Spycraft: The Great Game (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Spycraft: The Great Game

Enter the World of International Intrigue. It's you against faceless enemies in a rush to unravel a high-level assassination plot. Arm yourself with authentic spy tools, high-tech weapons and professional…

71 31 December 1996 ESRB T

What Spycraft: The Great Game is

Spycraft: The Great Game is an adventure game developed by Activision and released in 1996. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Enter the World of International Intrigue. It's you against faceless enemies in a rush to unravel a high-level assassination plot. Arm yourself with authentic spy tools, high-tech weapons and professional skills true to CIA operations. Then confront realistic global scenarios...where decisions you make determine the balance of world power.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Spycraft: The Great Game holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Spycraft: The Great Game launched on 31 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.

Spycraft: The Great Game — frequently asked questions

When did Spycraft: The Great Game come out?

Spycraft: The Great Game was released on 31 December 1996 for DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Spycraft: The Great Game?

At minimum, Spycraft: The Great Game needs 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card graphics, 1200 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Spycraft: The Great Game?

The PC version needs about 1.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1200 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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