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3.0 out of 5 stars Great fun for a weekend, April 1, 2005

By	Lisa Shea "LisaShea.com" - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars

In this first person shooter, you are a futuristic bio-enhanced soldier who works with fellow soldiers to take out the bad guys.

You're 2nd Lieutenant Nathan Frost - and you start the game as a 'normal soldier'. But things go badly and suddenly you find yourself in the hospital lab, fully souped up. You have the traditional cool radar screen, the selection reticules and so on. It's like a less science-fiction version of Halo.

Your beefed up abilities include better vision, better reflexes, a stealth mode, a lightning strike and a shield. On the downside, your abilities are electrically based. If an an EMP occurs, your vision shuts down into a fuzzy blur - you become snowblind.

The graphics are reasonably good, with detailed faces, realistic looking combat outfits and a variety of textures on the various objects you interact with. The radar systems and on screen indicators are easy to use without being overly intrusive. On the other hand, the subtitles are often completely lost in the background. It doesn't matter of course unless you are trying to use the subtitles to follow the story.

The voices are reasonably good, although at times they get REALLY annoying. At one point you are supposed to be using a turret to shoot an enemy robot. While you are sitting there shooting at the robot, your 'helper' continually whines at you to hack into the security camera. Well yes, we did that already! I also miss the random 'talking' that made Halo 2 so great. It made you feel like you were in a vibrant, active world. The background sounds are nice - the special effects, piped-in music, voices, combat sounds, all feel realistic.

On the down side, when your health begins to drop, you get that Legend of Zelda-like BING! BING! BING! that drives you completely insane :)

I personally love the reflex bio-mod, it appears to slow down people around you to mimic the effects of your super-fast reflexes. The other bio-mods have their own uses in different situations.

The game is a little on the easy side, and unfortunately it doesn't have different difficulty settings. It would be really great if you could replay the game multiple times, upping the difficulty level each time to really give yourself a workout. But as it is, you can finish the game in under 2 days, and then what?

Yes, there's online multiplayer, which is very much like the Halo 2 system. But to be honest, if you are already playing Halo 2 online, you don't need another system. Variety is nice sometimes, of course. But I'm not sure that most people would play Snowblind online more than a few times before going back to Halo 2. A lot of online gameplay fun comes down to which games your friends have, of course. If all of your friends own Snowblind and don't have Halo 2, then certainly getting Snowblind makes a lot of sense. But I doubt very many people are in that situation.

In general, well recommended for a weekend rental. But be sure to give it that multi-day testing first, before you think about paying full retail price to keep it forever.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Fun But Short Lived FPS., March 3, 2005

By	W. Newberryr "goodealz" (st.simons.isl., GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars

Snowblind is a First Person Shooter .Your player has advanced Biomodifications.You get these particular mods as you advance in the game.These upgrades include Infared Vision, Reflex Boost which slows down time and increases your speed,Ballistic Shield which is an energy shield that decreases damage taken,Cloak which turns player invisible,Electric Storm which is a tracking ball of lightning ,for a total of 5 upgrades.All of these upgrades use a certain amount of bioenergy which is replenished by finding bioenergy refills.I wish the biomods lasted a little longer they seem to run out of energy a little too fast .You can get replenished from certain droids for both health and bioenergy.You also have a vast array of weapons and they all have an alternate fire mode such as sticky bombs and sticky emp grenade.There is a total of about 12 of these handheld gun weapons which include shotgun,sniper rifle,rocket launcher,silenced pistol,carbine rifle,mine launcher,rail laser,flechette which shoots electricfied rounds and its alternate fire shoots flying attack drones which resemble a hoard of fireflies that swarm the enemy,a H.E.R.F gun thats shoots EMP beam,a security slicer called an Icepick,and a finally Kinetic Kicker gun that pulls or pushes items.You also have various grenades such as frag,flash,gas,emp.also the Riot Shield is a kool feature you throw a riot grenade and a brief plasma type shield deploys and will protect you for a period of time ,but enemies can simply walk around it sometimes.You can Drive certain vehicles simular to the Halo2 warthog, and you can control robots simular to mechassault walkers that fire bullets and missles. This game plays like a linear Shooter there are different routes and sometimes you backtrack but mostly its linear FPS all the way.The graphics are PS2 quality I wish they wouldv'e made the graphics a little sharper sometimes there's a haziness like effect too the levels and its a little grainy.With the Xbox being such a powerful machine they couldve made the graphics cleaner.But the designing of the levels are descent and there is alot too look at.There is a stealth aspect to some of the missions but its not required and its not really a stealth game.Snowblind is an easy game to beat,I finished it in 2 days .Its a quick game with easy enemies and there's no difficulty settings.You really dont even need all the weapons or the biomods to beat it ,I found that you could just use the carbine rifle and kill everyone,but it wouldnt be as fun without using all the different weapons and biomods.This game really is a straight forward shooter that would be easy for most gamers of all ages.There's lots of ammo and health pickups along the way.Snowbind might be too easy of a game for veteran shooters and the graphics arent Xbox quality,and theres no real big difference in this game compared to other FPS.Not to mention its very a very short game. Keep in mind Ive played every (FPS),First Person Shooter, the Xbox and PS2 has to offer .Snowblind would be a good starter FPS shooter game because it is easy to beat and has a simple story line with descent cutscenes.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Psi Ops meets Deus Ex, February 22, 2005

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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars

This game is totally awesome. There are many huge and POWERFUL weapons to choose from. Such as the ice pick (works as a pistol & lock pick), shotgun, rocket launcher, carbine, etc. Also you have bio augmentations to increase your natural abilities. My personal favorite is to increase the reflexes to make you go much faster than everybody else! Also, the multiplayer is a blast! I have so much fun playing my friends online. Also, the ability to drive vehicles really enhances the game. Overall, this is a great game that I highly recommend that you buy!