![]() Seemingly simple actions involve the keyboard equivalent of jumping through hoops. The interface, however, is as clunky as a sack full of hammers and sickles. The large outdoor and indoor maps let you take multiple routes toward your goals, and the available weapons and tools are diverse. The game is played entirely from a third-person perspective behind your soldier, and like any stealth title worth its smelling salt, how you go about your objectives is largely up to you. The developers were obviously a fan of Hitman and his wicked ways, as the core mechanics, for better or worse, are almost identical. Throughout the game's ten missions, you are sent alone in Nazi-occupied territory to spy, infiltrate, sabotage, kidnap, and of course, kill specific targets, as displayed in your briefing dossier at the beginning of each level. SMERSH, an abbreviation of the Russian phrase "death to spies," was a real organization created specifically to thwart operations from foreign secret services. The storyline follows a Soviet officer of SMERSH during the early 1940s. Spies is not quite as polished as Agent 47's head, but for those who have been patiently skulking in the shadows waiting to practice their chloroform gagging or cord choking skills, it's reason enough to come in from the cold. ![]() Surprisingly, it is a solid WWII stealth game in the murderous mold of the Hitman series. With a title sounding at first blush like an '80s film starring Dolph Lundgren or Arnold Schwarzenegger, one expects Death to Spies to be a cheesy first-person shooter set in the Cold War era.
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