Second Sight Download PC

Second Sight's most unique aspect of gameplay is the protagonist's ability to use a variety of psychic powers, which can used either to aid the player in combat, avoid detection, and help to solve some puzzles. At the start of the game, the player begins with only a few powers, but unlock new ones and upgrades to those they possess as the story progresses. Such powers drain the players psychic energy either in a set amount or over time; if the player is drained of psychic energy, then they are momentarily stunned for a few seconds, leaving them vulnerable. One unique power that the players gain access to at the start of the game is the ability to heal themselves, which is later upgraded to allow the player to heal allies that they have in later stages of the game; in some of the earlier stages, players do not possess psychic abilities, meaning that any damage they take can only be healed by finding first aid kits within the level.

Plot

Setting

The game takes place in a world in which parapsychology exists, and secret research projects into it were conducted during the Soviet era after World War II and uncovered proof that powerful psychic abilities could be transferred genetically into other subjects. The events of the story take place across locations within the United States and Siberia, including a training base in Germany, between two different points in the same year within the late 1990s. The game's main antagonist is a fictional US agency called the National Security Executive (NSE), which seeks the parapsychology research that was conducted for its own ends.

Story

John Vattic, an American parapsychology researcher, awakens in an isolation cell at the Osiris Medical Facility, Virginia, with no recollection of his past or identity; the only knowledge he has is that he possesses powerful psychic abilities of unknown origin. Upon breaking free from his cell with the intent to uncover his past, Vattic experiences a flashback that allows him to recover his identity. Six months ago, the Pentagon recruited him to assist a special taskforce of U.S. Marines, codenamed WinterICE, led by its commanding officer, Colonel Joshua Starke, and aided by his adviser, Jayne Wilde, a psychic whom Vattic had clashed with over his published works. WinterICE had been tasked with going to Siberia to recover Victor Grienko, a renowned Russian scientist seeking political asylum with the United States, and to learn what his research into parapsychology had uncovered.

Seeking to find out what happened on the mission, Vattic gains access to the facility's computer records. Learning that Wilde died during an ambush by Russian soldiers, Vattic finds himself reliving the event and managing to save Wilde's life when they explore a nearby pipeline station for clues to Grienko's location. Upon his return to the present, Vattic discovers that upon Wilde's return to the States, she was incarcerated at the Penfold Asylum, Vermont, and so decides to rescue her. After breaking her out of the asylum, Wilde reveals to him that Starke died when Russian snipers attacked the pair after the pipeline ambush. Reliving the moment, Vattic encounters a psychic projection of one of Grienko's child test subjects who helps to awaken his dormant psychic abilities, allowing him to change history by ensuring Starke survives; in the aftermath of the attack, the pair discover that the Russian soldiers they had been fighting against were really US special forces.

Learning from Wilde that Starke went into hiding after the mission was over, Vattic has her take him to where he had been hiding out, as they find themselves being hunted down by NSE agents. Arriving at Starke's apartment within Queens, New York, Vattic finds himself reliving the past again when he learns that the WinterICE team died upon reaching Grienko's location at the village of Dubrensk. Although he ensures the team survives the attack on them, WinterICE find that Dubensk's villagers were slaughtered, save for one survivor who had been mortally wounded. Returning to the present, Starke reveals to Vattic that the slaughter of the villagers had been ordered by Silas Hanson, the director of the NSE. Hanson had been in the village to steal Grienko's research, dubbed the "Zener Project", before covering his tracks by killing those involved in the project. Starke hands over to Vattic what he had managed to find out about Hanson's involvement, advising him to discover what he is planning.

Heading to the NSE headquarters in New Jersey, Vattics uncovers evidence that Hanson has begun creating a global army of psychic super soldiers with the stolen research, but is powerless to stop him, and so decides to go back to the past to try to prevent the theft. Returning to the moment that the slaughter was discovered, the dying survivor reveals that no-one in WinterICE can approach the project's children without being killed, except for Vattic, whose psychic abilities would be accepted by them. Forced to enter the research facility beneath Dubrensk on his own, Vattic soon encounters Grienko in the process of transferring his work and test subjects to a new facility in the United States. Believing him to be one of Hanson's men, Grienko reveals how his research had created a potential weapon that could change the world, but after Russia decided to ignore his research, he chose to contact the US in order to get further funding for his work. Knowing what Hanson will do to him and what he plans to do with the research, Vattic informs Grienko that Hanson plans to kill him once he gets his tissue samples from his test subject. Realising his mistake, Grienko directs him to where the project's children are, moments before one of Hanson's men kills him.