Shadowgun Tip

    Hey, everyone. It's a cold, snowy night, here at the green retreat. I have a fire going in the fireplace and I have been playing some games. I haven't played Shadowgun in quite a while. I was stuck on the Leftover Expansion Pack at the place where there doesn't seem to be any way to get into the control room with the glass wall. You could see several things inside that were lit up. For instance, the large blue gear which we are so used to seeing was in there. Well, I discovered that you have a yellow bullseye thing on the right side of the control room. You have to shoot that thing, through the glass. Make sure the red target is lit when you shoot it, just as you would on a human target. When you shoot the yellow bullseye the side door opens and you can go into the room. Heck, I had tried lobbing grenades through the fan and everything else.
   Once inside the room, John Slade closes a steam valve. This allows that red hot pipe to cool off. Lo and behold, when you return to the area of the pipe, there is a green, neon emblem of a running man there above the pipe. I tried shooting it but the game wants you to walk under it. When you do, a gear appears and you tap the gear. This causes you to fall through the floor and enter another level. It's a level where some of Toltec's geeks are tinkering with green vats full of goo, genetic code and who knows what else? Before you can get into that room, you must walk across a pipe and disable a force field.
     When you get inside the room with the geeks, they run away and call for a bunch of mercenaries. A battle royal ensues and it is a tough one. It seems that you die much easier in this level and I am beginning to think it is because there are cannisters of explosives which you are foolishly hiding behind. I had killed all of the first wave of bad guys once, then had to go back and start over.
    I am stuck again, as I am on so many other games. I will say, though, that it has been a treat to play Shadowgun again, with its amazing graphics and smooth gameplay. It is special.
    I think I'm going over to I-Tunes and watch Paul McCartney's concert. I understand that the songs are more like the songs from the era before the Beatles. More of a Tony Bennett style. It doesn't matter to me. I am very fond of Paul and I look forward to watching this 'made for the web' show. So I'll bid you goodnight from the author's green retreat.
    I'm CE Wills.