Let’s Play Spy Party | Noa And Alice Get To Know Each Other… With Bullets
191What better way to welcome new video person Alice into the Rock Paper Shotgun family than locking her in a party and aiming a sniper rifle at her head. Don’t worry, I’m talking about Spy Party, the wonderful game of social stealth. It’s spy versus sniper, and one the best PC multiplayer games of 2018.
In Chris Hecker’s SpyParty (we’ve seen it written like this and as Spy Party) the goal is simple: a secret spy has to infiltrate a party and pull off a series of missions, while a sniper watches the party from afar, trying to identify the spy from a crowd of NPCs. The trick, then, is for the spy to act as much like an NPC as possible, and use their behaviour to mask his or her own. That’s basically Spy Party explained.
Want to swap out a statue? Do it at the same time as an NPC to confuse the sniper. Need to make contact with the double agent? Wait until there’s a big crowd before whispering the codeword. The codeword is banana bread. It is quite a silly game.
In our Let’s Play Spy Party, Noa and Alice take turns to play as both roles. It turns out that in hiring Alice onto the team, not only have we gained an expert editor, but we’ve allowed a cold-blooded killer into our ranks. She’s stupidly good at seeing through Noa’s deceptions. Or maybe Noa is just too good-hearted to succeed at being a duplicitous secret agent. Either way, it’s a nice way to get to know the newest member of the Rock Paper Shotgun Video Department. If you enjoyed this Spy Party gameplay, let us know, so that we can do more of this kind of thing going forwards.
To read more about Spy Party - and its incredibly long road to release - why not check out the wealth of Spy Party impressions, previews and reviews over at Rock Paper Shotgun’s Word Department. You can read them here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/game/spyparty/
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