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Syphon Filter : The Omega Strain Features

PS2

28th August 2003, 12:19pm
Key Features

  • Become a skilled agent in Gabe Logan's reformed Agency and help him fight the evolving threats to world peace.


  • Customise your agent's look, uniform and equipment with enhanced character customisation features.


  • Explore and battle through 17 massive, intense, international non-linear worlds with multiple ways to complete each of the deadly missions. Levels are up to three times larger than previous instalments in the franchise.


  • Battle terrorists and enemies with 4-player co-operative, peer-to-peer online play in all 17 single-player missions with the ability to access new areas of the environments only available while playing online.


  • Utilise a Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain - compatible headset for PlayStation 2 (sold separately) for voice chat to verbally strategize with fellow agents online. Players also can use the directional pad to plan with teammates.


  • Defeat all-new terrorists and enemies, including the most deadly commandos in the world.


  • Take on terrorists with more than 100 unique, deadly weapons and gadgets. Your arsenal will improve as you progress through the levels.


  • Combat the enemy with deadly artillery or fight hand-to-hand with a knife. Players can only carry four weapons at a time, so strategic play is at a premium.


  • Keep enemies in target while kneeling, crouching, walking, rolling, climbing, jumping, walking, strafing, throwing and running with the new ability to target and lock on to individual body parts.


  • Multiple targeting modes provide shooting options for enemies with regular clothing, flak jackets or full body armour.


  • Access vanity items such as improved weapons, gadgets, equipment and uniforms.


  • The highly sophisticated enemy AI (Artificial Intelligence) reacts to other agents' actions to hunt, explore, shoot and kill.


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    Developer: SCEA Foster City Studio
    Genre: Action
    No. of Players: 1player (Single-console) 1-4 players (Online)
    Platform: PlayStation®2
    Accessories: Network Adaptor (Ethernet) (for PlayStation®2), Analog Controller (DUALSHOCK®2), Memory Card (8MB) (for PlayStation®2), USB Headset
    Release Date: Q4 2003
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    by Matt Robertson