Sin

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001R3XH
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 15, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,141 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

At first glance Sin looks like weird mix of Quake, Resident Evil, and Half-Life; at second glance, that's still about right. There's nothing terribly original about Sin, and the graphics and character modeling are rather clichéd, even for a 3-D action shooter.

The females, for example, make Lara Croft look like she hasn't yet hit puberty. They're certainly some 13-year-old's grotesquely distorted idea of forbidden female eroticism. This kind of aesthetic pervades the entire game and might give the average player a slight case of the heebie-jeebies.

This aside, there's plenty of shooting, pummeling, and ass kicking for those who want to get down to business--in the style of Quake--and lots of cabinets to open and handles to pull, a la Duke Nukem 3D or Resident Evil. For all its retreading of familiar ground, Sin is, on the whole, reasonably satisfying, and the death match, not too shabby at all.

Escaping from the ordinary isn't the only challenge that Sin faces. The developers seemed to run out of Q&A folks: the multiplayer mode works fine, but there are definite bugs in the single-player version, and the loading time for some of the modules is not quite acceptable.

Bottom line--a good ride for hard-core action shooters, but a pass for gamers possessed of a more discriminating palate. --Tamara Hladik

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great testosterone fuelled low-brow fun., January 19, 2007

By 

Steven S. Harper "Professional Nerd" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sin (CD-ROM)

This game came out right around the same time that Half-Life did and decided to take the competition head on, including various jabs at Valve in the game itself. Unfortunately I don't think they really knew what they were up against. Where Half-Life had richly imagined interactive alien environments and a mysterious story that pulled you relentlessly through the satisfyingly lengthy gameplay, SiN had over the top b-movie machismo, a comicly villanous antagonist with a super-abundance of polygonal cleavage, cheesy dialogue and slightly buggy gameplay. I love them both to be honest, but whereas I've play HL through no less than 10 times I can't say I've played SiN through more than twice.

Once properly patched, the game is fun, but still feels as though the developers reach exceeded their grasp. I like the large number of secrets included, including secret levels, and the fun items like being able to transfer all the money from the villains account into your own on the bank level.

The overt sexism revealed in some of the "Secret" areas of the game feels like something a College Freshman would have reveled in when first away from home, but that said; it is refreshing to have a game that's not frighted of being somewhat offensive for the purposes of entertainment.

All in all it's worth playing, and I think you can get it free with SiN Episodes now off Steam for a very attractive price. Boo yah!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this game, but nobody else does..., April 2, 2010

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Kevin - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sin (CD-ROM)

This game was released in 1998 and it uses the Quake II engine. However, unlike Quake II, Sin has a very fun and compelling single player campaign. The missions are set in a wide range of locations. You travel from a bank, to down in the sewers, through a subway system, to a dam, to a jungle, to a chemical plant to an underwater base, and more. Every mission feels distinct from the others, yet the progression from one location to another is smooth.

Your choices on one mission can affect future missions, too. For example, during the introduction to the game, you're flying on a helicopter shooting bad guys on the roof of a bank. If the helicopter takes considerable damage, it will land on the ground, and you'll be starting the bank mission that way. If the helicopter is undamaged, it will land on the roof and you'll start the bank mission from there.

Sin has great audio. There is a lot of dialogue between the main character and headquarters. Some of it is quite funny. There is some profanity in the game, but it isn't overused like Kingpin.

The environments look great, but the character models do not... even when compared to other games that were released around the same time as Sin. They're just way too blocky.

One of the reasons many people didn't like this game were the bugs. The loading times were fixed with a patch, but there is still the problem where common movable objects like cupboard doors and the like cause damage to the player. Even ordinary wooden doors do this. It only takes away a few points of health though, so it isn't a real problem.

I recommend this game to anyone who likes a lengthy first-person shooter with a fun single-player campaign. It has high re-playability, due to the various ways missions can take place. You could also get the expansion "Wages of Sin". WOS is fun, but a bit too short.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good game for the money, April 5, 2009

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J. Pettit (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sin (CD-ROM)

I think this is a good game. The multiplayer is well done, and after watching the dopey in game movies, it's hard to see why my mom hid this game from me after I bought it when I was 13... level design is a little bit confusing, and playable characters is limited, but it makes up for it in terms of gameplay.