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Platform: Playstation 2
Genre: Stealth Action
Publisher: Sammy Studios
Developer: Access Games
ETA: September 2004

 

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Spy Fiction

 

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With games like Splinter Cell raising the bar, introducing innovations and meeting expectations of what a stealth action game should play like, it’s becoming more challenging and difficult for developers to introduce new ideas into their games. While Sammy Studios might be better known for their Guilty Gear games, they are also trying their hand at the stealth action genre.

 

Spy Fiction (SF) is hoping to incorporate an excellent game engine with a stunning storyline. One of the most attractive features SF has is the ability to assume the guise of almost any character in the game. This will surely bring a whole new dynamic to the game play as each character should play differently. Not only that, but there will also be a number of mini-games and cool gadgets.

 

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Spy Fiction has an intriguing storyline devised to keep players guessing to the end. The game covers the exploits of an underground espionage agency known as S.E.A. When S.E.A. receives a videotape delivering ominous messages from an international terrorist

 organization, they dispatch strike team Phantom to infiltrate their hideout. There, agents discover a diabolical plan, launching them on a mission that takes them from biotech labs in the U.S. Northwest to the mountains of Austria in search of a madman.

 

Features:

3rd Person Action-Stealth game introducing the ability to steal identities and assume the appearance, voice and other characteristics of enemies.

 

Seamless combination of stealth, action and puzzles such as parachuting and rappelling.

 

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Host of new gadgets like the ID cam, wall grips, sticky cameras, patch grenades and more allow for novel ways to avoid detection.

 

Intriguing storyline drawn from genre-defining works of spy fiction.

 

Interior and exterior stages, with settings from around the world ranging from classic spy film locales to modern day hot-spots of conflict.

 

Significant enhancements to U.S. version including new gadgets, dynamically lit environments, improved graphics and textures, smarter enemy A.I. and new missions.

 

2 playable characters, with multiple endings, secret missions and un-lockable skins.

 

Character design by anime illustrator Renji Murata (Last Exile, Blue Submarine No. 6.)

 

Spy Fiction will hit store shelves this September.

 

- Siddharth Masand

(August 24, 2004)

 

 

 

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