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1999PlayStation

You play covert operative Jean-Luc Cougar, retaking a terrorist-held base and its satellite. Its mission-based design mixes cover-based gunfights, sneaking and gadget use, which gives it a tense, cinematic feel for its era.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Fast pace

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In short: Games like WinBack: Covert Operations

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes WinBack: Covert Operations special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Syphon Filter 3

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2001PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about WinBack: Covert Operations: good gunplay, a realistic look and action-packed real-time combat.

The third entry in the third-person action series has you play agent Gabe Logan through linear missions of gunplay and sneaking, unraveling a bioweapon conspiracy told in flashbacks during a Senate hearing.

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Syphon Filter

Shooting and gunplay

A classic PlayStation third-person shooter where you play agent Gabe Logan hunting a bioterrorist through linear missions that blend stealth, aiming and a varied weapon arsenal. Its action-thriller spy plot drives the experience.

Syphon Filter 2

Shooting and gunplay

A third-person shooter with stealth elements that continues the conspiracy story of Gabe Logan and Lian Xing, hunted by their own agency. Linear spy missions mix sneaking, a varied arsenal and a split-screen multiplayer mode.

Mission: Impossible

Challenging difficulty

A third-person spy game based on the 1996 film, mixing stealth, gadgets, disguises and gunplay across missions loosely following the movie plot. The PlayStation port adds voice acting.

Wanted: Weapons of Fate

Respects your time

A linear third-person cover shooter that continues the Wanted film story, built around curving bullets and stylish gunplay as Wesley Gibson uncovers his family's past.

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy

Shooting and gunplay

A linear third-person action game retelling the Bourne film story, with fast close-quarters takedowns, cover-based gunfights and chase sequences in the style of the super-spy Jason Bourne.

Die Hard: Vendetta

Shooting and gunplay

You step back into John McClane's boots to rescue his daughter Lucy from Piet Gruber at an art museum in Los Angeles. It blends fast first-person shooting with optional stealth sections and captures the feel of the Die Hard films.

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Shooting and gunplay

A third-person action shooter where you play agent Nick Scryer and dispatch enemies with mind control, telekinesis and pyrokinesis alongside guns. Its physics-driven psychic powers and conspiracy plot set it apart.

Time Crisis

Vast, open spaces

An arcade light-gun rail shooter famous for its cover mechanic: you duck behind obstacles to reload and dodge fire, then pop out again under a strict time limit. Short, fast and built around reflexes and timing.

Headhunter

Shooting and gunplay

As bounty hunter Jack Wade, you track down criminals in a near-future world, mixing third-person gunplay, stealth sections and motorbike racing. It has an action-thriller feel built around a conspiracy plot.

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