Vigilance (1998)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Co-operative
Story:Vigilance is a third-person shooter that follows eight agents working for the counter-terrorist organization SION (Special Intelligence Operations Network). The game combines first and third person perspective, allowing the player to control one of eight agents each with varied strengths and weaknesses. Aside from the basic single player mode, it also came with a support of play over LAN and Heat.net.Show more
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This is a weird and interesting game, which tells an important story in the history of mouse-look. The developers were experimenting with control methods which seem clumsy by today's standards. However, there is a control method which can be enabled in the options which roughly matches modern standard third-person movement. It's not enabled by default and unfortunately the mouse movement is very erratic on modern machines which means a modern tidy port would be very useful for preservation purposes. The game doesn't handle widescreen well and resizes windows on the deskop while it's running, which makes running it painful.
I played the Vigilance demo on a cover disk but I don't remember ever seeing it in the shops in the UK. On eBay, all copies of the disk are from America. I wonder if it was even released outside of the US? What I remember most about the demo was the atmospheric use of light and shadow in the level. It's realistic locations echo Alpha Protocol, decades later.
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