PSI-OPS Mindgate Conspiracy | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 5267
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 26885
Model: P2MID 031719268856
UPC: 031719268856
EAN: 0031719268856
ASIN: B00008XKZZ
Release Date: June 14, 2004
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| Features:
| • | Navigate through eight deadly levels, attacking terrorist compunds across the Earth | | • | Work with weapons and gadgets including a silenced pistol, machine gun, flame thrower, and more | | • | Take on brainwashed soldiers, using mind control powers and using them against each other | | • | Move people and objects using telekinesis, or throw walls of flame at opponents with pyrokinesis | | • | For 1 player |
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Product Description
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy challenges you to use your most powerful weapon...your mind. You will combat a terrorist movement using both stealth and combat skills, and a number of psychic abilities.
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 A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So use it...and waste 'em. April 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"As I returned to my body from the next room, I felt a sickening lurch. But hey, who could blame me? I knew my window of opportunity was limited, and with only two shots left, I had to move FAST.
I opened the door, and took out the first guard with my silenced pistol. I knew his back would be to me, I'd memorized his movements before I came in. The second guard started firing his machine gun wildly. I took one in the shoulder, and I knew I had no choice - it was him or me.
I raised my right hand, as if to surrender...and that's when the smug little smile left his face. I felt the power coursing through my mind, to my arm, then out from my fingertips. He floated up off the ground, suspended in midair, by the power of my mind. He cried out "What the Hell?" and that's when I saw the gas can. With a mere flick of my wrist, I sent his body hurtling into the canister. I heard the explosion.....I saw the flames....and I knew I had only begun to remember what they'd done to me."
That's exactly what it felt like when I started using my psychic abilities for the first time in Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.
In this game, we play as Nick Scryer, a special operative with no memory of his special abilities. As a soldier with a gun, Nick has no chance against his super-powered adversaries. He must rediscover his Psionic abilities and turn the tables on his captors. Throughout the course of this game, Nick remembers that he has been trained in the following abilities:
Telekinesis: The ability to move objects or people with the mind.
Remote Viewing: The ability to project the mind into other areas and plan out future attacks.
Mind Drain: The ability to siphon Psi-energy from enemies.
Mind Control: The ability to control an enemies' actions.
Pyrokinesis: The ability to set objects or enemies on fire.
Aura View: The ability to see details that aren't visible in the real world.
As far as gameplay goes, the game has a slow start before Nick rediscovers his abilities. It makes us think we're starting a Metal Gear type game, but this dynamic changes before the first level is over. Stealth is nice, but it's infinitely more fun to use Nick's powers to possess an enemy, force him to snipe his comrades, and top it off by shooting a gas container to eliminate himself.
The ability to switch between powers is seamless - a seasoned player can TK an enemy towards them, use MD to replenish their lost powers, and search ahead through a closed door with RV without skipping a beat. With each discovery of a new power, Nick recalls his training in that power...allowing us, the viewer, to learn how to use them.
The graphics are dated by today's standards...the overall detail in the game environment is very bland - boxes, steel boxes, doors and alarms are very basic. The characters are quite over-the-top in their outfits, but with a plot like this one, that can be overlooked. There are certain points of Psi-Ops where Nick discovers certain powers just in time to fight enemies that are only vulnerable to those particular powers...again, with the fun level of this game, it can be overlooked. The map screen is very primitive, and some of the items are hard to read in the select menu during the game - but you'll most likely never need to use this screen except to access the occasional health pack.
One thing that keeps Psi-Ops players coming back is the laundry list of unlockable content, earned by completing the game and finding garden gnomes hidden throughout the levels (umm...yes, garden gnomes. Programmers are scary).
Some of the extra goodies include:
6 videos, including a music video for the song "With My Mind" by Cold
10 extra missions (c'mon....who doesn't like the idea of TK bowling?)
10 extra character costumes/skins
Training modes
Boss Battle modes
Selectable difficulties from Easy to Elite
Cooperative play mode
Concept art movies...and a whole bunch more.
It's no surprise that with the occasional curses from enemy characters and the violence level being so high with shootings, immolations, and exploding heads, Psi-Ops has an `M' Rating.
Sure, Psi-Ops does have flaws, and it's not everything a growing child needs, but for the Mature adult (insert canned laughter here), this is a very fun game.
I can take you far away, with my mind...with my mind...
Great fun for 3rd-person sci-fi shooter fans December 4, 2007
Given the number of good, thorough reviews here, it's hard to write a new one without simply repeating what everyone else has already said. I'd like to throw in my two cents partly to help sustain this game's well-deserved ratings and and partly to throw in a late 2007 review for those considering this game now.
From a December 2007 outlook, there's nothing to dissuade an experienced gamer. The graphics are good and well-detailed, slowdowns and visual freakouts are more-or-less absent, and having gotten about 2/3 of the way through there haven't been any bugs (I'm playing on PS2). Controls are fairly typical and easy to remember, even if you only play for an hour or two a few days a week like I do.
Gameplay is great. As usual with shooters, aiming can be, ahem, hit or miss depending on how hard-wired your thumb is to your eyes. Sometimes it's easier to move around and let the target reticule move around with you than actually try to aim. But this is a tiny niggle.
The psi powers are fun to use, although you have to be careful not to drain yourself dry. There's no end to what you can do, basically, given each ability. It's real fun to take over an enemy, have him do some dirty work for you, then hop him off a tower to his death. Just once, you MUST possess a sniper, shoot out a bunch of bad guys with him, then have him jump to his demise. Great fun.
The only downside is if you possess someone with the intention of shooting it out with his buddies, they usually mow him down pretty quickly. Better to possess them into various "suicides" than combat. Throwing them around with PK is big fun, too.
Although the game is a very linear point A to B thing, it's still fun and has a nice variety in locations. Weapons variety is pretty basic with just a few guns, but that only encourages you to use your psi powers, which is where the real fun lies.
There's no reason to fret over doubts about this game. It's not an amazing, mind blowing game, but it's well conceived, well executed, and good fun. You'll like it.
Your Controller Is The Ultimate Weapon. April 17, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. Released in 2004 it was a game that was just sprung on me. I hadn't heard much about it till I saw an ad for it in an issue of OPM, only a couple weeks before its release. Well that issue had a demo of the game and I tried it out and the rest, well, the rest is history.
The game doesn't have that deep of a plot. A psychic terrorist organization is bent on taking over the world, and a lone soldier, with altered memories and suppressed psychic abilities, is sent to infiltrate and stop their plans at all costs. That's about it. But that's all you need. You play as Nick Scryer. He is that lone soldier.
This game has great great gameplay. Everything controls fluidly and the psychic abilities are a blast. You'll start offf with Telekineses, a power which you'll use the most and is the most fun to use. You can pick up almost anything. Enemies are great fun to screw with. picking them up and then moving them to the endge of a massive ledge and then either dropping them or hurling them off end over end never gets old. You can also throw just about anything at them as well. Wooden Crates, Fire Extinguishers, Guns, Other Soldiers, Barrels, Explosive Barrels, etc... It also helps that the physics engine in this is top notch. Definelty not on par with Half-Life 2's but it works for this game. You also get Pyrokinesis, Mind Drain (which is great to go up behind enemies and drain their brain and make their head explode!), Remote Viewing, Mind Control and Aura View.
The graphics are really good. Characters are sharp and environments look good as well. This game is rated "M" for a reason. It's downright violent. Heads exploding (MANY of them), gunshot wounds, exlposions and other things. It's a fun game though and if you can handle that stuff, play it.
The game sounds pretty good as well. The score is nothing memorable but the song by Cold, "WIth My Mind", written specifically for this game is a great one (listen for the Muzak version in the elevator a little later in the game!) . The gun sounds are standard and aren't anything amazing but again, they get the job done.
Overall this is a very solid game. It's got some corny dialogue and a convoluted plot but if you can go with it, you'll have a great time. The powers are great fun and the game provides a good challenge later on but is never ridiculously hard that you'll have an ulcer. There are plenty of unlockables after you beat it and it's such good fun you'll want to play through it more than once. So if you haven't already pick this great game up, you won't be disappointed.
 cool game February 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
ok let me start by saying this game kicks but....yeah sure there are gonna be the sticklers that look for all the flaws and find something that's not perfect about the game and compare it to other games.......but if you take this game just as it is, it will blow your mind! maybe the people's mouths don't move at exactly the same time they talk........maybe the AI isn't perfect....... WHO CARES??..the point is the game was designed to be fun, not a movie, and thats where it excels, this game will blow your mind.......you'll love throwing people around with your mind and blowing their heads off.......i remember being particuarly pleased at one point when i mind-controlled a guy and killed everyone, and then had my guy go and jump off a cliff.........this game is awesome, the only downside is that it didn't get enough publicity for them to make a sequl......and saying it ends on a cliffhanger is and understatement...........but seriously, if you don't buy this game, your missin out.........a lot
OMG... January 3, 2006
This game couldn't really be better. Actually 1 thing would make it better, a GOD code, but you can basically do that in the training mode. Basically, you walk through, you have to be sneeky, but if you don't want to be, don't. Just kill people by throwing them around at will, shooting them, and DRAINING THEIR MIND ENERGY RIGHT OUT OF THEM!!! This game is really nonstop fun, however...it is very challenging at some points and if your coordination and gaming skill isn't up to par you may not enjoy this title as much as I. Good day!
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