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Xbox | Action | Silent Scope Complete

Boxart for Silent Scope Complete
Silent Scope Complete 24 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 4.0
  • SOUND: 3.5
  • CONTROL: 4.0
  • FUN FACTOR 4.5
  • AVG USER SCORE n/a
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 3.5
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Review: Silent Scope Complete

Review by FOUREYEDDRAGON | 02/10/2004 | 13:09:33 PM PST

Aim for the head. Take a deep breath. Hold it. Squeeze the trigger. Your mission is complete.

Much like snipers in the field who waits for their target, Xbox owners needed a lot of patience for a solid shooting game to appear in their sights. Now the patience pays off?not just with one venerable Silent Scope game, but with the entire classic series for the price of only one. Bullseye!

Scoping Out the Baddies
It?s the arcade series that makes you look twice in more ways than one. Who can?t resist saving the world by looking down a rifle?s scope and pulling the trigger during hairy situations? If you miss the target, you not only let the terrorist have extra time to shoot back, but your ego as a marksman is shot. Silent Scope is an adrenaline-pumped, fast-paced shooter that?s easy to pick up but hard to put down. All of the games are still popular in the arcade but cost a hefty price to play, and the PlayStation 2 versions are sold separately and without a light gun compatibility. Silent Scope Complete, on the other hand, is loaded with enough rounds to keep your full attention longer than just one shot. On one disc, you can play the entire games of Silent Scope 1, 2, and 3, including all of the training levels and branching areas. Playing through each game more than once will also open up hidden bonuses. Visually, all three games have been retouched to look much sharper, while the audio remains standard arcade fare: cool gun effects and hokey voices.

Silence Is Golden
Invest in Pelican?s light gun, and Silent Scope Complete will?well, complete this fantastic experience. Without the gun, however, the controls are fairly simple. Press one button to zoom in or out and pull the trigger button to fire. The analog stick, though, is sensitive and can result to a lot of jerkiness when you?re zoomed in for the kill. Still, with so much fun chasing down enemies with a scope, you?ll realize that this is the perfect target you?ve been waiting for on the Xbox.