Syphon Filter 3
Syphon Filter 3 is a third-person shooter developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released in November 2001 for the PlayStation and is the third installment in the Syphon Filter series. The game continues the story of secret agents Gabe Logan and Lian Xing, who are interrogated by a senate committee about their previous missions. The story unfolds through flashbacks that reveal their struggles against international conspiracies and bioterrorism.
Story
Gabriel Logan, Lawrence Mujari and Lian Xing stand in front of Teresa Lipan's grave. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Vincent Hadden cancels an operation to arrest the protagonists and declares that he has other plans for Logan and wants to impeach him at a congressional hearing. In the first flashback, two weeks before the hearing, Logan is dropped off by Xing at the Hotel Fukushima in Tokyo, Japan, to assassinate a rogue Chinese general Shi Hao by disrupting his interrogation of a JRA member. JRA members infiltrate the hotel and take the Chinese ambassador's daughter hostage. Logan fights his way out and rescues the hostage. He learns that a congressional hearing has been scheduled. Logan recounts his operation with Xing and Benton in Costa Rica in 1999, which took place before the incident in Washington (the events seen in the first game). They went to meet with Ellis, but found him executed. Logan recovers samples of the plants and destroys Rhoemer's helicopter, while Xing investigates what Rhoemer's group is growing. Logan pursues Rhoemer and defies Bentleon's orders to regroup. Logan gets a jeep and tracks Rhoemer to his plane. Logan manages to board the plane, but doesn't have to kill the pilot to keep the plane in the air. He shoots Rhoemer (who is wearing the same armor as Jason Chance), causing him to fall out of the back of the cargo hold, although Rhoemer eventually parachutes to safety. The next testimony comes from Mujari. He explains how he first came into contact with the Agency and the Syphon Filter virus. In 1984, he worked with the African National Council in Mpumalanga, South Africa, to free enslaved Africans under apartheid. Mujari enters a series of mining tunnels and finds that his rescue efforts are in vain; all the slaves are dead. He keeps the South African samples; Lipan, who works for the agency, comes to his lab, sees the samples and asks Mujari to work on the virus for Pharcom. When it's Xing's turn, she describes the events in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the Soviet conflict in 1987 and her side of the operation in Costa Rica. In the first flashback, she is an MSS agent gathering evidence of Soviet troop movements under the leadership of Uri Gregorov. She is ambushed by the Soviets, but is rescued by Logan, a U.S. Army Ranger. Logan briefs Xing on his mission to deliver weapons to the local rebels, and Xing agrees to distract him. In the final flashback, Xing finds out that Rhoemer has kidnapped many world-renowned scientists and medical technicians to work in his labs. Benton orders Lian to rescue the scientists to find out what the plants were used for. She is also tasked with collecting a sample of the virus, collecting data disks and destroying computers containing the data. During the mission, it was revealed that Elsa Weissinger was one of Rhoemer's lab technicians. It was also discovered that plants are necessary for the creation of the Syphon Filter virus. While others testify, Logan, with an MI-6 team led by Margeret Powers, tracks one of the last shipments of the Syphon Filter virus to Dublin, Ireland. Logan plants explosives on the ship S.S. Lorelei and secures the cargo manifest. They are attacked by the IRA, who uncover the agency's plans to deliver the virus containers. It turns out that they had already unloaded several truckloads of the virus while the bombs were being planted on the ship. Logan and the team prevent the trucks from leaving the area and take out a double agent. After his mission in Ireland, Logan testifies about his role in Afghanistan in 1987 and learns how he and Ellis were recruited into the Agency. Logan, Ellis and Benton are the only survivors of a destroyed supply convoy. When they arrive in Kabul, the convoy's route is temporarily unguarded due to Xing's distraction, with the exception of a tank guarding the city square. Gabe destroys the tank with a C-4 explosive device and reveals to Hadden that Benton's contact is not an Afghan insurgent, but a Soviet agent. Benton does not work for the CIA, but for the agency that supplies weapons to the Soviets. However, Benton kills the Soviet agent and orders the protagonists to give the weapons to the rebels. Logan's information leads Xing and Powers to the Tanami Desert in Australia, where Weissenger is in charge of the medical part of the operation. Xing intends to kidnap Weissenger, gather photographic evidence of the genocide, sabotage the terrorist group and rescue the soon-to-be-executed Aborigines. After the kidnapping, Xing forces Weissenger to synthesize the vaccine. Before heading out to save the villagers, Weissenger gives Xing information about Mara Aramov as an insurance policy in case Aramov double-crosses her. Weissenger disappears when Xing returns to the helicopter. Hadden accuses Logan of killing Lipan, but Teresa herself appears and reveals that she faked her death. She testifies about her first day as an ATF agent in West Montana, Paradise Ridge, while