Chicago (level)

Chicago
Previous level	Bryce Canyon
Next level	Holar Tower
Game	Resistance 2
Character	Nathan Hale
Team	SRPA
Place	Chicago, Illinois
Date	May 15, 1953
Objective	Survive the Alleys Neutralize the Hellfire Turrets Lead Echo Team to the Chimeran Node Clear an Air Corridor for the VTOL Rendezvous with Ground Forces Neutralize the Leviathan Lure the Leviathan Underneath the Sky Bridge
Enemies	Hybrids, Spinners, Grims, Furies, Steelheads, Ravagers, Leeches, Patrol Drones, Hunter Drones, Attack Drones, Stalkers, Leviathan
Multiplayer map(s)	Chicago Michigan Square

Chicago is the seventh campaign level of Resistance 2.

Synopsis

Echo Team and Dr. Fyodor Malikov arrive in Chicago with the goal of deactivating the city's Chimeran tower. Upon landing, Echo Team split up and battle their way through Chimeran forces in order to clear an air corridor for Malikov to fly to the tower. As they advance close to the tower, they are impeded by the Leviathan, a 300-foot tall Chimera.

Echo Team lured the Leviathan under a sky-bridge where a demolition team laid explosive charges inside it to blow it up and inflict massive damage to the Leviathan's head. The explosives blows up portions of the creature's face and Hale kills it by launching a rocket into its exposed skull. With all Chimeran forces neutralized, Malikov is granted safe passage to the tower.

Weapons

Starting Loadout

M5A2 Carbine

L210 LAARK (given in Leviathan battle)

Found in Level

HE .44 Magnum

Bullseye (replaced by Bullseye Mark II in Superhuman difficulty)

Auger Mark II

Rossmore 238

Marksman

HVAP Wraith

XR-13 Bellock

L23 Fareye

V7 Splicer

Frag Grenade

Hedgehog Grenade

Enemies

Hybrid

Advanced Hybrid

Grim

Leech

Fury

Ravager

Steelhead

Spinner

Leviathan

Patrol Drone

Hunter Drone

Attack Drone

Stalker

Hellfire Turret

Gallery

Echo Team arrives in Chicago.

Nathan Hale

Warner watches a Hellfire turret's beam hits a car.

A Hunter Drone attacking..

A Fury swimming along a flooded road.

A group of Black Ops soldiers in heavy combat with the Chimera

A Stalker near the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Black Ops soldiers advance towards the bridge.

A crouching Black Ops soldier taking aim.

Black Ops soldiers engage a Ravager.

Attack Drone attacking Black Ops.

An F-86 Sabre bombing over some Hellfire Turrets.

A Chimeran AA Turret firing at F-86 Sabres.

Black Ops soldiers fighting Chimera in the Magnificent Mile.

Stalkers in the Magnificent Mile.

The Leviathan destroys the VTOL carrying Keystone Company.

Leviathan's demise.

Concept Art

Model of the Chicago Theater

Artist Christopher Capili stated that the doors of the subway train had to be really big to accommodate for game play.

A Black Ops soldier and several Grims as shown in Insomniac's tech demo.

Intel Documents

• Intel 17: Located after swimming across Fury-less waters and head inside a building with red corridors and lying in a room with a dead Black Op.

Trophies

• The Bigger They Are - Kill the Leviathan in the Single Player Campaign.

Transcript

Main article: Chicago (level)/Transcript

Trivia

• The Campaign level is drastically used for separate parts in both Cooperative and Competitive modes.
• In the tower that the Leviathan demolishes, look closely at the table in the center of one of the rooms; it has a vinyl disk of the song "Pinballz".
• The real-life historical Chicago Theater makes a appearance in the beginning of level (it is closed for remodeling until it reopens on June 13). It is also seen in the Chicago Co-Op map in some part of the city level.
• The posters showing at the Chicago Theater are:
  • Debt of a Sales Clerk. Starring Martha Murgatroyd and William H. Lacy. This is a reference to Death of a Salesman.
  • Kiss McCabe! This is a reference to Wikipedia:Kiss Me, Kate.
• This level takes place right around thirteen months after Operation Shadow Strike in which Specter Team contained and eliminated much of the Chimera forces in the city, preventing them from launching all out attack on the LDP.
• There are areas where the player can die instantly from an enemy; these places being "out of bounds."
  • If the player walks towards the bridge on Michigan Ave. before the turrets are destroyed, the player is killed instantly by the Hellfire turrets.
• In Chicago it is similar to the Orick and Twin Falls levels in terms of the player being able to destroy and interact with the scenery, although some have the same interaction, it is also possible to see new ones.
  • Car: Explosion of cars with flames after exploding, glass breaking of cars, cars with black and white tires can be punctured, lifting of the hood/trunk and doors of some cars when shooting.
  • Wood: Breakage of wooden benches, breakage of small wooden table, breakage of radios, breakage of wooden chairs.
  • Glass: Breakage of several glass in the scenery, breakage of ceiling lamps when turned off and without protection, breakage of glass bottles.
  • Others: Breakage of chimera cocoons, breakage of some window molds, breaking of parts of some walls, breakage of wall lamp, breakage of glass showcases and wooden dividers, breakage of vinyl record and packaging.