Psi-Ops was in that mid-range space where it was clearly made by a large team looking to ship a game with existing tools, not push the bounds of innovation with its Havok 2.0 physics engine, and whose publicity push involved a made-for-the-game music video by then-semi-popular butt-rock band Cold performing the made-for-the-game song “With My Mind” - but also basically only that. It was in every conceivable way a mid-to-late PS2-era budget title, back when that meant something and the market was more than AAA blockbusters and tiny indie games made by a couple people total, all hoping to get a good dice roll on their hard work and end up like Undertale, Night in the Woods, or more recently, something like Fall Guys. In 2004, Midway Games - at this point a shell of the titan that had brought Mortal Kombat to American arcades, only five years away from declaring bankruptcy - released a title called Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.
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