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Platform: PlayStation 2
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Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America
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Developer: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
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Medium: DVD-ROM
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Players: 1
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Online: No
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Also on: (n/a)
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Phoning it in, yet again.
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Call it revolutionary, call it a worthless gimmick; no matter what you feel about the Eyetoy, it's hard to deny the astounding amount of support Sony has given it. In a day where the lightgun is all but forgotten and any sort of propietary controllers have a shelf life of two games, it's hard to believe that the Eyetoy has gotten chance after chance to prove itself.
Eyetoy: Operation Spy is a sort of odd duck in the lineup, taking a different path than the usual Eyetoy game. You're trying to get into the "Strategic Intelligence Agency" and eventually be a great secret agent. At least, that's what the plot runs through.
In reality, you'll be as involved in spy work sas a person waving their hands in the air to hit immaterial objects can be. It's in this Operation Spy finds its greatest weekeness--even though it has the trappings of an action game, the game's still the same as earlier Eyetoy software. At this point, Operation Spy almost feels like a plagiarized work: nearly everything in the game is a carbon copy of modes from earlier games with a new coat of paint put on them.
Even the non-gameplay side of Operation Spy is lifted directly from a prior title--SpyToy, an application in Play 2 is replicated in Operation Spy. Even though there are slight improvements (hi-res mode, recording and playback options), it's still bizarre to see a feature carry over from one game to the next in a series..and on its way go from a small application on the side to the killer app...but stranger things have happened.
As it stands, Eyetoy: Operation Spy is the same old game with a different look. Given that the concept has taken some nice steps into other facets of gameplay (the musical Groove, the interesting if not flawed Antigrav), it's embarassing that London Studio made Operation Spy not much more than a poor clone of the Play series. Hopefully they don't phone in their next game.
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