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Evidence of the death of PC gaming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 20
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I dont know what planet D. Ackerman lives on. The game is far from solid.
Yes I have a killer rig too and yes I get to see some pretty nice graphics.
That my friends is where it ends.

False advertising - Unlocks dont work at all.
Save game corruptions
Crash to desktop on many occasions
Multiplayer module is pointless

I managed to have a bit of fun in a few parts of the game but its not worth
it if you have not bought it yet.

This is just another example of the death of PC gaming. All the money
making is on the console side. This is a blatent grab for some extra cash
from the PC owners. It's so VERY obvious litte to no QA / Beta testing was
done on the PC version.
Warm up and practice your mindless joystick twitching PC Gamers, its the future....

WARNING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU DON'T HAVE VIDEO CARD THAT HAS SHADER 3.0.
My comp is

AMD FX-55
2 gigs of ram
2 daul video cards each at 256 mem hooked up to three 19 inch monitors
250 SATA hard drive

and i still can't run this game.

Splinter Cell BUG AGENT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Disapointing, the game is loaded with bugs (already patched 1.02), it's impossible to play 10 minutes (or less) without a crash, running in Dual Core, 4 Gigs RAM, X1600, the game have great graphics and no slowdowns but as the last reviewer, I have the same opinion, Ubisoft just worried about cash and nothing more, worst, since the game get out they didn't worry at all in getting people testing the game and releasing the fixes, needed. Saving the game while playing is just waste of time, the save seems not to be done ??? The new presence system with yellow/red light is stupid, we can be face to face with guards/enemies and nothing happens if the led don't turn red ??? Stupid AI, I was able to open safe box with enemy on the side, blind ??. Well, the game was maded for let them $$$ and don't show respect for players, mainly the fans like me. The game line isn't bad at all, but the bugs kill all the fun. Advice, save the money or get it in next months when they are forced to sell it for $5.

Rendered unplayable by bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It gives me great pain to give this game such a low score as I'm a huge fan of the Splinter Cell franchise, but unfortunately the PC version is so buggy I am as of yet unable to play the game, and will be until a patch is released. I have a new Nvidia 8800 GTS video card, and the game won't even launch with it, so be advised not to buy this until there's another patch that fixes the issues. And even if you don't have an G 80 series video card, I would really recommend searching the internet and support forums to see if if people with hardware similar to yours are having problems. You cannot trust in this game to run on your computer, no matter how modern your system is, so do some research before you buy!

Pretty bile

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My system exceeds the requirements of this game by more than two times over for the prcessor and four times for all other requirements. The game is on patch 1.02 now and still has all the flaws mentioned by other reviewers and more. Game play is awkward, noncustomisable and glitchy but as a big SC fan I can be forgiving of that. Moreover, there is no sliding scale of your covert or overt status. You are either "green" and invisible, "yellow" and visible, or "red" and under attack. Environmental cues to your status are poorly thought out and lack both clarity and continuity. I can forgive even that. I can even forgive saving issues because I will play a level over again until it goes down perfectly so mid-level saves are of little consequence. However I can not accept bugs that effect game progress directly, like the inability to use your safe cracking tool in the Shanghai mission. You can enter into the tool when the safe unlock symbol shows up but can not control the tool and can only exit out again. This causes major loss of trust with both the NSA and JBA because you cant steal documents or samples for the afore mentioned parties. There by not allowing you to complete the level or progress any further in the game. The tool functioned in the JBA training mission, but this level appears to have been dropped directly from the console code onto the PC code without the benefit of editing the control commands.

PC gamers are already getting the shaft with delayed release dates and exclusive contracts with consoles. When we pave the way with games like Halo and Far Cry and tell control mashing monkeys what they should like sequels of those quality titles and games similar to these rarely come out again on the platform. If and when they do they are street dated behind the console releases often by months and/or are glitchy and poorly converted. It is getting to the point where most PC games are not worth buying and the console system controllers haven't improved enough to be worth using. I have been a PC gamer for over 17 years now 15 since Wolenstein 3D, and we are in gaming limbo. Thank you Ubisoft for wasting my money!

An embarassment for Ubisoft and the Splinter Cell series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What do you do you for the 4th entry in a series as consistently amazing as Splinter Cell? Give it to a developer who will completely destroy it. Want a game as rock solid and bug free as the first three? It's not here. Want the same sweat inducing stealth action? It's gone. Replaced by a convenient piece of technology that glows green when you're in cover (sometimes) and red when you're not (sometimes). Want to reassign some of the control keys like you can in all the other games in this series as well as every other decent video game released in the last 10 years? Impossible. Apparently, sometimes it works to manually edit an .INI file in one of the directories. You'll have to Google this solution though. You won't hear it from Ubisoft.

I used to look at the Ubisoft logo as the sign of a stable, quality game. Not anymore.

Do the research before you buy this game. Even after two patches, the bugs are rampant. And if you haven't played the other 3 games in this series, do yourself a favor and pick them up first.

Last UbiSoft Game for me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After GRAW an This I will not purchase another Ubisfot game again.
This game crashes more than my teenage son. I have been a long time fan of Splinter Cell but no more they think they can port a console title to PC for some extra cash, and no one can do anything about it because of return policies on software and games. I hope someone starts a class action suit I`ll get in line.

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.

I second the warning!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Got this game home, installed it fine, but it gives me an error message when I try to start telling me that the shader is not right. May be a fun game; apparently only hard-core gamers or those with an XBox, PS2, etc will find out though!

The worst game in the series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Splinter Cell: Double Agent is an awful game, from start to end.

Technical problems aside (and there were many!) the overall enjoyment of this game was disappointingly low. The mission objectives were often vague and confusing. The "mini-games" were a bad gimmick and lacked any entertaining value. The designers basically stripped Sam Fisher of the most unique tool in the SC games, the night vision/heat vision goggles, allowing us to use them only on a few missions. The AI has become increasing more stupid and blind, and the shadows don't have any uniformity throughout the game -- sometimes Sam is completely hidden in partial sunlight, sometimes completely visible.

I have a high end system that I only use for gaming -- no web browsing, no email, nothing except games. There are no background programs running except for essential Windows tasks. That said, the game crashed several times, I had problems with odd graphical glitches and sound was choppy. Turning down the graphical quality did nothing to fix the problems, and with Ubisoft's lack of a patch (and Q&A testing, apparently) I spent more time restarting the game than I did playing it. One example: leaving the game paused for five or ten minutes causes graphical glitches in the game that eventually caused it to crash. Loading a saved game is much more difficult than it needs to be, and I was often unable to load a game I saved, instead having to restart the level.

The story/plot/characters were anything but special, and in many cases just got in the way. Every other mission took place in the same hideout/building (way to reuse maps, Ubi!) and REALLY slowed the pace of the game down. These are the missions you'll begin to dread and wish they were skipable (note to self: google for cheat codes next time!). Many of the maps are very linear, which is surprising in this day and age of video games like GTA and Okami -- different genres officially, yet very similar in styles.

This is the Splinter Cell to skip, although I suspect fans of the series have already bought it and will buy the next in the series on the day of release. I, however, will be keeping my money in my wallet for the next SC, and waiting for the gaming site reviews and Amazon reviews, which have so far painted a very good picture of this game's quality. Double Agent, however, is an incredible disappointment. Buyer beware.

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