Hostages/Sniping and rappelling

A helicopter will drop your SWAT team off on the roof. You are now presented with a different map. Here you can change between men with F1-F6 (on the NES version hit and choose a man from the list). First, select one of your snipers.

In the sniper mode you move your view around the side of the building. There are three rows of windows on each side, and each has three windows (making a total of nine windows). Ignore the building itself and focus on the windows: when a single silhouette shows up in the window shoot him immediately (Space or ). If you see two silhouettes do not shoot because one of them is a hostage. You have unlimited ammo so don't worry about taking careful shots. Terrorists will still enter rooms with broken windows, so don't rule them out when looking for targets. You can only shoot at the outer rooms of the building; the terrorists move around inside and won't always be in rooms you can see from a sniper spot. If a figure disappears from view try a window on either side and there's a chance he's moved there. Once you have taken out a few men on this side change to a different sniper and repeat the process. Once you haven't seen any terrorists for a while it's likely their forces have been depleted (or else they are on the sides where you don't have snipers), so it's time to send in your SWAT team.

Select one of your SWAT men and push a direction or Space until he moves to a side of the building with (ideally choose one for which you have a sniper). There are three spots on each side, just as there are three rows of windows. If you want him in a particular place keep moving him around until you're satisfied, then confirm his placement with Esc or. Now it's time to rappel down to a window. To drop, push right or, and then quickly stop with left or ; if you don't do this you'll fall off the rope. The computer versions give a reasonable amount of time to halt your progress (meaning you can rappel to a window within a few jumps) but the NES version has a very small margin of error, so for the NES it's best to go down in tiny, rapid jumps rather than long ones.

When you get to a window you may spot a terrorist's silhouette. If you try to enter the window he'll kill you, so you need to change to a sniper (if you have one on that side) to take him out or else wait for him to leave. Note that if you hit your SWAT member when doing you will kill him, so be sure to aim around him (or ideally make sure the SWAT man is out of the way before you change to the sniper). In the NES version the SWAT member will sit on the upper part of the window when in sniper mode (regardless of where he is actually sitting on the window) so he can't be shot.

Once you're in front of a window you can break in. Even if you've already broken it you must break it again in order to enter. To do this position your man directly over the window and hold left, then tap Space. On the NES version simply hit to break the window automatically.