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buy it now

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the best games ive played and ive played alot of games.I havent yet tried it for the computer but am looking forward to getting it. I dont know what that one guy was talking about with the bad graphics, the graphics on tis game are amazing. this is a very good game buy now now now.well what are you waiting for go buy it!

Stealth Action Redefined

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its the year 2003, in response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the national security of the USA, the NSA has ushered forth a new dawn of intellegence-gathering techniques. This top-secret initiative, dubbed third echlon, marks a return to classical methods of espionage, enhanced with leading-edge surveillance and combat technology for the aggressive collection of stored data in hostile territories. when intelligence deemed critical to national security cannot be obtained by traditional means, third echlon is granted clearance to conduct physical operations.its existance denied by the U.S. Gvernment, third echlon deploys units known as splinter cell: elite intellegence-gathering forces consisting of a lone operative by a remote team. Like a ilver of glass, a splintr cell is small sharp and nearly invisible. March 10, 2004: The CIA contact NSA officals regarding the loss contact with agent alison madison, a cia operative monitoring widespread communication shortages plaguing the former soviet republic of georgia. a second operative agent blaustein was inserted into georgia capital T'bilisi to locat agent madison, only to drop from contact seven days later. fearing for their lives of american agents compromised at the hands of suspected terrorist effort, third echlon has activated splinter cell operative sam fisher to locate the missing agents and evaluate the situation. you are sam fisher. you must leave no trace of physical or political map. remember" although killing maycompromise secrecy, the choice between leaving a witness or a corps isno choice at all. you do not exist. you are a splinter cell.

Best "stealth" game i have ever played yet.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I dont know what some people are talking about, but this game is AWSOM!... I have played the game for both pc and the demo of this for xbox. They are both very much the same, and both very good.There are so many athletic moves you can do, and all of the gadgets make this game very good. Some of the gadgets are night vishion and thermal vishion goggles, silenced pistol, snake camera(can stick under a dore to see whats on the other side), lockpicks, tazer bullets, and these are just a few of the gadgets that there are in the game. The game is also very suspenseful. You dont know when an enemy will walk up to you, or someone will sound the alarm and make the enemies aware of your presence.

Justin

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I dont own this game but played a few minutes and right away and could see this is one of the best games ive played and soon to own everything u could think of it has GREAT GAME 5 stars

Good graphics, good gameplay final payoff a letdown

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It takes some time to master the controls as there are many. of particular frustration is the left directional button is used to turn on/off the night vision goggles, I found myself trying to evade enemy fire, only to turn on my night vision goggles and a take one for the team. Ouch!

However, once you get past these kind of quirks, Splinter Cell does offer some fairly intense stealth situations that make the game entertaining and satisfying when you make it through a particularly frustrating section.

I only have two knocks on the game, number 1.) the game is EXTREMELY linear, i.e. you can only take one path to complete a level with very little variation. And 2) The final payoff, when you finally win the game is a HUGE letdown. Granted, you're playing the role of an undercover stealth agent who shouldn't be basking in the glory of his/her victories, but we're talking videogames here, I want big hollywood productions when I win the game. This victory felt like a retirement party. I found myself saying

Splinter Cell, A look back.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For the longest time, Tom Clancy only conscripted game companies to make one franchise, Rainbow Six. For years, Red Storm, Tom's tool for entrance into the video game industry, turned out sequals apon sequels to rainbow six, all of them with the same sort of gaming experience. Ghost recon this and Rouge Spear that, until, sometime in the year 2000, Tom decided to try somthing different. He even changed game companies to do it, but he managed to help make a game that broke the chain of squad baised tech-thrillers, Splinter Cell.

The Review will be procedural, starting now.

#1: Graphics
At the time of it's production, and even to this day, Splinter Cell is a very good looking game. Everyone's face looked good and lyp synching was pretty much dead on. Textures and modeling looked very good, even up close. But where the game really shone (Figurativly) was the shadows, and for a stealth game, shadows should be paramount. The difference between light and dark was nicely pronounced, and that left you with a good atmosphere to go creeping around in. Atmosphereic effects, while limited to rain, were spot on. The only thing that seemed really artifical were the firearm mechanics, very stiff. It seemed that Sam Fisher (The protaginst main charicter) is the only person for which firearm recoil occurs, and the muzzle flashes were all one texture (It only really looks authentic with 3 or 4 different 'types' of flash when the gun goes off). Other than that, all of the animations looked good. And with the addition of different vision modes (Night and Thermal), the graphics in Splinter Cell are, still, top notch.

#2: Sound
To have sound be perfect for a game, two things must occur. #1: everything sounds true to life, and #2: everything is in its place. Splinter Cell gets those two pretty much on the head. Of course, no game to this day can completely reproduce all of the intricacies that real sound produces. But If any game gets ambient and low volume sounds right, this one does, in spades. Every footstep, every whisper of grass in the wind, is produced with cristal clarity. In cities, the sound of family arguments, on the sea, lapping of waves. The voice acting is superb, with Sci-fi great Michael Ironsides playing the lead charicter. Most of the accents of the various bad guys are good (Mostly russian, with a little chinese thrown in). The weapon and gadget sounds are good, with the distinctive high-pitched whine of sam's nightvision. All of the sounds where solid, with impressive environmental audio.

#3: Gameplay
The Gameplay dynamics are what really makes this game fun and addictive. At the core is the ability of the player the wait in the shadows, silenty, until some poor unsuspecting guard walks by, then slowly, ever so slowly, creep towards him until you get close and... success! you manage to grab him and put a gun to his head without any of the other guards noticing! Now, you walk him over to a corner or any other dark, secluded area and, wham! Down does the pistol. Clunk! down goes the unconcious guard. Now to hide to body...
These aspects, combined with gunplay, acrobatic skills and a little bit of tactics are what make splinter cell's gameplay so addictive. You can either shoot your way to success, or slowly knock out every one in your path, without any of them having the faintest clue what was happening untill it was too late...

#4: Overall
This game is definatly a must have. With a riveting storyline, Good voiceacting, Great Graphics and exellent sound and gameplay, This Game is one of the best stealth/action titles of all time, only superceeded by its predisessors, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorow and Chaos Theory.

Looking Back:

GRaphics:

Pros:
Textures are solid
Models and animations are superb
Weather effects are dead on

Cons:
Firearm mechanics are off, no recoil for NPC's and muzzle flashes are stale

Sound:

Pros:
Exellent sound design
Great Ambient quality
Voice acting is incredible
Music is non-intrusive and well put together

Cons:
"Only human"
'Loud' sounds are not as good as 'Quiet' Sounds in-game

Gameplay:

Pros:
Addictive
Well designed stealth elements
Great Gadgets including thermal vision and sticky-cams

Cons:
"Light meter" Mechanics are a little off, only dictating from where sam's feet are and not where his shadow is, if his is shillouetteing himself Etc.

I Give This Game a five out of Five.

best stealth game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game rocks
awesome graphics
better than Ghost recon, althogh ghost recon is cool.
for anyone who doesnt have it get it

Splinter cell

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell is a game in its own unique class. It is the only game I have seen that is a realistic stealth game based in the near future. I first rented this game got stuck and gave up. A few weeks later I picked it up at Best Buy. I beat the part I was stuck at and went on to fall in love with this game.

You are Sam Fisher. An Elite member of the 3rd Echelon that uses stealth and ingenuity to overcome obstacles to complete his missions. You are battling the middle east and even the US in this game.

Another Clancy Game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 68
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say about this game is that they need to STOP IT OR I'LL BURRY THEM ALIVE IN A BOX!!!

More like Boring Cell

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 84
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

People will say whatever companies want them to, but not me. What the companies don't want you to hear about Splinter Cell is it's horrible story line, it's lack of options, and the atari style graphics that fill this game. I am a computer gamer, I play more games than anyone and I know games better. Trust me.

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