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Dud to spies

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First - took forever to install. In fact, took multiple tries to install. Frustrated and irritable, I really did want to start to blast things.

But then came the controls. Clumsly and awkward...took way to long to get the feel for. Graphics are retro in a bad way. After stuff so realistc you think you're watching actors in movies, this won't pass.

Finally, the game itself. Weapon selection is good for a one-man game, but hard to switch. Gets tiresome. Have hardly played this after the second week, so my advice....pass.

fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had a very hard time getting this game to load. Once I did, its is an excellent strategy game. I would highly recomend it.

Interesting, But DIfficult Interface

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Until I played this game, I thought SMERSH was a fictional spy agency for the old Soviet Union back in the 1960s. James Bond went up against those guys a few times as I recall. Instead, I learned that it was actually a real agency, and the name meant, literally, DEATH TO SPIES.

This first-person shooter has you playing as a Soviet spy, Captain Semion Strogov, and taking out opponents and obstacles. Getting it set up on the computer was a little frustrating. It took a long and a couple of tries to get everything to take. It definitely isn't just plug and play.

To add insult to injury, learning the necessary skills (like knife throwing) to get the game to get underway took way too long and were unnecessarily difficult. Once I got into the meat of the game, things were decidedly better.

However, the game didn't offer anything that first-person shooter fans haven't already seen. I like the period-piece games because I took a lot of history classes in college and enjoyed them. MEDAL OF HONOR immerses the player with the time period as well as gameplay, but I didn't quite sink into DEATH TO SPIES in the same way.

At first I thought it was me, but my 18 year old son had the same experiences when he installed it on his computer and started gameplay. It's a near miss, a fun game, but it just doesn't offer enough uniqueness if you've already got a shelf full of first-person shooters.

Awkward to play, and really not that interesting

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It took forever and a day for this game to load, and once it did, I found the commands to be awkward to use and the gameplay to be far from engrossing. There is next to no flexibility in how the gameplay unfolds and as such, it really didn't keep my interest engaged enough for me to go far with it. I'm glad I didn't pay money for this.

Average Effort

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I liked the premise of this game. As mentioned by others, the accuracy and controllability was a bit of a hindrance. I'm a bigger fan of the first person shooters but some action games can be as fun. This one didn't quite make the cut. Average graphics and a little less than average in the AI department.

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