The install never delineates between the first install of Valve's Steam crap and the game's installation. You haven't a clue to what you are agreeing to for the license screens. You don't even know you are doing a Steam install until too late. I have no interest in playing this game on other hosts. I only have one. The game author's paranoia regarding piracy is an EXTREME nuisance to their customers when they use Steam. Steam will not allow the game to play unless your host has a viable Internet connection AND their servers are up. If you are somewhere that you don't have Internet access or their servers are down or unreachable, you can't play the game that you paid for. Although you create a Steam account, it is only valid when using the local Steam client. If you go online to their web site, you don't have an account there. When you start the game, more installations occur. You don't even know there will be more to monitor until you see popups about C++ runtimes and the nVidia PhysX engine (that they got from Ageia). Just goes to show how stupid they are when they need to install a software API for a physics engine that doesn't exist in the video card's GPU command set because they're unwilling to write a Havoc version that runs for ATI video cards or to use the open sourced Bullet. When an installation has completed, I don't expect and find it infuriating that there are more unannounced installs when I actually go to play the game. The game requires Shader Model 3, or higher. The SouthPeak web site has absolutely no mention of system requirements for their games. The official game site (velvetassassin.com) is worthless for getting any details regarding the system requirements for each platform on which the game is supported. My video card only supports Shader v2 so I got a replay.exe failure when the game started. I recall playing a demo on my host just fine so they apparently created demo that runs under Shader 2 to mislead their potential customers. I have no idea what the game is like. I managed to get around the Steam crap stupidities after getting my host back in an area with Internet access. But then the game crashed with an error on replay.exe. I really don't care as a consumer how many companies were involved in composing a product. I want just one contact. You have Replay Studios (now dead) who writes the game that Southpeak gets to distribute under their brand who uses Steam to regulate the licenses. Their maybe even more companies stuck into this overly complex mess. Who do you contact when something screws up and you can't play the game for a myriad of reasons? If I could play the game, maybe I could rate it on its own merit. As it is, the game crashes on startup probably due to the unidentified Shader 3 requirement. That SouthPeak doesn't list any system requirements for their games along with using that Valve Steam garbage would automatically degenerate any rating for this game despite how well you liked it. In fact, if I knew it used Steam, I wouldn't never even considered getting this game. Valve's Steam is the kiss of death for a game.Read full review
Velvet Assassin is based on a real life British Secret Agent: Violette Szabo. This agent was 23 when the German army caught her and executed her for her actions against the Nazi War Machine. So this game was supposed to exploit her adventures. Well the game comes up short. The graphics are awesome. Dark and moody. Hiding in the shadows and lurking about is really fun. Creepy atmosphere. The environment is very detailed. Cars, people, water, and buildings is all very nicely done. The sound in the game is excellent. The heroine also tells the story as you move through out the game. German soldiers speak in German is great. You hear soldiers having conversations and the sound of the environment is wonderful. Now the downsides. First the controls. Controlling the character is very loose. You tend to move about very quickly and not accurately. So you will misstep in the wrong direction when you don't want to. Holding a gun is annoying. Its difficult to shoot someone directly when again your controls are loose. Also the game play is very difficult when your map doesn't tell you everything you want to. It doesn't tell you if your going up or down the stairs. Also you have to back track all over the place. Since the setting is mostly in the dark and while you do have a little flashlight, its still irritating when you are trying to find items and have to look very closely at the screen just to find them! Like I said before, I really don't like back tracking cause you just want to move forward in the game levels and not have to go back here and there just to unlock something. The computer A.I. is excellent but stupid and sometimes cheap. Soldiers tend to find you even when your hiding. Nuff Said. Finally I bought this game for only $3.75 and not $19.99! I would have wasted my money on this game if I paid full price. I still lost money anyway. I recommend older games like No One Lives Forever 1 or 2 for PC and Medal Of Honor: Underground for Playstation 1. I wish game developers out there would make better Female Agent games rather than making them cheap and some with sexual themes.Read full review
Gameplay - The gameplay is quirky, there are several areas on the game that you have to die many times to figure out where to hide, and the obvious places to hide are sometimes not the best place. Graphics- The graphics are a little dated, but it is refreshing to see another take on WW2 scenarios. Replayability - this is where the rating dropped significantly for me. This game has little replay value, after you beat the game, there is no reason to go back unless you want to do the same scenarios over again, this game is pretty linear so not much in the way of doing things much differently.
The game won't work on my computer
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This is one of the best stealth / action games I have ever played...Much, Much, Much better than Stolen..You don't have to have the timing of stealth kills, and/or knockouts to be perfect in order to proceed throughout the game...
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