will get knocked by falling debris. Don’t fret, it won’t knock you all the way off, but it will set you back a few notches. Follow the yellow piping up, then left across the undercarriage, and slowly ascend the dangling train-car’s long yellow pipe.

The pipe will eventually give way and spin you around to the left side of the car, placing you directly next to a few notches. Use these to hoist yourself into the car’s interior. Inside, use the train-car’s seats to climb up the interior. When you reach the top of a row of seats, you’ll need to jump right and grab the next row. You’ll automatically miss once, so climb up and try again to continue your ascent. Unfortunately, when you grab onto the next row of seats, they’ll break and send you through a window, back out to the train-car’s exterior.

It’s time to resume your ascent in the chilly mountain air, follow the notches on the right to another yellow pipe and climb up. The train will give way a little bit, knocking your pipe off again. This time, the jostle knocks open a side compartment on the train-car. Grab on, hoist yourself up, and use the yellow ladder to climb onto the second train-car (at least this one is sitting horizontally!)

As soon as you enter the second car, it begins to give way – must’ve been your weight, fatty. Rush up the center of the car and leap out just as it falls down the mountainside. You barely make it as you grab onto the mountain’s edge with your fingertips!

[BACKSTORY CINEMATIC PLAYS]

Treasure 1: Wrathful Deity Statue

As soon as the cinematic is done playing, stumble over to the tree on your right, just by the edge of the mountain. You’ll see the Treasure’s sparkle on the ground. Pick it up!

Walk up to the train wreckage – ignore the falling tree – and stumble over to the gap between the trains, just left of the falling tree. You’ll be in a small, quiet pocket of the wreckage. Follow the wreckage’s right side until you find a really small gap in the trains. It’ll look impassable, but you can wedge past it. Once on the other side, pick up the pistol ([b]92FS – 9mm[/b]) on the ground.

Treasure 2: Saraswati Statue

This Treasure is in the same area as the first gun you find. Look for the Treasure’s sparkle in the snow, just past the pistol. Grab it before you exit this area.

Make a left and open the door into the train-car on your left. Pass through the car, then exit this car through another door on the left – this one is locked. So open fire on the lock and go through.

Treasure 3: Tibetan Snuff Bottle

As soon as you blow through that locked door, look up. There’s a dead body hanging above you. Shoot the Treasure’s sparkle, not the dead body, to knock the Treasure loose.

Keep your weapon drawn and slowly slink to the right. You’ll encounter your first enemy! Open fire, preferably a headshot, and bring him down! An explosion blows open the train car behind your enemy. Go inside and push open the doors at the far end. It looks like a dead end, but there are some crates stacked at the far end. Climb up the crates and up the rusty red wall. From the top of the wall, you’ll see another wrecked train-car below – easily within jumping distance.

Treasure 4: Bhutanese Lime Box

Before leaping into the next wrecked train car, locate the large crate-like box below. Hop down onto it, then drop down again, this time toward the lowest part of the screen, to find another Treasure. Once you’re ready, hoist yourself back up onto the massive box and continue on your trek.

Enter the next precariously hanging train car and amble up the car. Use the tall crate at the end to hoist yourself up onto the car’s roof. Before you can continue, an explosion rocks the train-car, and knocks you out. Time for another cinematic!

[BACKSTORY CINEMATIC PLAYS]

Wake up from the explosion and immediately turn right. You’ll spy a yellow pipe running along the bottom of the dandling train-car just to your right. Leap out, then follow the pipe across the bottom of the car to a large opening. Pull yourself up and into the train-car.

Treasure 5: Ghau Amulet Thogchag

After the train car explodes and knocks you out – triggering another cinematic- you’ll wake up in a train-car. Exit the train car by leaping out to a yellow pipe on your right, then pull yourself up into another train car. As soon as you are in the next car, turn around 180 degrees to find the next Treasure. Edge around the car’s opening and grab it.

Stumble up the train-car until the floor gives way, sending you back out into the icy mountain. You’ve made it out of the wreckage and through Chapter 1.

Chapter 2: Breaking and Entering

10 Treasures: (in order)
1. Byzantine Gold Coin
2. Glass Evil Eye
3. Ottoman Ring
4. Silver Amulet Box
5. Silver Belt Buckle
6. Ivory Chess Knight
7. Ottoman Bracelet
8. Antique Pocket Watch
9. Antique Pipe
10. Jeweled Bracelet

Follow Flynn up the ledge in the far left corner of the sewers. It’s still early in the game, so you’ll have plenty of ‘guidance’ from Flynn to show you the way. Simply keep up with him as he leaps across small gaps, shimmies across pipes, and scales short walls. When you reach the end of the road, follow the on-screen Hint command to spy a ladder high above you. Use Flynn’s boost to reach the short ladder above you, then use the bricks jutting out of the surrounding wall to climb all the way up to the manhole above you.

Treasure 1: Byzantine Gold Coin

As soon as you emerge from the manhole, spin the camera to look behind you and to the right. You’ll find the Treasure sitting on a crate with some other tools in the corner of this room.

Hop over the large green pipe and provide a boost for Flynn. He’ll hop over you, grab the ladder overhead, and pull it down for you as he climbs up. Follow him up the ladder then scramble up the rusty grate to the area above you. You’ll encounter a series of steam blocking your path.

Treasure 2: Glass Evil Eye

As soon as you climb the rusty grating, turn around to find a yellow platform with a short ladder behind you. Leap onto the platform and grab the Treasure sitting atop it.

Climb the ladder on the right as Flynn waits for you to get rid of the steam. Atop the ladder is a control panel that shuts off the steam. Activate it with the Triangle button, then join Flynn as he scurries across the next series of gaps. Swing across the first gap, then turn left and jump onto the green pipe with yellow accents. Drop to hang from the opposite side of the pipe, then shimmy to the yellow platform on the left. Upon landing you’ll be prompted to take cover using the Circle button. Do so now to avoid being detected.

Treasure 3: Ottoman Ring

After hiding from the first guard, explore the treasure and trinket room. To the far right of the red door (your exit door) are two statues. One of them has the next Treasure.

Approach the red door to find that it has an alarm. No worries, the junction box providing power to the alarm is in the same room! (Good job, security system installation guys!) Backtrack to the rear, right corner of the room to find a crate along the wall. Above it is the junction box. Climb the crate to disable the junction box and disarm the door.

Exit the trinket room and enter a hallway patrolled by one unlucky guard. Follow the on-screen prompts to sneak up on the poor fellow and knock him out. Follow Flynn out onto a small balcony, then leap down when its time for action.

Quickly veer to the left side of the planter where another guard is patrolling. Stealthily knock him out and clear this area. Climb the next gate, alongside Flynn, and shimmy left onto another balcony. There, you will find two more guards – one for each of you. Rush the guard on the right and use a melee combo to take him out, while Flynn folds the guard on the left.

Make a left and sneak up to the edge of the balcony overlooking the area below. Jump down. When you do, Flynn suggests you go left while he goes right. Sneak left and ambush the guard as he patrols in your direction. Slink all the way to the far left and locate another guard patrolling below you. Get the drop on him and knock him out.

Treasure 4: Silver Amulet Box

As soon as you take out the guard patrolling the lower area, examine the flowers in the corner. There’s another Treasure sparkling in the planter box.

While you took out your side of the area, Flynn swept his side. The area is clear. Rendezvous with him at the next gate to find that it is booby trapped with an alarm. Climb the gate, then use the yellow bricks on the right to reach the junction box above the gate. Disarm the alarm then go through.

The next area is a wide open courtyard with several guards stationed in it. You don’t have to deal with all of the guards. In fact, you only need to pass through the right side of the yard. Drop down the right side of the stairs and quickly sneak up on the guard near the columns. Knock him out, then stealthily approach the left side of the water fountain and knock out the next guard. Backtrack to the rear of the fountain, around the right side and climb up on the small planter ahead of you – you’ll see another guard stationed right above the planter. Hang from the banister next to the guard, then pull him down to knock him out.

Treasure 5: Silver Belt Buckle

Once the coast is clear, backtrack to the water fountain and examine the left side. You’ll find the next Treasure sitting atop one of the fountain’s stone leaves.

Climb over the banister this time and sneak up on the next two guards. Knock them out, then approach the far right corner of the courtyard. Follow Flynn up the planter, onto the green awning, up the wall, and into the window leading to the next section.

This area is patrolled by four guards. To deal with them, Flynn has brought along a pair of Tranquilizer Guns! Stay behind cover and wait for the guard on the left to sit down on the crate near you. When he does, pop out of cover and tranq’ him. Flynn will do the same to the bloke on the right. Leave your cover, sneaking forward a bit, until you’ve got a direct line of sight on the other guard above you. Once again, you take out the one on the left while Flynn hits the snooze button on the guy on the right.

The coast is clear, so walk over to the wooden carriage on the right and push it into position near the wall. You can now hop onto the carriage and climb up onto the level above you.

On the next level, Flynn uses a rope to latch onto a structure above you. Climb the rope and begin sliding right, using the bricks sticking out of the wall. As you do, a guard will get the drop on Flynn below you. Use your position above them to your advantage and quickly put a dart in the guard’s dome.

Follow the bricks all the way to the right until you reach the rafters.

Treasure 6: Ivory Chess Knight

This piece can be easy to miss. After climbing onto the rafters, look to the second set of rafters along the far wall, just above the first – they are the highest beams in this room. Climb onto the second rafters to locate this Treasure in the far corner, atop the farthest rafter.

Follow the path out of the rafter’s area and onto a green-grey walkway lining the exterior of the building. Follow the pathway around the right corner, then leap across a wide gap onto the roof of the next building. Follow your buddy left, as you both edge around a circular building, then make a daring leap across another gap onto the next building…again. This time, you nearly fall off the side as the gutter gives way while you hang on it. Luckily, Flynn is quick to react and picks you up.

Pull yourself up, over the wall on the right, and follow Flynn to the edge of another building. He tosses another rope to a latch overhead and prompts you to swing across to another yellow structure. Grab the rope and begin swinging left and right. As you swing right, leap onto the yellow structure and grab on!

Treasure 7: Ottoman Bracelet

After swinging right, and leaping onto the yellow structure, drop down. Don’t climb up! Instead, let go and grab the ledge below you. Follow it right, along the wall, and around the corner of the building. You’ll find a sewer drain along the wall with a Treasure inside. Drop down again to grab the drain and pick up the Treasure. Return to the yellow structure when you’re ready to continue.

From the yellow structure, climb up and to the right. Continue following the yellow ledges until you’re hanging from the edge of the roof. A lone guard will walk up to the edge. Grab the guard and send him plummeting down to the water below.

Follow the roof to a small, tower-like structure and grab the short ladder. Follow the pipes around the right side of the structure until you find another guard ahead. From your hanging position, take out the tranq’ gun and put the guard to sleep. Once he’s knocked out, drop down onto the green roof. Walk to the corner of this roof, where there are no iron bars blocking the way, and hop over the ledge to the green awning below.

Treasure 8: Antique Pocket Watch

As soon as you drop onto the green awning, make a sharp right around the corner. Follow it to the sharp left until you reach the next open corner. It turns right, again, but leads to a dead end. Stop at the open corner and swivel the camera up and to the left. You’ll see a red tapestry hanging with a Treasure wedged behind it. Shoot the Treasure down and collect it.

Follow Flynn as he leaps across the gaps in the awnings and reaches a balcony with another guard. Either shoot the guard with the tranquilizer gun or rush him and knock him out stealthily. With the guard out of the way, the path opens up ahead. Wait for Chloe to knock out the lights, then follow Flynn toward the building.

[CINEMATIC PLAYS]

When the cut-scene is over, you’re under heavy pressure to stay on the move. Stay swift-of-foot and roll away as soon as the red lasers seem like they’re getting a steady ‘lock’ on you.

Treasure 9: Antique Pipe

As the guards close in on you in the museum room, dodge their red laser targeting beams. Roll to the small niche in the wall left of the gated area, close to the lion statue. Examine the area to find the Treasure.

Evasively roll away from the red lasers and down the only open hallway. Sprint down the hall, and make a sharp right as the gate closes down. Follow the path down the stairs, to an open window, and jump out! Dash past the first manhole and leap down the second into the sewers. From here, make a sharp left when you reach the sewer room with the pipes coming out of the ground.

Tip: The red lasers are actually very easy to avoid – simply stay on the move and roll wherever you need to go. If you take two or three solid hits, though, you’re cooked.

Treasure 10: Jeweled Bracelet

Before exiting the sewer room with the pipes jutting out of the ground, explore the far left corner (from where you enter). Just across from the room’s exit is a small pipe with the Treasure sitting right next to it. If you’re exiting the room, the Treasure is directly behind you, next to the pipe.

Exit the room via the passage in the far right corner and enter a large room with a ladder at the far end. Climb the ladder to finish this chaper.

Chapter 3: Borneo

4 Treasures: (in order)
1. Yuan Dynasty Coin
2. Yuan Dynasty Jade Animal
3. Jade Pei Pendant
4. Amber Jade Chimera

This mission is pretty straight-forward. It may look like a complicated jungle setting, but it’s fairly linear – you shouldn’t get lost unless you go in very small circles…very small circles.

Follow Sully into the jungle until you both come across a small green blinking light – that’s one of Chloe’s bombs. Do as she says and arm it.

Treasure 1: Yuan Dynasty Coin

After arming the first bomb, walk up to the fallen tree on the left. Walk up it and look directly overhead. The Treasure sparkles high atop a tree directly in front of you. Shoot the Treasure down and collect it.

Reunite with Sully and examine the large, stepped stone area ahead. Carefully climb up the steps and follow the jungle path until you reach a short drop. Hop down to the area below and immediately take cover. Wait for two enemies to stroll up and position themselves near the edge of the area with their backs to you. When they do, sneak up and knock them out. Once they’re out, take one of their AK-47 rifles and ammo!

Treasure 2: Yuan Dynasty Jade Animal

There’s a hidden area on the right, just beyond another fallen, angled log, near where the first two guards emerge from. Either sneak in there during the ensuing firefight, or wait until you’ve cleared to go in and grab the Treasure.

After taking out the first two guards, a swarm of enemies comes pouring out from the area ahead. Take cover behind the fallen tree trunks and other objects, and carefully pick them off.

Tip: Allow Sully to get in on the action here too. He won’t take damage and he’s a good shot. If you let him take out a few enemies, you’ll save ammo!

Hold position behind the log leading into the next, wide open area and pick off the shooters above and to the right. Once the area ahead is clear, get out of cover and ascend the rubble directly ahead of you. Climb the wooden section first, then follow the path right, across a log, until you reach a large boulder. Use the Triangle button to knock the rock down and allow Sully to climb up the area and join you.

With Sully in tow, cross another log to an area where several guards await. Silently take out the first two, then, from your elevated position, ambush the other guards in the area below.

Jump down to the next area and walk across to the other side. There, you’ll find a series of broken wooden planks that looks like a wooden rib-cage along the far end leading up the jungle wall. Start climbing!

Treasure 3: Jade Pei Pendant

As you climb the broken wooden planks, slowly climb up and to the right. The path requires you to climb up and over a wall – don’t! Instead, climb right, along the wooden planks until you reach the top of the wall. Follow the path there, to the top of a small water fall. There, at the top of the waterfall is a pile of rubble hiding the next Treasure. Return to the rib-cage planks once you’ve gotten your Treasure.

Climb over the rib-cage-like wall and reach an area with several raised wooden platforms infested with enemy scum. Sneak up on the guard closes to you and knock him out. From here, you can either open fire on the rest of the enemies nearby, using the tables as cover, or rush the guard on the perch above and to the right and knock him out. Once he’s out, you’ve got an elevated position from which to pick off the rest of the goons below.

Take out the rest of the enemies in the area, using their ammo to refuel your weapon, and leave the explosive tanks and red generators untouched. When the second wave of enemies attacks, use the explosive items to blow them up. When the second wave of enemies is down, you can arm the next four bombs.

The bombs aren’t very well hidden. In fact, they begin to blink green after you clear the area of enemies. They are located in the following areas:

-On the first wooden platform, facing the side from which you entered this area.
-On the first wooden platform facing the waterfall on the wall on the right.
-On the second wooden platform facing away from the platform. It’s attached to the stilts just right of the ladder (underneath a wooden crate).
-On the third wooden platform directly underneath the bright red generator.

Arm all four bombs to proceed. Approach the ladder on the far corner of this area and give Sully a boost up to the ladder. Follow the path to another drop off where you find two goons fussing with a large generator in the center of a pool area.

A friend of the goons below gets the drop on you, and hurls you into the area below. This triggers a combat tutorial. Follow the on-screen commands and counter-attack as the game suggests. When all four enemies are dispatched, you’re ready to proceed.

Treasure 4: Amber Jade Chimera

When the combat training is over, you’re prompted to follow the pipe out of the area and into the next section of your mission. Climb the rope to join Sully, but don’t go straight. Instead, make a sharp right and leap across a small gap. Follow the path to a series of stones along the wall and climb up. Leap backward to a wooden pole behind you, then swing from wooden pole to pole until you reach a large suspended tree trunk overhead. Hoist yourself onto the log and follow it to the ledge on the right. Leap across one more gap to find a pile of rubble hiding another Treasure.

When you’re ready to continue, follow the pipes out of the area to close the chapter.

Chapter 4: Dig Site

3 Treasures: (in order)
1. Mongol Paiza Passport
2. Jade Belt Slide
3. Yuan Dynasty Helmet

The pipe leads directly to the enemy encampment! You split ways with Sully temporarily while he goes to higher ground with a sniper rifle. Stay behind cover as the guard walks in your direction. When he does, use a surprise melee attack to silently dispatch him.

Quickly, but stealthily slide up the wooden walkway until you reach wooden create directly behind the next enemy and take cover. Once again, use a melee attack to take him out ninja-style, before backtracking down the walkway, and dropping right, into the water. When you do, you may be spotted by other guards. If so, simply duck behind cover and begin your firefight. If not, swing all the way to the far right and use stealth attacks against the remaining enemies as you work your way into the main tent.

If you do engage in a firefight, rush the main tent, take out the guard in your way and activate the cinematic in the tent.

[CINEMATIC]

When the cinematic ends, you’re swarmed by guards from outside the tent. They emerge from the same area where you entered this chapter. Take cover near the box of grenades and start chucking them out of the window at your oncoming attackers. Pick your shots with your rifle, and occasionally switch to your handgun for enemies that manage to flank you on the left or right.

Stay in the tent as long as possible and detonate the red generators outside if needs be. Eventually, Sully get’s flanked, prompting you to save his hide. Peek out a little bit and open fire on Sully’s attackers from his left side.

Make sure to bring several grenades, too. When another pair of attackers rushes him from the right, snipe them from afar with your rifle, then rush to the crates on the left of the tent. Take cover and wait for the guard tower to open fire. When it does, carefully chuck a grenade into the tower and blow it up.

Treasure 1: Mongol Paiza Passport

Once the area is free of enemies, explore the crashed ship just left of the main tent. Look up the second tall mast (the one on the right if your back is to the tent) and look for the Treasure to sparkle. Shoot it down and grab it.

When all is said and done, one of the wrecked ship’s masts forms a bridge to Sully’s perch. Cross the mast and reunite with Sully. Follow the path up and out of the area until you reach the entrance to a temple. There, you’re reunited with Chloe.

[CINEMATIC]

Enter the temple after the cinematic and begin exploring. Drop down into the main temple and make a bee-line to the doorway just past the creepy fallen statue head. When you approach the door, a bunch of bats will fly out at you.

Treasure 2: Jade Belt Slide

Stop when the bats fly out of the doorway. Turn around and face the doorway behind you, then look up. You’ll spot the Treasure high above the doorway. Shoot it down and grab it.

Enter the door once the bats are out and explore the area on the left. You’ll find a flammable stone and a torch. Once lit, you can see the blood splattered all over the temple floor. Follow it back out of the room you’re in and rather than follow the blood, walk directly across from your doorway (the bat doorway), past the fallen head, and into the chamber directly across from you.

Tip: If you get lost going in a straight line pick up the trail by returning to the bat room and following the blood on the ground. It’ll lead you all over the temple floor and eventually into the room across from the bat room.

Have Sully help you remove the stones in your way and open a path into another section. Follow the path out to another cinematic.

[CINEMATIC]

Treasure 3: Yuan Dynasty Helmet

Once the cinematic is done playing, stand still. Swing the camera above and behind you, so you can see over your left shoulder. The Treasure is wedged high along the wall. Shoot it down and collect it before continuing.

Follow Chloe out of the temple and another short cut-scene plays. When the cut-scene is over, you’re on the run, once again. Sprint across the linear path and don’t stop. Don’t fight, don’t shoot, just run. You’ll eventually reach a series of ledges. Stay on the move and catch up to Sully to end the chapter.

Chapter 5: Urban Warfare

1 Treasure:
1. Strange Relic

The next chapter opens up with a cut-scene of Nathan driving across town a Nepal. When a military vehicle suddenly rounds the corner and slams into Nathan’s car, knocking him out, you’re immediately thrust in control of our hero. The chase is not over, however. Follow the on-screen prompts to run-and-gun, as you pepper the truck behind you with bullets. Don’t stop or you’ll be road kill. Eventually the truck chasing you explodes and the chase is over.

Venture out into the main street. When you do, you hear several soldiers coming after you. You’ll automatically duck behind cover and watch as a bus mows part of your hunting party down. Lucky you. The bus leaves three bad guys alive. Leave your cover as they turn their backs toward you and chase down the rogue bus, then sneak up on all three and take them out with stealth attacks. If you time it right, you can take out the man in the middle, then the one on the left, then cut across the street to take out the one the right.

The area is now clear. Climb street sign with the green box at it base. Use the brightly colored signs to climb high above the street, then follow the yellow rungs up to a street lamp. Shimmy right, across the lamp, to a green pipe that leads you up to several bricks. Follow the bricks along the wall to more signs and into the building.

Get a running start and leap out of the opening in this building to grab hold of another street lamp. Swing from it and propel yourself into a bathroom below with the walls missing. When you land in the bathroom, the floor will give way. Drop down into the next room where a truck has pierced the wall, and use the bookshelves on the left to reach the floor above and behind you.

From this floor, hop onto the table, over the next bookshelves and make a daring leap across a small gap to a ledge where an armed soldier is stationed. You’ll know you’re in the right spot when the helicopter buzzes by overhead. Stealth kill the soldier, then use the light blue pipes on the right to drop to street level. Two soldiers will rush across the street away from you and disappear – don’t let them spot you, and let them pass you by.

Treasure 1: Strange Relic

After dropping down to street level and letting the two soldiers pass you by, explore the far side of the street from where the soldiers emerged. There is a manhole between two rickshaws. Drop down the manhole and grab the Strange Relic.

Note: For some reason, the game doesn’t note this as a Treasure in the Chapters menu. So if you were using the Chapters menu to keep track of missing Treasures, you wouldn’t know that you missed it. It does, however, track in the Bonuses menu with the rest of the Treasures.

Follow the soldiers down the alley until you reach an open doorway. You’ll spy one guard with his back to you. Use a stealth attack to knock him out quickly, then slink into the room and grab cover behind the short wall. Shift to the left side of the room and rush the next guard on the left before he can get to better position. If you time it right, you can sneak attack him as well.

The rest of the bunch aren’t as easy to take out stealthily, so don’t try. Instead, pick up the FAL rifle from one of the fallen soldiers and get a clean line of sight on the guards perched above and ahead of you. Begin picking them off, one by one, from the safety of your cover. If any rush your position and get too close, use your pistol at close range or melee strikes to knock them out.

Pick up grenades as you go and hurl them ahead of you as you fight your way up to the street. If you encounter a guard with a riot shield, drop a ‘nade on him.

Tip: If the riot soldier drops nearby, consider using his riot shield to protect yourself from the rest of the soldiers.

Move from cover to cover as you blast your way down the street to the left. Several soldiers will peek out from the surrounding buildings, so keep your head on a swivel. When the armored truck pulls up ahead of you, use whatever grenades you have to take out the soldiers that jump out of it. Eventually, Chloe shows up to trigger an explosion…and a cut-scene.

[CINEMATIC]

Keep up with Chloe after the cinematic is done playing and stop at the locked door at the Laundromat. Leave the Laundromat and scale the street sign outside. Swing onto the nearby roof then hurl yourself to the brick wall on the right. Follow the wall around to the right until you’re back over the Laundromat. Hoist yourself up, then use the steel beams along the right side to swing across the room. Finally, leap onto another brick wall, shimmy left, and onto the area above the locked door.

You’ll find a long wooden plank leading across the street to another roof. Make a right at the roof, leap across a small gap, then onto the yellow Hotel El Dorado sign nearby. Wait for a small group of bad guys to come running up to the other side of the locked door. Take aim at the explosive tank on the ground and blow it up just as they open the door for Chloe.

The explosion nearly finishes off the first wave of soldiers. Drop down and take them all out. A riot shield soldier comes out of the doorway down the alley. Use run-and-gun tactics to rush him and press the melee button to bounce up, and over his shield. When you land, melee combo the soldier behind him, then quickly turn around and melee the riot shield soldier that should still be dazed from your rushing attack.

Grab the riot shield and slowly walk out of the back door of this room. Pick off the soldiers on the walkways overhead and give Chloe a boost at the dead end so she could grab the ladder above you. Follow her up the fire escape and enter the building. Shoot the boards blocking the doorway, then team up with Chloe to remove the next set of boards in your way. Finally, walk out of this room and into a small garden room to end the chapter.

Chapter 6: Desperate Times

6 Treasures: (in order)
1. Brass Bird Lamp
2. Silver Dress Clasp
3. Copper Rice Measure
4. Yuan Dynasty Urn
5. Enameled Snuff Bottle
6. Incense Burner

Approach the town square and rush to the right side of the square. Chloe darts off to the left, leaving you to go right… directly toward the soldier with the RPG. Use the short wall as cover as you approach the rear of the truck, then stealth kill the enemy on the truck’s right. With him out of the way, you can pull yourself up onto the truck and stealth kill the RPG-toting soldier to take his weapon.

When you do this, Chloe hurls a grenade at the rest of the goons sparking a firefight. Use the RPGs to blow up several soldiers at a time. Save one or two, however, for the riot shield bad guy that comes out of the left side of the temple.

Tip: Don’t use RPGs on anything less than three bad guys. Anything less than that is a waste, so instead use your pistol to pick off lone gunmen. There are a few grenades behind the sandbags near the center of the square, grab them and save them for later.

Move around the perimeter of the square and take out every wave of soldiers as they come at you. Stay on the move, always behind cover, and use the ammo they drop to refill your weapon.

When the armored car speeds into the far corner of the courtyard, just behind the right side of the temple, drop a grenade into the bed of the truck and take out the machine-gunner. Then rush into the bed of the car and take the machine gun. Use it to mow down the attackers from the opposite end of the courtyard. This should be the last of the waves of enemies.

Treasure 1 and 2: Brass Bird Lamp, Silver Dress Clasp

With the courtyard clear of all enemies, climb the street sign in front of the temple entrance to find the Treasure all the way at the top. You can only get this by climbing the sign, you cannot shoot it down.

While at the top of the street sign, turn to face the temple entrance. Take aim at the center of the symbol above the door and shoot down the Treasure. Jump down and walk over to the temple entrance to collect your Treasure.

Follow Chloe to another fire escape and give her a boost. Go all the way up until you reach a series of street signs just off the side of the fire escape. Use it to reach the roof of the building on the left.

Treasure 3: Copper Rice Measurer

Rather than walk into the building through the broken window, walk around the side of the building until you reach a dead end. You’ll find your next Treasure there.

Enter the building through the broken window to find a room with an elevator. The doors open up to reveal two soldiers, one of them in heavy armor. Focus on the heavily armored man and use whatever grenades you have left to weaken him. If he gets close, blast him with your rifle, then smash him with melee attacks. Once he’s down, take out the other guy with ease.

Get in the open elevator with Chloe and ride it up. When the elevator comes to a surprising halt, another cut-scene triggers, and you’re separated from Chloe. Leave Chloe in the elevator for now, and run down the hall. Walk out onto the long beam hanging over the side of the building and use it leap over and grab the flag poles on the right.

Swing across the flag-poles until one falls and nearly drops you. Grab onto the blue ledges and use them to reach the building’s interior. Blow through the wooden planks blocking the door and make a left. Jump off the fallen wall and use the beams overhead as monkey bars to reach the building on the other side.

As you approach the building, you’ll see a guard walking up to the window. Hang from the window pane and wait for him to walk up, and then yank him over the side, before sneaking into the building. Rush around the left side of the wall and either stealth attack the remaining guards or shoot them. Clear the building, then enter the stair well area.

Treasure 4: Yuan Dynasty Urn

Scale the wall of the elevator in the center of the stairwell until you reach the very top. From here, leap over the edge so you’re on the inside of the elevator shaft and look down to locate the next Treasure. Drop down to grab it.

About halfway up the stairs is a passage to a demolished room. Ambush the guards in the room and dispatch them quickly. Enter the demolished room and pass through the long wooden walkway. On the other side, several enemies hop down from the area above. Greet them with gun fire and a few melee combos. With them out of the way, the path ahead is clear. Approach the next fallen beam sticking out of the wall.

Treasure 5: Enameled Snuff Bottle

Rather than walk out on the fallen beam, turn left and hop over the railing. You’ll land on a small awning that spans around the side of the building. Follow it around until you find an open suitcase with the next Treasure.

Walk out onto the beam and leap out to grab the pipe hanging overhead. Shimmy right, along the pipe to the interior of a building. Take out the enemies inside and drop down to the lower level where the junction box is located. Activate it and free Chloe from the malfunctioning elevator.

With Chloe free, she can help pull down the ladder on the floor just above the junction box. Climb back out of the lower level and wait for Chloe near the ladder. Give her a boost and let her pull down the ladder for you. Join her on the upper level.

Note: Want a good laugh? Hop in the pool and swim around for a while. The dialogue is hilarious…and very appropriate. Plus, you’ll also get some Bonuses!

Hop over the side of the building where the dilapidated sign is and follow the roof to a trio of air conditioning units. Above them are several yellow bricks you can climb. Go all the way up and trigger a short cut-scene. When its done, use the zip-line to reach the roof across the way.

Upon landing, use the long, yellow wooden planks to cross the gap to the next structure. As you do, a helicopter opens fire on you! It sends you crashing down and triggers a sprinting sequence. Try to keep up with Chloe until you reach a roof full of enemies. Open fire from your covered position, staying one step ahead of the helicopter fire, and sweep the roof clean of enemies. Jump across a small gap into another room, then drop down. As you run, the heli blasts a hole in the wall, nearly knocking you out!

Dash down the hall – ignore the helicopter outside for now – and take cover behind the small tables. Pick off the enemies in the room and ambush the soldiers that exit through the next room’s elevator. Drop down into the level below and use a series of melee attacks and well-placed gunshots as you scramble around. Eventually, the room comes tumbling down from one-too-many helicopter missiles. Though you narrowly survive the falling room by crashing through the window into the next structure, you’re not out of the woods yet.

Go up the steps of this new building until you reach an open doorway on the right. Walk out onto the open room and leap across the gap onto the roof next to you. Take cover and open fire on the enemies on the distant roof to the right, and pick them off before they can cause you any harm. With them out of the way, approach the make-shift bridge on the right and lower it.

Caution: Stay behind cover as much as possible during this firefight. The goons on the other side of the chasm are carrying grenade launchers!

Treasure 6: Incense Burner

After lowering the bridge and crossing to the roof where the grenade-launcher goon was, climb atop the tallest structure on this roof – the one with the water tank – and find the next Treasure.

From this roof, look down and left. Locate the next batch of enemies and open fire from your elevated position. You should be able to mow them down in no time. Drop down and immediately pick up the M32-Hammer!

As soon as you land, the helicopter returns overhead. Take cover and wait for the chopper to swoop in above you. From your covered position, pop out and blast the chopper with your Hammer. Pepper the chopper with grenades from your launcher and stay on the opposite side of chopper’s machine guns. If it repositions itself above you, quickly leap out of cover, jump over the center divide and take cover again.

There is plenty of grenade ammunition on both sides of the center divide, so don’t worry about running out of ammo. Once the chopper takes enough damage, a wave of enemies will drop down on you. One or two grenades should do the trick.

Continue playing cat and mouse with the chopper until you bring it down.

When the chopper goes down, you’re free to lower the next bridge and proceed to the distant temple. Grab onto the large billboard and hop over to the other side. Follow Chloe to the next zip-line and take it to the ground floor. Upon landing in the alley, hoist yourself up on the green box to find a green pipe and take it all the way up. Follow it across the burning chopper below and drop down to the other side. This ends the chapter.

Treasure Hunting

Chapter 1: A Rock and a Hard Place

Treasure 1: Wrathful Deity Statue

As soon as the cinematic with Flynn and Chloe is done playing, stumble over to the tree on your right, just by the edge of the mountain. You’ll see the Treasure’s sparkle on the ground. Pick it up!

Treasure 2: Saraswati Statue

This Treasure is in the same area as the first gun you find. Look for the Treasure’s sparkle in the snow, just past the pistol. Grab it before you exit this area.

Treasure 3: Tibetan Snuff Bottle

As soon as you blow through the locked door in the wrecked train car (after you’ve picked up the pistol), look up. There’s a dead body hanging above you. Shoot the Treasure’s sparkle, not the dead body, to knock the Treasure loose.

Treasure 4: Bhutanese Lime Box

After using the stacked crates to climb out of the vertical train car, look down – you’ll see the next train-car ahead of you and a large box below. Before leaping into the next wrecked train car, hop down onto the large box below, then drop down again, this time toward the lowest part of the screen, to find another Treasure.

Treasure 5: Ghau Amulet Thogchag

After the train car explodes and knocks you out – triggering another cinematic – you’ll wake up facedown in a train-car. Exit this train car by leaping out to a yellow pipe on your right, and then pull yourself up into another train car. As soon as you are in the next car, turn around 180 degrees to find the next Treasure. Carefully slide around the car’s opening, to its read, and grab it.

Chapter 2: Breaking and Entering

Treasure 1: Byzantine Gold Coin

As soon as you emerge from the manhole, spin the camera to look behind you and to the right. You’ll find the Treasure sitting on a crate with some other tools in the corner of this room.

Treasure 2: Glass Evil Eye

After providing a boost for Flynn, climbing the ladder, and then scaling the rusty grating to find a series of steam pipes, stop and turn around. As soon as you climb the rusty grating, turn around to find a yellow platform with a short ladder behind you. Leap onto the platform and grab the Treasure sitting atop it.

Treasure 3: Ottoman Ring

After being prompted to hide from the first guard, explore the treasure and trinket room on the right. To the far right of the red door (your exit door) are two statues. One of them has the next Treasure.

Treasure 4: Silver Amulet Box

After you split up from Flynn – he goes right while you go left, take out the first guard. Go to the far left and drop down on the guard below you. As soon as you take out the guard patrolling the lower area, examine the flowers in the corner. There’s another Treasure sparkling in the planter box.

Treasure 5: Silver Belt Buckle

After disabling the second alarm, you’ll enter a large courtyard with a water fountain on the right. Knock out the guards on the right, then backtrack to the water fountain and examine the left side. You’ll find the next Treasure sitting atop one of the fountain’s stone leaves.

Treasure 6: Ivory Chess Knight

This piece can be easy to miss. After knocking out the guards with the tranquilizer gun, and using Flynn’s rope to reach the rafters, look to the second set of rafters along the far wall, just above the first – they are the highest beams in this room. Climb onto the second rafters to locate this Treasure in the far corner, atop the farthest rafter.

Treasure 7: Ottoman Bracelet

After swinging from Flynn’s rope, and leaping onto the yellow structure, drop down. Don’t climb up! Instead, let go and grab the ledge below you. Follow it right, along the wall, and around the corner of the building. You’ll find a sewer drain along the wall with a Treasure inside. Drop down again to grab the drain and pick up the Treasure.

Treasure 8: Antique Pocket Watch

After shooting the guard from the hanging position, drop down and follow the roof to the corner with the missing iron bars. Drop down to the green awning below and make a sharp right around the corner. Follow it to the sharp left until you reach the next open corner. It turns right, again, but leads to a dead end. Don’t make another right, instead, stop at the open corner and swivel the camera up and to the left. You’ll see a red tapestry hanging with a Treasure wedged behind it. Shoot the Treasure down and collect it.

SPOILER ALERT!

Treasure 9: Antique Pipe

After Flynn turns on you and the guards close in on you in the museum room, dodge their red laser targeting beams. Roll to the small niche in the wall left of the gated area, close to the lion statue. Examine the area to find the Treasure.

Treasure 10: Jeweled Bracelet

Before exiting the sewer room with the pipes jutting out of the ground, explore the far left corner (from where you enter). Just across from the room’s exit is a small pipe with the Treasure sitting right next to it. If you’re exiting the room, the Treasure is directly behind you, next to the pipe.

Chapter 3: Borneo

Treasure 1: Yuan Dynasty Coin

After arming the first bomb, walk up to the fallen tree on the left. Walk up it and look directly overhead. The Treasure sparkles high atop a tree directly in front of you. Shoot the Treasure down and collect it.

Treasure 2: Yuan Dynasty Jade Animal

This Treasure can be found shortly after dropping down from the stone, stepped area. There’s a hidden area on the right, just beyond another fallen, angled log, near where the first two guards emerge from. Either sneak in there during the ensuing firefight, or wait until you’ve cleared to go in and grab the Treasure.

Treasure 3: Jade Pei Pendant

As you approach dig site number one, you’ll encounter a small clearing below where several enemies await. Take them out, then climb up the broken wooden planks on the opposite side. Slowly climb up and to the right. The path requires you to climb up and over a wall – don’t! Instead, climb right, along the wooden planks until you reach the top of the wall. Follow the path there, to the top of a small water fall. There, at the top of the waterfall is a pile of rubble hiding the next Treasure.

Treasure 4: Amber Jade Chimera

After you drop down on the two enemies near the power generator and the combat training is over, you’re prompted to follow the pipe out of the area and into the next section of your mission. Climb the rope to join Sully, but don’t go straight. Instead, make a sharp right and leap across a small gap. Follow the path to a series of stones along the wall and climb up. Leap backward to a wooden pole behind you, then swing from wooden pole to pole until you reach a large suspended tree trunk overhead. Hoist yourself onto the log and follow it to the ledge on the right. Leap across one more gap to find a pile of rubble hiding another Treasure.

Chapter 4: The Dig

Treasure 1: Mongol Paiza Passport

Once the area outside of the main tent is free of enemies, explore the wrecked ship just left of the tent. Look up the second tall mast (the one on the right if your back is to the tent) and look for the Treasure to sparkle. Shoot it down and grab it.

Treasure 2: Jade Belt Slide

Inside the temple, walk past the fallen stature head and approach the doorway beyond it. Stop when the bats fly out of the doorway. Turn around and face the doorway behind you, then look up. You’ll spot the Treasure high above the doorway. Shoot it down and grab it.

Treasure 3: Yuan Dynasty Helmet

After breaking through the wall in the temple, a cut-scene plays. Once the cinematic is done playing, stand still. Swing the camera above and behind you, so you can see over your left shoulder. The Treasure is wedged high along the wall. Shoot it down and collect it before continuing.

Chapter 5: Urban Warfare

Treasure 1: Strange Relic

After dropping down to street level and letting the two soldiers pass you by, explore the far side of the street from where the soldiers emerged. There is a manhole between two rickshaws. Drop down the manhole and grab the Strange Relic.

Chapter 6: Desperate Times

Treasure 1: Brass Bird Lamp

With the courtyard clear of all enemies, climb the street sign in front of the temple entrance to find the Treasure all the way at the top. You can only get this by climbing the sign, you cannot shoot it down.

Treasure 2: Silver Dress Clasp

While at the top of the street sign where the first Treasure is located, turn to face the temple entrance. Take aim at the center of the symbol above the door and shoot down the Treasure. Jump down and walk over to the temple entrance to collect your Treasure.

Treasure 3: Copper Rice Measurer

After going up the fire escape and jumping from the street sign onto the roof, walk around the side of the building until you reach a dead end. You’ll find your next Treasure there.

Treasure 4: Yuan Dynasty Urn

Scale the wall of the elevator in the center of the stairwell until you reach the very top. From here, leap over the edge so you’re on the inside of the elevator shaft and look down to locate the next Treasure. Drop down to grab it.

Treasure 5: Enameled Snuff Bottle

After dashing across the long wooden walkway, dispatch the enemies in the next room. There is a fallen beam sticking out of the wall. Rather than walk out on the fallen beam, turn left and hop over the railing. You’ll land on a small awning that spans around the side of the building. Follow it around until you find an open suitcase with the next Treasure.

Treasure 6: Incense Burner

After lowering the bridge and crossing to the roof where the grenade-launcher goon was, climb atop the tallest structure on this roof – the one with the water tank – and find the next Treasure.