Halo 3: ODST - Audio Log guide

Maps, screenshots, video and detailed walkthroughs to fill your VISR with every audio visual log in the game

Words: on September 22, 2009

You may have finished the fight. Again. But unless you’ve located every hidden audio log, you’ve only seen a fraction of Halo 3: ODST’s story.

Bookmark this page and check back here often. Because we’ll be updating this guide with maps, screenshots, videos, and detailed walkthroughs to help fill your VISR with every audio visual log so you can find out what really happened in New Mombasa.


Above: What’s that noise? It’s the sound of a massive GamesRadar guide coming soon to a monitor near you 


Tayari Plaza


Audio Log 1

After you beat the campaign, you will unlock a new mission called Mombasa Streets. This allows you to explore the entire city as the Rookie with all of the gates unlocked. We recommend that you hold off on collecting audio logs until you can access this mission since gathering them is so much more convenient.

You’ll start off in your Drop-Pod, just as you did during your first campaign mission. Hop down, head to your left, and take your first right down the hallway past the med kits. Turn left and head up the road past the two grunts manning the turrets and continue down the road towards the sound of the car alarm. Recognize this area? It’s where Buck discovered Dare’s empty Drop-Pod. You’ll find the first audio log on the ledge to your left.


Above: We’ll post multiple maps from the VISR to help you throughout this guide 


Above: It’s right there on the ledge to your left overlooking Dare’s Drop-Pod 


Above: A video walkthrough to help you get your very first audio log and 5G for the Listener achievement


Above: Circle 1, Arc 1


Supply Cache

Next we’ll head to a nearby supply cache to grab a Mongoose. This will make acquiring the following audio logs much faster.


Above: We’re going to head to the courtyard marked by this waypoint on our way to the supply cache 


Above: Now you’re ready to roll 


Above: Audio Log 1 to supply cache walkthrough

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  • Cwf2008

    Cwf2008  - 2 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    This guide definitely helped i know theres no way i could have found them all without this guide. Thanks! Too bad i forgot to teabag that cop though...
  • Hellhunter97

    Hellhunter97  - 2 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    The guide was extremely helpful thanks GR. It only took me between an 90 and 120 minutes and thats becuz i lost my mongoose and had to go back across the map.
  • Fedexcommando

    Fedexcommando  - 2 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    Am i the only having this problem?I did what u guys said.i got all audio logs in Mombasa streets.i then DID WHAT U GUYS SAID and went 2 main menu then i went 2 data hive and the soldier didnt jump down the hole.also when i went to main menu it said i lost all my audio logs.someone please help.my friend and i worked for an hour and a half on this for no reward.
  • j4k3tele

    j4k3tele  - 2 years, 3 months ago  - Report

    I only got like 22 on my first playthrough. Still gotta get like 6 of em tho. =[
  • VoodooPanda

    VoodooPanda  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    I'm probaly not the first to notice this but the street signs will point were to find the audio logs when you are nearby
  • GrandMoffBubbles

    GrandMoffBubbles  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Nagata u are the man!!! Great walkthru. Works perfectly. I am recommending this to all my friends.
  • Mike91192

    Mike91192  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Problem solved with audio log #29 [circle 9 arc 5] I just went over my friend's house and re-collected them all on Co-op xP
  • GrandMoffBubbles

    GrandMoffBubbles  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    I like the teabagging instructions for the soldier. nice touch!
  • Mike91192

    Mike91192  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    I just found out that little face about log #30

    and I checked the log list, the only one I'm missing is Circle 9/Arc 5, which on this list is #29. I just started a new save on mombasa streets and the log still isn't there. :\
  • GamesRadarTylerNagata

    GamesRadarTylerNagata  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    @Patius: Sorry if the description was too vague. Did you watch the video? I try to trace the path you'll take on the map for each of the walkthrough videos.

    @Mike91192
    1: Is it possible that you already collected that Audio Log? You don't have to grab them in the same order this guide follows.
    2: The soldier will not follow you unless you've already gotten all 29 logs from the Mombasa Streets map.
  • Mike91192

    Mike91192  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    I have two problems:

    1] I'm currently on location for Audio log 29 [circle 9, arc 5] and the telephone is NOT active for me to get the recording.

    2] I've tried multiple times to get #30 and when i jump into the second data stack hole into the "frozen section" the data stack goes back down, trapping the solider above to be killed by drones. No matter how I try he will NOT go first and the drones DO NOT appear until i jump down the hole.
  • DrDevious

    DrDevious  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Oh thank god I got it! It was pesky number 22 I thought it was one of the other two or three computers in that area
  • DrDevious

    DrDevious  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    OMG ONE LOG LEFT!!!!!!!! (not including the 30th) Ive searched each location a thousand times and cant find that last one!
  • Patius

    Patius  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Hey, could you guys give more info for Audio Log 20? I can't find it. It's a little vague, and I have no idea where exactly where I'm supposed to be to get it.
  • mittens

    mittens  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Will you put the audio log videos 15 - 30 up like you did the first ones?

    I enjoyed watching them because I don't have the time to find all of them and I don't care about gamerscore.
    Thanks
  • jar-head

    jar-head  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    went from Dawn till the Next night with three other Swat friends, on legendary, scoped the Entire city, thanks to the mangooses...and well...there's Alot of covenant from start to finish, if you have crappy spotters, your ODST expereince is going to be Horrible...on the other hand, have great memebers, and it'll change
  • Spiderman12

    Spiderman12  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Thanks GR
  • Dill

    Dill  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Yeah because people noticed stupid ass pointless shit.
  • Amatarasu

    Amatarasu  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    has anyone noticed,during the end credits, it say special thanks,to new zeland?
  • DrDevious

    DrDevious  - 2 years, 4 months ago  - Report

    Great guide, worked fantastically! Finish it soon, though, cuz I need to hundred percent the game!
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