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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.

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.

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.

Not bad for the price

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you're a fan of stealth and don't mind low-budget production values, this should be right up your alley. Otherwise, stay away- it's not an easy game for the action afficionado.

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.

Frustrating and Annoying...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Death to Spies is easily the most frustrating PC game I have ever played. I can understand making a game challenging but this game far surpasses challenging and moves into ridiculous. Here you are a USSR counterintelligence officer who is trying to infiltrate the Nazi party. The game does have great graphics, gameplay and is extremely faithful to historical settings. But overall, this one is just too time consuming, difficult and annoying for me to deal with.

Not Recommended

It's ok....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game is OK. The graphics are decent but the framerate was pretty low; it got really "clippy" in parts. However this may be because of my laptop, which is a couple years old and wasn't bought with gaming in mind.

Other than that, I give it an average rating simply because it's an average, run of the mill action game that, while doesn't do anything bad, also doesn't step outside of the box. it's a decent mix of spying/hunting/action without going out of it's way to be totally one or the other genre.

Its pretty good, but not great...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game off and on for a couple months now and I just can't give it a great review. The premise of the game is great, and the WWII setting is very cool, but the inability to be accurate and/or easily control the weapons is a deal breaker for me. Also, the AI in this game seems a bit clunky. It sort of reminds me of games from my teen years in that at times the speed of the action seems very clunky and also there are unexplainable glitches like bad guys "seeing you" when it should not be possible or bad guys not "seeing you" when they should.

Overall I give this game 5 stars for potential, but ultimately only three stars for actual performance.

I couldn't run it on Windows XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I tried to load this game twice and it never worked. Not sure what the problem was since it arrived without instructions. I am sure the game is great and I was looking forward to checking it out so I was disappointed. The operating system I was using was Windows XP

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