![]() ![]() The level design was dull, the enemies were about as smart as a sack of potatoes, and the plot was a load of old bollocks, but, damn, I love Psi-Ops. You can drag people around and throw them into bizarrely exposed machine-works using the power of your mind but this is serious business. ![]() Physics-based comedy games are ten a penny these days but there's nothing to compare with Psi-Ops, which is utterly hilarious purely by virtue of the fact that it's not a comedy game. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Perhaps either that's all gone away now, or this is a last-ditch attempt to make some money from the game before the lawsuit bleeds Midway dry.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. Crawford III claiming that game ripped off his 1998 movie screenplay of the same name. ![]() ![]() Worth noting this is a game that suffered a lawsuit late last year, one William L. That said, the mere mention of the magic word 'free' has doubtless sent gamers over to Fileplanet's childishly slow servers (120k/s here, so I'm not going to be playing it any time soon) in their droves, so I suspect the advertisers will be ever so happy. It's a remarkably strange game to do this for - I can't believe there are many folk out there thinking 'ooh, I always wanted to play a clunky port of a so-so Playstation 2 game'. In this instance, it's Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a mediocre but occasionally good FPS like an FPS but with more shoulder from 2004 by the same team as John Woo's Stranglehold, a mediocre but occasionally good FPS like an FPS but with more shoulder from 2007.įileplanet are providing all 2Gb of it for free, with the proviso that you'll have to endure some ads. Well, probably a bit of both, but I am enjoying seeing the latter experiment with what and doesn't work. The plastic disc is an artefact of yesterday without doubt, but will it be replaced by online retail or by free, ad-supported games? What we don't know is exactly what future. We're hurtling into a bright new future for PC games - we all know that. ![]()
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