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National Security Agency of the United States

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of a kind. No other game on the market can even come close. The graphics are surreal; body movement's, facial expressions and gestures bring a whole new realm. You are an NSA agent and whatever and everything you do is top secret. Missions are exciting and challenging. The sounds are of high quality and game play is up there. The game can get addictive and there are is always another way of approaching a situation in the game. Stick to the shadows and darkness and you will be a ghost. The weapons are realistic and you have a choice of secondary fire. The story line is fantastic. It makes sense and it has authenticity to it. For the technical fans the game is built on the new unreal engine, although there were some modifications made. You can practically do anything in the game, from grabbing a character from behind to jumping down on top of them. Your choices are unlimited. In all there are 11 levels, each taking a good share of time to complete. I'm estimating that I finished in about 35 or so hours of continuous play. The game is longer then most games out there, and a strong story makes for a convincing and fun game. I would recommend this game instead of hitman and other 3rd person games out there.

Best game of its time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is the best game i've played for many years. this game has exellent gameplay, graphics, wepons, and relly cool effects. I give this game a perfect five star rating because when you combine all of the great stuff in this game compared to the one bad thing witch is that it's kind of hard (that makes it all the better to me) this game will be relly hard to be beat.

A Thrilling, Black-Op, Gadget-Filled Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I. Love. This. Game. I've learned through my life that people are resistant to change. So when Splinter Cell, thousands of people are inevitably going to pick up their torches and pitchforks, and go on a witch hunt to verbally abuse EVEY aspect about this game. In this game you play the role of Sam Fisher, an elite operative, bordering on what I dare say, "ninjaism." This isn't a game where some no-name badass straps on his powered suit of complete destruction, grabs a rifle that shoots out green laser pulses while simultaneously cooking his MRE in a microwave. The name of this game is stealth. Sure, you can try to go on an unholy rampage, killing everything in your path, but you'll die in a couple of minutes.
Ok, the AI in this game isn't all that great. But it's mind-boggling to think of how difficult this game would have become if the guards had the intelligence of a real human being. I'm sure that anyone who has playing this game can attest to that, unless they take pleasure at commandeering someone and watching them get shot. There's something to be said for creeping along in the shadows, avoiding conflict when possible.
Yes, this game is linear, but that doesn't diminish the overall "fun factor" of this game at all. The linerness can be countered by discovering alternate ways to complete a mission, with the level designer obviously creating different passages to amp up the replay value.
Gadgets. Everyone loves them. And they're essential to your success in this game. You spend a majority of the game with your night vision on, slinking along in the shadows. I never really found as use for the thermal; goggles, maybe I just wasn't enlightened to how to effective use them. Fiber optic wires can be used for looking under doors, lock picks for picks locks, or if you're pressed for time, you can use a lock explosive, which melts the locking mechanism.
Oh, they're so many cool moves available to you in this game. You can double jump up walls, and suspend yourself there, you can swing along pipes, shimmy across ledges, peek around corners... the list goes on and on. My main gripe is that you don't get to use these special maneuvers very much, usually only scuttling around out of sight.
The lighting in this game is spectacular. I cannot stress how much effort the developers put into this. I don't have the best computer, (2.4 Ghz. Pentium 4, 512 RAM, and a GeForce 4 MX 440) and the game runs fine on the medium settings, and the game still looks terrific.
I've heard a lot of people griping about how you cannot pick up weapons, or just run over them to pick up the ammo. I have something to say to all of them. Get a life. "Who cares if this AK might be booby-trapped to prevent someone like us from using it. Lets grab it a subsequently risk our life! Oh, I hate Splinter Cell, because I cannot remove the bullets from a guns chamber! Oh, its TOO realistic!"
The voice acting in this game is some of the best I've ever heard. The voices exactly portray the characters. Fishers gravely tones and dark sense of humor are especially notable.
Bottom Line: Get this game, even if your system specs. are not spectacular. Tweak the setting to find out how you can make the game run best. This game is a refreshing alternative from the kill-everything-in-the-room mentality that's dominating the gaming world today.

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Subtle in all the right places...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ingredients:

1 part Syphon Filter
1 part Mission Impossible 2
1 heaped tablespoon James Bond films
Large handful of Metal Gear Solid
Dash of genius

Its often been said that attention to detail is what sets apart the good from the great. Final Fantasy 7 wowed us with its vast environments, Goldeneye with its lovely weapon models and effects...Metal Gear Solid with its complexity and comic book flair. Let it then be said that Splinter Cell has forever raised the bar for detail. This game, from the training level to the final climactic sequence is going to blow your mind.

Now, first off, are you a die-hard fan of non-stop blasting stuff apart with a .50 cal? Do you feel that hiding from guards or any other kind of stealth is for wimps? Those who answered yes to either of those need not apply. Everyone else, welcome to the NSA.

As OPSIC ninja Sam Fisher the player is instantly immersed in the most comprehensively realised spy thriller you'll ever play(and yes, Metal Gear fans, this means you too). Starting with a training refresher level you'll learn how to scale walls and slide down zip-lines, jump and roll over barbed-wire, vault off walls and creap past cameras. You'll learn how to use night-vision and lock picking tools, learn how to disable security systems, how to silently dispatch guards with your bare hands. Basically, if you saw it in a spy movie, you'll learn it here.

By the time you've played this far you'll have certainly noticed the graphics this game has to offer...the only good word to describe them is 'woa-arhhh-oooooh-mmmm'. Yes, they're amazing. Everything and everyone casts real time shadows, light filters through tiny cracks and bullet holes...subtle drafts move cobwebs...water drips down pipes and pools on the floor. If you've seen it in real life...yeah, its in this game!

And so, its on to the game. I won't give the plot away, but suffice to say its a totally original, believable evil dictator vs yankee super spy thriller, with twists and turns that won't leave you baffled cuz hey, you were really THERE when they happened. You're going to believe everything you see in this game, from the guards complaining about their girlfriends while you creep past them, to the tinkle of spent cases when Sam reloads his silenced assault rifle. Tons of cool gadgets await, although you should probably looks elsewhere if you're expecting a massive variety of weapons to choose from. Sam can only carry his 9mm, later his versatile scoped rifle and maybe some grenades before his weapon inventory is full - because this is real dammit! And believe me, he only needs these few tools. Sam is a master of espionage, and you'll spend countless thrilling hours hiding in shadows, slipping through gaps in fences, sneaking sliently across moonlit roof tops.

This is one of those games that you'll look back on when you're trembling after the last level and think 'Wow, that was cool'. You'll play every level again to do it better, quicker, stealthier. You'll gasp when you see the fish in a glass tank casting their own shadows on the floor. You'll subdue a yelp of joy when you hear the little whine of your heat-vision gear warming up. And when you roll out of the darkness to slap a hand over guard's mouth and a silenced pistol to his temple, you'll think you're a real spy.

The only possible downside that I can think of to this incredible game is that you'll need a fairly hefty computer to get the most out of it. My computer is a pretty tough pentium 4 with 512 megs of RAM, but I still had to turn down the resolution to 640x480 to smooth everything out during smokey or rain filled levels. But even then it looked fabulous! Buy now, with extreme prejudice.

In a class of its own

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, wow! I have to say after playing through the whole game that this is easily one of the most compelling games i have ever had the pleasure of playing. I wasn't at first interested because i'm the type that likes to go through a game blowing up everything and anyone I feel like. If you take that mindset to this game, you're going to die quicker than you can say splinter cell. The worst position that you can get yourself in is one where it's an all out gun fight because it only takes a few hits and your dead. The game is much more realistic than most out there, which in my opinion makes it more fun. One reason i was apprehensive is because most games claiming to be stealth based are difficult to play because of control, or lack there of, and an absence of stealthy options. Not in this game. The control is marvelous, dare i say groundbreaking. You can interact with your environment like never before. I'm sure you already know most of the different moves you can do so I won't bore you with them. I will say that they really are seamlessly integrated into gameplay, and really your only way of getting through the game. I didnt find this game too dificult, but you do need patience and you may very well might find yourself having to re-load the current mission, so save a lot. The plot is nothing original. Basically some mad man is trying to de-stabalize the world and it's up to you to stop him. You're basically on your own most of the game. Usually your mission is to find information, destroy it and bascially investigate what is going on. You do get to play assasin once, but it would have been nice to be assigned more "targets". You do have a team at your back but they basically advise you for the most part. The graphics aren't perfect. But i could find very few graphical anomalies, and those are few and far apart. Most of the time it's a driver conflict with your video graphics card so update those drivers. I decided to give it a four becasue it so heavily taxes your system. Remarkable graphics come at a high price. I have a 2 ghz pentium 4 system with 512 mb of ram and a non-pro radeon 9700. Even with that combination the game still lagged in certain areas at acceptable graphic settings. I only really found a problem when I switched to night vision, something you will use quite a lot. They should have gone with the type of nightvision that shows everything in a shade of green instead of the black and white becasue it seriously slows down the fps. In fact depending on your graphic settings, it can come to the point where it's almost unplayable. Ubi soft should have gone with the regular ole' green nightvision. The game length is about medium i would say. Though there aren't too many levels, each map is extensive and you have a lot to do in all of them. I would recommend this game to anyone that is interested in a true stealth game, just have patience and play with the understanding that this isn't a shoot em up game or blow up everything in sight. It relies on stealth and strategy. Happy hunting

Can you see me Now???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just love this game...It is so different than most video games and the lighting and curtain effects are amazing. I have about a dozen or so Xbox games and this one is by far my favorite. The is just something about the steath nature of the game that just pulls you in. You sometimes think, there is no way out of this situation and them you somehow find a way to get through..You can not run through this game and shot them up. You will find yourself lurking in the shadows and seeing just how quiet and un-noticed you can be, and if that doesn't work, well...a bullet to the head will do the trick...sometimes, the bad guy just has to go down.

If you like strategy and thinking, you will love this game, and you will be running through the curtains and shades just for fun...lol..enjoy

Better Than X-BOX Version!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell for the PC is a lot better on this platform because of the graphics and gameplay changes. The X-Box has diffucult controlling and picking locks is disasturous!X-BOX just has Kola Cell, that`s all really. So if you want Splinter Cell, get the PC version.

Dancer's Worst Nightmare?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Imagine that you're a dancer cast as the lead in a high-production ballet. Just go with me here. It's been meticulously choreographed, everyone's in costume, the scenery and props are all in place.

Now imagine you missed every rehearsal. You don't know where to stand, you keep missing your cue, and the director is constantly yelling "cut!" because you've [fouled] up the scene so many times. The other actors have to repeat their lines ad nauseum, waiting for you to get it right.

You've just played Splinter Cell.

OHHH, MY GAWD! GAME OF THE YEAR MATRIAL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i got this game on a preorder a few months a go. got it 2 weeks ago and i can't stop playing it. i personaly think this is one of Tom's BEST games ever. don't bother with ghost recon, GET THIS, its worth the wait. the new moves you do are incredable! you can jump walls, hang from the roof. dive and roll. ANYTHING. i admit there are not a lot of guns, but oyu can always download mod files to fix that. runs smoth, and the best thing..... in most games you cant fire a gun through a wall, that is no more, you can shot through thin walls at your ememy. GREAT GAME. TOM CLANCY FOREVER!

A Solid Title.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have not really been much of a fan of the Tom Clancy games, but this one was worth checking out. You play as Sam Fisher going on dangerous covert missions with plenty of cool gadgets and tools at your disposal using stealth and cleverness to achieve objectives. Now this is where it can be hard because nothing can be more infuriating than trying to be quiet and stealthy and then get spotted by an enemy soldier and instantly eliminated by him and his buddies. But after you log a couple of hours on this game, you'll probably get the hang of it. You can do some pretty awesome moves including split jumping. You can use enemies as human shields when in a tight corner, distract your enemies by tossing an object across the room or proceed to snipe their sorry [tails]. The game does not really give you much of a selection of weapons, although the ones that are available are great, but that's alright. There are plenty of awesome and essential gadgets that you can use. And I mean plenty. In conclusion, you just can't beat a game with tension-filled missions, cool gadgets, awesome weapons and an intelligent story. Despite it's learning curve for beginner gamers, it should be computer gaming heaven for most other gamers.

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