Silent Scope

by Playstation

Product Features

• PS2

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004U62Q
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,083 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Like other arcade games before it--Crazy Taxi, Dead or Alive 2, and various zombie games, among others--Silent Scope will help give a major push to a new console system. And, while the PlayStation2 might take its initial bows with nothing but praise, Silent Scope likely will be a magnet to the iron filings of controversy: it involves guns, blood, and body counts.

In Silent Scope, you become a sniper within an elite counterterrorist organization. Tasked with rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. President, the player must take out any terrorist targets carefully, without injuring hostages or innocent bystanders. Silent Scope features a bandoleer-full of cool missions that take the player to such diverse locations as cities (downtown), freeways, and sprawling estates. Players also must carry out challenging objectives from various land, sea, and air perches.

While Silent Scope might be the first console game to recreate accurately the feeling of being an antiterrorist sniper, one must remember that Virtua Cop introduced the concept of blowing the bad guys away to Sega Saturn users years ago. In fact, the game pays homage to Virtua Cop in that the entire targeting methodology looks and operates the same way.

Because the game's onscreen targeting system has an adjustable zoom on the scope, it provides a level of accuracy that heretofore was unknown in console games. All the better to see the highly detailed graphics that have been taken straight from the arcade original (although manhandled and retrofitted by Konami's art team to fit into the PS2's more texture-space-challenged RAM allocation).

Minus the physicality of the arcade game's "big gun," the home game is surprisingly similar in play. There are beginner and advanced modes, which takes into account that most folks, although the game might make them feel like super agent-snipers, can't really shoot like one. Casual gamers and serious students alike will enjoy the fact that a near miss causes a terrorist to duck and/or take cover, thus allowing more time to aim for the whites of his eyes, or simply to put a few rounds in his center of mass.

The game's boss encounters also are fun and imaginative. For instance, it's up to you whether you go "full metal jacket" and destroy an attacking Harrier Jump Jet with a barrage of bullets, or calmly line up a head shot on the pilot and emerge victorious with a single squeeze of the trigger. --Todd Mowatt

Pros:

• Many cool missions and settings
• Both beginner and advanced modes

Cons:

• Will be too violent for some

Product Description

Like other arcade games before it--Crazy Taxi, Dead or Alive 2, and various zombie games, among others--Silent Scope will help give a major push to a new console system. And, while the PlayStation2 might take its initial bows with nothing but praise, Silent Scope likely will be a magnet to the iron filings of controversy: it involves guns, blood, and body counts.

In Silent Scope, you become a sniper within an elite counterterrorist organization. Tasked with rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. President, the player must take out any terrorist targets carefully, without injuring hostages or innocent bystanders. Silent Scope features a bandoleer-full of cool missions that take the player to such diverse locations as cities (downtown), freeways, and sprawling estates. Players also must carry out challenging objectives from various land, sea, and air perches.

While Silent Scope might be the first console game to recreate accurately the feeling of being an antiterrorist sniper, one must remember that Virtua Cop introduced the concept of blowing the bad guys away to Sega Saturn users years ago. In fact, the game pays homage to Virtua Cop in that the entire targeting methodology looks and operates the same way.

Because the game's onscreen targeting system has an adjustable zoom on the scope, it provides a level of accuracy that heretofore was unknown in console games. All the better to see the highly detailed graphics that have been taken straight from the arcade original (although manhandled and retrofitted by Konami's art team to fit into the PS2's more texture-space-challenged RAM allocation).

Minus the physicality of the arcade game's "big gun," the home game is surprisingly similar in play. There are beginner and advanced modes, which takes into account that most folks, although the game might make them feel like super agent-snipers, can't really shoot like one

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gun missing, but fun nonetheless..., December 28, 2000

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"diggidy_d" (Honolulu, Hawaii United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Scope (Video Game)

I received Silent Scope for Christmas. I'm a huge fan of the arcade game and its sequel, so I was a little apprehensive about playing it without the sniper rifle. I keep reading all of these complaints about having no gun, but get over it already...you knew when you bought the game that there would be no gun, so it couldn't have been THAT big a surprise. That being said, Konami has done an excellent job of creating a control scheme for the standard game controller that doesn't take away (too much) from the game experience.

Graphically speaking, I'm surprised that Konami decided to launch this one with the PS2. Its graphics don't astound...to be honest, I found the graphics in Time Crisis to be better. However, the graphical quality doesn't take away from the game, so, kudos to Konami. The sound in this game is made up of little more than gunshots and voice instruction from the game.

Gameplay, if you can get over the absence of the sniper rifle, is good. Not great, but still good. Let's get this straight, the reason that no sniper rifle shipped with this game is that the arcade machine utilizes two processors. One is for the big screen, and the other is for the screen in the rifle's scope. Could you imagine what the cost would be for a lightgun with its own processor?

Back to gameplay. The learning curve on this game is about five minutes. It'll only take you slightly longer to finish this game. If longevity is something you look for in your video games, steer clear of this one. If you pick it up in the morning, you could conceivably have it licked by dinner. However, there is something to be said for the feeling of satisfaction you get when you put a bullet in to the forehead of a baddie at 500 meters...something I'll never tire of. The game also includes a training section and several firing range variants to keep you occupied.

I do really like this game. I've gotten past the fact that there is no gun. The controller works fine for this game, and could serve as a model for other developers who want to bring their more complex gun games to console. Granted, this game is not going to please everyone, but even if you don't buy it, it does make a solid rental.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars silent scope, December 6, 2000

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martin chabolla (pearl harbor, hi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Scope (Video Game)

maxim magazine published a cheat code that converts the hostages to justin timberlake...forget taking out the terrorists...

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Silent Scope Rocks, November 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Silent Scope (Video Game)

This games is a must have. If you are like me, and you spent all of your time in Metal Gear running around with the sniper rifle, you will love this game. It is extremely fast paced and exciting. There aren't many stages but it is awesome! Buy it if you love to look through a scope and sniper away.