Fortunately, Gabe's varied arsenal and short supply of silenced ammo encourages you to mix it up with noisy gunfights against hordes of alerted guards. You'll eventually be able to rip it up with rapid-fire shotguns, ultra-high-tech assault rifles and submachineguns that fire fast enough to shred bulletproof armor in seconds. It also helps that your enemies are actually pretty sharp, especially in later levels; plenty of them still run out into the open and start shooting, just begging you to cap them, but most will duck behind cover if it's available, and some will even try to outflank you when you're hiding from them.

Also, duck-and-cover gunfights aren't the only thing you'll do in each level, and you'll frequently be tasked with stuff like sinking small ships, escorting a tank through a desert and ordering it to shoot things for you, or using the aforementioned Simon Says sequences to solve simple puzzles. You'll also be able to swim, which is fun, although apart from one fantastic undersea stage - in which you'll worm your way into a sunken ship and fight through its semi-flooded interior - you won't be spending too much time in the drink.