If a player wishes to do so the GAN-36 (Osprey chopper) can be used (located at the back of the train, behind the data post and armory-like asortment of weapon) to attack the weak spots not shown by the Red-Eye (on the other side) as they travel above ground and alongside the railway gun. Once the Red Eye is spotted you can hop in the gun and fire away. One stragety is to wait next to the pilot seat of the Railway gun and constantly press the bumpers to keep an eye on the sides. Both can inflict damage and can kill the slug-like monstrosity. If the player cannot master the controls then there are other weapons at hand: like a smaller, less-powerful tank at the back of the locomotive and an Osprey VS on the second carriage.
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However, once the player has mastered the controls it can be a lethal weapon and (if aimed in the right places) could destroy the Red Eye. Whilst the red eye is fast and almost unpredictable, the player is bonking around with the controls and eventually the red eye lands a hit that damages the train. Using the cannon at first seems a bit difficult, and it is. If it was shot with an armor-piercing shell wrath, only one shot is needed.Īs mentioned above, there is one key factor difference between the first and second encounter with the Red Eye: The Railway Gun. The Red Eye's side spots are its weak spots and can be struck twice: first leaving a glowing red circle, and second, a huge gap revealing the Monster's spine and skeletal structure if the second shell was charged, if not, then only a darkened hole will remain. Using this cannon, the player has to blow apart the Red Eye's weak spots and kill the massive creature once and for all. It is encountered the second time after the player has taken control of the Railway Gun: a massive artillery cannon with a cataclysmically powerful defense/attack system.
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Depending on which lock(s) you shoot will depend on which side of the train the cargo will roll down and may depend on whether or not it actually hits the Red Eye.) The Thermal Energy is loaded onto an Osprey chopper meaning that the player can escape, leaving the train to its fate. The behemoth appears and the player(s) must fend it off (using heavy artillery such as the VS rocket launchers and VS Rifles scattered throughout the train) until the Thermal transfer is complete.(Shooting the glowing locks which hold down the cargo along each part of the train will cause the cargo to fall, roll across the desert, and explode in the Red Eye's jaw giving the same effect as hitting it with a VS rocket launcher. The first time the player tangles with the creature is aboard a train, captured from Central City which is loaded with four days worth of T-ENG. This species (Assuming it is not one-of-a-kind) has only appeared twice in the series, and both appearances in Episode 3 of Lost Planet 2. Another thing this gargantuan shares in common with the Undeep is that it possesses a "beard" of tentacles that is actually a form of antennae that performs two tasks: locates prey with a form of echolocation and guides the beast to its prey and having great tensile strengths and high friction levels making it almost impossible to escape the giant's grasp. It also has tens - if not hundreds- of tiny, light sensitive eyes on its upper two jaw plates unlike the similarly-named Green Eye (from LP1) which had two eyes placed atop its head.
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As its name suggests, the creature is covered with circular shaped red "eyes".
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Like the Undeep, the Red Eye is a huge, subterranean, annelid-like Akrid, which uses hundreds of spiny limbs and other insectoid-like contractions to travel through the ground with relative ease and speed. The Red Eye is the largest of all the Category-G Akrid (except for the Over-G) at over a thousand feet long.