Every PS1 Game – Syphon Filter
While playing Mission: Impossible recently, one game kept popping into my head: Syphon Filter. Even though they were produced by different teams in different countries, they’re both third person spy adventures that look and feel similar and were released at similar times. I played Mission: Impossible as part of a “Game of the Month” challenge, and it felt so rough. Did Syphon Filter, with its better reviews and my childhood memories, stand up better than Mission: Impossible? I had to find out.
It starts on a high note; the intro is just as cool as I remembered it. You start on surface streets and you’re soon in the subway surrounded by burning train cars.
(more…)Every PS1 Game – Policenauts
Hideo Kojima has worked on dozens of games, with credits like Director, Producer, Game Designer, and Writer. For the first thirty years of his career, when those all happened on the same game, it would be about one of two things: cyberpunk investigators or Metal Gear. But while the Metal Gear series stretches past twenty games, there are only two cyberpunk releases from Kojima: Snatcher and Policenauts.
Every PS1 Game – Mission: Impossible
I kicked off this series with one of the most epic Playstation games, one that changed my gaming life. So where do we go from there?
How about a mediocre third-person spy adventure? This is Mission: Impossible.
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