Death to Spies

This game would net two stars for at least being a stealth action game, and trying something slightly different despite ultimately being a Hitman clone (the red loading bar makes it feel like stolen code,) but after a few purple screens of death and other computer-crashing bugs, I'm convinced that giving it one star is a kindness. Here's the good; it's a stealth game that usually works, and just butters every level with so many guards that it's hard to slowly mass murder your way through. It often forces you to consider a completely quiet, non-violent approach. The levels are big for its time, and afford a lot of exploration. And that's it. After that, the game is amazingly bland in how few options are available in dispatching your target. Kill, avoid, run, get into a shootout and die horribly while the cursor twitches around wildly. The second game had less crashes and a few semi-scripted assassination methods, and is much more playable for that simple addition. The exploration is open, but the execution is so close to binary that it doesn't much matter. Death to Spies feels like it was rushed. It would be easy to compare this to playing a beta version, verging on an alpha. It works... a lot of the time. But that doesn't mean it plays.

Death to Spies looks pretty good actually, however, it seems at least for AMD users, changing the resolution AT ALL overworks the CPU crashing the game. This means either deal with playing at 800x600 or uninstall and reinstall everything for hours. Shame on GOGs poor quality here.

I want to play the game but the colors are mondo bizzarro, like a severe psychedelic trip. I can't even adjust the settings in game because the graphics are so whacked out. Think Cruelty Squad but unintentionally bad. Can anyone offer any help? I'm not playing on a top-of-the-line system and no graphics card and upgrading is not part of my plan.

Best competition to the Hitman series.

A confusing, polished mess of a game.