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"Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain"

Time to get excited! This is going to be one of the biggest games to come out of nowhere this year. (Except for the die hard SF fans from the PSOne days who have been following it for years).

Basically, it's one collossal game. Huge levels. Once you get used to the controls (which can be fiddly at first) then it really opens up into one of the best shooters you've played this year. 17 gigantic offline levels, each with their own directives to fulfill, each of which unlocks new weapons which you can store on your profile and use to go back through the missions again.

Each mission has its own par time, beating that will unlock more weapons. Each weapon has its own attribute e.g. stun guns are stealth kills, using these will allow you to build up each respective rating (e.g. stealth kills, headshots, heavy explosives etc) and guess what? Yep, you get to unlock more weapons!

As well as extra weapons (literally hundreds of them, including knives, flamethrowers, anti-tank weapons, grenades, sniper rifles, assault rifles, tasers, you name it) you can unlock extra customisations for your profile like extra health, extra ammo, alter the physical appearance of your agent with tatoos, cammo, bodyarmour etc., and improve your rating.

And once you've done all this? There are certain things in the game you can only get if you complete them online, so you can team up with up to 3 others and do all the missions co-operatively and reach those hard to get areas that you can't reach solo in the single player game. And guess what? Yup, new ratings mean even more weapons!

So, if you're looking for a shooter with longevity, SF:TOS is my tip, out at the end of June.

*Lifts pillow from Alastair's face*

Loved the first, loved the second, will grab this when I get time to breath.

Read my long post now. Please?

Is it? oh well, like I said.. not my kind of game.

Its SF4:OS Darwock.

Cyclone wrote:
> I remember Gamespot didn't like this much.
>
> *prepares for Darwock*

Cover yourself up Cyclone, I'm not interested.

Actually I didn't think much of SF3:OS either, but it's not my kind of game.

Obviously NDAs vary across all types of media, but for games specifically, especially those that have already been revealed, there is no crime in simply saying "Yeah, it's going to be great."

Well -someone- obviously didn't read the small print.

I've not signed anything. But I like to sound important.

*taps nose*

That's a lie by the way, I've signed quite a few important NDAs in the past and in all of them there's no restriction saying you can't ssimpy say if a game is good or not.

FantasyMeister wrote:
> phuzzy wrote:
> Hey, FM : are you on PSX Online beta? Was SF:OS any good?
>
> The Sony Network Trials have an Non Disclosure Agreement meaning that
> if I were on the Trials I couldn't tell anyone about it or else I'd
> have to shoot them.

I know, I know. If I were on the Trials, I'd have to stick to that too.. :D

If I was in the trial, and you were in the trial, would you use the trial forum, perchance ;)?