Hired Guns - Unlisted - Log Entry 8

No information is provided for this location and your secondary objective requests that you reconnoitre the site for further data. It's one of the weirdest places on the map, and disorientating, as you have to use teleporters move around, making it hard to keep track of where your team actually is.

The circular room after the main entrance contains the teleportation fields that lead to the various different parts of labyrinth. Following each pathway will allow you to find one of several keys, all of which will be required to access the exit. I favour moving in an anti-clockwise direction. If you are quick to the second teleporter this way round, you can grab the key and make it back before a large number of lizard eggs hatch. Whilst they are not a serious threat individually, you will end up expending a lot of ammunition if you have to kill them all. The first teleporter leads to a maze of identical square rooms, which would be almost impossible to navigate through, were it not for the fact someone carved the directions you have to take into the wall opposite the entrance. Unfortunately, they failed to record the final move needed to escape, which is "south".

Your main adversaries are the mysterious ladies in red capes. They will cut you down quickly hand to hand, and can absorb a surprising amount of firepower, particularly if they have shields, such as the one on the roof. This is betrayed by a shimmering halo, which alerts you to the fact they will be harder to eliminate than normal. They can also cast fireballs at an alarming rate, and are possible the most dangerous opponents in the campaign at long range.

There are a lot of useful weapons to be found here that I don't stop to pick up in this video - notably a grenade launcher and a neutron flux cannon. However, to reach the Satellite Uplink Tower (Log Entry 11) you can alternatively go via the Ammunition Depot (Log Entry 10), which is less risky, and has even more rewards in store. You don't need to come here to complete the campaign, only if you want to finish the game.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Hired
• Guns
• Graveyard
• Campaign
• Walkthrough
• Amiga
• Commodore
• Psygnosis
• DMA
• Design

[JH2482]

Wow, after seeing your video so many memories have come back to me. I was about 12/13 back then. Too bad I never finished the game, I can't exactly remember why although I do know the game scared me at times. It had a great atmosphere and I really liked the monsters. I remember in particular seeing Skeletons once and those brown dragon creatures.

Thanks for the upload! I really enjoyed watching this.

[Jimbatron]

No worries.

I never finished it back in the day. I remember it seemed impossible at the time and I lost my rag slightly when my save game disk got corrupted and I had to start again. I bugged me massively that I never finished it but thanks to WinUAE that's one more loose end tied up!

[Jimbatron]

Cheers gents. I think this is possibly the hardest level - at any rate it took the most amount of attempts to do a successful record under 10 minutes. I don't know about "very skilled" though. I'm kack-handed with the mouse at times and have a tendency to shoot my own team by accident! Fortunately, for me the keys to success at Hired Guns are more managing your inventory and knowing the locations well.

[andrew9592]

winuae 4 life

[andrew9592]

the brown dragon creatures also scared me off for life! you are true great monsters and atmosphere but when i grew up and played it on emulator it looked rly easy, just spam big machineguns,laser,or granades on the "big snakes" that's how i used to call them when was a child xD

[Brigand22]

Excellent upload. You're evidently very skilled at this game.

I've just started playing it, as of Sunday, for the very first time... after all these years.

It's enormously frustrating at times; however, it such a compelling game that I intend to persevere to it's completion.

At least now I know what those large ornate keys are for! I had to drop weaponry and ammo to lug those things about.

[cosmosdk]

Thank you for this!