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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)

Ignore the one star ratings!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love how some of the other reviewers gave this game one star because their computers aren't equiped to play the game. As if it's the game's fault that they're too stupid to read the system requirements before they buy it.

Yes, be fore warned that the system specs are huge. There are only a handful of GPU's that are supported in this game, so make sure that you have the right video card before you buy it. Also, you'll need at least 1GB of RAM (I recommend more)and a 3ghz CPU. The install footprint is huge, taking up a little over 10GB. I should also mention that this is a DVD-ROM game, so you'll need a DVD-ROM drive to install it.

The game itself is amazing as always. The Splinter Cell series has always been the high mark of stealth based gameplay, and this new episode is no exception. The visuals have improved greatly since the last Splinter Cell game, which explains the high system requirements. The gameplay itself is basically unchanged, with only a few new gadgets to mess around with. The biggest difference in this game as compaired with the previous three is that you now have to balance your loyalty to the NSA with winning the trust of the terrorist organization that you've infiltrated. That makes for some very tough decisions durring the course of the game and does a lot to immerse you into the life of Sam Fisher as he struggles with morallity verses the mission.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent doesn't deserve the one star ratings from the few idiots who don't know to check system specs before they buy. Don't be like those guys. If you enjoyed the other games in this series, and you have the hardware to run it, then you'll love every minute of this game.

A solid 4th installment in the Splinter Cell franchise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game play is breathtaking as are the graphics on a powerful gaming rig. I'm running dual nVidia 7900GTX's and an AMD FX-57 and this game is mesmerizing. I really appreciate some of the new features such as the new zoom mode and the ability to more realistically hold your breath to stabilize and take a shot. The new weapon system spices the game play up and the ability to interact with the environment more smoothly than before is the best feature yet. Voice acting is superb as are the scripted character motions like the underwater kill moves and the pipe crawling. This is a very strong addition to the Splinter Cell franchise of which I already own all previous games for the PC.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband for his birthday -- his request. He hasn't stopped playing it. He loves it!

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is a great game for adults (for you liberals out there that means over 18 and out of mommy and daddy's house).

My processor feels like a whipped pony now

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this with 1 gb memory,an MSI dedicated card,80 gb hard drive and and very angry celeron 3.2 processor that feels like a whipped pony trying to race on Churchill Downs with the big guys.It ran a great race and I'm proud of it.I had Vista installed and had no problem.You really need a good system to play this game. I tried to play it with integrated ATI EXPRESS 200 and could n't load up. I would always crash and get a windows graphics error message. The problem was I didn't have shader3.0 .The msi took care of that and also helped vista aero graphics.The game itself is pretty good. For the price I paid for it it's a good buy and I would play it again.The game takes up 10 gb of hard drive space. I played it on an 80 gb hard drive with no problem but I would advise using a larger hard drive.It's a good game but demands a great computer.Don't knock Celerons as junk. It did the job although a Pentium would have been better.

Steep system requirement!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The video card with Shader 3.0 requirement is the only thing that stops me!!! My system meets and exeeds ALL the requirements EXCEPT my ATI X800XT PE which has only Shader 2.0 not 3.0 after I bought the game and run the system test!! Can't get REFUND, so I really hope UBISOFT, PLEASE ADD MORE VIDEO CARDS SUPPORTS for the PC VERSION!

Updated 11-9-2006
As discussed in the UBISOFT forum, this game is extremely BUGGY!!!!! People are experiencing slow frame rate and crashes even applying the 1.01 patch. Until UBISOFT fixed those problems, I should lower the rating down to 1 star due to the fact that UBISOFT rushed to release the PC version.

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.

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.

CoolerMaster RealPower 450W
ASUS A8N Deluxe
AMD Dual Core 4200+
4 GIGs of OZC Platinum Dual Channel Ram
EVGA Nvidia 7900GTX
Creative Audigy 4
Windows XP Pro

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.

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