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357:, the National Intelligence Oversight Committee must rely on the Agency to secure the classified material within a cargo hold before the antagonists acquire it. NIOC Director Robert Cordell convinces Gabe Logan that he is their only option, but Teresa Lipan counters that this is an assignment outside of Agency jurisdiction. Gabe agrees to go anyway, for a chance at stopping terrorist leader Ghassan al-Bitar, a Syrian he almost caught a year ago, and with whom he has a score to settle. 431:
Maggie Powers, who claims to be in the same region to "track smugglers", to find out who captured Lian. While searching a hotel room shared by Lian and her accomplice, Gabe encounters a Chinese Secret Service agent, codenamed Trinidad. The two fight and kill Spetsnaz forces, but Trinidad abandons Logan to find Maggie on his own. Although he rescues her from interrogators, Kudrenko captures them after they destroy a Russian gunship.
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locate them. The NIOC now knows where al-Jamil's desert stronghold is, but Logan is forced to accept early retirement. Against his belief that Cordell is right, Teresa informs Gabe that Lian is in love with him, and must be Bitar's prisoner if none of the world powers have Shen. Gabe realises that Cordell will bomb al-Jamil's base, and it will kill Lian.
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to find him, rendering herself incommunicado in the process. Gabe reaches Shen first, and the two disable most of the X-Z-2 bombs before going after Bitar. The terrorist tries to escape with the final bomb, but Shen has rigged it as a dud. Gabe shoots the sabotaged device, destroying it and killing his adversary.
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Players can play as new factions in five game modes, two of which are new to the franchise. The new modes are Sabotage and Retrieval. Sabotage pits two teams against each other as they try to locate bomb codes and arm the other team's nuclear warhead and guard it to prevent them from disarming their
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where Teresa had set up the remote command center during the Agency's shutdown. Gabe has decided he will retire, believing there are too many secrets in his work. Instead, he will look for Addison and Blake Hargrove while trying to begin a new life. They enter to find Mujari lying on the floor dead,
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own early retirement. Lian has difficulty talking to Gabe about Shen, and Gabe focuses on stopping al-Jamil at a Syrian dam which Bitar will use to charge the last of the X-Z-2 devices for future attacks on the West. During the mission, Lian becomes distracted with saving Shen, and abandons her post
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to scuttle their own ship. He tries to stop Bitar from escaping, but terrorist Fahid Tamer distracts him. Gabe kills Fahid and escapes from the ship before it sinks. His return to the Agency brings more complications when Cordell mentions Lian was "never" in Cyprus, and produces pictures of her with
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called the Warsingala Protectors have invaded the ship. Bitar is leading them, and Gabe suspects this assault involves more than a mere pirating operation. Intercepting Spec Ops communications, pilot Alima Haddad warns Gabe that Cordell did not tell him everything, and Logan realises the contents of
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features weapons and gameplay mechanics new to the series. These include additions to the cover system such as side-to-side movement, leaning, and blind fire around obstacles and corners, an advanced melee system that allows Gabe to use enemies as human shields, regenerative health, and underwater
450:, and Trinidad helps free Gabe from custody so he can find them. Logan wonders about the significance of the device, such that countries like America, Russia, China and Syria all want it. He begins to suspect Maggie is attempting to acquire it as well for England, and does not know whom to trust. 414:
divers are also searching for evidence. Gabe realises they work for Surgei Kudrenko, another antagonist who survived an attempt that Gabe made on his life on a mission years prior. Bishop cuts a hole inside the ship, sucking Logan into the hull, and Gabe destroys the engine turbines to flood the
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Gabe and Maggie stage an escape from the Russian prison, whereupon Gabe kills Kudrenko during an aeroplane firefight, but Cordell arrests Maggie and tells Logan he has shut down the agency; because the NIOC believes that Shen and Lian work for Bitar. Cordell had used Gabe from the very start to
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looking for them, suggesting they found out about the St Helens through their intelligence resources. Compounding the situation are the Russians who are conducting genocidal killings and ethnic cleansing activities throughout the country. Believing that Lian might get killed, Gabe teams up with
446:; but Xing defected when Gabe recruited her into the Agency, tarnishing Trinidad's reputation. According to Trinidad, her student used to be married to the man seen in the pictures, Shen Rei. The Chinese government wants him back because he is the inventor of the device stolen from the 461:
in the assault on an al-Jamil facility, but Gabe must enter the bunker on his own in search of Bitar. He finds Lian alive, and the two study Shen's device, the X-Z-2. It then transpires that the device is Shen's solution to the
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and Teresa injured. She warns them to be careful, and Trinidad ambushes them. Gabe pushes Lian aside and kills Trinidad, but is fatally shot four times himself. He lies on the floor as Lian shouts and tries to revive him.
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communications dish, Alima attempts to extract Logan, but her helicopter is shot down. Despite Gabe's efforts, she dies. Frustrated and furious, Gabe destroys several pirate boats carrying stolen goods from
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chamber. When they rendezvous, the pair stop the ship's nuclear reactor from melting down and kill Kudrenko's right-hand man, Surgeyev, before the enemy can escape with the courier codes.
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bomb until the timer runs out, while Retrieval has players trying to retrieve a beacon from the enemy's base and return it to their own base to score a point. Returning modes are
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a Chinese man, both in a foreign land. From Cordell's point of view, Lian being a defector or a double agent, the Agency would be compromised, and the NIOC suspends the IPCA.
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features a playable sneak preview from the main menu. Players can create different missions by editing pre-existing maps (by adding their own objects, weapons, objectives,
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and re-enters the ship via the damaged main hull. However, Bitar has already stolen the cargo inside Hold Five, which NIOC couriers ship.
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A 2015 news article reported that John Garvin was 'burned out' with Syphon Filter, and this essentially spells the end of the franchise.
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Despite Teresa's reservations, and running out of options, Gabe enlists a marine salvage expert Dane Bishop to explore the sunken
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He finds Lian and Shen outside the dam, but Trinidad also appears. She has shadowed Gabe the entire time, even when he was in
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for NIOC courier files that could have the information of where Lian was when she was photographed. The duo find Russian
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physics, enemies and objects react realistically to gunfire and other means of interaction.
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Hold Five, a secret even to the U.S. Navy, are Bitar's primary target.
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In a post-credits cutscene, Gabe and Lian return to the gym in
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Sony artist Athey Moravetz confirmed that Gabe was killed.
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ESRB rates PS2 port of Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow,
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received "generally positive" reviews, according to
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Syphon Filter: Combat Ops

Developer(s)
Bend Studio
Publisher(s)
Sony Computer Entertainment
Director(s)
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Writer(s)
Greg Rucka
Composer(s)
Azam Ali
Justin Burnett
Syphon Filter
Platform(s)
PlayStation Portable
PlayStation 2
NA
EU
AU
NA
Genre(s)
Third-person shooter
stealth
Single-player
multiplayer
third-person shooter
stealth

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