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{{Article Quote|Explore the city, find your ODST team.}}

'''Mombasa Streets''' is the second campaign level of ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', and serves as "the hub", an open-world environment used to access flashback missions. It is set in the city of [[New Mombasa]].<ref name="ods">''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''</ref>

Unique as a ''Halo'' game level, this level is an open-world environment which contains "beacons", and objects left by or noted by the [[The Rookie|Rookie]]'s [[Dare's Shock Trooper Squad|squad]] members, which trigger "flashback" levels, explaining previous events. In addition to the beacons, the level also has additional content, such as [[Audio Log]]s and [[Supply Cache]]s.

During the first playthrough, some areas in the city are inaccessible, and the player is forced to play the flashbacks in chronological order. Completing flashbacks unlocks more areas in the city, allowing the player to progress to the next beacon. Once game is completed, the city is fully unlocked for exploration.<ref name="ods"/>

The level starts six hours after the Squad's [[Operation: BUMRUSH|failed orbital insertion]], in the occupied [[New Mombasa City Center]]. Some time after [[the Rookie]] wakes up, exits his [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|pod]] and starts to explore the city, the [[Superintendent (Construct)|Superintendent]] will contact him via a public phone and upload a map of the city to his [[Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance|VISR]] navigation database. After finding the final beacon and completing the last flashback level, the Rookie will receive a distress signal from [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Veronica Dare|Dare]], who is pinned down in the data center under the city. At this point, the city will be mostly locked, with only a way to the nearest underground entrance, where the Rookie will descend into the depths of the city underground.<ref name="ods"/>

[[File:NM sectors.png|thumb|right|Map of the level, showing the city's sectors.]]

''Fades to black. [[Tayari Plaza (level)|Tayari Plaza]] begins.''

''Fades to black. [[Uplift Reserve (level)|Uplift Reserve]] begins.''

''Fades to black. [[Kizingo Boulevard (level)|Kizingo Boulevard]] begins.''

''Fades to black. [[ONI Alpha Site (level)|ONI Alpha Site]] begins.''

''Fades to black. [[NMPD HQ (level)|NMPD HQ]] begins.''

''Fades to black. [[Kikowani Station (level)|Kikowani Station]] begins.''

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|'''Location'''

|'''Object'''

|'''Character'''

|'''Level'''

|'''Time'''

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 5|Sector 5]], room overlooking [[Tayari Plaza]]

|Dare's [[ODST Ballistic Battle Armor#Recon|Recon Helmet]]

|[[Tayari Plaza (Level)|Tayari Plaza]]

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|Damaged [[F-99 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle|F-99 Drone]] Optics Package

|[[Uplift Reserve (Level)|Uplift Reserve]]

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 4|Sector 4]], building overlooking [[Kizingo Boulevard (Location)|Kizingo Boulevard]]

|Destroyed [[M68 Gauss Cannon|Gauss Turret]]

|[[Kizingo Boulevard (Level)|Kizingo Boulevard]]

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 10|Sector 10]], near destroyed bridge to [[ONI Alpha Site]]

|Remote Detonator

|[[ONI Alpha Site (Level)|ONI Alpha Site]]

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 3|Sector 3]], hanging from power line

|[[Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel|Sniper Rifle]]

|[[NMPD HQ (Level)|NMPD HQ]]

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|[[New Mombasa Sector 0|Sector 0]], entrance to [[Kikowani Station]]

|[[Biofoam]] Canister

|[[Kikowani Station (Level)|Kikowani Station]]

==Trivia==

===Easter Eggs===

*There is a glitch at the beginning of this level in Theater mode. When the Rookie jumps out of his SOEIV, right after he gets his Silenced SMG out, viewers can press Y once and they can be able to fly wherever he/she want, even up to the Space Elevator, in a way similar to pan-cam.

After the player finishes [[Kikowani Station (level)|Kikowani Station]] and returns to Mombasa Streets, the positions of the vehicles in the area have changed. Most noticeably, a bus has appeared at the end of the street. If the player drove a vehicle to get to the Kikowani Station beacon, a brand-new, undamaged vehicle of the same type will be parked in front of the bus.

*The location of the beacon the player uses to access the city underground and [[Data Hive]] will vary depending on which beacon the player accessed last. If the player follows the correct chronological order and completes [[Kikowani Station (level)|Kikowani Station]] last, the beacon will be in Sector 0 at the top of the map. If the player completes [[NMPD HQ (level)|NMPD HQ]] last, the beacon will be in the center of Sector 3. If [[ONI Alpha Site (level)|ONI Alpha Site]] is completed last, the beacon will be in Sector 10, and if the player completes [[Kizingo Boulevard (level)|Kizingo Bouldevard]] last, it is in Sector 4. Each area features similar resistance. Regardless of which elevator shaft the player accesses, Data Hive will always begin in the same location.

*The entire BSP (the level geometry itself) is not rendered at once because of engine limitations - this is why Bungie put in blast doors and walls in between sectors. Furthermore, some of the BSPs are identical - Sectors 4 and 5, 3 and 8, and 0 and 9.<ref>[[:File:NM sectors.png|An overview of New Mombasa]]</ref> The only noticeable difference is that players cannot enter the building in Sector 4 as they did the one in Sector 5, and another being the [[Uplift Nature Reserve]] in Sector 9. Also, when the player opens a blast door, the BSP loads, but, for example, if the player enters Sector 8, it will load the Sector 3 BSP since they are one and the same. Note that scenery items are not included in the BSP, since no part of the BSP is movable.

*After the Uplift Reserve flashback level, the cutscene depicts The Rookie putting down the Optic Package, and taking out his holstered Silenced SMG from his ''back'', even though in normal gameplay the Silenced SMG is holstered on the character's right thigh.

*For the feel of continuity, players can see objects that hint the past presence of the fellow squadmates. A [[M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle|Warthog]] wreckage (presumed drove by Miles) can be found in the same plaza where the optic package is. A [[M808 Main Battle Tank|Scorpion]] (presumed commandeered by Crespo) and a [[Type-26 Wraith|Wraith]], both destroyed, can be found near the gate that separates Sector 4 and Sector 10. In Sector 3, an SOEIV (presumed that of Crespo's or Agu's) can be found in a courtyard, with a silenced SMG beside it.

*In many parts of the level, the Huragok have marked areas of interest by mysterious symbols which are highlighted when the VISR is turned on. Most of these symbols are geometric glyphs similar to those used by the Forerunners, commonly arranged around an "Y"-shape. Some of the symbols depict the Superintendent's avatar, hinting at cooperation between the Huragok and the Superintendent.

File:Halo3-ODST EnvConcept-12.jpg|Concept art of the level's environment.

File:Concept tunnel color.png|A concept of one of the interior spaces accessible in the level.

File:ODST_courtyard_concept_26.jpg|A concept piece of a courtyard within the level.

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