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cin · 11-03-2008, 12:10 AM

Death to Spies

Details

Formats
PC exclusive.
Genre:
Action/Stealth.
Origin
Russian.
Publisher
1C Company.
Developer
Haggard Games.
Price
$29.99(IGN Advertisement)
Release
2007
Players
1

To easily describe this game, we can say it's the World War II version of Hitman. In Death to Spies you play as a Soviet counterintelligence agent, who is sent in several missions to infitrate Nazi bases and steal important documents or assassinate key enemy characters.

The main feature of this game is planning every move you make. Despite the linearity of it's missions, there's planety of ways to solve a single objective, which adds up to it's replayability. You can use the environment to help you acomplish your goal, as well as a fair amount of vehicles and weapons, each which has individual features that can affect your performance. For example, carrying a russian rifle or machinegun can alert the german guards, while a german weapon will make them less suspicious.

This is a really difficult game because you aren't a superman in the battlefield, your skill is at remaining hidden rather than running and gunning. A game for those who love strategy and have the enormous amount of patience that takes to get into a base swarming with enemies just to steal some paper or kill some guy and not being discovered.

It has downsides. Vehicles aren't as great, many of them are very slow or difficult to handle. There's clipping through walls sometimes too, or weird moments in animations like when you are lifting an inconscious body to your shoulders, it appears at the top position before the "lift" animation ends. But in general it's flaws aren't enough to kill the experience.

Less serious review:
This game is really hard. I tried the "normal" difficulty and it was a lot harder than i expected so i went to "easy" and damn... it still takes me several hours to just get to a soldier and knock him out for his unifform or a key, etc. Quicksave and quickload are your best friends because this is really unforgiving, a movement a second too early or too late will get you killed, so you need to know what fights to pick and when to act. Guns are almost a mere decoration as you rarely use them, it only applies to firearms though because you are constantly using chloroform or a cord to choke your enemies to death silently.

All in all is a great game, really SLOW paced and a single mission can take you hours and hours to solve.

If you like puzzles and general strategy, this is a good third person action game you might want to try.

(I'm "noob" at writing reviews, don't be too harsh if you don't like it hehe)

11-03-2008, 12:10 AM	#6 (permalink)
cin Forum Furniture Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 97	Death to Spies Details Formats PC exclusive. Genre: Action/Stealth. Origin Russian. Publisher 1C Company. Developer Haggard Games. Price $29.99(IGN Advertisement) Release 2007 Players 1 To easily describe this game, we can say it's the World War II version of Hitman. In Death to Spies you play as a Soviet counterintelligence agent, who is sent in several missions to infitrate Nazi bases and steal important documents or assassinate key enemy characters. The main feature of this game is planning every move you make. Despite the linearity of it's missions, there's planety of ways to solve a single objective, which adds up to it's replayability. You can use the environment to help you acomplish your goal, as well as a fair amount of vehicles and weapons, each which has individual features that can affect your performance. For example, carrying a russian rifle or machinegun can alert the german guards, while a german weapon will make them less suspicious. This is a really difficult game because you aren't a superman in the battlefield, your skill is at remaining hidden rather than running and gunning. A game for those who love strategy and have the enormous amount of patience that takes to get into a base swarming with enemies just to steal some paper or kill some guy and not being discovered. It has downsides. Vehicles aren't as great, many of them are very slow or difficult to handle. There's clipping through walls sometimes too, or weird moments in animations like when you are lifting an inconscious body to your shoulders, it appears at the top position before the "lift" animation ends. But in general it's flaws aren't enough to kill the experience. Less serious review: This game is really hard. I tried the "normal" difficulty and it was a lot harder than i expected so i went to "easy" and damn... it still takes me several hours to just get to a soldier and knock him out for his unifform or a key, etc. Quicksave and quickload are your best friends because this is really unforgiving, a movement a second too early or too late will get you killed, so you need to know what fights to pick and when to act. Guns are almost a mere decoration as you rarely use them, it only applies to firearms though because you are constantly using chloroform or a cord to choke your enemies to death silently. All in all is a great game, really SLOW paced and a single mission can take you hours and hours to solve. If you like puzzles and general strategy, this is a good third person action game you might want to try. (I'm "noob" at writing reviews, don't be too harsh if you don't like it hehe) __________________ .: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end :.