Silent Scope Light Rifle

Feb 02, 2004  Konami's Silent Scope was a 1999 coin-op with a nifty gimmick: a light gun shaped like a sniper rifle, and a miniature monitor built into the eyepiece with a zoomed-in view of whatever you were aiming at. The game was popular enough with would-be assassins to spawn sequels in 2000 (Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2) and 2001 (Silent Scope EX), and Konami has previously ported all three.

I really love the Pelican Light Rifle. Its cool looking, very solid, and easy to use. It has a ton of features and works so well with House of the Dead 3 that its almost silly. It seems like Pelican hit a home run with this thing. Big win hockey cheat.
But the gun is designed for one game, really. Silent Scope Complete. Its meant to bring the arcade experience home. So I bought the game to go along with my gun, put it in my XBox, and try to play.
The screen comes up after I'm warned of seizures and uncontrolled pooping or something, and I squeeze the trigger. I get to the screen where I choose my game. I can't wait! So I move the gun around.
Nothing happens. Nothing at all. I pull the trigger and a game is randomly picked. Not a good start.
I find out that I aim the gun offscreen and control the cursor with the gun's Dpad so I pick a game and a mode. Then I bring the gun up and am very quickly dumped into the main menu. WTF?
Finally I go into gun calibration, but nothing happens. I can get the game to realize the gun is pointed at the screen but not much else. I can't control the cursor with the gun. Finally I get to the final stage of calibration, and this is only after waving the gun around the screen while pumping the trigger.
Then I get the gun to work. How, you ask? By using the ingame menus to jack the brightness up so far the screen is a white blur. No joke. The game was barely playable.
But I play it to give you this review. I suffered this for you fucks, and I hope you appreciate it.
Even now the cursor responds pretty well but is sluggish. After fiddling with the scope sensor settings I get it to work, but to my horror I find out that the game uses some kind of autoaiming feature. So when I bring the scope up it automatically tracks to the bad guy. Move the gun up slightly and it locks onto the guys head. Skill is not needed here, because the game locks on for you.
After about fifteen minutes I put the game down in disgust with my eyes watering furiously and turn on HoTD 3 to make sure the gun isn't messed up. I calibrate flawlessly, and beat the first level with a B rating using mostly headshots. The gun is working fine.
I tried this game on two TVs, a 27 inch curved Apex and a 36 inch flatscreen Wega and neither one worked well. I poured over the instructions to see if there is some setting I'm missing and have nothing.
Stay away, stay far away.
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Silent Scope is a series of rail shootervideo games that are developed and published by Konami.

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Games[edit]

Silent Scope (1999)[edit]

Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette (2000)[edit]

Silent Scope 3 (2002)[edit]

Silent Scope Complete (2004)[edit]

Silent Scope Complete is a compilation in the Silent Scopevideo game series released for Xbox. All three games in the compilation play exactly the same, but it also adds in additional levels, story branches and features.

Reception[edit]

Silent Scope Complete received mixed reviews. It received a score of 69.79% on GameRankings based on 27 reviews^[6] and 69/100 on Metacritic based on 25 reviews.^[7]

Silent Scope: Bone Eater (2014)[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Silent Scope Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
2. ^'Silent Scope Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
3. ^'Silent Scope Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
4. ^'Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
5. ^'Silent Scope 3 Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
6. ^'Silent Scope Complete for Xbox'. GameRankings. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
7. ^'Silent Scope Complete for Xbox Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 19, 2015.