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Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of the Splinter Cell series, but I found this one disappointing. The game drags, and I found myself quitting after short periods of play. In the end I got so bored I never finished it.

Some good, some bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've just finnished Splinter Cell: Double Agent and overall it's a pretty mixed bag of pro's and con's. First the good stuff. Visually its a good looking game. Just a close up look at Sam Fishers face and you can see every crease and wrinkle, thats the kind of attention to detail that was put into game. A word of warning tho, your graphics card MUST support Shader Model 3 for the game to even work. Another aspect of the game I liked is the juggeling act you must keep trying to do your mission while not losing too much trust from either side. There are often multiple choice decisions to be made that affect the outcome of the game. All of which make the game interesting and fun to play.

Now for the bad. As others have stated there are lots of bugs still in game, even with the current patch. The most notorious are random crashes to desktop, saved games not loading, and not being able to crack safes because the keys decide not to work. Another annoying aspect of the game is you cant reconfigure certain keys. So your stuck moving Sam around with the arrow keys.

One thing I would also mention is the game is awfully short. One reason may be because of theres a cliff hanger ending that ties in with the sequel thats already in the works. Overall I would say the game is worth playing if you can overlook the shortcomings. If not then I would recommend waiting abit until the price come down and the bugs are fixed.

What has Ubi done to the Splinter Cell series on the pc?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was really anticipating the release of Double Agent for the pc. I loved the original Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow. Ubi really made a mistake by using starforce drivers for the third game, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. No starforce drivers this time around, but wow.. this has got to be the worst game of the series by far.

Double Agent is an obvious console port and NOT ready to be released on the pc. Ubi is not offering any patches to really address the major issues with this game either. This game is HIGHLY unstable on the pc. Several people have had problems with crashes and serious lagging. With the options turned down and no matter what kind of system you have, you will most likely encounter some serious choppiness and lagging. It really starts to get bad in about the third level of the single player game. Also, if you make any changes to the video settings and hit "apply"... crash back to the desktop. This happened to me several times.

One problem that you will first notice with this game are the load screens. There are two load screens and they take forever! You just sit there waiting and waiting and watching the little circle go round and round until finally the level loads. By the way, I have a great system with an Nvidia 7800GT pci express card and 2 gigs of ram.

As far as the actual game play... it's not near as good as the first two Splinter Cell games. It's too linear this time around with lots of scripted and timed scenes. In the end, Double Agent was just too unstable. The instability really takes away from the enjoyment factor.

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been a Splinter Cell fan for years until I've played this game.
Double Agent has stooped to a new low where it's just simply a game of hide-n-go seek.
I have to admit the graphics are excellent, having realistic content and features and of course the use of advertisements is not a big deal (since splinter cell have been sponsering cell phones mostly, now there's a Chrystler in this game) but the story of it is very dull.
Splinter Cell has gone from killing spree, funny dialogues, hilarious characters with different voices of stereotypical foreigners to a snore-fest walk.
What's also infuriating is his lovely walky-talky that now turns into a Stop-n-GO Street Light. Ummmmm... last time I've checked, I don't think anyone would appreciate wearing photocells where it distributes LIGHT and especially in three colors.
The story is understandable, but Ubisoft can do so much better. The missions are so repetitive to do the same things, just in a different way, just to simply get a wanted man dead. There's really no great end to this game.

My favorite piece of this game is actually the FIRST mission, and Shanghai, but unfortunately everything else is garbage because of the fact that you'll be stuck in a building filled with angered mobs walking around you all day while you wheel your way around them. That's probably the ONLY stealthy thing in the game, is to simply not get caught. What makes it funny is that you'll be sent out of the area and start over again.

Finally, the "Trust Bar". It's stupid. I can lower my trust with Lambert as much as I want, and I wouldn't care because it wouldn't end the game. Just to summarize this, the game follows solely on the story line. And what makes it hilarious is that I get to see Lambert again in the end of the game, and it gets me thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought this guy doesn't trust me anymore what happened?"

Splinter Cell also has bugs that'll just completely send the game into an error zone, even when it's updated.

I'm sorry Ubisoft, but you can either grab your old team who created splinter cell in the past to come back to work, or just simply stop the game entirely, because I can only imagine how horrible the sequels will be after this.

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