Advent Rising - Cheats and Secrets

Advent Rising provides some of the best Xbox action out there, with thrilling battles and special moves, a long with a twist or two to spice things up in the story mode. While gameplay is accessible for everyone, regardless of skill, you might find yourself needing an edge against the computer opponents. It's up to your gaming style, after all. Here you'll find the way to activate important cheats, along with a decent helping of in-game secrets to grant you the freedom you crave for.

Cheats

Pause the game and press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, White, Black, X to display a cheat menu with God Mode, Unlimited Ammo, and Unlock All Powers options. Repeat this code to enter more than one cheat simultaneously. Press Black after enabling the Cheat mode code to enable Uber Mode option, which enables you to land one-hit kills, although it won't work on all opponent types.

Unlock every level and movie

Once the game loads, select Play Game. Choose a slot you want to play in. On the next screen press Black, White, Black, White, X.

Bonus boss battle

Once you return to the escape pod bay with Olivia, you will have to choose who you are going to save, be it either her or Ethan. The game forces you to take on to safety while the other gets scanned, therefore there is a problem. This choice only affects the banter between your character and the one you save. When credits end, you will play the epilogue, and the person you left behind in the first chapter is the one becoming the end-game Boss. Wait until the credits end to face another Boss in a bonus battle.

Defeating Ethan

When facing Ethan in the bonus battle (if you took Oliva), he will start charging the black ball above his head. Equip the Surge power and get ready to knock the ball back as he tosses it. He will catch it and throw it back three more times, but the fourth, he will be hit. Falling to the ground, three gold colored rocks will drop from the ceiling. Use Lift to pick them up and throw them. Repeating this four to five times will finish the job. Both of you will then get sucked into a warp hole and dumped in a snowstorm. Your health will drop very quickly so walk to the top left to get rescued by a strange figure.

Easy kills

To have easy kills, max out your Aeon Pulse to level 5. After doing so, switch your Aeon Pulse so that it will deal radial flare damage. Because your pulse is maxed out, it usually kills in one hit. It will also mostly kill everyone in the room that you are in.

Warp Levels

There are six hidden buttons you must press in Chapter 1, in order to access the warp gate:
(1) Repeatedly hit the locker in the starting, first room until it disappears.
(2) Behind the pillars to the left of the first room.
(3) Go out the first room in the same direction in which you entered the level. The button is near the door with the flame in front of it.
(4) Look behind the left locker in the second escape pipe room.
(5) Check behind the pillars in the second escape pod.
(6) On a door on the first section of walkway over the large room with people running below and ships flying above.

Once the final button is pushed, simply turn around and follow the now open path to the secret tunnel. The left pipe goes to an intermission sequence, the middle pipe warps you to the top of a building in New Bahn, and the right pipe holds another movie effect.

Six buttons you must press while on level B, Chapter 4:
(1) When you first start to hit the black object in the wall in front of you.
(2) You will then pass under a large gun. Walk into the open area and destroy the black object opposite the area entrance.
(3) Go up the small ramp and wait until a pair of bridges appear next to a second large gun. Use a charged jump from the bridge to reach a platform above the large gun to access a hidden room.
(4) Keep going until you get to an area with three doors that enemies are appearing from. Go to the large door furthest back from the other two that is under a turret. Follow the tunnel.
(5) and (6) Get to the place where you have to hit a switch to make a bridge. While walking across the bridge, look to the right and find a space with a pair of large explosive objects in it. Destroy them both. Use the button closer to the start of the bridge first or the secret pipe will remain locked. After pressing the buttons in the right order, the locked door at the end of the bridge can be opened, leading to the secret area.

Climb into it to warp to a Mario-style cave, where the music also changes to match that of a classic game. Jump across the platforms and reach the end of the cave. Once there, you will find three more pipes. Each one of them will warp you ahead to a farther point in the game. The pipe on the left advances to the cinematic sequence showing Marin, Giddeon, and Olivia taking off from the planet in Chapter 4. The middle pipe warps you to the top of a building in New Bahn. The pipe on the right warps you to the escape pod intermission sequence.