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WARNING ABOUT ONLINE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for it's awesome online experience.....but it should be noted that Ubisoft has takent the servers for the PS2 and PC servers down for online.

Sam Fisher returns to stop the terrorists.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow features super-agent Sam Fisher attempting to stop a mysterious plot by Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) rebellion leader Suhadi Sadono that is known only as "Pandora Tomorrow." Sadono's plan includes a daily insurance call to locations around the United States to prevent the release of an unknown biological agent. Until these locations are known, Sadono cannot be captured or killed, making any traditional progress against his movement difficult, if near impossible. Enter Sam Fisher, National Security Agent super-spy and the original Splinter Cell agent of the NSA's Third Echelon program.

The story starts out with a Sadono-led attack on the U.S. Embassy to Dili in East Timor (Indonesia). As Fisher, you're objective is to sneak in and find Douglas Shetland in order to start the trail of information that will hopefully lead to the full discovery of Sadono's plot. After trailing Sadono through multiple locales, the locations of the viruses are soon discovered and disabled, except for the one held by a rogue-CIA agent who intends to take revenge on the U.S. Fisher must then infiltrate Los Angeles international airport in order to neutralize the last sample of the virus.

Pandora Tomorrow expanded on the original Splinter Cell's gameplay with several different moves, including the ability to hang from your feet on pipes to shoot, the ability to reach high ledges and windows with an extension of a modified split-jump move, and something called a "SWAT turn" that greatly reduces Fisher's visibility passing by doorways. In place of the training facility introductory mission of the first game, the first level starts off with an area that walks the player through the basics of stealth movement. The graphics are a bit of a step-up from the original, although much of the game must be done through night-vision goggles again (or with your TV's brightness turned up). The sound is, once again, spectacular. The music fits very well in with the mood of each of the levels and areas. There was also a good amount of humorous dialogue between Fisher and his fellow agents (Lambert, Coen, and Grímsdóttir), a decent amount of which is dark humor. I believe that, in order to actually do a job like this and maintain one's sanity, some type of dark humor has to be there. Therefore, I not only appreciated the comical aspect of this but also, from my perspective, the realism. Pandora Tomorrow also introduces an online multiplayer aspect of spies versus mercenaries, which adds to the game's overall value and replayability. Overall, I find Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow to be a must-play that should be in everyone's collection. It is a step above and beyond the original.

Actual score: 8.7
Gameplay: 9
Graphics: 8
Sound: 9
Value: 8
Titl: 9

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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is my second go round with Mr. Fisher, and though I had a better time with him this adventure, I still can't say that the time we shared was great--good, yes, but not great. I guess I'm just not a stealth-game guy; I like shooting stuff, killing stuff, and doing both while making as much noise as possible. Ultimately, though, I think it comes down to this: there are games you can't wait to play again even while you're playing them; games you enjoy playing while you're playing them, but have no interest in playing again; and games that are so awful that you've no interest in playing them to the end. For me, both the first two Splinters are the second type of game. But I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, because Chaos Theory here I come!

Holy Chrismas Buyers...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an sweet game. The story line is inceredible. I am a stealth-espionage gamer. So, naturaly I would like this game. I think this game should be longer. I beat the game in about 8 hours. It is really easy. It would be better if you could pick up the weapons. The graphics should be better too.(Like MGS 2, hehe.) This game is for people who are just getting in to stealth games. I reccomend this game very much.8P

Pycho Mantis

Just not as fun as before

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Man I couldn't wait for this game. I played the first, never beat it, but had alot of fun. Then I heard Pandora Tomorrow was coming out and I was excited. So I rented it, it just wasn't as fun. It felt like you lost some of your moves and got replaced with new ones. The story is... well It starts with a embassy being attacked then goes into something about French scientest freezing themselves then getting their brains taken out. I felt that it wasn't necessary for the story. Don't get me wrong it is a good game w/ great graphics, but just not as fun as before. I can't wait for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory ( aka Splinter Cell 3 ).

Fun, but just not fun enough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If I had to choose between Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid 2, I'd buy Splinter Cell. But, if it was Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Metal Gear Solid 3 ... I may have a problem. Splinter Cell was very fun and had many levels, but Splinter Cell 2 just wasn't as good.

1. Fun - I gave this part a 4 simply because it was fun, but it didn't have many levels and the difficulty was strange. I'm mean, some levels were easy and short, and others were long and hard. 4 out of 5 for fun.
2. Educational value - I gave this a 5 because this game teachs you patience.
3. Durable - No idea what this means.
4. Overall - Overall, I give this a game a 4 because its Splinter Cell and you got to love Splinter Cell right... Right?

Hey there Splinty!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of the Splinter Cell series. I think it had the potential to be the best game series ever! The original was fantastic. A true instant classic. It did however leave many doors unopened and many options for improvement. This game, the 2nd Splinty, is very satisfying and very dissapointing. It is great beause the graphics are improved considerably but the levels are SO dark, you end up playing 90% of the game in night vison black and gray rendering the graphics average. Also this game is sooooooooo short. The 1rst is ver very long with a involved story. This one is just a terrorism scare with Smallpox, nothing original, no plot twists. The story ends before it gets started. This game was very rushed. Also I read a lot about how it would be more of a character driven story. There is nothing personal revealed about the characters of Sam and Lambert. The dialoge is improved but not imensly. The levels are funner, that train lvel is great! But sadly this game was very short with no improvements but graphics.

Well, not as good as the first one + Lambert and Sam talk diffrent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow was OK but Splinter Cell, Rainbow six, Halo, & now GHost Reacon were all rally good! So Pandora Tomorrow was not that fun!!

Not as good as the first

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not as good as the first Splinter Cell but still was tons of fun to play.

Must Buy Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has so much better graphics than the first one. You can see the moving shrubs and the running water. You could do cool stunts. I hate the first level because all you do is hit people and you are not allowed to shoot them. I also like the cool night vision goggles that can spy bomb mines. The pistol in the first level you hardly use all you do with it was you shoot the light. But later on it gets so interesting and fun This is a must buy. Rated 10 of 10. I promise you will love this game and really will have the anxious to play it all the time.

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