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I HAVE THE DEMO....IT SUCKS!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: January 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

NO WONDER THEY KEEP DELAYING THIS PIECE OF CRAP,I LOVED ALL THE OTHER GAMES SO I AM DISAPPOINTED BIG TIME!!ITS SO BAD I DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO FINISH OUT THE LEVEL WHICH IS RARE? WANT A ROCKING GAME? TRY "XIII" I LOVED IT!!!

Keep an Open Mind

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I want to start off and say that I have yet to play the entire finished product....I've played a demo which was included in my PSM(Playstation Magazine) (most likely what the person who gave it one star did) this game has alot of potential to be a great game. Now there will be those people who compare it to either Socom or Metal Gear Solid...I bought the first one as something alternative to MGS when it first came out and I was ammazed at the great storyline and graphics on the PS1...hopefully they will tweek somethings before this game becomes public. I truly see great potential for this game on the PS2 it will surely be a fun experience with the online play and such. so like my title implies please keep a open mind and try not to compare to games such as socom and MGS. If you are familiar with the series and own the previous chapters on PS1 you will not be let down, however if you are new to the story and gameplay I advise to rent before you buy.

Lighten Up! This game is cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Huge fan of the first two Syphon Filter series. (3rd was so-so)
I bought a Jampack disk strictly for the Syphon Demo. The controls are a little different being on a PS2 now but same run and shoot fun. The only thing missing is the bad guys screaming when they fall off building after blowing off their kneecaps. Good clean fun, Janet Jackson. Hopefully, they put that back in the final version. Outside of that, if you loved the first two, this one tows the line nicely. And the graphics are better. Granted, this is only the demo but I played the thing 50 times.
Buy it, have fun.

A tremendous disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The original Syphon Filter was one of the ground-breaking action games for PS2 in recent memory. That was followed by a decent sequel and the execrable Syphon Filter 3. And now, the final chapter.

What's good about the game: the artwork is by and large beautiful, and there are some wonderful non-interactive sequences. And of course, how can you go wrong with burning terrorists alive with a taser?

That's where the good stuff ends. The storyline, never a strength of the series, is trite and hackneyed, the voice acting uninspired and the game itself offers a surprisingly boring single-player experience. For a game that was over three years in the making, I was amazed by the lack of originality and compelling gameplay. It's pretty clear the designers were rather uninspired here.

But what really ticked me off was the incredibly lame "multiplayer" option--yes, you can go online and play with your friends--but only as one side! You always play against enemy AIs! How fun would CounterStrike be if you could only play against 'bots? Well, buy this game and you can find out.

I wish the makers of this game had instead created a great single player game instead of wasting their (and my) time creating a multiplayer mode that will get little if any play.

If you are looking for a great single-player experience with a great cinematic element, I recommend 007: Everything or Nothing or Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. If you want online action, get SOCOM2. SF:TOS tries to have it's cake and eat it too, and fails miserably on both counts.

It's too bad this had to be the last in the Syphon Filter series, as it goes out not with a bang, but with a whimper.

STOP COMPARING IT TO SOCOM!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: May 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I AM TIRED OF ALL THE STUPID PEOPLE THAT COMPARE IT TO SOCOM. IT IS NOT THE SAME KIND OF GAME. THE ONLINE DOES NOT SUCK. IF YOU WANT A DEATHMATCH GAME THEN GET SOCOM. THE ONLY SIMULARITY IS THE 3RD PERSON VIEW. AT LEAST THEY ARE RELEASING A GAME THAT'S NOT JUST ANOTHER BORING DEATHMATCH GAME. I LIKE STORY GAMES AND IT MAKES IT EVEN COOLER YOU CAN GO THROUGH IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS. SO SHUT UP YOU MORONS THAT DON'T LIKE TO HAVE ANY VARIETY TO YOUR GAMES!

WATCH OUT if you plan on buying this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: May 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you were a huge fan of the other games in the Syphon Filter series, you might just go out and instantly buy this game, expecting it to be exactly like the rest.. this is what I did, and I was horribly disappointed.

Unlike the other games in the series, this one is designed ALMOST ENTIRELY around *online play*. If you don't plan on playing this game online, you're probably better off not buying it at all. I bought it and tried playing it offline, and after finishing the first mission, I was thoroughly disgusted with it.

I'm sure it's a great online game, but as far as offline single player goes, it's extremely frustrating and annoying to play.

Some of the reasons for this are:
- Unlike in the previous games, hardly any actions actually pause the game other than pressing the pause button. Checking your map or changing weapons keeps the rest of the game moving.
- The missions have checkpoints that act as quick saves for if you die, but the game isn't actually reset back to that point when you die.. so if you fail a critical objective and then die, you'll go back to the checkpoint with the objective still failed. Any timersthat were counting down will still be counting down.
- Speaking of which, if you fail objectives, the game lets you keep playing. You have to actually quit the mission and go back to the title screen before you can start it over. Very irritating.
- Enemies constantly respawn within seconds of killing them. In the previous games, you could dispatch all the enemies and then move on at your own pace, but with enemies respawning instantly, the only thing that makes sense is to run past everything.

Anyway, I'm just warning you, watch out if you plan on playing this game offline..

a let down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just finished wasting too many hours on this first - FIRST! - mission of this game, and I have to say that I'm quite disppointed so far. First, the storyline is all but incomprehensible. Second, why is this game even called Syphon Filter? It's nearly identical to Splinter Cell, just with less fluid controls.

EDIT: This game is even worse than I originally thought. I think the dumbest thing they did was make the enemies respawn. I didn't bother to play past the second level.

CO-OP GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a co-op game, where you play 4 people against the computer. THERE ISN'T ANY DEATHMATCHMODES ! I find these kind of games quite entertaining. It's like playing Conflict Desert Storm with a friend, but this is full screen with 3 other teammates!

This game is certainly online-oriented, but is that bad??? I really like when the teamwork with your 3 co-players just runs smoothly and you complete a mission under the "par time".

I must warn you that YOU ARE COMPLETELY LOST in the first 3-5 missions you play, but after that you will get the hang of the objectives and directions, and the game will be more enjoyable.

Pros
- online co-op
- maps are great
- Gameplay, only teamwork will complete the mission
- rumors say that this game will support Harddrive :)
- 17 maps, where 13 can be played online (more to come?)
- great replay value

cons
- controls are not as good as SOCOM
- Not all maps can be played online
- Lobby. Hard to find a game/players, so you need to join a clan = "agency cell"
- VERY steep learning curve

Conclusion: This is a nice game. It's a totally different game than SOCOM and should therefore not be seen as a competition to that game. Instead it's a nice addition to SOCOM, so you can play a different kind of game online

What Happened, Gabe?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Omega Strain tries to please everyone, but it ends up pleasing no one. There are some good things here, like creating and customizing your own agent, but as far as I can see, that's the ONLY good thing and that's certainly not enough to redeem it. The game just has too many mistakes---STUPID ANNOYING MISTAKES---that should've been fixed back in the alpha stage. For example:

The missions are incredibly long and confusing and you never know exactly what you're doing. You'll see "objective completed" or "objective failed" suddenly appear on screen and you're saying, "What objective?" Then the missions suddenly end, just like that, and after all the running and crawling and shooting, you're not sure if you won or if you lost. You're just tired. (Also, you can't save during the missions, so God help you if the power browns out.)

The graphics are bland at best and the cut-scenes look like they were borrowed from Syphon Filter 3. (No game should look like this, not now, not after Splinter Cell).

The 3D maps are hard, if not impossible, to read.

The camera is too rubbery. Boing!

The aiming lock-on is screwed up. A bad guy drops down beside you. You press the R1 button to fix your sights on him, but instead you're locked-on to a guy fifty feet away who's not even shooting at you. That never happened in the other Syphon Filter games.

Gabe and Lian are AWOL for most of the action. Instead, you have to answer to some chick named Imani or something who's constantly berating you for not doing what you were told. Huh? Why not have Gabe on the radio? I could at least respect his opinions. Lian, too, for that matter. Or even Teresa Lipan. But who the hell's Imani?

The enemies never end. You kill three bad guys, leave the room, come back, and those same three bad guys are shooting at you again! DAMN IT! And it takes like 15 bullets just to put one of them down--at point-blank range. Maddening.

But this one takes the cake. The mother of all blunders. Drum roll, please:

To complete the missions 100% you have to play online. WTF? Online is fine as long as it keeps it's place, but it shouldn't be meddling in single-player business. The fact that it is is just plain wrong. The single-player missions should be your highest priority, Sony. That's where most of your players are. Make us happy, then worry about the online stuff. Don't force it on unwitting fans. And don't sacrifice single-player quality at its expense. But it's too late to say that now. The game is what it is---a two-star turkey. But if you're a fan of the series and you just want to add it to your Syphon Filter collection, then wait for a price drop, like under ten bucks. But even that might be paying too much.

Don't underrate this game if you don't know how to play it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Please can people STOP underrating this game if they don't know how to play it? Before I bought this game, I read the bad comments from others and gamespot critiques and my conclusion from them is this game is a piece of crap. But after I play it, I bet I would never trust and read gamespot ratings again.... NEVER... This is actually a very great game totally underrated. Here is why:

1) For those who complain about the long and confusing missions.... This is only when you don't know where to go! BUY AND READ THE STRATEGY GUIDE! The first few levels can usually be finished within 10 minutes and the later ones at most 30 minutes. If you can't get under these times, then pick another game but don't complain about the game here. Your poor comments will make other true gamers miss a great game!

2) About the enemies respawning all the time.... This is only partially true. It only happens in certain specific positions in each level, but not all of them. And people here complains about needing 15 shots to kill one enemy? Oh no, either you are a poor gamer or you are using a crappy handgun to fight enemies.... I can kill one enemy with one single shot with my handgun with precision (I don't need to tell you which handgun here -- find out yourself!). All I can tell you is to work hard in the game to unlock a more powerful handgun!

3) The ranking system is particularly awesome and the best of any shooter games I have ever played (The ranking system actually blows SOCOM II's away, which is at best confusing). There are a lot of bonus items and levels that you can unlock by fulfilling different objectives, which makes the game's replay value very high. I would say some of the bonus items and levels are very challenging, but not impossible, to unlock.

4) The feature that allows you to customize the agent's appearance is a real good one. In online, you can judge from the appearance of the agent to determine whether a player is skillful or not because only skillful agents will wear some clothes and equip kits that they have unlocked and other people don't have.

There is much more to write about its good features... .And if people don't know how to play this game, please refrain yourself from writing in this forum so that people will not miss a great game just by reading your idiotic and totally biased comments.....

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