18: The Bear

18: The Bear

Character: Ethan Mars

Unlock the Good Driver Trophy

This is the first Trial - The Bear.  Back to Ethan now, you are walking through an industrial area towards the garage, and you get control once you are inside.  Check your thoughts and then go talk to the attendant, who is under a truck doing repairs.  You have to ask a few times to get his attention, but once you have it he is friendly enough.  You give him the claim ticket, he goes over to the booth and you follow.

He gives you the set of keys and comments on how patient you are, the car having been left here for two years.  He gives you the keys and tells you to use the service elevator (the orange panel in the rear of the garage) to reach the third floor down.  The controls for the elevator are on the right - go inand press the inside controls to go down. 

After you get out of the elevator walk forward and use the alarm remote (Circle) to cause the lights to flash, revealing which car it is that you need to be going to.  Ahead and on the left is a sports car - when you press the remote its lights blink.  Excellent!  Actually now that I think about it, is it really a good idea to get into a car that a killer left for you?

Look to your right, you can check the glove box - further to the right you can check the map slot.  Look to your left and you can grab a GPS unit out of the pocket in the driver's side door.  You examine it and then slot it into the holder on the windscreen.

When you activate it you learn that your destination is just four miles away.  The ride is a CS and you end up on an overpass looking down at a busy highway that could be the Cross-Bronx Expressway.  It looks right anyway.  It turns out that the GPS is programmed to deliver your next instructions - and then you get a jumbled series of angst ridden choices to make until you can decide to commit (Triangle). 

Once you are on the highway it is sequence time - and these choices are on very short timers so you have to act fast.  Too many mistakes and you end up crashing the car and having to struggle to get out before it blows up with you in it!  If that happens, you end up running away with the sound of approaching cop sirens in the distance, and the chapter ends.

There are two trophies you can earn in this chapter - "Kamikaze" and "Good Driver" (both bronze).  For Kamikaze you have to complete the entire trial without making one mistake - a very hard thing to do so this is likely one you will want to try for after you complete the game, if you do not get lucky and get it your first go.

For Good Driver you just need to complete the five mile drive - you can make some mistakes just not a lot - and end up at the end, where you still crash after being chased by cops, blowing through a roadblock, and being shot at, but the difference is that you do not go away empty handed!  The GPS tells you that your reward is in the glove compartment - and that the key is inside the GPS.

Now you do another sequence, accept that the button prompts are upside down because you are upside down - yeah I do not really see how that makes much sense either.  After you break open the GPS and then unlock the glove compartment you get a memory card - and now you need to get out of the burning car!  More reversed prompts to deal with - but you will get it, I have faith in you!

Once outside of the now wrecked car, it may be an idea to start putting some distance between you and the flaming wreck, right?  The cops will be here any minute, and you have a memory card to read - and you do!  You see Shaun under the grate and you get a few more letters to the key to this mystery.

The final scene of the chapter is you walking away from the burning car - interestingly enough, they recycled the same scene from the failed version - and of course as the chapter fades-to-black and changes, you should unlock the trophy "Good Driver" (bronze) and, if you were perfect in your sequences, the trophy "Kamikaze" (bronze).  Good on ya!