Tomorrow Never Dies

Prima Fast Track Guide

Introduction

Bond is back. This time he goes after Elliot Carver, a media baron trying to provoke a war between Great Britain and China. As usual, Bond faces tough opposition and must do it on his own. Bond must stop the brewing conflict before it becomes full-scale war. You'll find Tomorrow Never Dies a tough, demanding game that pits Bond against helicopters, armored cars, gun turrets, and the usual hordes of Machine Gun-toting goons.

This Prima Fast Track GuideTM provides basic walkthrough essentials of each mission that will allow you to complete the game. For more in depth details on weaponry, gadgets, villains, and vehicles, as well as useful and amusing cheat codes, pick up Tomorrow Never Dies: Prima's Official Strategy Guide.

Mission 1: Outpost, Russian Border

In this first mission, Bond must laser-designate a Soviet satellite dish. This paves the way for an air strike that will destroy the dish. Once Bond obtains a security card and escapes on skis, the mission will be complete.

Straight ahead you'll see a guard standing by two barrels. Approach and kill him. Detonate both barrels to reveal Med Kits. Collect the Med Kits and the fallen soldier's Assault Rifle. Turn around and locate a barrel and a crate. Blow up both of these. Collect another Med Kit and a case of ammo.

Approach the chain-link fence. Before you reach the gate, stop behind a tree. Using the tree as cover, enter Sniper mode, lean briefly out of cover, and use the Assault Rifle to attack a guard patrolling beyond the gate. Lean back into cover. When the guard runs up to the gate he'll move back and forth, seeking a way through. Leave Sniper mode and let Bond target him normally. Kill him and any other guards who approach.

Keep hiding behind the tree. Take note of the large fuel containers behind the gate but don't blow them up. Notice that the container on the right partially blocks your view of a small guardhouse. A sniper lurks in the guardhouse. After you kill all of the visible enemies, slowly approach the gate, keeping that container between you and the guardhouse. If you do this, the sniper cannot see you. Open the gate while standing as far to the left as possible, still keeping the container between you and the guardhouse.

Go through the gate and run left, around the fuel containers. Approach the guardhouse door, avoiding the window. Strafe or roll past the doorway so you can see the sniper. Take him out with a quick Assault Rifle burst and get inside the guardhouse. Listen for other guards' footsteps. As they approach, crouch and face the door. Gun down the guards as they appear at the door.

When you no longer hear footsteps, collect the fallen sniper's Sniper Rifle. Look through the windows. You'll see a tower through one of them. Locate the guard on top of the tower. Zoom in and aim at his head. Exit the guardhouse, keeping it between you and the tower where you just shot the guard. Use Sniper mode to scout the ground near the tower's base. If other guards appear, drop behind the guardhouse and let them come to you. Gun them down as they round the corner of the guardhouse.

Slowly proceed up a slope toward the tower, watching for enemies. As you approach the tower, you'll hear a chopper. Watch for guards. Retreat for cover as soon they see you and pick them off when they round the corner or appear at the top of the slope. Retreating and forcing them to approach you lets you take the first shot.

After you kill the guards, pop out to the open briefly to make sure that no more guards wait near the helicopter landing area. When you see no more guards, go up the stairs of the tower and collect Light Armor at the top. Go back downstairs. Near the helicopter landing area, hide behind a pair of trees and lean out to survey a valley. A pair of guards will probably approach you. Pick them off with your Assault Rifle as they approach. You can move a little, but try to stay behind the trees.

Use the Sniper Rifle to zoom in on some guards stationed near a second guardhouse. Zoom in fully, lean out periodically to shoot, and kill both. After you kill these guards, approach the second guardhouse, bearing slightly to the right. Enter the guardhouse through a door on the right. Collect Heavy Armor in there.

Gaze out of the window that looks into new territory. If you stand at the proper angle and look through the window, you can see a sniper atop a tower. Zoom in and snipe him down from his perch. Exit the guardhouse and loop around to the left. Destroy a crate off to one side to reveal a pair of Med Kits. Approach the tower you just saw through the window. To the right you'll see a gap in the chain-link fence surrounding the tower. A barrel sits in that gap. Shoot the barrel and run inside the fence, but beware! New guards will periodically reappear outside of the fence. You must kill them as they appear.

Run back through the chain-link fence toward the mouth of a nearby tunnel. Run at full speed, killing two guards inside of the tunnel. At the other end of the tunnel, bear to the left and walk up a slope. You now overlook a yard with a sniper tower, a few guards on the ground, and several large gas tanks. Pick off one or two guards on the ground with your Sniper Rifle. After the guards see you, go back down the slope and switch to the Assault Rifle. Kill the guards as they run toward you.

Now run along the right side of the yard, using the massive fuel containers to shield yourself from the sniper tower. Approach the base of the sniper tower, killing any guards you encounter without stopping. Run up the sniper tower's stairs, making sure that you have a fresh clip ready in your Assault Rifle. When you get to the top, shoot the sniper at point-blank range. Go back downstairs to the yard. Destroy all of the fuel drums and barrels with your PK7, then collect all of the ammo and Med Kits that were hidden in the drums.

Stand near the center of the yard. Select the Laser Designator in the secondary item slot and aim it at the satellite dish. Press R and a jet will destroy the dish. A transport chopper now approaches. Equip your Assault Rifle and wait for it in the center of the yard. The chopper won't shoot at you, but it will drop paratroopers. Crouch near the helicopter and shoot the paratroopers one by one as they hit the ground. You'll find them easy targets. After dropping several paratroopers, the helicopter goes away. Run up to collect gear from the paratroopers you've killed. Amidst the gear you'll find a green Access Card.

After you get the card, run toward the massive gate at the end of the yard. Approach a black console to the right of the gate. Press O to open the gate with the Access Card. You now begin skiing. Take care to avoid trees and the edges of the slope. Take it easy and you're home free for Bond's next mission.

Mission 2: Arms Bazaar, Russian Border

In this mission, Bond must photograph various weapons systems at an arms bazaar. To escape, he must locate the key to a fighter jet's cockpit and fly away in the plane.

Bond starts out in an outdoor cargo yard filled with massive crates. You'll see several guards patrolling this yard. Start out by targeting and killing a guard patrolling near the truck-mounted SCUD missile right in front of Bond.

Slowly work your way through the crates, pausing occasionally and listening for footsteps. Using the Sniper Rifle, take out the remaining guards. Explore the crates. Photograph the SCUD truck. Approach a jeep at the other end of the yard. Collect a pair of Med Kits from behind it and notice the Mortars on the ground nearby. You'll recognize the Mortars as small artillery tubes. Photograph them. Now you must find the chopper.

Walls of crates block off one section of the yard. At the corner where these walls of crates join, you'll find crates colored pure white, not green and white like the others. Place an STK Mine on this corner, back up, and use the STK Mine Detonator to blow up the mine. This will destroy the crates, opening a hole in the wall.

Four guards lurk behind this hole. Instead of charging into the hole, stand to the side. Occasionally strafe just far enough to fire an Assault Rifle burst at one of the guards, then retreat to cover. If the guards advance, wait outside of the wall and gun them down as they round the corner. You should be able to take out all of these guards without sustaining any damage.

After you kill all of the guards, go through the hole and photograph the chopper. A black gate separates the yard from another area. Equip your Assault Rifle and Med Kits, then go through the door. After going through the door, run forward. Strafe left and right slightly as you run. That will help you avoid gunfire. When you see a golden 007 lying on the ground, grab it and veer to the left.

Skirt around the back corner of this area, past a wind sock. Keep running and only shoot guards who get very close. Eventually you'll find a small, free-standing wall near a set of huge fuel tanks. Press Bond up behind this wall so that enemies near the center of the area can't shoot at him.

Guards will approach Bond. As they come around the wall, strafe a little and gun them down with the Assault Rifle. Collect whatever they drop and press up against the wall again. One of the guards carries a Cockpit Key in addition to the usual weapons. You probably won't see this small, golden key in all of the confusion. Just walk over the spots where enemy guards fell and Bond will eventually collect the key.

Once you collect the key, run straight toward the fighter jet parked in the middle of this area. Run directly to the small ladder leading to the jet's cockpit. Press O when you reach the base of the ladder and Bond will crawl in.

Now the jet will spin in circles. Repeatedly press P and U to fire the jet's weaponry at stacks of crates, trucks, and anything else in your sights. Time your shots carefully so they'll hit their targets. After the jet spins a few times and you demolish the trucks and structures, the jet will take off. Another successful mission.