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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
UNIQUE... dazzling and GREAT FUN!!, March 16, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
The second I put SECOND SIGHT in... the images won me over.
The animation is great, but the creators also have a great cinematic sense. A lot of games have really beautiful cut scenes and then it cuts to the game and those beautiful cut scenes are replaced with something lesser... not here. NOT THIS GAME. The cut scenes blend beautifully... the cut scenes are just as pristine and drawn as the images when you're in control.
This is one of... if not the, most engrossing gave I've ever played. It gets you involved. You get drawn into the character and the mystery of who he is and what happened to him. You participate in his present day situation where he is escaping from a hospital and searching for his identity and you also go back to his early military days when he trains with weapons and participates in action as a sniper as a normal military person.
You can heal yourself, make yourself invisible for a certain period of time, eradiate bursts of dangerous and deadly energy, split your body in two as you stay safe somewhere and your apparition goes forward to do tasks... and that's just the beginning.
This game is fantastic. I'm so glad I bought it and I certainly recommend it for anyone who hasn't played it.
No need to rent... for the price that AMAZON has posted here... that's a steal!! The replay value on this game is great. You'll love it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic!, March 26, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Promising much, this 2004 offer from Codemasters was seen by many as a sort of stop-gap solution between SPlinter Cell and Metal Gear releases, being that it boasts a similar stealth-versus-firepower experience of gameplay and mission-based levels.
Thanks in no small part to one of the most enjoyable plotlines ever to appear in a videogame, as well as an intuituve and responsive control system, 'Second Sight' becomes far more than MGS' Poor Relation, and stands alone as a worthwhile game in its own right.
GRAPHICS: 5
Exaggerated human characters run about in exquisitely-detailed environments while retaining a vastly impressive frame rate. Power effects are grogeous to look at and the effect of possessing the Enemy for a short time can't be beat. The camera, as with all games of this nature, does cause some minor problems from time to time, but this is thankfully correctable.
SOUND: 5
Brilliant voice acting, maybe some of the best ever in a video game, each character stands apart as a separate being with real talent giving life to the script. Sound effects are similarly high-end with realistic screams, gunshots and crashing sounds. The musical score is orchestral and hugely atmospheric, and the whole game soundtrack is very highly polished.
PLAYABILITY: 5
Excellent. The myriad special powers and weapons may seem overwhelming at first, but you're gradually introduced to the new you via a series of training levels that gets the learning curve just perfectly right. No Bosses (except for the very final battle) gives the game more of a sense of the organic and this may be the first game I've ever played where there actually is more than one viable solution to every problem. Total freedom of choice and movement, coupled with an excellent control system, make this a joy to play.
LASTING FACTOR: 3
This is where Second Sight falls down. Bar two extremely tough levels, everything else is pretty much a case of one-try success. There are a lot of levels, but many are very, very short, and while enemies are everywhere, it is totally possible to go throguh an entire level without ever having to draw your gun. Replay Value is high, though, with secret mini-games and other such goodies waiting to be uncovered, so this isn't all bad.
OVERALL: 4
Had this game been a little longer and a little harder it would have been an unequivocal classic. As it is, it's still an excellent, excellent piece of software which no fan of story-based action/stealth ought to be without. Recommended very highly!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Overlooked Gem..., February 25, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I don't understand what happened to this game. I guess Psi-Ops (the other psychic game that came out last year) had the better press campaign and, thus, nobody heard about this one. I actually had employees at the game shop telling me that I was taking a risk in trying this one because they hadn't heard anything about it...
They were VERY wrong...
This is one of the rare games that gets all of the components right.
THE STORY- is very engrossing- I beat the game in several marathon sittings just because I HAD to see how things turned out. It's safe to say that the story in this game was surpassed only (in my experience) by the Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain series. Everything else pales in comparison.
THE MUSIC- was also fantastic. This is one of those games where I really want the soundtrack. I'm going to have to see whether there's any way to hunt it down. More and more, I'm encountering game soundtracks that best many film scores (Primal is the best example of this)
THE GRAPHICS- The game looks beautiful. The character models should remind you of the SLIGHTLY cartoony style that the Timesplitters characters had, although the effect is muted here. Other than that, everything is rendered very well. This title is definitely WELL above average in my large PS2 library.
THE GAMEPLAY- Imagine this. There are 4 guys down the hall shooting at you. You go for cover. Then you use telekinesis to move an explosive crate through the air over to where the guys are. You switch to your guns and shoot the crate....no more bad guys. This is simply one example of the very fun and surprisingly non-linear gameplay found here. By the end of the game, you have several guns but more importantly, a large arsenal of psychic powers. The level of strategy that can be utilized here is commendable. Second sight ranks highly both as an action game or as a stealth game- depending on your style of play.
I'm very picky when it comes to games, and I don't finish very many. I keep even fewer to put on my "shelf of fame", and Second Sight well deserves its place there. The game is cheap now, so pick it up!
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