“Route Kanal” 
Length: Medium
Fun Factor = 4

3.1: Where do I go now?
- Downstairs?

3.2: What do I do about the couple being attacked by combine?
- Kill the Combine. That should Score you a pistol and some ammo. When
you leave, you should be ambushed by a combine that is waiting on the
stairs. Kill him and then go downstairs.

3.3: The path has no ladder! What should I do?
- Wait for the train to come. Then reclimb the stairs and jump on top
of the train.

3.4: OK so now what?
- Crowbar the wooden planks, walk through the building, take a right,
and then follow your way to a bent grate. Jump over it and then take
the right and crawl underneath the hole at the floor.

3.5: OK I'm past the barrier.
- Keep going and drop down into the train pit. Then fight your way up
the stair case and make sure you utilize the flammable barrels. Then
work your way around and then then take the exit and fall into the river
stream. Beware. A train might run into you. :D

3.6: Down the river, eh? I feel like a tadpole.
-Ah poor baby.Keep going til you climb on top of the car. Then fall through
the hole up top. The vortigan will give you a jolt and the man will open
the car for you. Break the wall of wood and crawl under the truck carrier.
Also, avoid the barnacle. He makes his apperance by devouring a bird.

3.7: The couple just got shot to death. Am I next?
- Maybe. OR maybe not. Once you hang right, avoid the plasma mounted gun
guy and hit the tunnel to your right. Take it up and kill all resistance 
as you go. Then, climb the inside ladder and take out the gunners. 
Don't waste your time, though or you'll encounter resistance and
a few flash happy scanners. 

3.8: It's just me and an endless barrage of combine. What do I do?
- Aim for the barrel up top that scaffold and blow it up. It should
knock down a path for you to cross. Then, keep going and then jump down 
off the platform and follow the way forward. Avoid barnacles.

3.9: So where am I headed now?
- Hit the pit and then head toward the left open grate. Enter and climb
up the platform. Then, go into the next pit and fall into the water. Do 
your best to avoid the falling flammable barrels that fall from the top.
They should blow open your exit.

3.10: Ok so I've fallen off the platform and now I'm being ambushed by
combine. Yikes!
- So use cover and aim for flammable barrels. That should kill a few 
combine at once and open you a way out. Keep heading forward.
You should encounter two barnacles. Kill em. Also, experiment with
the physics engine. That should give you some...explosive...results.
Or incase you don't get what I mean, roll a flammable barrel toward
the barnacles and detonate it when it's close to their mouths. 
Lots of dead barnacles. Remember this trick for later.

3.11: Next?
- Follow the path and swim to a ladder, dodging combine fire. Then, climb
it and walk along the planks, and then jump over the fence. Swim to the
plank that will accept you and then run toward the open grate, avoiding fire.

3.12: I can't figure out this see saw puzzle!
- See them bricks? Try stacking em.

3.13: Choppers! Ohes Noes!
- Um avoid them and sprint toward your left, finding cover where you can.
Avoid the barnacle and throw the barrel that's obstructing your path. Enter
the door.

3.14: Remember when I said "remember that trick with the barnacles?"
- Navigate the tunnels and use any flammable barrels against them. If
you can't find any, use a normal barrel and run underneath the preoccupied
one. Both ways out are to the left down the ramps.

3.15: Where to now?
- Follow the path. Avoid gunfire. It's pretty linear. Kill the manhacks
that arrive. Stack barrels to get the goodies upstairs. And then follow
the tunnel and exit.

3.16: OK.
- After heading out of the path, fall into the water with the spinning 
windmill and follow it, entering the hole on the wall. The path should be 
pretty straight forward toward the large pipe with the staircase next to 
it. Climb it and then hop on the pipe. But don't head toward the 
sunshine. Instead, head toward the steam, walk the pipeline, and
break the wood and drop down.Taking you outside. Fire on the flammable
barrels and make the combine's lives miserable.

3.17: Why did you skip huge section?
- I don't need to direct you all on a linear path. 
I only need to address the problem parts.

3.18: Guess what. I just hit one. I'm in the room with the barrels
and a few manhacks. What now?
- THis is a good sticking point. Kill manhacks, climb the ladder.Walk 
along the pipes. Walk to the other room. Fall down the pipes and turn the 
valve. Then return to the room with the barrels and climb down the ladder.
Enter the open hole and climb up to get some air. Afterwards, go back down
and break the wood planks that obstructs the platforms that you can jump on.
Careful, you can break the wooden platforms easy.

3.19: OK I'm in the canal and combine and manhacks are everywhere.
- Kill all resistance, take the left entrance deep into the sewers. 
Climb the ladder and cross the scaffolding, and then, crouch and land all
the way at the end of the walk. This should lead you near the end of the 
stage.

3.20: Now what?
- Follow the path. Find the rebels. Continue to follow the road and 
kill headcrabs and zombies. It should be pretty straightforward, the 
road to the hovercraft.

3.21: I'm lost... (god knows how), how do I exit with the hovercraft?
- Well, find the main gate, get out of the craft, and open it.