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Winback: Covert Operations (PS2)

Another old lingering demon vanquished. I don't know how many people know this game exists, but it holds a very special place in my childhood. I could never beat it on the N64 and was so glad it came out when I first got my PS2 all those years ago. Something very interesting I discovered about this game recently helped me beat it at last.

This is a very annoying and very intriguing game. It basically invented cover-based shooting (later popularized by Killzone and eventually Gears of War) as well as laser-sighting from guns (popularized by RE4) in videogames. However, unlike every other cover shooter ever, this one actually encouraged you to only use it as a last resort. The true skill and difficulty of this game comes from being able to manually line-up a headshot, as well as retain aggressiveness throughout the shootouts. I've always been using the cover as it was safe but now that I knew how this game actually operated, things went by much more smoothly.

Other than the gunplay, there is barely anything else of note. Nigh barren environments, a nonsense series of events some people would call a story, and absolutely so bad its bad voice-acting. But its my childhood charm and now its beaten once and for all.

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