| Syphon Filter 3 | |
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| Developer(s) | SCE Bend Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Composer(s) | Chuck Doud, Christopher Stevens |
| Series | Syphon Filter |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, PlayStation Network |
| Release date(s) | PlayStation PlayStation Network
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| Genre(s) | Stealth, third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | CD-ROM |
Syphon Filter 3 is a stealth third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation. It was released in 2001, and is a sequel to Syphon Filter 2.
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While Gabriel Logan, Lawrence Mujari, and Lian Xing are standing in front of Teresa Lipan's grave, Secretary of State Vincent Hadden cancels an operation to capture Logan and Xing, stating that he has other plans for Logan, planning to blame him during Congressional hearings.
In the first flashback, Logan is dropped off by Xing at a hotel in Tokyo to assassinate a rogue Chinese General Shi Hao as he is interrogating a JRA member. JRA members have entered the hotel and have taken the daughter of a Japanese official hostage. Logan fights his way out and saves the hostage. He learns that Congressional hearings have been scheduled.
Logan details his 1999 operation with Xing and Benton in Costa Rica prior to the D.C. incident (the events originally depicted in the first game's opening). They were to rendezvous with Ellis, only to find him executed. Logan secures samples of the plants, and destroys Rhoemer's helicopter; while Xing investigates what Rhoemer's group was growing. Logan pursues Rhoemer, ignoring Benton's order to regroup. Logan procures a jeep and trails Rhoemer to his airplane. Logan manages to board the plane, shoots Rhoemer (wearing the same armor as Jason Chance) out the back of the cargo area, only for Rhoemer to parachute to safety.
The next testimony is from Mujari. Mujari explains the first time he came into contact with the Agency and the Syphon Filter virus. In 1984, Mujari is working with the African National Council, in South Africa to free repressed Africans. Mujari enters a set of mining tunnels only to find out that his rescue efforts were in vain. He keeps the South African samples, and Lipan, who is working for the World Health Organization, comes to his lab, sees the samples and asks Mujari to work on the virus for Pharcom.
When it is Xing's turn to testify, she describes the events in Kabul, Afghanistan during 1987, as well as her side of the Costa Rican operation. In the former flashback, she is gathering evidence of Soviet troop movements led by Uri Gregorov as she was an MSS agent. She is ambushed by the Soviets, and saved by Logan, a U.S. Army Ranger. Logan briefs Xing on his mission to deliver weapons to the local rebels, and Xing agrees to create a distraction for him. In the latter flashback, Xing discovers that Rhoemer has kidnapped a large number of world-renowned scientists and medical technicians to work at his labs. Benton orders Lian to save the scientists in order to find out what the plants were used for. She is also ordered to collect a sample of the virus, collect data disks, and destroy computers containing the data. During the mission, it is revealed that Elsa Weissinger is one of Rhoemer's lab technicians. It is discovered that the plants are necessary for creating the Syphon Filter virus.
While not testifying, Logan, with an MI-6 team led by Maggie Powers, tracks one of the last shipments of the Syphon Filter virus to Dublin, Ireland. Logan plants explosives on the ship, the S.S. Lorelei, and recovers the shipping manifest. They come under attack from the IRA, who discovers the Agency's plans to drop off viral containers. It is revealed that they already unloaded several truckloads of the virus while the bombs were planted on the ship. Logan and the team prevent the trucks from the leaving the area, while eliminating a double agent. Returning from Ireland, Logan testifies about his role in Afghanistan in 1987, which reveals how he and Ellis were recruited into the Agency. Logan, Ellis, and Benton are the only survivors of a destroyed supply convoy. Upon entering Kabul, Xing's diversion leaves the convoy's route temporarily unguarded with the exception of a tank guarding the town square. Gabe destroys the tank using a C-4 explosive and reveals to Hadden that Benton's contact is not an Afghan rebel but a Soviet agent. Benton does not work for the CIA, but for the Agency, which is supplying weapons to the Soviets. However, Benton kills the Soviet agent and orders Ellis and Logan to leave the weapons for the rebels.
Logan's intelligence leads Xing and Powers to the Tanami desert in Australia, where Weissenger is running the medical end of the operation. Xing intends to kidnap Weissenger, take photographic evidence of genocide, sabotage the terrorist group, and save aborigines from execution. After the kidnapping, Xing forces Weissenger to synthesize the vaccine. Before going off to save the villagers, Weissenger gives Xing information about Mara Aramov as an insurance policy in case Aramov double-crossed her. Weissenger leaves when Xing returns to the helicopter.
Hadden accuses Logan of killing Lipan, but Lipan arrives and reveals that she faked her death. She testifies about her first day as an ATF agent in Western Montana, Paradise Ridge during the early 1990s. She receives a call from two FBI agents saying that they needed back-up in order to take down a militia sniper. Teresa provides back-up for the agents, but ends up in a conspiracy. A militia survivalist named Earl Oakton, captured by the agents, is executed in cold blood. The supposed FBI agents are really corrupt NSA agents bent on killing the Oakton family to acquire satellite data. Logan, disguised as one of the agents, captures and then frees Lipan from execution. Logan is concerned about retrieving the data, while Lipan does her best to save the militia and her fellow ATF agents from the NSA agents. She eventually meets up with Dusty and Debbie Oakton, recovers the satellite data, and extracts them from the area with Logan.
At the end of her testimony, Lipan reveals that she shadowed Hadden the entire time to find out that Aramov is his accomplice. Logan appears with federal agents with a warrant to arrest Hadden. Aramov barges in and shoots everyone in sight, with Logan and Lipan escaping danger. Logan pursues Aramov, while saving captured federal agents. He also searches for codes to disarm planted bombs. Logan eventually enters a subway train and shoots Aramov.
Upon Aramov's capture, Gabe is now the head of the Agency, later known as the IPCA. However, Aramov escapes from prison. The ending cut scene shows Aramov recovering a shipment of the Syphon Filter virus from the S.S. Lorelei's wreckage.
Syphon Filter 3 was released on the European and North American PlayStation Network.
IGN gave the game 7.5 out of 10, stating, "If you've played the other two games in the series, you're in for pretty much of the same good game."[1]
Syphon Filter 3 at the Internet Movie Database
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