Customer Reviews

Project: Snowblind

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Graphics : Sweet. Gameplay : difficult at first, but once you understand the control scheme, you quickly get the hang of the rest. Incredible particle effects. Very well done music. Replayability : moderate to none. That's the only downside. The game has good length, and a fun idea as a plotline. But, there are not too many twists and turns plotwise, so that pulls quite a bit away from re-playability. This ran well with the minimum specs on my system : AMD XP 2800 -- 512 MG DDR RAM -- 128 MG GeFORCE 4 5600. For the sheer shooting power of the game, i would recommend it. But, don't expect extreme depth in the gameplay. Just a good bit of fun.

If you are a true PC player, don't get your hopes up with Project Snowblind. No words describe PSB better than "a console port". The single player offers a basic shoot'em up for a few hours, the graphics and movement make you feel like you are playing Halo on Xbox. The barely given two stars are solely for the basic single player story although I really considered giving just one. Although the sp may be mediocre, the multiplayer is a complete disaster. I am a keen online player myself and have tested numerous fps games during the last decade, including e.g. CS, CS:CZ, CS Source, UT, UT2k3, TO, RTCW, JK2, SoF2, DX, just to mention a few. PSB is honestly one of the worst I've seen because it has been designed for console platform in the first place, then hastily ported on PC and trust me, it shows.

To illustrate, the game is a kind of slow Halo/UT2003 mix with console style graphics and feel. The physics modelling is not very convincing. Menus are rigid. The futuristic atmosphere suffers from cheesy pseudo-techno clichés like a robotic female voice commenting on your bioenergy reserves etc. Although Eidos has put some effort into extra stuff such as player stats on the Snowblind site, any basic and really important features that an online player would be used to in other (real) PC fps games, such as toggling developer console, seeing your ping or a 'talk' button for messaging, are screaming their own absence. The reason is obvious; you don't really do anything with a talk button when you are playing with a joypad, do you? No patch whatsoever can save a game which is so fundamentally foul considering what PC at best could really deliver. PSB looks so bad because PC players are used to better. Comparison of general gameplay and the mp features with exclusive PC online games such as CS Source reveal the shameless truth about PSB.

Even though PSB advertises itself being something totally new, most of the older fans of the genre should still remember Deus Ex 6 years ago, the game which originally invented augmentations. Compared to DX and its immense depth of gameplay, PSB (which was at first supposed to be a DX3: Clan Wars) offers pitiful 5 augs and limits them to certain player classes, probably because too many augs would make it problematic to play using a joypad. The original DX-like freedom of creating various playing styles with different skills and augs is gone, also the masterful aug-counteraug setting which made online DXing such a thrilling and addictive stone-paper-scissors experience. The progress has in fact gone a lot backwards, which a PC player finds hard to cope with since when it comes to games, usually the sequel is expected to be better than the original. Instead of pruning the game type to a fraction of what the original DX offered, Eidos should have upgraded DX with a new engine and genuinely put effort to the mp features and we would be playing the most profound shooter ever made.

Whereas Deus Ex 2 also suffered from being a console port but was still a playable game, PSB is a total waste of money as a PC game, especially if you are looking for a good, deep online game. Instead, invest in a game made for PC players, such as HL2 for example.

This ain't a bad game, but it is subpar when compared to Doom 3, Riddick, Far Cry, Swat4, Brothers-in-Arms and Half-life2. Don't get me wrong, its a fun game. It just doesn't compare to other new shooters out there. I even like Area 51 better than this, and these graphics remind me of games 2 years ago. Wait for F.E.A.R. coming out in October, or get one of the other games mentioned earlier. The only upside to this game is the budget price of $10 you can get it out, but thats because its a disappointment like Pariah. It just doesnt deliver the punch that these other games do.

I was not expecting much when I installed this game, but I was pleasantly surprised. Do not expect Half-LIfe series quality, but the story is very interesting as you take on a bio-body and wield a ton of super-cool weapons with awesome sound effects.

If you like First Person Shooters, you will like this game. When I was playing it, I was reminded of my old "Doom" days - and all that fun.

One negative: the game crashed 4 time for me on XP. I found this usually happened when the "bio-shield" is selected on you special enhancement category indicator. It just does not like some graphics drivers, even the latest ones. Eidos has stated they will not put out a patch. It is a little late for that now.

If you want to read a great action story based on Historical fact, read Black Triangle

i guess Eidos wanted to make a Deus-Ex type of game that everyone can play. just think of a pure action arcade type of Deus-Ex on steroids. great graphics, awesome effects, solid gameplay, all right storyline (i just want to kill stuff though) amirite? great selection of weapons and augmentations too. you can drive vehicles in some levels as well as take over some robots and mechs to switch up the gameplay style a bit so it never gets old and is always fresh. the squad A.I that you fight alongside with is ok. at least one guy will follow you at all times to clear out buildings and the rest will cover-fire. the cutscenes in-game are filled with action and movie style camera angles. if you like partial open-ended fast paced sci-fi shooters, this is for you.

Out of 100 games collection, it's not in the top 15, but I have sort of fond memory about it. I had fun, anyway. It's not that much fun as you won't buy it if it's $30 or more. You may want it if it's under $30.

I found this game to be an enjoyable Half-Life knockoff. The most notable thing about the game is that it seems to have every weapon ever used in an FPS and you get to carry all of them at the same time. LOL!

Graphics were decent, but contrast seemed low compared to most other games. Adjusting it only seemed to make everything dark.

Also included in this game are bio-enhancements that give the player the ability to see through walls, slow down time, shield himself from attack, and become invisible. I used this capability sometimes, but probably not as much as I should have.

The most irritating thing about this game is that it doesn't have a traditional manual SAVE function. It has checkpoints that are sometimes spaced quite far apart. There are rooms you can go to to save your game, but they are not a good substitute for manual or quick saves. In any case, instead of automatically saving your game when it gets to a checkpoint (and even between levels), it asks you first. I've never seen that in a game before.

There were some vehicles at one point, but the game was mostly played on foot. Enemies consisted of soldiers and various bots, including spider bots that attacked in numbers.

Overall, I found the game to be enjoyable, although somewhat short. Graphics and environment were about average for a 2005 game. Having all the weapons was fun, if unrealistic.

The game did crash a couple times, closing and going back to Windows, but nothing terribly serious happened and it didn't happen enough to be an annoyance. I just restarted it and picked up at the last saved game. Incidentally, I am running Vista x64.

For the $2.55 (plus shipping) price I paid (new from an Amazon third party merchant), I found this game to be well worth the cost and good for about 10-15 hours of fun.

The game has a weak story line and it doesn't allow saves at any time, so I ended-up replaying the same scenario, until I got bored and deleted the game off my computer.

Its a fun game but the main problem is that its too old. There is rarely anyone playing it online. The single player mode is pretty fun but thats about it.

I cannot get the computer game to work on my system. For reference sake, I am a gamer and I tried everything. The game makers support was good but they also could not get the game to work.