Second Sight

[KagePrototype]

I bought this game yesterday, and it's quite an addictive game. I've got to like the fifth level, and it's been brilliant so far. I'm glad to see the creative collective over at Free Radical Design can pull off a single-player game just as well as they do in multiplayer (Timesplitters). For those who don't know what it is, it's a console game where you play as John Vattic, who wakes up in a hospital bed to find he's gained psychic powers. He doesn't remember why he's there, who he is etc, and the point of the whole game is to find everything out.

Not the most original of ideas, but it's very well executed. The nice balance between stealth and combat is cool, and I love the duel storyline thing it pulls off with the flashbacks. Not to mention having some amazing animation (the animations on the face of the security guard wheeling your bed at the beginning were really well done) and just plain looking great (for a console, that is ). It's definately worth picking it up. It starts off a bit slow, but once you get some of the more fun psychic powers and are given the chance to really show them off (spooking guards by throwing stuff around the room so you can sneak past is brilliant fun, and the projection power is too cool for words), it really shows off it's colours.

Anyone else managed to pick it up? What do you think? PS I know there was a thread on this two weeks ago, but I didn't want to bump it up and get flamed to death or get it closed or something.

 

[thehunter1320]

i thought that didn't come out til the 21st

 

[KagePrototype]

i thought that didn't come out til the 21st

It's out in the UK, came out a week or two ago I think. Free Radical are based in Nottingham, so it comes out here first.

 

[Loke]

I got it as well, great game. Haven't played for a while though, been busy with Burnout 3 and Sims 2 (hehe).

Anyway, I agree with you about the balance between stealth and combat.
I really don't know why but the training course in the game does remind me so much about the training course in Opposing Force.

I heard Psi-Ops is great too (only played the demo, pretty good), but it's more of an action game than Second Sight, which is more about story and stealth.