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Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Best Splinter Cell yet! Game play, graphics, options, everything is top notch. Highly recommended! (p.s. if you would have read the minimum pc requirements before you bought you would have realized that Shader Model 3.0 was required. Oh and by the way, you can't give the game a rating if you havn't played it yet)

Complete junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been a FPS shooter fan forever. From Far Cry to Wolfenstein, I've played just about every one out there. While the concept and idea behind this game is sound, the implementation is terrible. Glitches galore that patching doesn't help. You can't even bind your right mouse button as your forward movement button. How can you create a FPS game now-a-days where you have to use a keyboard key to move forward???? On a demo maybe but for a $50 game? Priceless.
Just that alone should tell you to steer clear.
P2P has become so popular just to avoid such rip offs and corporate greed such as this. Try before you buy people.

Definitely a mixed bag

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, to those people who've made comments about the game not running on their computer, all I'll say is that if your machine meets the reqs on the box, the game will work. My computer isn't brand new or super high-end anymore, and I have all kinds of programs running in the background, but the worst thing I can say is that the load times are a little longer than what I remember from the first 3 games. The motion and sound work just fine, and that's without any patches.

My only real complaint is how your perspective's controlled by the mouse. It took some getting used to, but after about 30-60 minutes, I knew what to expect. That's not to say I liked it, though. The only other thing I can say is what happened to the cool intro. I normally skip right through the opening video, but I made a point to watch it on the first game. Now, there's basically nothing.

As far as not being able to bind the function keys is concerned, it'd be a big deal only if there were cheats. Since there aren't any, all you need is quick save.

EXTREME requirements...for what?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has mad system requirements. When I bought it, I had to upgrade my video card so that it would support Shader 3.0 (The game doesnt look that fine trust me, it would have run on 2.0 perfectly, developers are just alienating 2.0 users). Anyway, after upgrading to a really expensive video card, I had great expectations, I mean, a game that has 3.0 shader as a MINIMUM system requirement has to look awesome right? well no, it looks exactly like any other game I ever played on my 2.0 Shader card. On top of that, the game is buggy as hell and really boring when compared with the other Splinter Cell Titles. My final recommendation? get those bills you were going to use to pay for it and burn them, much more fun in that than this stupid game.

The low point in the Splinter Cell series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved and endlessly replayed 2 of the 3 previous SC releases [Pandora Tomorrow was not so hot, IMO], and Chaos Theory is one of my favorite games of all time. I had very high expectations for this game; I recently bought a new computer, and I made sure that I had a shader model 3.0 video card just so that I could play it. So it hurts me to have to say this, but this game is terrible. Aside from the bugs mentioned by numerous other reviewers, I just didn't find it that much fun to play. Also, the graphics are no big deal -- not clearly better to me than the last game, but with a horrible interface that screams "console game." When my savegame became corrupted during the 4th level, I was faced with the prospect of having to go back and start over. I realized that I had no interest in replaying the first levels, that I wasn't enjoying the game that much, and it wasn't worth it to me to have to go back through a very boring level in the HQ of the "John Brown Army" to continue. That was 2 months ago -- I haven't felt any desire to try it again since then. The worst sequel since "Deus Ex: Invisible War."

Glad I finally bought it....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What sucks is I based my decision on buying this game on all these bad reviews and waited ages before buying it...then again, the patch probably helped a lot. Yeah, it's kind of console-feeling...but there are more moves, more toys and gadgets, and is just a blast to play. The graphics are outstanding and the AI still could use some work, as usual, but the environments are completely immersive and are very well done and the gameplay is just great. I've only had a couple problems with saves, and I've had no crashes whatsover. Just buy it used like I did...can't go wrong for that price.

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Splintering Action

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great Game, a great addition to the series. Invovled story line in which your choices have a visible effect. Open level design gives you more than one way to accomplish most missions.

If you are running a Nforce 8800 card beware, the gaem was not tested on your card. Try moding the short cut with -LL after the executable and it seems to run okay (not super stable).

All In All I really enjoy this game.

More accurately not Ubisoft but UBSTUPID!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an $8.00 game on Ebay, thats it! Frame lag, broken save game module, periodic crashes, by a company that should be renamed Ubstupid for releasing an untested game like this. If you can work around the mess, it's a fairly enjoyable game but the negs really take away alot of the pleasure in playing it. You never know whether or not the game was going to die altogether. I made it to the end, but not without headaches.

The "good" version of DA, but it has a lot of flaws on PC

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

I'm surprised more people weren't upset when they realized that if you had a PS2, you got the crappy version of Splinter Cell Double Agent, as opposed to the one with all the advertised events (scaling down a huge building to spy on a meeting, pulling people threw ice, etc.)... since I don't have a 360, but I do have a good PC, I decided to buy the PC version so I could experience the better version of Double Agent.

...yeah the PC version has some bugs. I was unable to launch the game from the shortcut installed; I had to open the disc tray, push it back, and wait for the launcher that comes from putting the disc in. If I just used the icon my computer practically froze. I've also had a few crashes, but it's not like they happen a few times a mission. I still say my purchase was worthwhile just because I got to play the non-PS2 version of the game. Here's a brief list of things changed between the PC/360/PS3 and PS2/Xbox (I believe Xbox has the same version as PS2 anyway):

1. PC version takes place in the present, so the chooses you make as a Double Agent seem more real and at times its hard to decide what to do.
2. Many levels are completely different. The last levels for the 2 versions are completely different. The PS2 version has something like a final boss, where in the PC version the main terrorist is taken out just like any other random person. The PS2 version's end also has a little more closure than the PC's, but the way the whole game is told makes it seem kind of sloppy and just thrown in:

:SPOILERS:
In the PS2 version, after defeating the terrorist leader and defusing the bomb, Enricka is killed by another Splinter Cell. Sam then stalks and slits the other agent's throat as payback. Seeing as in the PS2 version Same and the girl barely have any interaction, Sam going out of his way to murder a fellow agent seems a bit odd. In the PC version you actually get some "interaction" *nudge, nudge* between the two... sadly Enricka doesn't really play a big part in the PC version's end.
:END SPOLIERS:

3. In the PC version many of the gadgets besides your guns are essentially useless. I only used the goggles about 2 times in the entire game.

Ok, I'm down rambling. My point is, if you want to play the good version of DA, and don't have a 360 or PS3, get this game. If you have a PS3, it's a toss up as that version has some slowdown issues. If you have a 360 I would say get that one, as from what I understand it's the best copy.

Broken game. Pure and simple.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is broken on the PC. I've tried it on two different Quad Core systems using a 8600GTS and a 9600GT card, respectively. On both systems the game was so slow and choppy as to be effectively unplayable. It is not a question of the hardware being unable to keep up - even menu systems, 2D graphics easily renderable by even a decade-old computer, are choppy, slow, and unresponsive.

Something went wrong when this game was ported to the PC. It is completely broken, which is a shame given the general quality of the Splinter Cell series prior to this Double Agent installment.

I cannot recommend this title to anyone. I notice that other reviewers seem to be running it without trouble, but given the fact that negative reviews far outnumber positive ones, it seems to be a hit-and-miss product, with the "miss" option being the most likely.

If you're dying for a stealth game, nothing compares to the Hitman series, which has a proven track record, and is guaranteed to delight and entertain you. Hitman: Blood Money is the latest installment of the series.

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