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Stealth and Strategy Rewarded

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What a pleasant surprise from your average, run-of-the-mill, shoot 'em up games. An action game that rewards one for using strategy, stealth, and maintaining one's nerves. If you are looking for a Duke Nukem / Doom shoot out type of game, forget Splinter Cell. If you are seeking a game where one can truly play a covert agent, in a REALISTIC operating environment, with outstanding enemy AI, then this is the game for you!

Not for Everyone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I normally don't review a game before I've completed it, but, a quarter through, I feel the need to write a few words about Splinter Cell, a game which, for me, requires too much stealth. I've been hearing great things about this shooter for years, but now that I'm playing it I just don't understand what all the fuss was about. So far--and again, I'm hoping my lack of enthusiasm will vanish by Cell's half-way point--I'm just bored: I need explosions, blood, and gadgets galore, accompanied by an enthralling score that is a bombastic as the explosions. What I don't need is crouching and crawling and creeping around while trying to avoid what I want most: action, confrontation, and destruction. If anything, this game, so far, has made me appreciate even more a game I loved from the instant I pressed "start": Project Snowblind, an action-packed, though underrated extravaganza of bullets, bombs, great graphics and terrific music. Again, I'm hoping this review is premature; I'm hoping that at some point during the game Sam Fischer will stand erect, take aim and let the bullets fly...I'm hoping.

Not Fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly linear with pretty much only one way to do things. In a stealth game that means doom in my opinion.

Graphics are fine but that is really all it has going for it. The AI are completely unpredictable as people have said. Not in a, oh they're acting human unpredictable, but as in one person may be standing right next to you and not see you, while a person far away will be shooting at you.

I find that the storyline is based around whatever level designs people decided on, rather then levels based around storyline. For example, the first level the guy directing you is telling you to stay off the street because you want to avoid the cops. But you really can't even get to the streets, they're all blocked off by gates. Then later on he takes it back after you travel rather randomly through a building and tells you you can go where ever. BUT you can only go on the streets due to the limitations of the game.

And what is with the random ziplines?

If you like stealth games I would seriously recommend purchasing either Thief 1 or Thief 2, or both. I cannot vouch for three as I have never played it, but the first two are pure gold in stealth. Thief Bundle: Thief 1 and 2

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