Set during the World War II, you play a very beautiful spy, Violette Summers. Who managed to carry out 7 missions before she was taken out with a sniper during her plan to assassinate Kamm, a German military intelligence officer. The game begins with Violette sliding in and out of consciousness as she relives her past missions. Her flashbacks are basically your missions. The cut scenes include two men who saved her and are arguing if they should keep her alive or surrender her to the SS. As the Germans uncover her location, Violette wakes up from her coma and finds the hospital filled with Nazi soldiers. Having escaped she finds a way to save the villagers from them.



VA is a Stealth Action Game similar to Splinter Cell. It takes some getting used to if you usually play aggressively fast-paced games. The level of stealthy-ness is super-awsomely-cool! A special feature called "Morphine Mode" is also added, activated when Violette injects herself with the drug, enables her to escape or kill without being seen for a certain amount of time. Game play wise, it's a little unpolished and not very challenging. You may find her assassinations a little repetitive. And the game itself is a little lacking, with very little game time required to finish it. But ReplayStudios did a great job on bringing back the World War II scene and made it a lot more interesting. Considering we had enough of it from games like CoD and Medal of Honor.

I'm being a little brutal here, but seriously the concept is great but the execution, well, it needs a little work. But, man, VA is worth it despite it's flaws. And surprsingly enough it was inspired by a real SOE Secret Agent, Violette Szabo who was betrayed, tortured, abused and eventually killed. If you finish the game, and read about Szabo, you'll see that they patterned it a bit to what happened to her.

Cool eh?