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Syphon Filter 2 for PlayStation 1
In Syphon Filter 2 for PlayStation 1, Gabe Logan and Lian Xing fight their former intelligence agency. It is trying to conceal the sale of the Syphon Filter virus and has branded the agents as criminals. You follow both of them on separate assignments through locations including snow-covered mountains, Moscow and a secret laboratory. The third-person shooter alternates firefights with stealth, escapes and situations where you must spare innocent people to avoid failing the assignment.
You can lock onto an opponent to keep firing while moving, or aim manually when their bulletproof vest stops a normal shot. Rolling, strafing and hanging from ledges help you dodge fire and reach different positions. On the ACD screen you read messages, review objectives and select weapons. Your equipment includes a silenced pistol, a crossbow and a rifle whose infrared scope lets you identify heat sources.
You play the story campaign alone with a standard digital or analog PlayStation controller. There are also head-to-head battles for two players on the same console, with a horizontally or vertically split screen; these require two controllers. Saving needs three free blocks on a PlayStation memory card in slot 1. During a level, choose Save and Quit Game to save progress up to the last checkpoint reached, not at any arbitrary position where you happen to be standing.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Syphon Filter 2 for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Syphon Filter 2
Syphon Filter 2 appeared for PlayStation in 2000, about a year after Gabe Logan's first adventure. Eidetic developed the sequel for Sony's 989 Studios. The story picked up the events surrounding the virus directly, but now also gave Lian Xing her own playable assignments. Where she had previously mainly helped through communications, this time you experience her escape and struggle against the conspirators yourself. This allowed the pursuit of both agents to be told from two sides.
In its European press material of January 2000, Sony presented the game as a release on two CDs. It is one continuous sequel, not a collection of two different games. The announcement emphasized a larger campaign, new weapons, motion-captured movement animations and a music system that follows the intensity of the action. The separate split-screen battles also brought a second player to a series that had begun with a solo campaign.
That same year, Sony acquired Eidetic and the studio was renamed Bend Studio. The developer then continued working on Syphon Filter for many years. After the second game, Syphon Filter 3 still appeared on the original PlayStation, before The Omega Strain took the series to PlayStation 2. Syphon Filter 2 therefore belongs to the early period in which the characters, conspiracy and mixture of stealth and shooting were developed further, before the series moved to other Sony systems.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Syphon Filter for PlayStation 1 introduces the same approach to aiming, taking cover and following assignments through information from colleagues. In that game, you control Gabe Logan during the first hunt for the virus's creators. Syphon Filter 2 continues those events and also lets you carry out missions with Lian Xing. The sequel adds head-to-head split-screen battles too. The first game establishes the conspiracy; the second shifts attention to the pursuit of the agents themselves.
Mission: Impossible for PlayStation 1 also combines espionage, gadgets and armed action with a visible lead character. Ethan Hunt regularly uses a disguise or an item to get past a contact and security. Syphon Filter 2 places more emphasis on aiming while moving, finding cover and dealing with enemies who have different protection. Both feature assignments where caution matters, but Gabe and Lian switch more often between stealth and extended firefights, while Ethan also handles conversations and individual equipment puzzles.
Metal Gear Solid for PlayStation 1 shares the secret operation, conspiracy and importance of getting past guards unseen. Solid Snake uses radar to track where enemies are looking and tries to prevent alarms, supported by conversations over the Codec. Syphon Filter 2 gives you direct target locking and a danger meter during firefights. Both use weapons and information to cross a guarded location, but Gabe Logan's sequel makes shooting while moving a much more prominent part of the action.
007: Tomorrow Never Dies for PlayStation 1 offers secret missions with firearms, gadgets and a camera outside the agent, just like Syphon Filter 2. Bond follows the threat posed by media magnate Elliot Carver and also gets driving and skiing scenes. Gabe and Lian remain focused on their own escape, infiltrations and firefights on foot. Tomorrow Never Dies incorporates familiar movie footage and Bond's equipment from Q; Syphon Filter 2 tells its own conspiracy story and also offers head-to-head battles between two human players.
Chase the Express for PlayStation 1 combines terrorists, an international threat and armed action from a third-person perspective, just like Syphon Filter 2. You search a hijacked train, rescue hostages and try to prevent a nuclear disaster. Syphon Filter 2 takes you to more separate operational areas and switches the campaign between Gabe and Lian. In Chase the Express, clues, puzzles and decisions aboard that single train receive more attention, with an outcome that can depend on your actions.
