![]() ![]() By the end of the third game, Gabe Logan's body count is almost enough to make even the most battle hardened of Contra doods feel just a little insecure. I may even be so bold as to say its gunplay and rudimentary cover mechanics could be seen as sewn seeds for games that would come later such as the highly-underrated Kill.Switch and Uncharted. Though both series share a great deal of similarities in their subject matter, gameplay-wise, Syphon Filter is faaaaaar more action-oriented, challenging, and reflex-intensive than Metal Gear Solid would ever be. While a few of my friends were busy being wrapped up in the debate about whether Syphon Filter was in fact a rip off or not, I was busy thinking they were idiots. (PRETTY SURE I HEARD THE WORD "NANOMACHINES" IN THERE AT SOME POINT TOO!) Rather than pointing fingers at one another, both sides have, on occasion, given little shout outs to one another via little easter eggs in backgrounds or direct dialog. Whether intentional or not, Sony's (989 Studios) Syphon Filter, its characters, and the world of espionage and shady government organizations it took place in, though not wacky and melodramatic as Metal Gear Solid would become, can seem eerily similar at times.īoth games feature a gravely-voiced main protagonist who is a one man army tasked with saving the world, both are efficient in combat ops as well as stealth, both are betrayed on a number of occasions throughout their stories and become outlaws, both games have an ex-KGB agent that REFUSES to die, and even the Syphon Filter Virus itself almost 100% mimics Metal Gear Solid's FoxDie retrovirus. The first Syphon Filter game was released only a mere three months after the release of the juggernaut that was Metal Gear Solid and both games featured more than a few passing resemblances to one another. ![]() The Syphon Filter PSX Trilogy Gabe Logan Solid Snakeīack in the beautifully blocky PSX days, comparisons between the Syphon Filter and Metal Gear Solid series were inescapable. ![]()
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