Perfect Dark on Nintendo 64 - Special Agent Mission 7 : Carrington Institute - part 1 : Carrington Institute: Defense
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1. Reactivate automatic defenses
2. Release hostages
3. Retrieve experimental weapon
4. Deactivate bomb

1. Reactivate automatic defenses

Turn around and follow the ramp down to the end, then go left. Cross the helipad, then the hangar, to reach the underground corridor and follow it. At the first intersection, continue straight ahead after deactivating the first automatic turret on your right. At the end of the corridor, don't go left — open the door instead. Watch out here, since dataDyne men are coming from the right. It looks like only 2 of them will pass, quite close together, so the simplest approach is probably to "tail" the second one by going left. Follow the corridor and open the door at the end of it. Go left again, and just after, a guard is fighting at the intersection (where there's a red-and-white target on the wall). If that's the case, kill him, then activate the second turret on your right. Do a tiny U-turn and go through the door at the end of the corridor. Follow the path carefully, since you might run into a dataDyne man. Go through the door at the end and you should see the last switch on your left. Deactivate it.

2. Release hostages

Once the last defense is activated, Carrington informs you that the Skedars have taken hostages. Go up the small staircase and take the door. Cross the hangar in a straight line and take the ramp along the wall to go up on the left. Open the door, take a few steps into the corridor and do a 180 to the right to take the ramp back up to the Carrington Institute's main hall (the level's starting point). Go left and take down the Skedar if it's still there. Open the second door on the left, the one leading to the dark room. Remember that the 3 guards have their backs to the wall, so you need to arrive in the main part of the room by strafing to end up directly facing them while shooting. The hostages go down fairly fast and it seems a bit random; it also seems like only one counts, but it's not clear. Do your best to shoot the 3 guards quickly, they should target you. Kill them. Exit and head left to take the elevator. Coming out of it upstairs, go open the first office on the left while standing squarely in front of the door. When the door opens, quickly kill the guard as you step through and turn right to kill the other one. Leave the office and go around to reach the neighboring office. Take the elevator, preferably alone. Once downstairs, go left (watch out for guards) and take the last door on the right. In the firing range, try to take down the 2 guards while keeping the survivors alive. Also quite random, but if you saved enough of them, the objective should be a success.

3. Retrieve experimental weapon

If you followed this walkthrough, you're already in the firing range when the hostage objective ends. So press the computer keyboard to blow out the glass and grab the RCP-120.

4. Deactivate bomb

"It's urgent. They've planted a bomb," Carrington tells you. Leave the firing range and go to the far right of the room where the level began. I'd recommend equipping your RCP-120. You can turn invisible to reach the corridor more easily, but switch it off as soon as you're in a "safe" spot, since it drains fast. Kill a few guards and go join the Skedar ship carrying the bomb. It's at the bottom of the ramp, at the end of the corridor on the left (on the helipad you crossed at the start of the level). Take out your data uplink and use it on the ship to plant a virus. Even if you've taken down the blond guy and the dataDyne agent, enemies could still show up during the operation. Use the ship for cover by circling around it. As soon as the virus is uploaded, you can draw your weapon and flee after eliminating the remaining enemies. The ship takes off, explodes in the air, and the objective is a success.

Escape

Go back through the door you took to get outside and follow the corridor. Instead of going back up the left ramp, take the corridor on the right and open the door at the far right to reach the hangar where the Carrington Institute's ship is, which will take you far from the battlefield... or not.

Mission End

Once again, Joanna plays the hero, covering the escape of the Carrington Institute's last ship by telling it to come back for her. Unfortunately, the Skedars are too numerous, and one of them drops crates onto our heroine. For the first time, Jo's status is unknown at the end of the mission. What will become of her? You'll find out in the next mission: Attack Ship: Covert Assault.