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The original Syphon Filter was one of the ground-breaking action games for PS2 in recent memory. That was followed by a decent sequel and the execrable Syphon Filter 3. And now, the final chapter.

What's good about the game: the artwork is by and large beautiful, and there are some wonderful non-interactive sequences. And of course, how can you go wrong with burning terrorists alive with a taser?

That's where the good stuff ends. The storyline, never a strength of the series, is trite and hackneyed, the voice acting uninspired and the game itself offers a surprisingly boring single-player experience. For a game that was over three years in the making, I was amazed by the lack of originality and compelling gameplay. It's pretty clear the designers were rather uninspired here.

But what really ticked me off was the incredibly lame "multiplayer" option--yes, you can go online and play with your friends--but only as one side! You always play against enemy AIs! How fun would CounterStrike be if you could only play against 'bots? Well, buy this game and you can find out.

I wish the makers of this game had instead created a great single player game instead of wasting their (and my) time creating a multiplayer mode that will get little if any play.

If you are looking for a great single-player experience with a great cinematic element, I recommend 007: Everything or Nothing or Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. If you want online action, get SOCOM2. SF:TOS tries to have it's cake and eat it too, and fails miserably on both counts.

It's too bad this had to be the last in the Syphon Filter series, as it goes out not with a bang, but with a whimper.

I've never played any of the original Syphon Filter games so I don't know what the genera is like or what the game used to be like but I heard good things about them so when I picked up Omega Strain I was very disappointed to find the game very flawed, and needing a lot of work. First thing lets start with the good, lets start with the reason I didn't give this game zero stars. The graphics and character models look very good which is the least we could have hoped for. The story for the most part is farley average, at times it will pick up but at other times it falls very short. Pretty much the one thing that keeps the game from being total crap is the fact of being able to customize your own agent, and earn many different awards which gives you new stuff(weapons,gear,clothing) When the game starts you get to customize your very own agent. You get to pick if the agent is male or female, what the agent wears, and what the agent looks like. As you play through the game you will be able to unlock new things like clothes, tattoos ,and body armor to add to your agent. Through out the game you will also be able to unlock new weapons to equip to your agent in a mission like the FA-MAS, Riot Shotgun,UNP45,and an asortment of other weapons. This sound pretty cool but a lot of the weapons suck and the ones that are good run out of ammo fast. In terms of game play the game falls short to. The target lock tends to piss me off because it always targets the enemy closest to you instead of the enemy in front of you. This may sound good and it is when you are out in the open but when you are in close quarters instead of targeting the enemy shooting at you directly in front of you it will target an enemy taking cover behind a wall which can really screw you up. The missions don't seem that interesting and youll feel like your doing a lot of back tracking and running around, which could be, because of the crappy level design and confusing radar. The multiplay for Omega Strain is both a godsend and a curse. Overall its pretty cool to play the game with two of your budies, and when you play with some one else you will be able to unlock specal weapons and gear which you couldent get in single player, but can now use in single player. What makes the multiplayer a curse is the fact that in order to talk to the other players you have to hit up on the D-pad which means youll have to stand still to talk. Over all Omega Strain single player and multiplayer fall short in many areas and the only reason im giving it three stars is because I want it to be good, it has potential, but some where along the line it got screwed up.

U don't get to be gabe at the begining of this game u r just some guy/girl u create. unlike sf 1,2 and 3 where u r gabe logan ( the main character in sf). u have to get far into the game to be gabe and gabe is the only reason i play sf because he is tyte and this game u r not gabe ( which realy suks )