The Omega Strain and Syphon Filter 2 are the best ones in the franchise in my opinion.

The Mara cutscene at the end becomes a bonus mission in Dark Mirror.

The jump glitch is so hard to pull off

This game had a lot of good bones. The storylines weren't worst, but the game fell short in a lot of areas. I did like the custom loadouts, characters and looks. The fact that it needs multi-player to unlock a lot of stuff when playstation online wasn't that great, really hurt the game. If they went back and remade this game, it could have A LOT more meat added and be a great game.

I honestly enjoyed this game, heck it was the first PS2 game I owed and was my first introduction to the Syphon Filter series. I remember being so out of my depth that I was barely scraping by missions, I did eventually learned how to play properly and also learning how to perform the Jump glitch which is a helpful bug which helped me complete most of the Team Objectives.

The missions are somewhat challenging and requires skill and strategy. Objective failures doesn't mean a total loss, just requires a change in mission planning. The soundtrack of each mission is memorable to me, especially the boss music.

Granted there was some things I had issues with, mainly having to play online to  100% the game and get the good ending. Some sequence forcing you to stay in the area or you fail the mission (Protecting the CHA Officers.) Enemies sometimes still being able to damage you upon death, somewhat commonly during the Tokyo mission.

I felt like they could have made a workaround for players who couldn't play the game online by making it possible for them to get the final ranks by simply grinding a certain amount of missions, even if they can't 100% the game.


This game would be pretty fun if they ever were to release it now since multiplayer is more accessible. I heard there is a Revival of the online servers, which is pretty cool and shows that there are dedicated fans of the game even to this day.

I completely forgot that lieutenant Stone and Colonel Campbell are the same voice actor

Despite the shallowness of the gameplay I still think this game is immersive, thanks to the unique levels, amazing graphics and memorable soundtracks. This game would habe been a must play if Sony didn't pressure them to make an online game, they coulda expanded on some special ideas

It takes 750 headshots to get the ACR and so many knife kills just to get the vibroblade,the grind takes forever

This is the ONLY game ive played from the series. Ontop of that? I never got to play online on my ps2. Not once. I never knew about "online" anything until PS3.

I will die on this hill...Omega Strain was fantastic. Give it some credit. Character creation? So many options and unlockables more than any other game I owned. The wide variety of weapons...the story i liked too, and I obviously love the cast (ZOHARRRRR). I cant hate on this game, it IS my childhood.

As for the online parts? I did most of objectives by myself. You DO NOT have to play with anyone. Shout out to MattyBoy for his jump glitch video. It helped me do way more than I was allowed to solo

Loved playing this game on PS2 with the cheater disk infinite amo and god mode 😂
It always reminded me of splinter cell

19:13 The 3rd Carthage mission actually IS possible to beat all objectives Solo, it just is incredibly difficult, and requires you to play perfectly/get lucky. If you can memorize the order of mall entrances the SWAT team use to enter, you can get to each before they enter, with enough time in between the first two to rescue the already downed officers already inside the mall. If you don’t make it to one door in time, you can sort of save yourself by stun rodding an Officer after they enter and before they get themselves sniped(that’s why you’re locking the doors, because you’re locking the SWAT Team out from bursting in and getting themselves sniped). I know cuz I spent countless retries trying to do it all myself, before we got the network adaptor for the ps2.

Honestly ,this game was one of my favorite PS2 games.  Everyone just used a gameshark which gave you silly weapons, like a flaming shovel and invincibility lol.


But, still, as a huge SF fanboy, I loved grinding through this game.

Also, not to be THAT guy, but in the mall level, there IS a way to rescue the SWAT guys solo, it just requires locking certain doors in a certain order and then rescuing them.

Every multiplayer objective CAN be done solo, believe it or not.

I prefer the PS1 SF games to both the PS2 "sequel" and the PSP ones. However, if Sony ever does make Omega Strain playable on PS4/PS5 with trophies? I'll probably get it.

15:14 if you still want to know how they did the nice reflections in the map, what they do is they literally copy and paste the level geometry, upside down under the floor, and then make the floor itself semi transparent, and maybe a bit of a blurry filter type property, and then boom! Reflections!

22:36 - Colonel Campbell from MGS!

I remember I 100% this game without a Gameshark or glitches. The Par times solo and multiplayer, doing every single objective for every level within the time limit too... It was very specific what you had to do for the solo levels. They were really hard and complicated. The game had many stealth elements in the solo levels if you wanted to do them properly, you were rewarded for your efforts.

IIRC the four solo bonus missions were Italy (Stone), Kyrgyzstan (Lian),  Chechnya (Mujari) and Montenegro (Gabe).

I REMEMBER THIS GAME!!! I used to play this so much growing up 😆😆 I just saw it in my local gaming store 🎮

Actually Omega Strain's MP has been revived, and has been modded to allow MP on the SP missions! It even-

Ope, you touched on that. Well it's hella fun :3

Oh man it's my FAVOURITE SF game. No nostalgia here, i've played it over a decade after it's release. And for me SF from 1st to OS are the best TPS games ever made - amazing gameplay core, creepy and very dark atmosphere, amazing level design.
Omega Strain might not suit everyone, especialy considering that it's build around replaying levels - first time it's a shitshow, later on you almost dance around the level, like a fucking death on rollerblades.