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One of the most innovative games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Tired of the standard shooter? Give this a try. It's as if you are playing a Tom Clancy novel on your computer. Everything about this game, from graphics to controls to plot, is rock-solid. The original version had a few very minor glitches, but if you're unlucky enough to get a first release there are patches out there that will take care of them in a few seconds after download.

Splinter Cell

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game - in the xBox or PS versions! Don't bother getting the pc version - screen too small and no-way of expanding it? Most significant though is the fact that Ubisoft have NOT written the pc version software to run compatible with a joystick!!! So it's a mess of keys and the game is sooo interactive it just becomes a chore then a bore. Worth buying it for a Ps or xBox as I said - not for the pc though.

Not much fun :-(

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Right after the first map I knew I was not going to enjoy Splinter Cell. I was expecting stealth action, similar to the Hitman series, but in truth Splinter Cell offers very little action. Each map plays out like an obsticle course. You merely perform the required action to advance. No thinking is required at all. Your actions are scripted from start to finish. Very dull game.

Pathetic game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I can say, is that I'm glad I purchased this game at a bargain price. It's total crap. I dont know what game these people are playing, but its not Splinter Cell. Talk about false advertising..

This is YAWN FEST of the Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell is the most boring linear OVER-HYPED waste of time in video game history. There's no exploration, no alternative path to victory. You either do it Tom Clancy's way, or go put the game away. Honestly I had more fun playing Pong 30 years ago. Hell at least that game had some replay value.

"Here take this gun, oh by the way, if you kill anyone the mission is a failure"

"OH um why do I have this gun than?"

"So we can market this game as a shooter, even though everybody under the sun knows its not; except the pre-schoolers writing these reviews and hailing this game as a five star must have"

"WOW I didn't know Tom Clancy was so popular in kindagarten!"

"Oh he's a God with them"

Not what I thought it would be.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of stealth games like the Thief series, I thought Splinter Cell would be fun, but its not. In Splinter Cell you have absolutely no freedom. All the great moves and gadgets the game claims to offer never really come into play. You cant just up and repel of a wall if you want to. You can only do it as part of a heavily scripted sequence, and only at the designated wall in the designated location. Kinda takes the fun out of it. Also when you sneak up behind someone, you have to get close enough for some bizzare antiquated menu to drop down, and then you select the appropriate action. I should not need to go through all that nonsense just to hit someone. The game was boring. It was simplistic and required no thought or strategy.

If you want stealth action check out any of the Thief offerings, Splinter Cell was a major let down, in my oppinion.

Incredible game !!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is this is an awesome game !!! cool graphics .... realistic sound.... sam fisher has a whole a lot of gadgets... makes you feel as if you are watching a movie. The most important thing i liked in this game is the game scripting and screenplay. You should know when and what should be the next move. you should look for secret openings, ladder and other stuff. There will no pointers in the game (as in call of duty, medal of hornor) which will guide you to next location.... its all left to the player to discover these things.
I would stongly recommend this game

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.

One of the most intense game on the market!!! Nuff said

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It begins with a complete tutorial and you might be overwhelmed by the numbers of moves and gadgets presented to you. You will need them all if you want to beat the game on the hard setting.
There is not much to add from the other excellent reviews. If you liked the Thief, Metal Gear Solid, or any other infiltration games, you owe it to yourself to buy this game immediately. You will find it at most bargain bins at less than $10. A steal.
The levels are all in different beautiful and detailed locales and the multiples objectives are never the same.
You want to stay in the dark? Shoot all the lights and wait for the baddies to fall in your traps. There are some timed objectives in the game but those are rare so take your time to enjoy the world of Splinter Cell.

This is NOT!!!! an action game..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell should be listed under adventure because thats the type of genre it most resembles. The only thing you do is follow directions and try to solve the puzzles on each level. You do something right, you advance, do something wrong, you dont. This is definitely not a shooter. I felt like I was playing Kings Quest or something. This is the second time I've been burned by a Tom Clancy game, there will not be a third.

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