After the release of Metal Gear Solid in March 1999, the stealth-action title, Syphon Filter was released and promoted. At first it was known as the poor-man's Metal Gear Solid, but as short time passed Syphon Filter lived up to its own name, and was selling well all over the world. This game combined the stealth concepts of MGS and the third-person adventure style like Tomb Raider and combined them into a completely new and thrilling must-have game. It is obviously recommend you should refrain from playing Syphon Filter 2, 3, The Omega Strain or Dark Mirror, until you've finished the first. Shortly after the release of the hugely successful Syphon Filter, Eidetic released the second sequel of the Syphon Filter series. Syphon Filter 2 continued the exciting gameplay and story of the original and added another load of twists, turns, and loads of new weapons. 21 action packed levels of running, gunning, sneaking, and stealth, to make a superb follow up of the controversial Syphon Filter epidemic, and a new two player head-to-head mode for the not-so-single player experience, headshot thumb training and trigger happy times ahead! Gabe Logan and Lian Xian are the Agency's top operatives. They're fit. Intelligent. Dedicated... but now they've learned too much, the Agency wants them dead. After Markinson's appearance in Rhoemer's missile silo, everything started to fall to place and make sense. The Agency was responsible for the manufacture of Syphon Filter all along, but ultimately wanted Syphon Filter back, where Rhoemer was simply an uncooperative part of the whole plot. Seeing the profits it could gain, the Agency planned to reacquire Syphon Filter from Rhoemer, and put it on auction where it would be sold to the highest bidding terrorist nation, in which the Agency could use their resources and expertise to protect itself from the outcome. Gabe is on the run with several CBDC agents, and Lian is held captive and is planned to be used as test experimental subject for the Syphon Filter virus led by Dr. Elsa Wessinger. Gabe and a group of cooperative CBDC agents are en route to Denver, when F-22 fighter jets, under direct orders from Secretary of State Vince Hadden, scrambled from nearby MacKenzie Airbase attack the C-5 transport. They narrowly survive the attack and few manage to parachute safely down onto the Colorado ranges below them. However, now downed and pursued by enemy ground forces, Gabe and the CBDC agents must regroup and reevaluate their next move. At the same time, Lian gains consciousness and must try to escape a tightly secured MacKenzie Airbase. Teresa Lipan, another rogue agent, stays in close contact with both agents as they must each handle their own situations to keep Syphon Filter from infecting the world. Once again Gabe and Lian are fighting to expose the Syphon Filter plot, but this time, it's going to take more than running around with guns blazing to beat the opposition. This time, they will need to win their fight with the right words in their testimonials - in a series of court cases (that eventually leads to more running around). The last of the classic Syphon Filters, Syphon Filter 3 features more high tech weaponry and equipment, and aims to answer unanswered questions of Gabe, Lian and Teresa's past prior to the Syphon Filter panic, taking the player on missions to many parts of the world. Once again Gabe and Lian are fighting to expose the Syphon Filter plot, but this time, it's going to take more than running around with guns blazing to beat the opposition. This time, they will need to win their fight with the right words in their testimonials - in a series of court cases (that eventually leads to more running around). The last of the classic Syphon Filters, Syphon Filter 3 features more high tech weaponry and equipment, and aims to answer unanswered questions of Gabe, Lian and Teresa's past prior to the Syphon Filter panic, taking the player on missions to many parts of the world. Gabe and Lian are back in their original dynamic duoism, and head to Kemsynth Petroleum in Alaska to investigate reports that a group only known as the 'Red Faction' has taken hold of the facility.