She's sexy and she kills Nazis, too bad that's about all she's got going for her.

User Rating: 2 | Velvet Assassin X360
I really wanted to love this game, not for it's sexy heroine in her tighter than skin outfit, or the fact that the game allows me to kill, rather brutally, the one thing I love killing more than Zombies, but because it was touted as a stealth game, and I love stealth games immensely. Thief was probably my first foray into the genre, and while it's pretty basic by today's standards, the thought of lurking in the shadows on hard mode for those extra difficult bits of treasure while remaining totally undetected still gives me goose bumps.

Stealth, especially good stealth, is so bloody hard to come by these days, so I was excited about giving this game a try. What I got for 'trying' was a sloppy, gimmicky, D-grade game that tried to make up for it's shallow stealth elements with a woman who apparently becomes a semi-naked harbinger of brutal death whenever she shoots herself up with morphine. Dumb as dirt AI, claustrophobic linear stages, and an aggravatingly out of place end level make this one I wish I'd passed on, though I'd like to think that maybe there will be a sequel, and maybe the silk wearing Nazi killer will learn from her mistakes and give my old pal Agent 47 a run for his money someday.