Silent Scope 3 Pc Download
Vallie Kleinert
From: BrownPack #007
CaPwnD posted...
I have the gun too... It's not nearly as good as it is in the arcade. The gun doesn't have a screen in the scope like in the arcade.
Sometimes I wish if I ever was one of those guys who would have an arcade game collection in his house, the Silent Scope arcade edition would have to be there. Even today, playing it is amazing.
The "scope" of your sniper rifle is represented by a circle that zooms in on wherever your targeting reticle is, though you can zoom out by pulling on the left trigger, which is useful because your reticle can move about the screen much faster when you're zoomed out. The game forces you to balance between speed and accuracy by giving you a countdown clock to play against, in addition to a slow reload time. You'll notice that a few tweaks are made to the formula as you go from Silent Scope to Silent Scope 3, including the addition of a single, final pass/fail shot at the end of certain missions. Moreover, Silent Scope 3 and Silent Scope EX both aid you with a little autotargeting. These minor discrepancies aside, however, it's apparent that Konami didn't really put a lot of work into refining its formula from game to game.
Part of the appeal of the Silent Scope games for the arcades involved the mounted sniper rifles that had LCD screens inside the scopes. It's pretty amazing how immersive it is in being able to look into the scope to see a zoomed-in view of the screen right in front of you. As a result, it's pretty obvious why much of each game's appeal was lost in translation to consoles. To address this issue, Konami has teamed up with gaming peripheral manufacturer Pelican to design a special sniper rifle for Silent Scope Complete. The home rifle, which will run you a little more than the price of the game itself, mimics the behavior of the arcade rifle by providing a clear scope and a proximity sensor that, in theory, will trigger the zoomed-in rifle perspective when you put your eye up to the scope, which is really just a clear tube that lets you see through to your television screen. We say "in theory" because our experience revealed that the scope sensor was very difficult to calibrate, and its functionality was real hit-and-miss. You can configure the rifle to ignore the scope sensor so that you can use one of the rifle's other buttons to bring up the zoomed view, but this doesn't alleviate the fact that we had to turn the screen brightness way up to even calibrate the rifle properly. Ultimately, Pelican's peripheral isn't a very suitable replacement for the arcade rifle, and we found our performance to be significantly better when we just used a standard Xbox controller.
Gameplay was similar to other on-rails shooters such as Ghost Squad or Time Crisis, however, the scope added a bit of welcome variety to the genre. Player would look through the scope, which had a small screen that showed a zoomed in view of wherever they were aiming on the main screen. In order to play successfully, players would have to look away from the scope to find their next target, aim their gun in that direction, and look through the scope to get an accurate headshot. Players had to be quick however, as there was an active timer at the top that would only go up every time you got a successful kill.
After gaining so much popularity in the arcades, the first game was ported to the Dreamcast in 2000. This port consisted of you moving an on screen cursor and holding a button to zoom in, creating a representation of what you would have seen in the arcade game's scope. Oddly enough, the game didn't support light guns and there wasn't any sniper rifle accessory released for it. There was one light gun released for the Dreamcast, called the Bio Gun, which got around this limitation by having a "Silent Scope" switch on it, however, this simply let you move the on-screen cursor using the D-pad on the side of the gun, and let you shoot with the gun's trigger, making it not that different of an experience from simply playing with a controller. The same version was also ported to the Playstation 2
Many would call 2004's Silent Scope Complete for the Xbox the most accurate port of Silent Scope. Not only did it feature all three Silent Scope games, but it also featured a sniper light gun controller, which was a first for the series on home consoles. The sniper rifle light gun that worked with the game did not have a built-in screen on the scope like the arcade versions did, but instead had a sensor that would sense when you put your eye up to the scope, which would switch the view in-game to "zoomed" mode. There was also an option to shut this off, letting you manually switch to zoomed mode by hitting the B-button.
The real meat and bones of the game is with the gameplay, but being an arcade game, I feel obligated to talk about the controller. For the most part, it's what carries the game. I know that sounds like a knock against the game, but in this genre, it's anything but. You will spend half of your time looking at the machine's screen, scanning for enemies, and the other half with your eye in the scope to line up your shot. Once you have an enemy in your sights, you fire, and it's simple as that.
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