Velvet Assassin

VELVET ASSASSIN
GAMECOCK/SOUTH PEAK INTERACTIVE
(XBOX 360, PC)

Real-life British spy Violette Szabo is reimagined as Violette Summer in a stealth-based World War II shooter with a truly unique storyline.

Rocks: Taking down Nazis while dressed in little more than a negligee. Summer is deep within a drug-induced coma, courtesy of the Germans, so the events take place in flashbacks. Aeon Flux creator Peter Chung’s mini-comic that accompanies the game.

Flops: Sexing up Summer and adding unrealistic features like morphine shots on the fly and engaging enemies in bullet time cheapens the spy’s story. Don’t care? Carry on then.