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| From: Sony Computer Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $1.50
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New (41) Used (51) from $1.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 5162
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 97264
Model: 711719726425
UPC: 711719726425
EAN: 0711719726425
ASIN: B000099T2K
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: DVD disc only!!!!! Artwork is not included!! In stock and ships today!
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| Customer Reviews:
 For Really Patient People Only April 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have really enjoyed the SF series over the years but this game was extremely frustrating to learn. Gameplay is godawful! You used to be able to start a mission over quickly with a push of a couple of buttons; now you have to quit the mission and then wait for the darn thing to reload. This is progress??? Furthermore, you also used to be able to go back to your last checkpoint and start over again with your previous progress. Not anymore. If you are playing a "stealth" level and lose your stealth you are out of luck! You have to start the level over in order to regain your stealthiness. I cant count the number of times I threw my joystick down in disgust.
Also, some of the level objectives are downright unreasonable. In one mission you have to carry a fallen comrade a very long distance on your back at literally a snails pace while under fire and not being able to defend yourself without dropping the body. All of this while under time constraints to "properly" finish the level. Also, many of the levels are "maze-like" with many "avenues" not contributing to the outcome of the game. Throw in enemies that often times cant miss when they are shooting at you,(not to mention they have weapons that kill you twice as fast as you can kill them with similar or identical weapons), and you have a very frustrating experience in my opinion.
THE GOOD NEWS: If you are a patient person there is considerable replay value in this game. It may take you many hours to master it. Perhaps thats what the gamemakers were going for but in my opinion they went overboard. WAY OVERBOARD!! Ive been playing for a month now and I'm just about ready to hit the "cheat" sites to figure out the last remaining obstacles for me. Admittedly, there is a sense of reward if you stick with it and master it, but geez it takes a long time and a lot of cussing to do so :)~. Good luck!
Fail. April 21, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, i rented omega stream because i was a syphon filter fan of 1-3, this one just disappointed me, The graphics almost compare with the first game,Gameplay is crap, Online just wont cut it, Mindless Shot em up game. If you are a playstaion gamer,I Recomend the older ones to this, 1.Save money 2.save time insted of wasting it on this.
Overall, Sucked.
 Omega Stain - Gabe Has Left the Building October 11, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought I wasted my time writing a review on this crap, but apparently not. I played it for about an hour and wanted to get rid of it the same day. Syphon Filter used to be a sure thing, but now it's up the creak without a paddle. The controls suck, the mission objectives are unclear, and the map is hard to read. I'd swear the developers that made the previous Syphon Filter editions enjoyable retired and passed on the torch to the makers of "No One Lives Forever." That game is as fun as having your your legs broken twice a year, every year, for 10 years straight. I'd give this game 1/2 star if it were possible.
Disappointing, complicated and not on par with predecessors. September 17, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you like the Syphon Filter series, perhaps you felt the same anticipation for this first of the series on PS2 that I did. I was disappointed. The story concept was still good...but the designers missed the mark in many ways. Graphics, music and mood are all top-notch. So what didn't I like? First, they deviated from having Gabe Logan as the central character. Instead they offer the ability to engineer your own character. Secondly, the storyline within each mission is cluttered and busy to the point of being overwhelming. Third, the character motion is not good. Specifically, aiming is slow. Turning to view the surroundings is not fluid or quick enough. I have trouble with motion sickness (which only permits me to play 3rd-person games -- and this game is 3rd-person), but I was still affected with dizziness by this game to the point of not being able to complete it. Sorry...I WANTED to like this game, but couldn't rate it higher than a 2.
Mindless Shoot em' up--would be fun if you could see it September 11, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Relating to it's previous games, Syphon FilterLOmega Stain is a 3rd person shooter with little (to almost none) planning of strategy of the shootout. The game usually sends you in a base filled with terrorists of dumb AI but big weapon power (their accuracy can later into the levels be almost bullseye every time)and those terrorists you fight usually will teleport right before your eyes (this does not actually do with the story at all, it is merely a bad placement error in the levels).
The graphics being a little over mid par of the PS2's is also stained by the fact of the game known as: Darkness. You'll be wandering and shooting blindlessy through a place of dim and dark darkness and the enemys seem to not even notice. The enemies will shoot you through the darkness--and you will be hit--very, very many times.
Lets face it--The control stinks. Its touchy and complicating at sometimes and you probably wont ever get the total feel of control. Sometimes you might send your agent rolling around or doing something completely different then wat you would normally comand.
Then comes the part that really excited me before i got it--The fact that you can create the agent you play in the levels...Yes, they messed that up too. The creation system is veyr limited. Very limited and it will leave you creating an agent who will look like every one elses.
The good part of the game is the sound. All of the many weapons (theres a lot of good ones!) sound realistic. This gives you the feel of the gun for a little bit more fun.
Yes thats the game.
GRAPHICS: 3.5/5.0
PRESENTATION AND MENUS: 5.0/5.0
SOUND: 4.5/5.0
CONTROL: 2.5/5.0
GAMEPLAY: 3.5/5.0
RE-PLAY VALUE: 2.0/5.0 (The levels get frustating because of those too-perfect, teleporting, huge numerous enemies!)
OVERALL: 3.5/5.0
The game delivers mindless shooting and frustating and boring levels. Unless you just want to a shoot a gun blindlessy at enemies on dark levels and die many times on snowy moutains leave this game on the shelf.
Such a big disapointment here.
THE GOODSIDE OF SYPHON FILTER: OMEGA STRAIN:
The fact of being like Ps1's great Syphon Fighter with better graphics.
THE BADSIDE OF THAT:
WE wanted it to be something that could stand up in today's game world but this one is just being bought because the others were so good of being that 3rd Person Shooter.
PROGAMER REVIEWER, CHRIS
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