Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops

13 something years later, I still remember wasting $40 on this game.

I would recommend this game as a "so bad its good" game but unfortunately 2 things hold it back, 1 the horrid stealth sequences at about the half way point that insta kill you if anyone so much as smells your breath, yes you can cheese it in many ways but your resources are slim and the controls are ass. and 2 the absolute inconsistent ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ checkpoint system, sometimes its fair, and sometimes you get oneshotted from around the corner by a sniper and need to redo 5-10 min of gameplay (made worse if its during the stealth sequences) In general, the graphics? laughably bad, so much bloom, god rays, depth of field, and muzzle flash that everything looks laughably bad gameplay? laughable as well, the ragdolls upon getting shot are pretty funny, enemies die super easily and like most bad thirdperson shooters, you can shoot through walls easily voice acting? meh kinda silly at times Other comments: the female is just there for sex appeal, to the point its laughable, 2 qtes in her parts of the campaign, one is where she sexily moves over lasers and the other to do a lap dance. OH and dont look directly down or up, I don't think the developers know what a spine or shoulders look like…

If you really gotta play this game, Just watch a YouTube playthrough instead. The gameplay isn't great, not horrible but not even close from even good. The Audio Mixing is so horrible that even on 30-40/100 in the audio volume. There are sounds that are loud enough to rupture your eardrums. Avoid it, watch a playthough.

I don't like the game. Why? 3 reasons: 1. Too dark. All parts in shadows are almost BLACK! (Apart from the fact that everything has brown & ocher colors.) There is a little green light you can use, but tiny light is only for few seconds. What a joke! Green light would be okay for night missions, BUT still...shadows are (unrealistic) too dark!!! 2. I do need more MED Pacs! Where are they? Feels unfair gameplay. 3. I do understand that it is a game were you need to hide behind cover... But then again, the enemy shows up so fast and shoots you before you can even see that there is one coming (or standing on the balcony). So the whole thing is very hard (like 2 shots and your are dead again!) visually bad and feels depressing and just makes you frustrated. 4. The level design is poor, there are many small dead ends. Many rooms that lead nowhere. (And i wonder, why is the door open anyway? For hidding in a dark brown room instead of playing the game and moving forward!? What a joke!) 5. The checkpoint saves are too unfair, not enough of them. 6. Again, it is sooo DARK. And the tiny green LED Flash light is a JOKE, it does not really lighten up, its kind of useless. Because of t…

I wanted to like this game, but it's just too bad... Don't bother.

When i was younger i really wanted to play this i honestly have no clue why this game is terrible when you have to spend about 20 minutes trying to get the control's to work i have had less problems playing mortal kombat on the keyboard also your character handles like a sack of potato's. DO NOT GET or do get if you want to gift something to somebody you do not like.