Silent Scope, Konami's smash hit sniper game, has been a hit in the arcades since its initial debut years ago. Silent Scope 2 also carried the same amount of support from games around the world. It's probably because of the success of the previous games that a third installment isn't too surprising. Developed and published by Konami, Silent Scope 3 takes the sniper genre to a whole new level with under sea missions and glider missions. When released for PlayStation 2 the game is even said to feature alternate paths that dictate the ending.
Talk about bad timing. Silent Scope 3 was released during the midst of the sniper shootings in the Washington D.C. area. Somehow, however, the game managed to remain in the background during all of this, and when I first fired a couple of shots in the game, I was pretty disgusted that someone could do the same to a customer of a gas station. I soon came to grips with the game, though, by realizing that what I was doing wasn't real. That's because some of the situations in which the developers put the player into are just impossible. I doubt any sniper has ever shot accurately from a hang glider or a helicopter. Yet this game is full of challenges just like those. Read More »
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