Haven't played a game with such a great story for a long long time. Sorry for the introduction, but I just can't help myself. No RPG of Adventure would have to be ashamed of such twisted and surprising story. It's the thing which makes you play it through in one breath. The next best thing are the psychic powers, stuff you can do with them and related puzzles. You'd think the developers must run out of ideas after several great puzzles, but there's still something new and original. The next thing I loved about this game is the "genre variety". Sometimes it feels like a pure 3rd person shooter (max payne?), sometimes it's an action adventure with using these psychic powers and sometimes it's just pure adventure with solving interesting puzzles. The graphics for this game blends excellently with the atmosphere, so does the soundtrack. If you were in the main character's situation, you would surely hear something similar in your head. Sadly, the game suffers from some problems which spoil otherwise great experience. For example the camera. You could argue that most 3rd person games have terrible camera, in Second Sight it's just disastrous. Sometimes I got the feeling that no matter how I move the mouse, camera turns as it pleases. The other thing i really disliked was the aiming mechanism while shooting. It uses automatic locking onto most probable target and lets you fine-aim with the mouse. During the whole game I just couldn't get used to it. There's nothing worse than your cursor locking onto a nearby box instead of a shocktrooper. You can as well reload the last checkpoint. But overall I was willing to close my eyes and ignore these weaknesses because of the story, the puzzles and the psychic powers. Finally: this may not be the ultrabest game on market. But never did Half Life 2 keep me playing for so long in one session. I loved this game, it reminded me of Beyond Good & Evil - great surprise.
This is one of those games which never get the right amount of press and just disappear under the hype-fest in the press over generic games like WOW and Gears of War (just few of the many). It may not have the best gr... Read Full Review
Second Sight tells a story of a man who wakes up in some kinf of medical facility with no memory of who he is. Shortly after he discovers that he has some unusual psychic powers which he can use to manipulate various th... Read Full Review
