Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

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Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy Protagonist(s): Nick Scryer Genre(s): Third-person shooter, action-adventure Platform(s): Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox Release: NA: June 14, 2004 PAL: October 1, 2004 Developer(s): Midway Games Publisher(s): Midway Games EU: Zoo Digital Publishing (PC) JP: Capcom Series: Psi-Ops

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is an action-adventure video game developed by Midway Games for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Why It's Mind Blowing

1. The idea of TPS game with psi powers is unique.
2. Amazing graphic for 2004 standard.
3. Nick Scryer is a cool protagonist.
4. Nick can use the ladder unlike the popular game we all know.
5. Unlike Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it has ragdoll physics.
6. Not only the enemies and the rocks/boxes are movable, we can also use telekinesis on the pickable objects like health box and weapons.
7. The villains of The Movement are threatening, such as The General, Edgar Barrett, Jov Leonov, Wei Lu, Marlena Kessler and Nicolas Wrightson.
8. Speaking of Edgar Barrett, before he joined The Movement, he trained Nick how to get powers, he has also some funny quotes when the training is over.

Bad Qualities

1. It takes only 4 hours to complete the story.
2. Despite saying "To Be Continued" at the end, there's no chance of its sequel, which ended the franchise in a cliffhanger.
3. The soundtrack can somehow chop when going to the other section instead of fade out.

Reception

GameSpot named Psi-Ops the best PlayStation 2 game of June 2004. During the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, it was nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development" and "Console Action/Adventure Game of the Year", but lost both awards to Fable and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, respectively.

In 2009, GamesRadar included it among the games "with untapped franchise potential", commenting: "Midway's 2004 shooter combined traditional weaponry with its protagonist's psychic abilities (such as telekinesis), and received generally favorable reviews from critics and players. It was even reviewed better than the similarly-minded Force Unleashed, yet we still haven't seen a sequel." In 2010, UGO ranked as the #21 on the list of the games that need sequels. That same year, the game was included as one of the titles in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.

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