Customer Reviews:
 this game is truly amazing July 19, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
i felt as if i was playing ps2 when i first popped this great game in my playstation. the graphics are very nice and so is the game play. altough the game can be tricky for new players (lots of controls to rember). i give it five stars and say it is the best game for psone.
JUST ONE DISC!? June 8, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I finally got my hands on Syphon Filter 3 and I was little surprised (and disappointed) to open up its multi-disc case just to find ONE disc. Huh? I searched the case thoroughly, rifled through the instruction book and weapons guide, but nope, no other disc could be found. That's kinda misleading, isn't it? Especially after the previous Syphon Filter had two discs. Silly me, I expected to find at least two discs inside SF3. But whatever. The game is still great-and quite lengthy in spite of its single-disc limitations. It took me four hours just to get through one level (The Aztec Ruins) and that wasn't even the most difficult mission. That honor belongs to Gabe Logan's Afghanistan Flashback, which had me stomping my feet and screaming obscenities. (When the words "mission completed" finally appeared on the screen, I jumped up and danced-Wahoo!)SF3 also has a feature that I hope is included with all future installments in the series: The Mini-Games. These are wonderful little missions that you can have fun with when you don't have time to immerse yourself in the Syphon Filter story. Each mission is limited to ten minutes and your able to do a variety of things with a variety of characters, including five different Gabes, two different Lians and even that worrisome Jason Chance-in his full-body armor-is available if you can stomach him. But the designers should've put the mini-games on a different disc, though. That way both the mini-games and SF3 could've been expanded. Lord knows there's plenty of room for another disc inside this case! You'll also notice that the cut-scenes are different in SF3. The animation is more defined and the characters' mouths actually move when they talk. I didn't like this at first. I wanted the scenes to be the same as they were in parts 1 and 2, and I still think it was a mistake "improving" them this way. It lacks consistency. (And now Gabe looks like Harry Hamlin!) But I'm used to it now and I have to admit that the characters are more life-like, and the women are more beautiful-I never realized what a babe Mara Aramov is! There are a lot of flashbacks in SF3. Too many flashbacks, if you ask me. This is because Gabe, Lian and others have been called in to give closed-door testimony on Syphon Filter and on the shadowy Agency that help procure it. Now why, I ask you, do Gabe and Lian agree to this? They're outlaws, remember? All during SF2, Government agents were trying to kill them left and right and now, suddenly, the outlaws are putting on their Sunday-best to go testify in Washington, D.C.? It makes no sense. But there they are and here come the flashbacks. You'll go all the way back to 1987, when Gabe first met Lian in Afghanistan, and even further with Lawrence Mujari (the guy that owns the Whispering Woods Mortuary) when he tells how he first encountered a "mysterious illness" in 1984, while as a freedom-fighter in Africa. These flashbacks provide excellent gameplay, of course, in a variety of settings-deserts, jungles, snowy mountains-but they don't advance the Syphon Filter story very much. There's one looooong flashback that takes place in Montana and I can't figure out what it has to do with anything! But by the end of the game, all loose-ends are tied up in a very satisfying knot. All, except one. I won't give anything away, but the door is left wide open for the fourth Syphon Filter, due out in October 2003. Man, I hope it's as good as the originals. And if it is, I hope they make plenty more!
 Lets See... December 31, 2002
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is okay, but if you want something different, try another game. This game is basically a duplicate of 1 & 2. The worst part of this game is that it doesnt even follow a storyline. Gabe Logan is on trial and you're just acting out his flashbacks. Overall, this game is challenging, fun, but sometimes impossible and confusing. If you want to play this game, but want to spend less money, buy SF1 or SF2.
Good but not as good as the first two December 4, 2002
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was thrilled when it came out for the playstation 1. The game seemed to be short and I wasn't too crazy about the shifting of time scenes, but then again it was telling a story. The action was nice as well as the new weapons. Problem is with a game as great as the syphon filter series, they didn't leave much room for a syphon filter 4. If they do, I would hope they stick to tradition and make it for playstation. Or perhaps they can keep the charactors and make a new series for playstation 2.
i cant play some of the maps in syphon filter 3 November 28, 2002
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
plzz some one tell me how to unlock those maps
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