Summer Movie Guide 2010: Blogging the Salt Game

By Chris Cox , Hollywood.com Staff | Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Blogging the Salt Game

Day X Exists - Mission 9:

Salt

This is it. The final chapter. The last week of nine for the online game found at www.dayxexists.com, a tie-in into the July 23rd release of the Angelina Jolie starring movie Salt. I’m kind of sad, really. To my surprise, more often than not, these playable missions were fun, although of wildly varying difficulty. This last week’s game is by far the most entertaining to play of all of them, being an out and out shooting gallery.

Last week, on Agent Salt’s (or presumably Agent Salt’s) surreptitious directive, I was pointed at a meet-up of agents that I’d been tracking as part of the Day X conspiracy and was told that the play-nice time was over. Time to lock and load: I was gonna snipe these jerks. It was no problem for me, only, once the dust cleared, it turned out the folks I was pointed at were actually CIA agents on the task force to track down Day X operatives. Big oops. Knowing something was rotten in Denmark, as far as Agent Salt was concerned, and now on the run from my own agency, I tracked down Salt to a Day X safehouse and went inside, guns-a-blazing.

This game is a target and shoot, with three levels of difficulty. There’s a lot of these pesky buggers to take out, but head shots work REAL well. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I finally battered my way through the ruffians to find a wall covered with pictures of Day X operatives and a phone call from Salt who had tricked me and was NOT there after all, telling me I’d asked all the wrong questions, especially where she was concerned. With my ex-boss and his boys on his way in to slap me in cuffs, all I have left to ask is...WTF, Salt? What a bitch move.

What happened? How does this tie into the movie? Is Angelina Jolie going to actually be an evil agent after all or is this entire thing a red herring? Regardless of any of that, this was a fun series of games to play which certainly whetted my appetite for the upcoming movie. And hey, I still have to focus on figuring out all the bonus clue codes (they get progressively harder...a LOT harder) and see what that nets me. Maybe it’ll deliver a happy ending. I need a happy ending.

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