Eye Toy Operation Spy has two modes. There is the game's Story Mode that will allow you to take on the role of a secret agent and hunt down and capture various bad guys. Then there is the Surveillance Mode. In this mode, you can use your PS2 and Eye Toy to keep watch over whatever room your Eye Toy is in.
If set up properly, you can leave your PS2 running and whenever someone or something moves across its field of vision and triggers one of the display targets that you put in place, a picture of their actions will be taken. With this system, you can catch your family members with their hands in the cookie jar (literally).
But you don't have to just take pictures when something has violated the camera's viewing pane. You can also record an alarm that is a combination of video captured from the Eye Toy and audio captured via a PS2 compatible mic. Once the alarm is triggered, you can have everything from a dog barking, to you running around the TV screen screaming like a little girl (... not that I tried that or anything).
As for the game's Story Mode, you are a new agent in the Strategic Intelligence Agency (S.I.A.). After a brief registration system (that involves the game saving your image for facial recognition), you will be tasked with hunting down and capturing many of the world's spies.
Along your journey, you will "hack" your way into systems, zero in on bad guys and take pictures of them from a high-orbital satellite and then use what is essentially a high-tech police sketch-artist system to identify the spy you have just captured on film. Then you sky dive your way to the spy's location and capture him.
The game's hacking consists of using your hands to rotate an twelve-sided object in order to match a given symbol to a spot on the object. The sky-camera missions have you scanning a landmass (like France) avoiding enemy radar. When you find your target, the camera will zoom in and you have to do it all over again -- but this time in a smaller region of the country. Eventually you will track the person and have to stay over him or her long enough to grab some pictures. At first the target is stationary, but eventually you will have to follow a moving car or other similar situations that makes this a bit more of a challenge.
Once you have the photographs, you enter into the Photo Fit where you try to select the appropriate eyes, hair, nose, mouth and neck in order to match your photo. Once you have a 100% match, its off to capture the spy.
The Skydiving missions are some of the funnest, and most challenging, aspects of Operation Spy. Here you will use your hands to slow down (some), speed up (a lot), and point your body in the direction you want to go. When you reach an optimal altitude, you activate your chute and glide your way through rings (for time boosts) and try to land on the target.
Well that's pretty much it. Though each mission is slightly different, you will find yourself doing the same tasks over and over again way too much. Sure you have to match the face to a different photo, or you have a longer sequence of symbols when trying to break a code, but in the end it gets to be a bit monotonous.
