Visit any amusement arcade, bowling alley or anywhere with video arcade machines in the late 90's and you'll remember that one of the most popular games was the then newly released Silent Scope. For anyone thats been living in a cave in the Outer Hebrides, Silent Scope,made by Konami, was innovative in that you used a rather cool chunky looking gun with a telescopic sight to play the game. It was new, fresh and very original. Ok , the gun aspect wasn't as the excellent Operation Wolf had brought us that a few years previously but the new bonus of using a scope to pick out your targets from a distance made the game so much more different and exciting
 
Well this year Silent Scope makes a return on a somewhat unexpected format on the iPhone from Apple. Thats right, you as the worlds top marksman are back to save President of the USA and his family who have been abducted, yet again, by bad guy terrorists. Boo etc. So its time to dust off the sniper rifle and head back out to the rooftops of Chicago and start popping heads.
 
The multi touch technology of the iPhone is central to the gameplay of Silent Scope with players tapping the screen to fire. The game boasts different levels of difficulty, various modes of gameplay with both an arcade and training mode where players can perfect their sniper skills before hitting the arcade mode and tackling the game proper.
 
For more information on the game including when the download will be available, check out the official Konami site here.