Back In The Hole

With the small article I did on Rainy Woods, I thought I would talk about the infamous game, Spy Fiction. This was the first game I played by Sammy Studios, with only two games I know about from them, Spy Fiction and Seven Samurai 20XX. Spy Fiction really stood out from the two for me. Like an under budget stealth game, it is still good with a lot of heart.

The game is based around a small group of agents called S.E.A. who are sent out to stop a bunch mad men from releasing a deadly virus called Lahder. The group is made up of Billy Bishop and Sheila Crawford the two main protagonists, and Billy's best friend and lone wolf of the group, Nicklaus Nightwood.

Unlike a lot of stealth games, where the main point is to hide and be stealthy about it, this game allows you to mix into the crowed and even allowed to stand out. As long as you're in disguise, which can be obtained by using a special camera. With this camera and the closes locker, bathroom stall, or garbage bin, you can transform into the person you took a picture of. The only problem with this camera is, you have to make sure you get the face and the body. At times this can be difficult, especially when you don't want to be noticed by the "model".

Sheila is the only one who can be disguised as males or females, while Billy must stick to the male gender. At times though, it is mandatory that Sheila is disguised as certain women to obtain information.

There is other objects that are quite fancy, such as "suction cups" that allow you to stick the walls, and Billy and Sheila's suits that allow them to be camouflaged in a wall as long as they don't move. Think of it as an prototype model of the Octocamo in MGS4. A long with some other spy gadgets like a razor that is actually a high voltage tasser, or a poker card that is used as a shuriken.

A lot of this game is ripped offs of Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, James Bond, and Mission Impossiable. But it's still pretty fun if you can look past it and play it just for fun. At the beginning I suggest playing as Sheila then go with Billy for ending purposes. I did Billy first and the ending just looked wrong from it. The game can be pretty lazy with the linear storylines that both Sheila and Billy do with no real changes between them. But none the less it's a pretty fun game I picked up for about ten dollars.