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A poor console port

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a true PC player, don't get your hopes up with Project Snowblind. No words describe PSB better than "a console port". The single player offers a basic shoot'em up for a few hours, the graphics and movement make you feel like you are playing Halo on Xbox. The barely given two stars are solely for the basic single player story although I really considered giving just one. Although the sp may be mediocre, the multiplayer is a complete disaster. I am a keen online player myself and have tested numerous fps games during the last decade, including e.g. CS, CS:CZ, CS Source, UT, UT2k3, TO, RTCW, JK2, SoF2, DX, just to mention a few. PSB is honestly one of the worst I've seen because it has been designed for console platform in the first place, then hastily ported on PC and trust me, it shows.

To illustrate, the game is a kind of slow Halo/UT2003 mix with console style graphics and feel. The physics modelling is not very convincing. Menus are rigid. The futuristic atmosphere suffers from cheesy pseudo-techno clichés like a robotic female voice commenting on your bioenergy reserves etc. Although Eidos has put some effort into extra stuff such as player stats on the Snowblind site, any basic and really important features that an online player would be used to in other (real) PC fps games, such as toggling developer console, seeing your ping or a 'talk' button for messaging, are screaming their own absence. The reason is obvious; you don't really do anything with a talk button when you are playing with a joypad, do you? No patch whatsoever can save a game which is so fundamentally foul considering what PC at best could really deliver. PSB looks so bad because PC players are used to better. Comparison of general gameplay and the mp features with exclusive PC online games such as CS Source reveal the shameless truth about PSB.

Even though PSB advertises itself being something totally new, most of the older fans of the genre should still remember Deus Ex 6 years ago, the game which originally invented augmentations. Compared to DX and its immense depth of gameplay, PSB (which was at first supposed to be a DX3: Clan Wars) offers pitiful 5 augs and limits them to certain player classes, probably because too many augs would make it problematic to play using a joypad. The original DX-like freedom of creating various playing styles with different skills and augs is gone, also the masterful aug-counteraug setting which made online DXing such a thrilling and addictive stone-paper-scissors experience. The progress has in fact gone a lot backwards, which a PC player finds hard to cope with since when it comes to games, usually the sequel is expected to be better than the original. Instead of pruning the game type to a fraction of what the original DX offered, Eidos should have upgraded DX with a new engine and genuinely put effort to the mp features and we would be playing the most profound shooter ever made.

Whereas Deus Ex 2 also suffered from being a console port but was still a playable game, PSB is a total waste of money as a PC game, especially if you are looking for a good, deep online game. Instead, invest in a game made for PC players, such as HL2 for example.

Computer quality in a console port

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Graphics : Sweet. Gameplay : difficult at first, but once you understand the control scheme, you quickly get the hang of the rest. Incredible particle effects. Very well done music. Replayability : moderate to none. That's the only downside. The game has good length, and a fun idea as a plotline. But, there are not too many twists and turns plotwise, so that pulls quite a bit away from re-playability. This ran well with the minimum specs on my system : AMD XP 2800 -- 512 MG DDR RAM -- 128 MG GeFORCE 4 5600. For the sheer shooting power of the game, i would recommend it. But, don't expect extreme depth in the gameplay. Just a good bit of fun.

Average Shooter Compared To Other Games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This ain't a bad game, but it is subpar when compared to Doom 3, Riddick, Far Cry, Swat4, Brothers-in-Arms and Half-life2. Don't get me wrong, its a fun game. It just doesn't compare to other new shooters out there. I even like Area 51 better than this, and these graphics remind me of games 2 years ago. Wait for F.E.A.R. coming out in October, or get one of the other games mentioned earlier. The only upside to this game is the budget price of $10 you can get it out, but thats because its a disappointment like Pariah. It just doesnt deliver the punch that these other games do.

A well done project!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a superior game! There are lots of good things about it, and very few bads. In fact, I only got started on the game and I already know this! One can only imagine how much I'll love this game once I get to higher levels! Anyway, here are all of the pros and cons about this WONDERFUL shoot-em up game, which I got for my B-Day.

Pros:

The graphics are slick and terrific, and there is plenty of room for you to move about and around in.

You can use all sorts of firearms and explosives, everything from shotguns to sniper rifles to grenades to that huge gun with limitless bullets in the ground. Ice pick, too!

There are a lot of cool quotes.

When you shoot an enemy, not only does blood fly but you can also pick up his gun and use it to your advantage!

Most of the people, including you, wear very cool costumes!

All sorts of flying vehicles come out and you can blow them up, even when they try to toss grenades or atom bombs at you.

You can save where you left off.

You can shoot an enemy anywhere you please(I imagine they are hunters, who kill or hurt beautiful animals and good people, and I BLOW THEIR HEADS OFF! HAHAHAHA!)

There is constant gunfire, to make the game both challenging and awesome.

Cons:

Sometimes the game can be a little bit complicated and/or frustrating.

You don't have limitless bullets.

Of course, this is a terrific game and it is my second favorite shooting game next to Silent Scope. I should add that Silent Scope only tops this game BY AN EYELASH. And a very small one, too. Close second place, in short. It is among the best games I've ever played and I recommend it to anybody who likes shoot-em up fun games.

why don't stores cary this game!?!?!?!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 51
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I looked everywhere for this game. I've even seen it advertised in the newspaper and the games no where to be found. Why?? I can order it online but why dont the stores carry this game??

NELS13 SNOWBLOND

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

GOOD GAME- SOMETHING LIKE AREA 51 AND SPLINTER CELL WITH MORE SAVE POINTS. WOULD LKE A LIST OF MORE GAMES LIKE IT.
THANK YOU,
TOM NELSON

Cannot get it to work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I cannot get the computer game to work on my system. For reference sake, I am a gamer and I tried everything. The game makers support was good but they also could not get the game to work.

Fun but old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Its a fun game but the main problem is that its too old. There is rarely anyone playing it online. The single player mode is pretty fun but thats about it.

OK game, there are better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game has a weak story line and it doesn't allow saves at any time, so I ended-up replaying the same scenario, until I got bored and deleted the game off my computer.

very sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i guess Eidos wanted to make a Deus-Ex type of game that everyone can play. just think of a pure action arcade type of Deus-Ex on steroids. great graphics, awesome effects, solid gameplay, all right storyline (i just want to kill stuff though) amirite? great selection of weapons and augmentations too. you can drive vehicles in some levels as well as take over some robots and mechs to switch up the gameplay style a bit so it never gets old and is always fresh. the squad A.I that you fight alongside with is ok. at least one guy will follow you at all times to clear out buildings and the rest will cover-fire. the cutscenes in-game are filled with action and movie style camera angles. if you like partial open-ended fast paced sci-fi shooters, this is for you.

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