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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.....

Best shooter game I have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best shooter game that I have ever played. I have even played SOCOM II (that many people say it's the best) and this takes me away from playing SOCOM II actually. I begin to get addicted to it and I have been playing it since it came out early May.

The levels and the par times are actually not difficult to beat **IF** you know the levels well. It just takes some time and trials to practice before you can beat the par time. I can't imagine people playing this for nearly an hour for a level. If it's the first few time you play the level to get familiar with it, it may be OK. But after a few trials if that's still your mission complete time, then you got to have some problems in yourself and should not waste any more time playing this.

Enemies respawning are meant to be challenging... What's the point if you don't have enemies running around you in a shooter game and you are free to move everywhere without any opposition to shoot at? Come on... This is a shooter game and one of the main objectives is for you to shoot, shoot, shoot!

The lack of manual saves is actually reasonable and necessary for the setup of having par time and stealth objectives in certain missions. If you can save again and again, then the par times and stealth objectives are useless/meaningless because everybody can easily beat it in shortest time and maintain stealth since you can do saves as many times as you want. When the game have this setup, then there should not be any saves allowed and the developers do the right thing. Plus the missions are short enough (again -- know the level first!) to complete without any saves.

I strongly recommend this game to shooter lover. Everywhere is hammering this game so hard and you don't need to neccessarily listen to those ratings. They haven't really played the game enough to make comments. Like the Gamespot people they just play it a couple of times and then make the lowly comments that are completely misleading.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome I was on amazon.com reading reviews and i read the review on this game so i went out and bought the game for myself. I'm glad i did this game is challenging in some ways but fun all around it delivers a great game experince and I suggest you get this game.

This game is awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the most fun and realistic of any game out now. It uses real cities, real guns, just not real names. I was playing Socom 2 all the time. Then i got this game, and I immediatly switched and now I'm hooked on this game. It is simply incredible!

Catering to the tenacious types...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The key to truly enjoying Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (SF:TOS)is dedication. The whole game carries with it a progression of learning and skill-building that will turn off the casual crowds. SF:TOS begins by letting you customize your own agent (which gets very detailed and extensive as you go along). It then throws you into a mission where you are a rookie in the agency. You will have no idea what you are doing, where you are going, etc. but the game gently guides you. By gently I mean it points you in the right direction but never tells you outright how to accomplish a task. This lets you get creative and learn through doing. This is indicative of the entire game from start to finish: learn, get better and be rewarded every step of the way.

You will never finish all mission objectives on the the first playthru. Some of the most difficult objectives must be completed once you've progressed further in the game and have acquired new skills and gear you didn't have access to before. When you do complete these more advanced goals and show to the agency that you have indeed become more skilled, you will again be rewarded. Rewards come in the form of new weaponry, new abilities, new customization options (and there are oodles), new ranks, unlocked levels, etc.

The missions have a nice pace to them and the scenery almost never repeats itself. You will see arctic climates, deep tropical jungle, urban sprawl, rural trainyards, oil platforms and more. Some situations during a mission require stealth in order to execute them properly. Unlike most games, breaking stealth does not end your mission (unless it is one of the 4 bonus levels). It simply makes things much much more difficult for you and you will need to run the mission again later to meet that objective. You can complete objectives in seperate runs of the missions, which is great because you can learn from your mistakes. Death too is a learnign experience. You won't be forced to restart the level but instead are placed at the last checkpoint you hit (which are all logical and well spaced out).

The story can be a little complex but is very interesting and laid out via mission files you can read for youself, including memos, photos, personnel files, newspaper articles, etc.

The controls allow you to move and fire and interact with great ease, although the setup cannot be changed and does take some getting used to. Never have I wanted to do something and not had the game/controls respond to my whims immediately. The control is tight. Firefights have a beautiful variety to them as well, mixing close-quarters with long-range, controlled with reactionary. Objectives are varied as well. You are given a lot of freedom with how you go about completing a mission. Some routes and tactics make things easier but you are never punished for doing things the hard way. You simply learn from your mistakes and get better.

The whole game gets better as you dedicate more time to actually learning and growing in skill. In that regard, it's akin to a fighting game. Few titles cater to this kind of persistant gaming style, but I absolutely love it. The gratification you get from TOS (aside from the never-dull firefights) is rarely immediate, but from a job well-done. There is always at least one direction to branch out in... and at the end is always a reward.

Davenport Iowa Dubuque Iowa

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My name is Adam and am [...]. Almost my whole life video games have been like a 2nd religion not mention wrestling. My all time favorite games series are Grand theft Auto, Resident Evil, Max Payne, Doom, Twisted Metal, about any rockstar game and of course all syphon filters. I love this game so much. never played on line but i have done everything offline for this. somehow i completed the online objective in the mall all by myself and i thought i had died and gone 2 heaven. This game had some hard objectives like the stealth operations ratings so i got the cheat book just in time. i only used it for a few things. other then that everything else was a piece of german chocolate cake. I like the characters stone and logan the best. I also liked taking out those frogs in charthage michigan. Thank you amazon.

the best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this it is the best game of syphon filter of date. I wait anxious a title for ps3

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..

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.

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