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Psi-Ops, Second Sight, And The War Of The Psychic Action Games
In 2004, a war was raging. Not the Iraq War, but an even sillier war. The war between two video games: Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and Second Sight. In the EU, these games launched within a month of each other. I was a staff writer on a PlayStation 2 magazine at the time, and I remember a ridiculous tension in the office about which was better. One was brash, loud, and American. The other was artsy, psychological, and British. But they both featured protagonists with psychic powers, and thus became the subject of a slightly pathetic mini culture war. You like Psi-Ops? How basic of you. You prefer Second Sight? Hipster. If Twitter was around at the time, the discourse would have been insufferable.