Syphon Filter 2

About Syphon Filter 2

Syphon Filter 2 (2000) is Eidetic's espionage shooter sequel in which Gabe Logan and Lian Xing, branded terrorists by the Agency, fight to expose the Syphon Filter virus conspiracy.

Syphon Filter 2 in Depth

Hours after the first game, Gabriel Logan and Lian Xing have become enemies of the state to the Agency after uncovering its link to the Syphon Filter virus, and are labelled terrorists in public. Agency operative Dillon Morgan captures Lian at the PharCom warehouses, and as Gabe and his CBDC allies head to meet ex-Agency operative Teresa Lipan in Arizona, the Agency sends F-22 Raptors to shoot down their transport over the Colorado Rockies. Gabe and CBDC Lieutenant Jason Chance must make their way down the mountain to find their plane and a box of PharCom data disks, pursued by Agency operative Steven Archer.

Meanwhile, conspirators including Mara Aramov and Agency director Lyle Stevens plan to deliver the virus to a rogue Chinese general, Shi-Hao, while at an Air Force base Morgan and his men work with PharCom's Dr Elsa Weissinger to extract infected plasma from test subjects, including PharCom's CEO Jonathan Phagan, whose life support Morgan switches off to tie up a loose end. Lian escapes, kills Derek Falkan and rejoins Gabe, who kills Archer and recovers the data, and they kill Morgan at the PharCom Expo Center before he can find an encryption disk. The sequel also added multiplayer, with a choice of characters, including some killed in the first game, and maps not found in the single-player campaign.

Making Syphon Filter 2

Eidetic developed it and Sony Computer Entertainment published it for the PlayStation in 2000. Unlike on the first game, Garvin and Ham had a complete vision before development started, and the team spent the next year building exactly what they had written. It received favourable reviews according to GameRankings, though many critics found it differed little from the original; GameRevolution said fans should "aim for the head and pull the trigger".