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Akkadian Desert, the player finds themselves in the caves housing the crash site of an alien vessel, where they can choose to save a third passenger from a falling cage death trap or not (by weakening certain supports to lower it closer to a cliff). They fight the hordes of vampires and alien parasites as they reach the alien nest, eventually culminating in a standoff with The Ancient One, the Akkadian priest Balathu, who had been turned into a vampiric creature over 4000 years ago. In the fourth area, the player enters the replica of H.H. Holmes' World's Fair Hotel, encountering scores of serial killer Granthem Du'Met's android replicas and several of his traps, some of which the player must use to hold off his minions; the player also must use the Stun Gun to hit the correct fuse boxes to save themselves and possibly another passenger in a massive room, if they choose to; the passenger will likely die from electrocution if the player guesses wrong too many times. Entering the killer's lair, they are stuck in a series of death traps from Du'Met, but the player defeats him by turning the death traps back on him, killing Du'Met. After leaving the hotel, the player is confronted by the mysterious young woman.
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