Last Crusade – Story Level 3: Berlin Brawl

LEVEL ENTRANCE: After the 2nd Level, Indy and his father appear outside the castle. Unlock the Bike 'n' Side vehicle located just to the right. Get on and crash through the gate on the right. Head up the paved road past the fruit stands and drive onto the orange button to open the gate. The next level entrance is just across this courtyard. (See the Hub Maps and Story Level Intro for details and screenshots.)

Berlin Street

After the cut scene, Indy and his dad find themselves on a cobbled street near a pile of burning books. Nice.

This is one of those levels where you must defeat several waves of enemies. Gather loose studs and smash the fences, benches, anti-aircraft guns and other breakable objects to get more studs. Then concentrate on eliminating the first wave of enemies: 5 guards with tan uniforms. As you fight them, try to pick up one of the pistols they drop so you can use it against the other enemies. There are also a bunch of soldiers in green uniforms and civilians running all over the place. You can ignore them for the most part, since you only need to fight the enemies whose icons appear at the top of the screen in order to advance.

When you've defeated the first group, Elsa Schneider uses her walkie talkie to call in the second wave, 4 more guards and 2 enemy machine gunners wearing black and gray. Again, try to upgrade your own weaponry by picking up one of the machine guns the soldiers in gray drop. Use it to eliminate the others quickly. As usual, Indy can also use his whip to tie up enemies. Then just punch them once to get rid of them.

The third group of enemies consists of 2 machine gunners, 2 bazooka troopers and 2 riflemen. The machine gunners move around on the ground. Fight them with fists, whip or borrowed guns. Enemy guards in tan uniforms also continue to respawn. You don't have to fight them to advance, but you'll probably want to do so anyway just to get them out of your way.

The bazooka troopers and riflemen emerge from the second-story windows and take up positions on the scaffolding at the left and right ends of the street. First head to the left and smash the red-and-white barricades below the scaffolding. Notice the 3 orange rings. Use Indy's whip to pull the middle ring directly below where the first bazooka trooper is standing. This collapses the scaffold, dropping the trooper to the ground so you can fight him and hopefully steal his bazooka. Then use that weapon to shoot the second trooper, who comes out to take the other's place. If you don't manage to grab the weapon in time, you can also whip the orange ring again to collapse the scaffold. Then fight the soldier on the ground and take his weapon.

Now run to the right end of the street and use your stolen bazooka to shoot the rifleman who comes out onto the scaffolding there. Wait for the second rifleman to emerge and shoot him as well. If you don't have a weapon, or if you run out of ammo, you can also smash the red-and-white barriers and whip the orange ring to drop the soldiers to the ground so you can reach them.

Note that you can also defeat the riflemen first, take one of the rifles they drop and use it to shoot the bazooka troopers. It's your choice. You can also yank the other orange rings that aren't directly below the soldiers. This collapses the empty scaffolding, scattering clusters of studs.

For the fourth stage of the fight, Elsa summons 4 pairs of soldiers on motorcycles with sidecars and mounted guns, plus 4 soldiers with rocket launchers, who come out onto the scaffolding. Use the same basic tactics you did for the last group: Whip the orange ring just below the soldier to collapse the scaffolding, fight the soldier and take his weapon. Then use your stolen rocket launcher to destroy the motorcycle soldiers and the other soldiers on the scaffolding.

Note that enemies with rocket launchers continue to respawn on the scaffolding. This can be annoying, since they continue to shoot rockets at your characters, but if you run out of ammo and your rocket launcher disappears, just fight one of these guys to get a new weapon.

You only need to defeat 4 rocket launcher soldiers—it doesn't matter if they're on the left, the right, or some combination—and destroy 4 motorcycles. Once you do, a cut scene kicks in and the level is over.