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Blindingly Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game play on the PS2 version of this game was incredibly disappointing. The graphics are also a bit dated. There is just nothing about this game that makes it worth buying -- or even playing. If you want a great shooter that is just fun to play, stick with "Black."

Fun Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After playing all the Socom and MOH games it was nice to have a different format. Snowblind is a futuristic special opps game and is fun to play. All the different weapons and special abilities of the character makes for some very creative fighting. I would like to see a second series of this game.

Cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 25 / 26
Date: March 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Project: Snowblind is a first person shooter set sometime in the future during an uprising in Hong Kong that mushrooms into a global threat. You are sent in with your squad in order to quell the uprising, but somewhere along the lines, you are injured in battle and deemed an acceptable candidate for nanosurgery and bioaugmentation. That all happens in the first 15 minutes.
After you "wake up" things get really interesting. As a member of the elite, nanoenhanced, you have abilities that go far beyond the normal soldier. You have powers that allow you to shield yourself and reduced the damage dealt from enemy fire. You can slow down time, see heat signatures through walls, cloak and other things to help you on your quest.
The great thing about this game is that it enables the player to play with a great deal of freedom. The ammo is plentiful and the health packs are spaced at appropriate intervals. Do you feel like going in silently and picking off the soldiers one by one, or do you feel like jumping into the middle of battle and laying waste to an entire regiment of enemy soldiers? The choice is yours.
You can also drive vehicles, hijack gun turrets, shut down security cameras, and even overload and control mechs in order to destroy the competition. This game has a good supply of weapons that range from a standard silenced pistol to an electronic device called an "icepick" used to take over robotic adversaries. Included as well are the shotguns, rocketlauncers, fletchette guns, mine launchers and grenades that one would come to expect in a game of this class. Variety is truly the spice of life, and that is what makes this game fun.
Graphically speaking, the environments are well detailed and gorgeous to look at, many of them have alternate paths and side buildings, rooms, and alleys to explore. The framerate clips along pretty smoothly and I haven't noticed any slowdown or glitches with this system. The A.I. is good and offers a solid challenge, but not so terrible that it overwhelmes you completely.
The controls are fluid and easy to master, intuitivley placed buttons and a well mapped out control scheme add to this a great deal. So why only four stars you ask? For one, I wish that this game were a bit longer, and at times a bit more challenging. Inclusion of online modes is a good idea, but I dont play games online so I honestly cannot rate this feature. Overall, Project: Snowblind is a solid entry in the FPS genre that offers enough variety to be complex but not overwhelming, thus making it ideal to fans of the genre and newbies alike.
Give it a shot, I think you will agree that it is a cool game with a large amount of variety and something for everyone.

Pretty decent, but short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Project:Snowblind is a pretty decent First Person Shooter. First off this game is full of action, always something to shoot at with one of your many weapons you'll aquire along the way. You get rewarded with some bio-augs as the game progresses such as bullet shield, cloaking, enhanced vision, reflex boost, and a energy ball thing. The objective are always clear cut, if you get lost just turn on your finder and you'll have a path to your next ojective and nearest save points shown to you. This makes the game never get too frustrating. You have vehicles to drive around in, machines to hack. This makes the game have many paths to take to finish you missions. Those are all good things. The bad things are this game is short! I got through it in 3 or 4 nights of causal play. There is not a lot of reason to go back and play the campaign again since you have to start back over and can't carry over your powers. And only one default difficulty setting really keeps you from going back for the extra challenge. The multiplayer is limited to lan or internet. No splitscreen, no bots. So you'll usually get schooled or "owned" online with only the campaign for practice until you get better. There is a stats page for the game which will tally up all the stats and figures for each game in real-time so you can go view your numbers online. There is a buddies list and clan support available on screen and on the web site which is very cool. Overall good game, but doesn't have a lot of lasting appeal unless you have a broadband connection and can actually find a game in progress to join in.

A good game but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best shooters i've seen in a long time. It uses the aspects of a shooter and has a twist adding powers to tinker with the gameplay. Another good thing is that each weapon has a alternate fire mode. You may be thinking "So what?" but it allows you to fire something into a crowd of enemies or a vehicle without changing your weapon. It also adds some simplicity by you having the same excact ammo with the primary and alternate fire. This is great because in most games you need to pick up special ammo for that which would take forever. Now for the bad part. This game is awesome but it is too freakin short and easy if these to aspects were corrected this would be one of the best shooters this year.

Intense action

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! It has a great story, great action, really cool weapons, and great bio-augmentations (special powers).The only downsides are the length of the game and the health system. The levels are really detailed and fully destructible. And the outcome of the missions is up to you. For example you can take out a mech and then stealthely pick of all the enemies in the area. OR you can use a tool called the ice pick to control the mech and go rampaging around vaporizing all the enemies. I actually reccomend renting it first to see if you want to buy it. It is a really, really cool game.

Good game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really don't recomend buying this game. I recomend renting it. Games are expensive and if its not great i dont suggest buying it. Or if it doesnt have high replay value or if it isnt a classic. Like mgs3, i gave it a four but still would recomned buying it cuz its a classic, has a great story, and ill definitly replay it. This on the other hand is an enoyable sit through. Its like a one night stand. You do it, you forget about it, thats all. Your never gonna see the her again(unless shes like a friend u did). This is what this game is, a good ride for the night.

Great Game, but don't expect to see anyone online

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game runs on a very smooth engine. The gameplay is solid and very fun. But after filling out an exhausting amount of personal information to register it online, I found that lo and behold! There is not a single soul online to play with. If you are getting this for online play, make sure you have some friends who plan on playing it with you from their house because there are no strangers on it!

Outgunned And Outnumbered, But Enhanced!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As Nathan Frost, you're part of an elite special forces team in 2065 that's been sent in to put down a terrorist organization in China that calls itself the Republic. The action varries from an urban landscape to a wasteland, and the weapons from familiar rifles, pistols, and grenades to nanotechnology that allows you to become nearly invulnerable, invisible, and able to see in the dark. This is a first-person shooter with a credible storyline and some decent characterization and plotting. I got just as involved in the story as I did the action.

PROJECT SNOWBLIND was developed by Crystal Dynamics and released by Eidos. Crystal Dynamics has also developed the Legend of Kain series, the Gex series, and recently released TOMB RAIDER LEGENDS, the latest in the long-lived Lara Croft adventure series.

I really got into the game immediately. There was enough storytelling and world development to get me into the mood, and then I got plopped down into a battlefield and had to fight for my life. One of the things I quickly learned was to not try to Rambo it and do it all myself. I was leading a team, so I backed off, kept myself alive and picking off enemy soldiers, and started taking the levels pretty easily without constantly dying as I first was. Of course, then I was promptly blown up in a cut-scene I had no control over.

Thankfully, the military rebuilt me, made me better than I was, and sent me back to the war with nano-enhancements that made me a super-soldier. But the game stress upgraded too. Even with careful play, if I made a mistake or played too arrogantly, I paid for it.

The graphics in the game are good. The controls are fluid, and after a little while of working out how to bring everything into play, I was a super-soldier on the battlefield. The action swept through an urban arena that featured shootouts in the streets and in blown-up buildings. The superpowers that came along with the nano upgrade were a blast and easy to operate. But you have to keep your eyes open not only for the enemy, but for the upgrades, medkits, ammo, and energy packs. Not only do you get you use personal weaponry, but you also get to hook up behind some heavy artillery and drive vehicles.

When you play the game online, up to 16 players can join in, working as two-man teams.

I had a great time with PROJECT SNOWBLIND. I remember when it came out, but didn't pick it up because I hadn't heard that much about it. Evidently there wasn't much media push at the time, which is a shame because this is a game well worth playing if you like shooters or co-ops. Pick it up, have a great time, and keep your head down!

Best first person shooter I've played so far.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In this game, you'll get killed a lot. However, each time you're killed, it makes you want to try again immediately because you've thought of some new strategy or combination of weapons to use to get through your enemies. And that strategy works! Then it's on to the next part, where you'll get killed several times and immediately want to try again. It's positively addictive!

The coolest part are the weapons. One of them can fire a bolo type thing, with electronic balls held together with electricity. It hits your enemy and pummels him into submission. If there's not an enemy around, it bounces along beside you like a dog. So cool! Another weapon can clear everything out of a whole hallway - everything goes "whoosh" down to the far end. Another fires a ball of light that hovers above your enemies heads and zaps them with electricity. You also get grenades, a cool sniper rifle, rocket launcher, and another gun that can fire through walls. Enemies don't stand a chance!

The graphics in this game are great, though the environments could have been a bit more varied. You occasionally get control of a vehicle, which sort of sucked because the aiming system makes it very difficult to hit anything. You thought you could blast everything and everyone to smithereens, and instead you can barely hit one guy. Oh well, like I say, you'll only spend about 2% of your time controlling these things.

I'm afraid that as fun as this game was to play the first time, it had virtually no replay value. Once you've worked out the strategies to get past each group of guys, well, that's pretty much it. Still, it was a whole lot of fun to play and I'll give it four stars out of five.

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