P05B: Mister Freeze at GCPD

Mister Freeze at GCPD

Use the REC to raise the security gate and then run and slide under it -- before you try to enter the building note the demo wall here -- blow that and collect the Trophy on the other side!  Now approach the door and take the encryption card for Penguin's radio from the body leaning against it before you enter through the door and discover that the Penguin's thugs have the building locked down.  You need to find an alternate route into the deeper parts of the building.

Getting Into the GCPD Building

In the hall you can look up and spot a grapnel point -- go up there and then work your way across the grating to the duct and rip it open, heading inside and through to a point where you can safely move to the perches above, and start taking the thugs out one at a time!

You can use the electric motor as a diversion and to attract the thugs to that side of the area -- once you take out the first thug though, you realize that Penguin is using heartbeat monitors on the guards, so he knows when you take them out...

After you eliminate all but one the last one will surrender -- you need to interrogate him to learn that Freeze is in the Museum!

When you try to leave Penguin springs a trap -- you contact Alfred who restates the obvious and then you download the Unlock Codes for the municipal buildings in the city to your sequencer.  Now it is just a matter of using Detective Mode to track down the interface controls -- basically going through the grate on the floor -- and then hacking them.

-- Hacking the Code --

This is a lot easier than it looks -- basically all that you need to do is hold LT to use and RT to trigger the device after selecting it, and then slowly turn both the Left and Right Joysticks in circles until you start getting codes -- you will know when that happens.  Once you get the sweet spot on one of the JS, leave it there and find the sweet spot on the other and voila!  Code cracked.

After you crack the code head back through the duct on the floor out the other side again and exit the building.  Outside you hear the radio traffic -- and the booms -- as the Penguins men destroy the bridges -- which is not a big deal for us anyway.

Something you should be aware of here is that a lot of the outside groups have reset again, which means there is XP to be scooped up with them in battle -- and considering that there are three new Gadgets we want very badly to get -- getting the XP and leveling up is an idea whose time has come!  The Gadgets are (1) The Sonic Batarang, (2) The Cryptographic Range Amplifier, and (3) The Cryptographic Power Amplifier.  Even if you do not want to spend the time to get all three, the new Batarang and at least the Range Amplifier would be very useful...

Now we need to head towards the Museum!