Velvet Assassin

[BobFromPikeCreek]

It's pretty ok. It's like every other stealth game ever made, but it doesn't screw anything up so it's a decent distraction. Worth a rent I think.

It's very trial and error, but most stealth games are.

[bork]

I didn't even know what this game was and had to look it up; don't ever remember seeing previews before.  People don't seem to think it's that great and say it feels like Splinter Cell.  Splinter Cell ONE, just with this hilarious mode where you drop all your clothes and rose petals fall as you walk around and the enemies become brain-dead.  Uh, yeah.  Sounds like one for the bargain bins maybe.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

It's very, very simple. Anyone who actually spends money on it is a sap.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

South Peak. Publishers of the super excellent Two Worlds, game of whatever year it came out.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Awesome.

[Bildi]

Shame it's a bit ordinary.  Not that I was really expecting anything but I like a bit of stealth now and then.  Would have been nice if a cool game came out of nowhere.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I wouldn't buy anything from them except whatever Croteam game they're going to publish.

Whatever happened with that?  Its been years and years since their last game, is Croteam even still around or what?

[chronovore]

So... wait... it's a stealth game, except for where she gets naked and surprises people?

It's a flashing game?

...With guns?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The game is centered around a ww2 stealth assassin who is in a coma, and you're playing her memories of her missions. When you use morphine in a mission, it blurs the lines between the dream and reality. It's not flowers flying around, it's blood cells, and she doesn't get into her underwear, it's the nightgown she's wearing in real life. It's still pretty goofy, but it actually makes more sense than those other impressions make it sound.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The stealth is pretty decent, and isn't any more archaic than MGS stealth. It's very dawn-of-genre, but if people can play MGS they can play this. It's worth playing if a) there's nothing even remotely better to rent or b) you can get it for like 15 bucks in the future.

[chronovore]

15 bux in the futchar was pretty much what I was planning on.

A shame about the blood cells and hospital gown: a nekkid woman fighting der nazis is one of the few western game designs that might sell in Japan.