RESIDENT EVIL 2
44 Achievements
1,070
27-33.5h
With Time to Spare
Defeat Stage 4 G with 4+ minutes left until detonation. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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9.06%
How to unlock the With Time to Spare achievement in RESIDENT EVIL 2 - Definitive Guide
Here you meet G (Phase 4) as a final boss at the very end. You have 10 minutes to escape from the lab and have at least four minutes remaining on the clock if you defeat G.
Hurry up with Sherry as fast as you can. In addition, you can find a minigun shortly before the final battle, which makes the whole thing much easier. Always aim for G's eyes and dodge his attacks in time, and you'll easily make it.
by running through the first bits asap, you can get to the minigun/plugs and start the fight at around 7.30 remaining.
I died or it went over 10 mins for first few tries and then re-equiped to have some grenades which i threw at the start and also didn't let him walk up the wall, shot till he fell. Managed to 4th time. You can actually run round the whole train rather than just one side, which puts more space between you for running and firing from a distance. Good luck!
At the last typewriter (after you go down the central elevator in the lab), open the item box. Keep your pistol for the enemies along the way to the boss, and fill the rest of your inventory with as many knives and healing items (preferrably G+R+B herb mixes) as you can hold, leaving two item spaces free for the fuse and minigun. When you enter the next area, the 10 minute timer starts. Go down the lift and quickly run through before the Ivys stand up. Continue down the ladder in the next room. Examine the door and Sherry will climb through the vent. Shoot at the bulbs on the Ivys to knock them down and/or keep them at bay. When Sherry says "I got it!" you can run through the door. You will come to a corridor with a zombie on fire blocking the door, shoot him once in the head to put him down. Keep running along the walkway and into the next area with the train. If you have any more healing items or knives in the item box, quickly swap your pistol for one of these. Get on the train and grab the fuse, then run into the control room and put it in, and grab the minigun after the cutscene and run back out to the train to start the fight.
When the boss fight starts, wait for him to come down to the ground, then get in close and start swiping with the knife, aim for the eyes. (I recommend setting your graphics to the Performance Priority preset, as your knife will do more damage the higher your framerate is.) He will knock you down several times, just keep healing when you hit danger and knife away. When he jumps up on the wall you can use the minigun to keep doing damage until he comes back down. The eyes will go from white, to yellow, to red to indicate his health. Once he starts oozing and crawling on the ground, you've won. He'll die after crawling around for 30 seconds and if you have more than 4 minutes left on the timer, you'll get the achievement.
Stage 4 G is the final boss during Claire's campaign. This boss is easily defeated with the Mini-gun that can be found in the small room where you activate the rail car at the end of the game, especially on the Easy difficulty, where you should attempt to do this. You will know when to start this as a timer will appear on-screen starting at 10 minutes and counting down. As soon as this appears is when you need to be hasty and get to the final fight as quickly as possible. Though this may be tricky on a first playthrough, you can use the video below to see where to go before attempting it yourself. Note you can pause the game to pause the timer too, should you want to.
Full credit for the video guide to Maka91Productions
Video hint
The battle is simple: you shoot at the eyes on its belly. They knocked out all the eyes - new ones appeared, and so on until victory.
It is important that if you use a grenade launcher and acid charges, it will not damage your eyes.
I spent all 35 acid charges at normal level and the boss still didn’t fall.
It is better to use a grenade launcher as the first shot, then we shoot down all the eyes with a minigun, again a grenade launcher, again we shoot down all the eyes and so on until the boss falls, after which you can finish off with an electric gun or a pistol.
Also, don’t forget to run around the train, this way you can stay at a safe distance from the charged attack if you don’t have time to dodge.