Phenomenal! Once I thought this series would be the one to put solid snake down. Too bad it never came to be!

User Rating: 9.4 | Syphon Filter PS
By gaeren | Review Date:
Syphon Filter was a great idea! This first installment was amazing, and came about the same time that 3-D games were uniformly adopting the go anywhere-any direction control scheme. Finally the days of Resident Evil/Tomb Raiders "stop...then turn" physics were behind us. Finally we could react to baddies, and real action games were born. Syphon Filter showed up, and said, "Wait try some stealth on that action sandwich!"

We did and we loved it. Syphon filter did everything right. Let that sink in for a sec. very very few games do everything right, even fewer do it the first time out. 989 studios was famous overnite.

Perhaps that's the problem. They did great with SF2, but 3 took far too long in development so that by the time it came out, we'd all prepaid for our ps2's.

Then it went down hill: Omega Strain was a dismal showing. If only they could have all been as great as the original. Oh if only.

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