Project Snowblind does a really good job of establishing its story and
atmosphere. High quality, action-packed cutscenes link the battles and do a good
job of getting your adrenaline going before you can even pull a trigger.
Sequences in which Frost is present even allow you to turn your head back and
forth to get a look at the action unfolding around you. The game environments
are impressive as well, with urban environments set in a war torn Hong Kong in
which a lot of its unique architecture has survived the war so far and that
still manages to power a lot of its neon. From the very start of the game in
which you are defending a temple and its gardens from an enemy assault, you can
see the detail and thought that the game puts into its environments. This is
good to see considering that the shooter genre suffers from an endless stream of
games set in generic and unimaginative locations, and Project Snowblind is even
the better for it. Other nice features of the levels are that there is often an
alternate path to your goal and that the environments are partially
destructible. A game just feels more immersive when a grenade can take out a
piece of a wall or when the heavy machine gun you’re manning can poke holes
through walls.
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Project Snowblind provides a variety of objective types and even allows you
to approach them as you see fit. There are times when stealth appears to be the
right approach to a situation, but there’s often nothing stopping you from
taking a more proactive approach and choosing the way of the gun. You can try to
get close enough to a turret to lob a grenade on it or you can look for an
access panel and hack it instead. Giving you the freedom to make such choices
adds immensely to your feeling of immersion and makes you feel more of an active
participant in the story rather than someone going through the motions laid out
for him/her by a level designer.
Overall the game is pretty fast-paced and you’ll spend most of it in pitched
firefights. Unfortunately, the fast-pacing will also make the short campaign
feel even shorter – you can probably finish the game in a weekend if you
dedicate a good part of it to game play. You can continue to get more life out
of the game by playing its multiplayer modes, but to do so you will have to have
a Network Adaptor as the game does not support split-screen play. The
multiplayer game is certainly enjoyable, but it does just provide your standard
stock of game types such as deathmatch.
Project Snowblind is definitely recommendable to action gamers looking for
something more engrossing than your typical shooter. The atmosphere, action, and
variety of special abilities make Project Snowblind an enjoyable experience.
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
87%. If you’re looking for a good shooter that stands out from the
crowd, then open your eyes to Project Snowblind.
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