(old and crap) SiN (1998) / Greater Cheese

[Music] [Music] [Music] new one jump oh yeah here we go it's the [ __ ] right here an oddball shooter from 1998 with insane ambition kick-ass gameplay at a highly questionable story today I give u s-- in ritual entertainments contribution and ids cheese and ultraviolence you may not remember this game because it's got a little overshadowed by this other game that came out like a week late or this one which to be fair is a much better game but sin holds a special place in my heart for being a champion as a lost John where a dick swagat action games get ready for this you are John blade John blade is an officer of hardcore come on come on come on he has a hacker partner named JC and Oh God okay this is a thing that needs to be addressed immediately this game was made out of the quake 2 engine which was made by time-traveling space wizard John Carmack but they were a little behind the curve on this one because instead of habit skeletons for the models they didn't and so everything is moved by vertices and it's not as noticeable twenty years ago and garbage resolution but now it's uh just get used to a kids cuz the whole game is like this just look at his hair this is supposed to be dreadlocks anyway let's talk about why this is a forgotten classic that could have been a tread center for FPS games if half-life didn't show up a week later to have crazy [ __ ] like characters bounce moving where they talked at voice-acting that wasn't terrible and look I know I talked about half-life a lot of this channel and there's reason for that because talking about FPS games from the 90s is not mentioning it it's like talking about geopolitical tensions in Europe there are the 30s without talking about Nazis so let's talk about how half-life systematically exterminated this kind of shooter half-life and by extension half-life to make shooters go linear where you have a start point and you basically go straight line from set piece to set piece it's a much easier way to design a game because you have so much control the players resources in a game like sitting there secrets all over the place you can get weapons early there are health pickups and secrets are bird [ __ ] like that and in sin and the shooters that came before it levels were open-ended it allowed the player to visit a lot of areas at any particular order sin takes this idea it builds upon it like here in the very first level there's a bank heist Freeport's a bank was just taken over robbery in progress damn damn you said [ __ ] on a helicopter and I think this is the first time I've ever seen a game opened with the turret section but it's actually not bad look look how its introduced [Music] hey that was a good shot that's nothing compared with Laster I shot this cop in the head ever even saw it coming yeah those French of cop guys are whipped hey what's that sound surprise you'll see you have actual mission objectives and if you keep your eyes and ears open you can do all of them without a problem so you shoot up the rooftops of this bag take out these bad guys to the rocket launcher seal off the bank entrance blow a hole in the roof to enter and drop right in simple stop right not in 1998 this was an evolution to the kind of interactivity you saw in games like Duke Nukem 3d where your actions could actually shape the environment around you so you get into the bag what now rescue some hostages kill the criminals but wait there's another entrance over here you can help out your fellow officers control the situation on that side of the bank before going inside saving hostages get out of here gooooo I'm saved run to safety thank you you can kill civilians but JC will yell at you wait what are you doing man those are friendlies there's really not much in the way of punishment for doing it and I actually had to do it once because the [ __ ] was blocking a secret what are you plating JC talk a lot sometimes and you wish they didn't or you wish JC didn't blade was JC didn't - box full of [ __ ] rats JC you [ __ ] I'm kicking your ass later JC you do realize that right rats are at the top of standard B's in the game but they are the second worst you rarely notice them until they're chewing on you which they do just because every single one always [ __ ] them you have a lot of standard FPS stuff here you pick up keys to unlock doors in the second mission when you're chasing this army of bank robbers down you pick up sacks of money lying around to return to the bank because you're actually a good guy here's what [ __ ] starts getting a little crazy I got some bad news blade is tracking that second I tried to lose him but he's like what are you moving my mana keeping him busy but we better get out of here now slug oh there we go you might have seen her somewhere before that's the villainess of this little story Alexis and Claire head of syntek at future back surgery patient seriously this woman makes Jessica Rabbit look modest and the partial material loading screen shoots like this but in the in-game cutscenes yeah Jesus Christ I know the technology was primitive I'll give her this she doesn't have Laura Cross jagged pyramid boobs if you think I'm objectifying this character or Jedi or a more serious and nuanced discussion that involves gender roles the portrayals of women at video games you'll probably take in this game way too seriously and should stop if your complaint is that Alexis and Claire as a badge of picture to women well she's the villain and she looks like a creepy sex doll and if that's not feminist I don't know what is so she's an evil genocide 'el maniac who wants to turn the whole world into mutants using this drug you for and that's it after she turns the guy behind the bank heist into a mutant monster you get on her trail the compound is called dye for tonight now the manufacturer is are you ready for this sin Tech would have thought a babe like Alexis would be behind all this [ __ ] hot piece like that but she's into this well damn damn no way I've got to get down to sin Tech chemical and check this out once you find out that she's behind this scheme you go undercover in a for stealth mission and I think this is the first time I ever saw a for stealth mission in an FPS game so [ __ ] yous and [ __ ] you I played a thousand times by now so I could get to all the fun shooting parts of the game but it's just crouching and avoiding alarms because alarms in this game mean that syntek soldiers will just spawn in out of nowhere forever I already got it [Music] along the way you get your standard FPS weapons your pistol shotgun light machine gun a heavy machine gun weird spider pom things that are useful sometimes great launch a rocket launcher energy weapon other energy weapon and sniper rifle throw pretty good one problem is that all the bullets have these tracers but they're hitscan weapons and at first you might be a little confused because these things here aren't your bullets your bullets are already here not here the shotgun is a beast it will chip almost anything if used properly the heavy machine gun which also has an attached grenade launcher is also pretty cool even if it takes way too long to switch modes the sniper rifle is so powerful that it even surprised its blade holy [ __ ] then there's this energy weapon that I barely got to use because you have to collect three pieces of it before he could use it and I got the third piece right before the game took my weapons away Brad and it looks like some kind of energy weapon time to make some syntax toast where's my butter but you got it back for the final boss fight and it's okay I guess you'll get a lot more use out of the rocket launcher there's plenty of ammo for that til it more bad guys use it actual in-game terminals to shut down security systems and oh yeah did I mention that this game in 1998 had a pretty neat location-based damage system that registered lemonhead shots the weakest atomies could go down with a single headshot the fact that it worked at all is a marvel even the armor system where you can have vital head protection and torso armor and up to a hundred pants they get chipped away realistically by the enemies they're not all generic soldiers just mostly generic soldiers there's various flavors of robots mutants and oh my god Alexis made a little baby beauty keeps in her house that is adorable well not all of CID is great it has a lot of standout areas the first few missions are awesome after that shitty for stealth section you go through a pretty cool chemical plant a warehouse a biomech lab depending on how you play and where you explore you could find branching paths that take you to other missions that you would otherwise never see there's a silver level too but it's not too bad the ambitious design did a lot of sections looks pretty quaint by today's standards in 1998 though this is impressive stuff circling around this oil rig Stipe and security before you get on sneaking around you disable security systems whole buildings blowing up and falling this rising lava are this apparently volcanic island and a deep-sea section that's actually good and looks [ __ ] amazing for the time like most old FPS games this one gets pretty brutal not cheap brutal like certain other games I could mention but what snipers are introduced get ready to use them quick saves hey save scumming is fine it's not about how much you save it's about how much you load wait wait a thing that struck me while I was playing this is that in new-school FPS games you have the state where you get a prompt on the screen telling you where an enemy is thrown a grenade so you can get on the way I was reminded of this when I was in a room with like five [ __ ] all shooting grenades at me at the same time this is what it used to be like kids this [ __ ] puts hair on your chest and makes you balls drop one grade is that a [ __ ] joke this is an accurate representation of what that [ __ ] would look like it's in late great however in one of these later missions it's full of snipers this is jungle past the beginning of the game's final gauntlet of challenges wait hold on listen to this music it doesn't really fit but damn is that funky you see this a TV here you can ride this you don't want to it's a trap you need it as far as I can tell only wants to get past this gap in the road the way this thing controls is [ __ ] pants the mouse turning is seriously delayed and the keeper eternity is so sensitive that just tapping it probably gets you about 45 degrees and since these guys could blow it up with three rock it's best not to even use it vehicles in an FPS game in 1998 is very ambitious but it wasn't tied yet here we are Alexis Sinclair secret island mansion nice place lots of security snipers everywhere but here's an example of why this game isn't cheap and shitty about it you can sneak around you can find alternate routes if you're smart about it you can turn off the security system you can waste the snipers before they even see it coming it's an option if you're willing to work for it the worst most dangerous enemies in this game or the doors the [ __ ] doors I don't know why this was an issue in older games be it in this game or the deadly doors and build engine games but this is [ __ ] it excusable subtours hurts your little sub doors are instantly fatal it's [ __ ] whoa this isn't gonna be one of those videos where I painstakingly go through the whole game to show you what's in there it's a pretty good game if you can get past a terrible terrible cutscenes with a lot of fun shooting clever level design lots to explore and interact with there's a level of care put into the design that you just don't see anymore think about the last time you walked around in an FPS game and you could just turn the faucets on it off or flush the toilets it's little interactive world building stuff like that that we abandoned in the rush to make everything bland you get some decent bosses at this game except this one who is glitched to [ __ ] even the final boss is pretty good but I'm gonna show you the cutscene you get when you kill the final boss because you shouldn't play this game for the story I want to share this with you because even when I first played this game many years ago it was the stupidest ending to a video game I never seen to the game's credit and even though this is in 320 by 200 you've been a very naughty boy bleh bad enough to kill you [ __ ] should I do with you blade keep you as a man after all this [ __ ] you put me through you're crazy to think you're gonna walk out of here alive kill her don't you know if you shoot me you'll never ever learn you listen I think it's lesson is that he needs to [ __ ] shoot you lesson 1 how to shoot the villain without letting them glow that you would buy time to escape you stupid [ __ ] slab of cured [ __ ] you know when I have the controls [ __ ] die you give me the gun John I'll pine box the plastic [ __ ] because I have something very special to show you save it for someone who cares wins I'm willing to bet my life you've never seen anything like this I'm gonna assume this means that John our blade hardcore badass has never seen a snatch before or maybe he's only seen one anything's hers it's gonna be special but [ __ ] man even if it is it's probably weird and you can [ __ ] that I personally refused to render with Photoshop but you hadn't even pulled the hammer back are you [ __ ] kidding me blade I hope they bust you down to traffic due to you [ __ ] Oh what did I I mean a she here we go I'm trying for outbound targets from your location oh no what the targets have vanished the radars clear she's gone blade she's gone no way crazy [ __ ] got away I can't believe it she got away there you have it a game I actually enjoy despite some wonky graphics and an awful story you got really solid gunplay a fairly likeable badass protagonist and it leaves the door open for a sequel too bad half-life came along and ate the game's lunch blew it completely out of the water there was no chance he'd get a sequel okay I forgot this thing was here yeah Oh [ __ ] no I think I would have heard about that well uh Oh God Oh God well it looks like old city was wrong on that one there is a sequel only took him eight years but they uh oh okay somebody give me a bag or something I'm having some kind of attack load me up with some sleep juice I just got a really bad feeling about this [Music] you

Channel: Civvie 11

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Keywords: cv11, cv-11, civvie, civvie's dungeon, civvies dungeon, sin 1998, sin game, john blade, elexis sinclaire, retro fps, retro games, review, comedy, entertainment

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Length: 17min 5sec (1025 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 22 2017