|  | Game | | Rogue Ops | Format | | PS2 (version tested), Gamecube, X Box | Publisher: | | Capcom | Release date: | | Out now |
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Unfortunately Rogue Ops is not a game about backstreet surgeons performing illegal butchery on those to fearful to go to the NHS, and yet again I am faced with reviewing another stealth-'em-up. I think that my reputation as an evil megalomaniac must give the impression that I like this type of game. WRONG
. they are usually boring! Anyway, putting my general tedium with such games and any preconceived ideas of what the game might be like aside, I start with a blank canvas - ready to be dazzled by the look and feel of the game, and confused yet engaged by infinite subtle plot twists... At the start, the game looks reasonable promising; decent CGI, good character models, nice shading, atmospheric backgrounds, sound OK, music not too irritating, movement fine - reasonably responsive. All OK, kind of what I expected really, and nothing really changes the further into the game you get. Rogue Ops is uninspiring all round and really is just a mixture of all of the other stealth games around, not adding to the genre in the slightest.  | | Dr Leevil did not rate this stealth game at all. |
The main character "Nikki" is obviously based upon Nikita; from either the original French film "La Femme Nikita" - if you are an arty intellectual type, or the truly awful Channel 5 version - if you're a bit thick and don't know where the remote is.
Either way both are blond leggy types, bent on revenge, and turned into deadly assassins by a shadowy pseudo-governmental Agency. How original. In all honesty I did not play the game through. In fact I got stuck and bored very easily and had to rely upon a walkthrough from the Internet to get me as far into the game as I did. Games like this have to be interesting enough to make you want to progress, to make repeated attempts to overcome obstacles. This is not. The gaming industry just does not try sometimes! How about something a bit more interesting and original: "Hip Ops" - a game about ninja pensioners, "Brewers Ops" - a resource management game set in a brewery. Unoriginal and uninspired clone - anyone with attention deficit disorder (ADD) should avoid - although they've probably not read this far anyway! 5/10 Dr Leevil
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