SpyParty is a game of life-shortening paranoia and tension. I’m not a machine I’m a startled person who has to briefly recalculate, and that’s all it takes for the laser sight to swing over to me. For a split second my brain fires up again. I’m almost at my destination when a spanner is flung into the works in the form of a booze-swigging ambassador, sauntering over to the shiny eagle I intend to make away with. I’m following a script with the single-mindedness of a machine. I empty my brain and follow the path I’ve settled on in my head. This plush apartment houses more than a few pieces of art I can pinch, but this one is out of the way, somewhere I’m pretty sure nobody will be looking. Nerves already shot, I extract myself from the conversation I’m using as cover and head towards the golden statue, my prize. This week, Fraser's pretending to be an NPC, badly, in the asymmetric game of spies and snipers, SpyParty.
The game also offers a tutorial, practice and a campaign.Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. Spy Party for PC, X360 and PS3 is designed as a multiplayer game, but there is also a single player mode. Do not show any signs of human behaviour or else you will be the centre of attention, which would make the job for the sniper very easy. To survive you need to step into an NPC’s shoes, then think and act like a computer. As a spy you have to finish a number of missions within a given time limit in a way that will not give out your true identity. If you shoot the wrong character or the agent manages to accomplish his missions without getting detected – you lose. The sniper wins if he can indicate the spy among NPCs and take him out with a single shot. As a sniper you have to diligently observe the guests during a party and try to notice any suspicious behaviours of the potential target.
You assume the role of either a spy or a sniper, whose objective is to distinguish an agent blended into the crowd and to terminate him. The inspiration for the game has been drawn from the controversial Turing test, which evaluates a machine’s capability of communicating in a natural language so as to prove – indirectly – that it can master the ability of reasoning like a human being. It is concerned with the psychological aspect of being a spy, subtlety of human behaviour, character, personality and social mores rather than car chases or a hail of bullets.
Spy Party for PC, X360 and PS3 is an indie multiplayer spy game for two players.
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