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Second Sight | 
 enlarge | From: Codemasters
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $7.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6847
Platform: Gamecube
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Gamecube
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 40092
UPC: 767649400928
EAN: 0767649400928
ASIN: B0002CHJ5K
Release Date: May 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Advanced choice-based storyline -- as you control Vattic, the choices he makes will have game-wide effects on the outcome | | • | Flashbacks which are fully playable help advance the story - and change Vattic's destiny | | • | Use telekinetic powers to scare guards and shift objects | | • | As the story advances, so does Vattic' psychic abilities - From Healing to Projection to destructive Psi-Blasts | | • | Use 13 different weapons in addition to psychic powers -- from a pistol to a sniper rifle |
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Product Description
Second Sight is an incredible psychological thriller that feel like a movie. Its combination of stealth and shooter action gives players thefeel of a blockbuster movie. Players meet John Vattic, a man subjected to traumatic surgery and experimentation. Haunted by flashbacks, his only choice is to escape and figure out what happened to him. As Vattic struggles to piece together the past and present, players will uncover a strange chain of events leading to a fatal conspiracy.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 One of the best GC games ever! September 6, 2008
This is an awesome game and 4 6 bucks u'd be an absoloute fool not 2 by this! stealth, squad combat, and even paranormal it has it all! Buy this game!
 Overlooked and largely underrated October 29, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game on a whim at JC Penny of all places. Not having any clue what to expect except psycic powers and guns, I was pleasantly surprised to find it to be a fun and engaging stealth/action game. Even as I laughed at the voice acting and animation of the cut-scenes I found it somewhat endearing (similar to the way Metal Gear Solid's cinematics were immensly entertaining despite their cheesyness).
The story is interesting and unfolds well, the game rewards stealth well, even on easy difficulty, and, most of all, tossing people around with your mind is alot of fun.
There are some glitches in the camera movement which can sometimes get in the way or simply give you a headache, but overall it's pretty easy to play. In under 20 minutes you'll beable to target that pesky guard shooting you, lift him up, and, if you're outdoors, send him sailing over the horizon. And yes, it's as satisfying as you would expect. Every time.
But even after you gain all of your psycic powers the levels are challenging. You will need to come up with a clever, efficient plan of attack in order to overcome forces who, though none to bright, are numerous and can kill you quicker will all their machine guns trained on you than you can pick them off with simple 'chucking' methods. You can sneak past, if there isn't a computer terminal you need to use in their room. You can possess one of them and use their own firepower against them, which usually sets of one or two alarms. You can send simpleton guards in earlier levels cowering by making cupboard doors swing about or clocks spin wildly. In the maximum security, criminally insane level of the asylum you can even sneak around releasing the deranged prisoners from their cells.
What really makes Second Sight stand out, however, are the little details. It's possible to avoid killing two of the guards in the first level by luring them into the cell you just escaped from, then locking them inside. They'll get into an argument which turns violent and then you can swipe their keys afterward. Later in the game, after you kill a guard in a cutscene when discovering the Psy-Blast ability, try opening the IM program on his computer, where he is still logged into a conversation with his wife.
Replay value is fairly low, but maybe it's just me. At any rate, it is definitley worth the lowered price due to obscurity.
 Great concept but falls just short of the mark. July 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Second Sight has a brilliant story and a great idea behind the gameplay. You take on the role of John Vattic, who wakes up in a secure hospital/research facility with a battered, scarred body and a killer headache. He has no idea how he got there or what these people want with him. But he soon learns that he has extraordinary psychic powers such as telekinesis, self-healing, astral projection and the ability to possess baddies.
So begins your quest to find out the whos and whys. Obviously there's a huge government conspiracy behind everything but the game has a unique storytelling twist as you play one level in the present and the next in the past, at the beginning of the story. It's a unique way of developing interest and involving you more in the mystery.
It's very cool being able to sneak up on the baddies and tossing them around like ragdolls with your telekinesis. Chucking them through windows, off high ledges, slamming them into walls and ceilings is loads of fun. But I think this could have been taken further as it was a great opportunity for some cool, gory deaths and the simple blood splatters weren't really enough.
The levels vary between hospitals, Siberian outposts, apartments, more hospitals, offices, sewers, labs and even more hospitals. For the most part they are pretty generic and ludicrously over-sized to make the game longer. It can get a bit boring wandering around for ages, avoiding torrents of gunfire, anxiously awaiting a quiet moment to pull yourself together.
The music also walks a thin line of being atmospheric or generic. Sometimes it can get on your nerves and sometimes it can add to the tension of a scene. The voice acting is a cut above most games however and John Vattic's accent kinda grows on you. There's also a twist, which I won't spoil for you, that makes the game's complicated plot perfect for a theatrical film.
It's fun, but it's long and there are a few annoying bits. And if Second Sight was more developed and detailed it would be a classic. As it is, it's merely fast food.
Graphics B
Sound B
Gameplay B
Lasting Appeal B-
Cool Game November 5, 2005
Second Sight is the ideal stealth/action game. The drama elements are amazing, the controls are great, and the action is very intense.
Second Sight ROCKS!!! June 28, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the game it is cool! You get to grab people, take hostages. The AI is awesome, guards actually have personalities like, sometimes two guards talk about their girlfreinds and lunch breaks and much MORE! And when you shoot someone and they die, a guard might notice, dip his fingers in the wound and say,"Hmmm, still wet, he didn't die too long ago, must be that psico Vattic guy" And you can levitate people(wheter they are dead or not) it is cool. I love the Madness level, when you are in a library, I beat the 3 next levels with NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN-cutscenes using my method. In Madnes, when you are in the library, find the doctor in the far right corner, he wil be a secretive and nervous, as he is the only one who MIGHT know you. So grab him hostage and the doctors will freak out. Press X, and tell them to stand in a single file line they will, about 8 doctors in the room. Shoot all of them or meet your fate. While the doctor is in your arms use POSSETION and posses his body, then, if you are using ACTION REPLAY, press L+R and A and your body will be freed from him, but......he will be in boxers and you will have his clothes. Just shoot him, and drop your gun on him to make it look like he shot himself. Then the next levels will be easy. The guards will think you are really a doctor, so they will let you everwhere you want.You even get to operate on people. This is ALL true, but you must have action replay.
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