Playing Second Sight: Life Saving Headaches
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2015
- Free Radical's Timesplitters was a great series of console FPS games. I've got a lot of fond memories to do with Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect, but I rarely see anyone bring up Free Radical's third person stealth title Second Sight. So here I am devoting nearly an hour to the game.
- Ігри
Fun fact about the tutorial, you can sneak in and find a rifle with live ammo, walk out with it and you're told you're not supposed to have that and you should go put it back. If you don't and start shooting guards, they'll spawn infinitely until you're dead, after which you get a special game over where the doctor is in an interrogation room while some voice is asking him what he was thinking and what he thought he was going to accomplish.
I liked that secret.
Another fun fact, If you hack the game and have all superpowers at that level (I used action replay) you can noclip through walls. In the same room with the assault rifle you can noclip the wall the stock of the rifle is facing. Then use projection and run out and will fall through the void. Then eventually will land near those lights you see in the game over cutscene as well as the interrogation room and its reflection room. You can noclip by using psi blast and clicking the use the wall as cover button at the same time. I do it on gamecube not sure if it works for other consoles.
Funner Fact: those tunnels can keep you alive and you can definitely kill infinite guards until your bored of murder.
If someone can, can someone link a vid to footage of this or make a vid. I am truly interested
"I'm not going to Siberia"
*Always sunny theme plays*
"John goes to Siberia"
Clearly what is so distressing John on the title screen is coming up with a good name for his charcter profile. You know how hard it can be to come with one at the start of a game.
The deaths work because REMEMBER John is Psychic so every death and continue is him seeing the future and acting accordingly.
Most games I play I have a headcannon where the character can see their next *possible* death and have bakugan (360 degree vision).
I think the first game I did that for was Metal Gear, and my reasoning was that Snake was a psychic and didn't even know it.
@@ZigealFaust *Psychic Nanomachines
@@ZigealFaust in katana zero, its a literal mechanic that you are seeing the future as possible plans and starting over when you "die" then after you beat the level you get to see it all play out if you want
@@RAFMnBgaming lol the nano machines was just an attempt to try to explain things, that didn't need it. since the first mgs the "creator" didn't want to make another one but publishers etc want mgs 2 and so on for day good green and he went with it
@@goldster100 it also means one of the NPCs, a LITERAL GOD, refuses outright to fight you because sooner or later, you'll kill his ass thanks to your use of Chim.
“the colonel has whole-heartedly bought into the idea of positive reinforcement”. wish more people in my life were like this :(
You are both valid and doing good- keep up at it!!
you also look great today! And you’re very much appreciated!
Fucking mood
You've got this!
If you didn't suck so much maybe you'd get some 🎉
''Hold down aim and hope to fuck John is angry at the same guy you are.'' lol
Good news! As of this writing, Second Sight is on Steam now!
nice review, anyone who manages to hold my interest, let alone entertain me, talking for an hour about a game i played inside and out deserves my subscription.
There are actually multiple "Enigma" (as the game calls them in the cutscene viewer) death cutscenes, for letting winterIce die in flashbacks or killing them yourself.
"Um. hi there new york street gang buddy." I am getting this game just to hear that myself.
how do you do fellow children?
nice how did it go. need help?
thanks to people that preserve games that are abandoned you can =D
I could have sworn I saw this game on steam once.
Glad I still have it in my library!
It's back on Steam now.
It was on gametap as well.
@@Rayuzx Can confirm, it is on Steam. And GOG now.
I’m not sure many people are aware of this, but Free Radical were made up of a large amount of the team that made GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.
That is one insanely gold-plated heritage right there.
And Second Sight easily deserves to be viewed on the same level as those games. It was tremendous, inventive fun and one of my favourite games on PS2. I managed to sink countless hours into replaying every level and finding different ways to complete each one. I’d love to play this again on PC some day... fingers crossed for a digital release.
Man, I wonder what could have happened if they still remained with Nintendo? They were really talented people.
UwU
It's been available on a few sites for years now man. Got mine on GOG years ago.
Hope the game will be backwards compatible for new Xbox, it's controls are poorely adapted for PC, but still i've managed to beat it with enjoyment.
John's character design reminds me a lot of Daniel Lamb from Manhunt 2.
William Girt Well...
What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?
Because this happen,+Tehsnakerer now has to Review either Manhunt 1 or 2. He has an obligation to you Daniel.
William Girt Danny isn't here! You son of a- *passes out*
Also, I'd be honoured.
Most definitely. I'd bet he was an influence.
The flashback scenes also remind me of just that, seeing as how the main character has more hair/different clothing during those scenes.
I do not know if this happens in the PC port but in the PS2 version you could break the movement tutorial flashback by running backwards where you are supposed to go. There is a room with an machine gun that you can use to shoot the soldiers, John remarks on picking up the rifle that he definitely shouldn't be using it. Then when you find the soldiers you then just shoot them, the base goes into alert and John says to himself: "Maybe I am a psychopath." Then as you get gunned down by the soldiers the flashback ends like you got through it. At least that's what I remember, I should check it some day.
All versions let you get the gun. However, an ally will demand to give him this rifle, which lets you play through the tutorial as usual
To be more precise, all versions let you get the gun, if the LMG user catches you with it equipped on your way to the training he will tell you to give it to him. If you don't, or if you smuggle it onto the course, you can go on a killing spree until the end, where the invulnerable WinterICE team would mercilessly gun you down. The game over scene then has the Big Bad talk about how you slaughtered them.
These are absolutely fascinatingly in depth reviews!
I ended up binge-watching them all XD
+bloodrunsclear Glad you enjoyed them, and holy hell these come to 10 hours plus so that's a pretty strong binge
Tehsnakerer I edit for a living so I just cue up a playlist and it really helps. Thanks again!
@@bloodrunsclear nice
I love the cuts to the physics objects having a stroke
And now THQ Nordic owns Timesplitters AND Second Sight. Maybe we'll see some re-releases sometime in the near future?
EDIT: AYYYYY, it's back on Steam! And while I'm probably looking too deeply into this, the news post telling us to stay tuned leaves me hopeful for more down the line.
I know right im soooo hyped hopefully second sight comes back this will make my year
@@eesah37 uh oh
@@crispyjelly2485 if only we had second sight back then...
I remember I bought this game on PS2 back in the day and it was one of my favorite games. I always thought Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy was the better psychic game, but this had a charm of it's own.
I was considering reccing it again for Unnecessary Detour, cool to hear that you've already played it
Tehsnakerer Yeah, I was big on free radical games back in the day. A shame they went out the way they did though.
I loved this game. Bought it for gamecube an PC. I even played the whole thing again last year.
Thanks for the full depth review :)
ha cool den dechangeman hier zu sehen. So ziemlich das letzte mit dem ich gerechnet hätte
This game certainly brings back memories of when I was playing this and other lesser-known titles like Cold Winter, Psi-ops, Cold Fear, and Breakdown. What a great time!
Excellent list
Second Sight is on GOG now!
@@azathoth420 fuck! Lol was hoping to play through this gem again
The character design and mocap animations of Free Radicals games really hold up 15 years later. The characters have this action figure look that is kind of timeless in my opinion. Almost no modern game I 've played comes close to it.
This is the first review i've seen of this game. This game was a total time sink for me back in the day when I was a teenager and I loved every second of it. Good to see it getting the recognition it totally deserves.
I loved this game as a kid, got into it because I loved time splitters so much
I got this after TS2, and the very first thing I noticed is that the music on the main menu takes a piano theme from the TS2 Siberia level
There are definitely some things new games can learn from this game, the third person sniper camera is really unique.
This game takes place in 1999, when DVDs, floppy disks and boxy monitors were still a thing. Amazing.
50:07 The best thing about this mission is you can just possess one or more of them have them attack each other and watch the chaos commence.. >:3
Just discovered your channel and DAMN I haven't touched Second Sight since I last played it on my OG Xbox in 2005! Just heard that Nordic Games got the rights to the Second Sight IP and I am STOKED for whatever they have planned for the game.
i have just finished it and i'm sorry i didn't beat it back in the 2000's
it's very fun, restrains from cheesy scenes, tries to have different aproaches to beating a mission ect.
plus you can see that the guys who made it cared, the easter egs level through the roof (my fav the internet chat with the wife)
Yeah, it honestly looks really good.
I like the amount of gameplay you include and how deep the review is.
I really love the twist and how it's stated in such a silly way.
"wait a minute, today wasn't yesterday, it's today!"
I bought second sight. Subscribed. The only thing separating us is time and videogames. This title definitely warranted more attention.
The gun safety on display at 7:50 was hilarious.
I'm honestly impressed how much thought and effort you put into these reviews.
Gaming content of this length rarely has this level of quality, and that's if they have any editing at all.
I love your reviews... I dont know why, but you make 30, 60 mins fly by in the wink of an eye! In that time I feel like I've somehow experienced and digested a game for all its pros or faults through you, I really enjoy it!
Great review man! you showed me a lot of things ive never thought of doing before. Im going back to play it.
I'm a bit late on this, but Second Sight is back on Steam as of April 8th, 2021
Really enjoyed this review! Was super interested in the game and was informed on everything i missed out have not played this game!
"Loud noises, Scaring me!" Has been permanently encoded straight on my brain stem after I got stuck in the asylum as a youth.
that twist blew my mind when I first played the game, still remains one of my faves
Really was hoping to find a video like this, thanks man!
honestly... the only reason I came across this review is because I was trying to get some nostalgia for a game I played a long time ago, but I really liked this review.
Second Sight was one of my favorite games, the twist stuck with me forecer.
I absolutely love the way the cutscenes are presented.
I loved second sight. So good.
The faces and animation is still amazing even now. Free Radical were magicians
One of my all-time favorite PS2 games!
Same. Although back when I was a kid, I got stuck on the level where you're supposed to break Jane out of the Asylum. This was back before I realized,"Hey wait a minute...I could just look up the solution on the internet."
I always got stuck on that part where you have to infiltrate NSE headquarters. It's too vague. Still an absolute classic of a game, though.
Idky but the aesthetics of this game I never played makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
“I can’t go to Siberia I’m an analyst!”
I keep coming back to this one. It feels like the one where he came into his own to me
Is it possible to feel nostalgic for a game you’ve never played before? I’ve never heard of this or Timesplitters but something about the look gives me a very specific early 2000’s PS2 vibe. I don’t mean the graphical quality, it’s the art direction: it’s so “of its era” and something about it is so reminiscent of the kinds of games I played as a kid.
I really liked this game when I played it years ago, it kept me constantly engaged and I just didn't want to stop playing until it was complete.
I always find it amusing when games have characters who need glasses but have them missing in certain segments. I feel like there should be a heavy depth of field effect when that happens. John should be squinting his way out of that hospital.
great review! or as the colonel would say........ GOOD WORK!!!
10:50 that was some proper Gmod shit right there XD
I like how slightly-janky the art style is. It’s very cartoony and fluid.
I was actually able to almost exactly replicate John Vattic’s face in Bloodborne. The faces in bloodborne are always just slightly off, but in a way that it can actually really convincingly mimic this artstyle
Second sight is awesome. I would love a remastered version
the “stunned stars” above enemies’ heads, the “cinematic camera”, and the inventory are STRAIGHT UP MGS2
The second half of the game sounds like more trouble then it's worth but some of the psychic abilities look like a lot of fun to play around with. Great review!
24:00 a bit late, but you can actually open the door on the security check by using telekinesis, there's no need to wait for a guard to open it.
I have been looking for this game for an entire year, I tried describing the details on forums and no one knew what it was, then this popped up my UA-cam and a flood of nostalgia hit me hard
Finally cleared this one out of my backlog yesterday. Short but sweet.
I feel like one could easily blaze through a lot of these missions the second time around, once you know exactly where to go and what to do (I admittedly had to pull up a FAQ to figure out how to play the movie file on the office computer--I didn't know I could drag-and-drop items to the video disk like a real computer). By the time I was maybe five or six missions in, I basically ended up playing this like it was Syphon Filter with an infinite health/stealth camoflauge resource--you weren't kidding about Charm being OP.
You brought control into existence with these videos lmao
Please review some (or all) of the TimeSplitters series, this Series embodied my childhood and I would love a expansive, extremely well-versed review which you do brilliantly, it's hard to find fans of the series since it was terribly undersold sadly
I may do at some point. A heads up that may disappoint you though is that the videos would likely be made on emulators, that's fairly accurate but not entirely 1 to 1 for the old experience (this is because my stuff for recording PS2/GC games is not great.) and I have barely played TS1. Ton of 2 and Future Perfect but little to do with 1.
Tehsnakerer Holy shit, I didn't expect a response, especially not this quickly, thank you very much! and anything TS related is more than fine with me, especially to your caliber, keep up the great work
I played this back in the day when game tap was just starting the idea of streaming games. I still consider the ending one of the best twists I’ve ever encountered in a game. Perhaps more observant people saw it coming but for me at the time I had my mind blown on the same scale as the “would you kindly” reveal in Bioshock.
Loved the review, absolutely fucking loved the game back in the day. You should play The Thing, unless you have already.
i loved this game
good review
One of my fav games....
Great game, remember buying a bootleg copy on a local market because of the cover. Still replay it occasionally.
Thank you for mentioning Time Crisis.. I ALWAYS mix it up with Time Spliters haha
40:00 "Fisher. I used to work here."
40:01 I got major dance with the devil vibes when hitman asks for his missing briefcase, but this game was two years before blood money
Just watching this, I learned lots of new stuff about the game that I never discovered myself. I didn’t know there was arcade mini games, I didn’t know you could possess your own squad mates, nor about certain things in that streetlife level.
In that last level of the game, do you know that you can use charm to sneak past one wave of psi soldiers? You don’t have to fight them. Fighting those in the scaffolding area, was fairly fun for me too. I just picked them up with telekinesis and dropped them down. I generally agree with your assessment of the levels, but I thought the last level was decent enough. I wasn't a big fan of the stealth in the game, mainly because I found the camera to be hugely irritating. You couldn't see past the threshold of most doorways, meaning you were pretty much forced to use charm or projection in a lot of cases, to see what was there. I did love using those powers, though. But something else that bothered me, was how the loud guns would rarely alert the guards. You didn't even need to use the tranq gun a lot of the time, despite it being OP, because the guards wouldn't be alerted either way.
All of this will eventually get Niles closer to his wedding with Daphne.
I played this on PC on GameTap back in the day.
The thing that stuck with me was that it evolves into a cover shooter at the end.
One of the earliest examples of one I can remember playing through.
Pretty sure people in the comments have mentioned it, but Second Sight is back up on platforms like Steam and GOG if you wanna play it.
GOG Link www.gog.com/game/second_sight
Steam Link store.steampowered.com/app/11550/Second_Sight/
this was the first game I bought on my first gaming console :) PS2! my cousin and I really enjoyed this game! I hope they bring it back or make it work on the Ps2 emulator on PS4
He would actually be the best for debunking psychics because he is one
Yeah that would actually be a big thing if telepathy became known as a 100% real thing, even more con artists would try and pass themselves off as Psychic, forcing real one's to waste time debunking them.
Honestly... that was a cool twist XD In a better game that could have been remembered for a long time and talked about.
I honestly adore this game, tbh.
I own this on Gamecube and absolutely love the game. I hated it when I first started because it CAN seem a little obtuse with what you're supposed to do, but I played it in 2015 and I was used to modern game design at that point. By the time I finished it I was wanting more of it, the escort missions in the game are still extremely annoying but regardless it's a very fun game and definitely worth a play, speaking as someone who enjoys unique retro games.
fun fact about second sight and psy-ops releasing at the same time. I was introduced to both games when they were both on the same demo disc with Official PlayStation Magazine Australia. silent hill 4 and starwars battlefront were also on the same disc
I loved this game
Great vid my fav games on ps2
Second sight was one of my favorite games as a kid
20:11 That was thoughtful of you to tranq that guy before he hit the ground.
the good ole shoot people through the locker holes. also i believe in one of the first levels u can go through a door by iether waiting for a long timer like 30 min plus or u can find the key code and as i kid i had to wait that time haha!
You definitely improved since then. I noticed your script kinda jumps around a bit and you repeat yourself a couple of times but you have gotten much better at this.
good work good work good work good work lolol
also the crack about john's whining triggering an ambush is a joke i can't get out of my head. nice one
I used to play this in 2005. Nostolgia even tho i was like 6
This game was super awesome to me when i was growing up.
got the PC version from some website yesterday, finished it already, it is soo good, I played on PS2 years ago, but playing the PC version feels so much better, mainly cause of the 60fps and mouse aiming, which is a little bit screwed by the lock on system but can be reversed by using the first person view but leaves you standing there like a scotch egg. Great game 10/10
care to say which one? ive been seacrhing for this game for so long
Wigbe. Did it run on Windows 7 ? I downloaded it yesterday (Its abandonware so nobody cares anymore) but it crashed whenever I tried to launch it.
revan21 I'm running it on windows 10
Epic game,
Epic review.
Thank you a lot for your time !
I loved this game.
I love this game.. wish it could have formed into a series 😔
(5:05) "DOC, I GOT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE FUTURE!"
This game was so cool I wish there was a sequel.
"saved southern California"
That's not a heroic act, that's condemning the world to a terrible fate
37:27 that LMG has less recoil than a Master Chief shooting any gun, and is held by a normal person, not a super soldier with power armor.
Still think it's insane that these people put all of Timesplitters 2 inside Homefront The Revolution just for goofs.