Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell grants players access to the highest echelons of national security, where shadowy operatives have the freedom to do whatever it takes to safeguard America. The player controls Sam Fisher, a field operative of a secretive black-ops NSA sub-agency called Third Echelon. Sam Fisher is geared up to infiltrate high-security strongholds, seize critical intelligence, destroy threatening data, and neutralize the enemy–all without leaving a trace.
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For $50 a game had better deliver on several levels. Top-notch graphics, check. Online enabled, check. Storyline, check. The train level alone is worth the price of admission and if you’re not impressed at least graphically by this level do us a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool or at least get a better TV. Why not 5 stars then?…..Very linear. You have to follow scripted paths which leaves nothing to the imagination. I recently took place in a marketing research for the new Splinter Cell game (to be named) and can only say that you need to practice on this one before the next one comes out. Oh, and the graphics on the next one?….even better.
Much better environments this time around! The first Splinter Cell was pretty much 95% indoors. This one has more open & outdoor environments. And the environments like the Moving Train and Submarine base are very cool! Incredibly cool! With the new multiplayer mode & all, this game is truely unique & sets the standard for any upcoming stealth/action games.This is one of my favorite games of all time….Lights Out! Poof poof…..Lights On! Ooops there’s your dead body with a sticky shocker sticking out your neck.
Like many people, I was sucked in by the first Splinter Cell and eagerly ate Pandora Tomorrow up as well. And again, like most, I was somewhat disappointed with it.The same gameplay is here, the same engaging interface, the same main characters. There are several new villains to battle and the storyline is very involved, though not as involved as the first Splinter Cell. You do travel to some interesting geographic areas, like Jerusalem, Indonesia – even LAX.I was initially encouraged by the game, when the second level turned out to be one of the coolest Splinter Cell levels in both games combined – the train level. At the start of the level, Sam finds himself on the top of a speeding train in the middle of the night. You have to climb down the side, almost getting clipped by another locomotive passing. The graphics in this level are amazing and it’s unlike anything you’ll see in the first installment of the game. Then there is Jerusalem, amazingly recreated to cinematic proportions. At this point I began to notice the music. The same Splinter Cell themes were there, but performed with a Middle Eastern orchestra, incorporating percussion and instruments native to that area only. I was pretty impressed with this attention to detail.But then the game began to wane. It was more like work than gaming. Many of the levels have a 1-alarm limit. Someone sees you – that’s it. You’re restarting from the last save point, which was probably several minutes back. I found that there was very little action and a great deal of strategy, which is fine I suppose – that’s what you get in a Splinter Cell game. But sometimes it was to an excessive point, and I was just trying to get to the next save point, not really engaging in the Splinter Cell world. At other times I was rather impressed with the attention to puzzles. In one level you must navigate a dark mine field – with your thermal goggles – while spotlights scan the surrounding area. However, the spotlights are timed in such a.
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is the second game in a series of three (to date). It is available for XBOX, Play Station 2, PC, Game Cube and Game Boy Advance. This review is in reference to the Xbox version.The game is set in 2006: a corrupt guerilla militia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. They now occupy the building and have taken dozens of hostages. This is where you come in, but not to save the hostages. There are top secret documents located somewhere within the embassy: you must find and destroy them before the terrorists have a chance to get hold of them.Building on the enormous success of the original Splinter Cell game, Pandora Tomorrow once again pushes the boundaries beyond expectations. All areas of the game – the lighting & shadowing, animation, physics and sound design have been boosted to create an even more enveloping environment to play in. The single player game is nothing short of fantastic: it boasts a set of new hi-tech gadgets for you to play with as well as new moves to help you evade and engage your enemies.However, the truly groundbreaking aspect of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is the Multiplayer mode. The only game of its kind, the Splinter Cell’s multiplayer mode pits two on two in a very unique way; two stealthy, agile spies with third person perspective against two armed & deadly mercenaries in first person view. You wouldn’t think it would work as well as it does, but it’s perhaps the most well balanced multiplayer game ever made. Mercenaries may have lethal weapons, but spies are faster, can climb, hang and break your neck. Spies can move more quickly through the shadows, but mercenaries have an available motion tracking vision. Mercenaries have motion tracking but spies have hidden routs to travel unseen, etc. etc. etc. – it is this type of counteractive system that is applied to every facet of the MP experience. It’s extremely addictive and even more fun than it sounds. A wide variety of maps are available to c.
Sam fisher is back, and he bought some of his friends. There is now a revelountary multiplayer mode of Spies Vs. Mercanies. Mercs get the 1st person view and the big guns while spies get the 3rd person and the great moves.
This game was not long enough!!! I beat it in 3 days. I am glad I barrowed it and didn’t buy it. I havn’t tried it online yet so I can’t say anything about that. I also think that it would have been nice for multiplayer action without Xbox live! Oh well.
im not a huge fan of stealth-action games but this game is really fun on xbox. The controls are good and easy to learn. The single player may get boring after awhile but I can play the multiplyaer with my friends for quite awhile. The fact that the it has a ranking system really makes me want to play more and gain levels, its fun to compete against ur friends and also fun to break trash talking mercenaries necks
The first Splinter Cell created some of videogames’ most memorable moments. Pandora Tomorrow creates them in spades. Among them:– More spotlight-avoidance madness. In one scene, having to remain IN THE SPOTLIGHT as it moves along the ground to avoid a sniper using night-vision goggles until you can find a safe haven!!!– Crouched in a corner (or wherever), in shadow, as an enemy comes within INCHES of your position, then suddenly pressing your back against the wall at the last minute and hoping/praying (and holding your breath, literally) that he doesn’t detect you!!– Shooting out all the lights in a location to create total darkness, then switching to night-vision and creeping around toying with the enemies’ nerves by making noises, slapping them up against the head and running away quickly, only to put them out of their misery at some point by either subdueing or shooting them in the head – – all without them ever having seen you!!- – the foliage and water effects as you sneak your way through them!!- – the moving train scene and sneaking through a cabin with passengers sitting inches from you, sneaking along the outside railing or underneath the carriage going 90 mph; the first time an oncoming train passes you…’nuff said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- – the rain and lightning effects in one level towards the end of the game.- – the animations of non-playable characters as they sit/stand and do whatever it is they’re doing. They look and act so real it’s scary!!- – dropping in through windows of civilians watching TV and then sneaking past them through shadows out another window!! …- – two words: sticky cam or diversion cam – take your pick!!- – THE GENUINE FEELING OF ACCOMPLISHMENT WHEN YOU COMPLETE THE GAME. COUNT HOW MANY TIMES YOU PUMP YOUR FISTS IN CELEBRATION!!!!- – In the LAX level, sneaking through the concourse and taking a moment to look out the panoramic window to see ACTUAL planes taking off the runway!!Buy the game, y’all. Then witness all your othe.
if your into stealth games, or other tom clancy games then you will like this the best . I have a 360 and bought it for that, no issues at all, very well made game
I am a big fan of all the Splinter Cell games. It has been great to see the progression from the first to the third.