Rabbit Run: “Project: Snowblind” – Rescue Battle

The purpose of this Rabbit Run is not to beat the level as quickly as possible, it’s to show a lot of the cool weapons in the game. I could have played the whole battle with a machine gun, but that’s not interesting.

Showing the controller on the screen was a bit of an experiment. This is NOT something I’m going to do for every video. I just did it in this case because, well, there are a lot of controls for Snowblind, but also because I was using a lot of the controls. The whole point of this run was to show off as many different weapons as I could, so I was constantly switching.

If you think it’s interesting, let me know, and maybe I’ll do it again with another game if it makes sense.

About the controls: It’s possible to bring up a menu to switch weapons, but that pauses the game and really takes you out of the action. The “quick” way of switching is to use the d-pad. UP/DOWN cycles guns, LEFT cycles through Augmentations (things like invisibility, abbreviated as “AUG” below), RIGHT cycles grenades.

See run notes at the bottom of this post. See also: “Project: Snowblind” Review.

Game: Project: Snowblind
Level: Rescue (End battle only)
Developer / Publisher: Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Interactive
Game Released: February 22, 2005
System: Xbox
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Spoilers: Shows weapons, one battle.
Length of Run: 2:40 min.
Played By: Tommy Gun

Run Notes:

0:20 – AUG: Ballistic Shield, Frag grenade.

0:28 – To save time, as I’m going up the ramp I switch to Shotgun, Cloak, and EMP grenades for the next section. You can see me use my right index finger to turn, while switching items with my thumb on the d-pad.

0:33 – Two EMP grenades to take out the bot. I didn’t miss on the first throw, they always take two grenades.

0:36 – AUG: Cloak (Invisibility) to run behind the soldiers. You can see me activate it with my right index finger, so I don’t have to move my thumb all the way up.

0:40 – GUN: Shotgun. Firing automatically disables my Cloak.

0:46 – AUG: Reflex Boost (slow time)

0:48 – Gas Grenade to keep them busy while I throw a bunch of Spiderbots.

0:54 – Spiderbots! These little guys will go around killing things for me.

1:00 – GUN: Flechette

1:08 – AUG: Reflex Boost (slow time)

1:14 – Switching weapons while running to get in position for the next section.

1:20 – GUN: Sniper Rifle. This is the ALT fire. What it does is inject the enemies with a virus, so they start killing their own team.

1:31 – Should have fired. I wanted to let them kill each other though.

1:34 – Missed. :( This will hurt me in a bit, because in my other runs I had more enemies up there on my side.

1:43 – Switching weapons while waiting for more enemies. This part was always iffy, and I actually had to restart a few times because it took forever for more guys to come!

1:56 – Here is where I should have had more enemies on my side. Normally they would have killed any last guys, but not this time. So, since I already had my rocket launcher out…I just used that.

2:03 – Gas grenades, GUN: Rocket Launcher.

2:11 – GUN: H.E.R.F. This is the ALT fire, it’s pretty cool. These orbs will stick to walls, and electrocute enemies within range. You can see me fighting against the auto-aim every time someone jumps down, heh.

2:23 – Spiderbots didn’t do their job very well, and there’s an enemy left. But, this lets me use the regular fire of the HERF gun, which is straight-up electrocution.

2:33 – Helicopter comes to pick us up.

3:00 – Yes they do.

3:03 – One last thing. I wanted to show the Nanoboost, so I blew myself up. The Nanoboost revives you, and looks kinda cool.