The Bottom Line: Splinter Cell changed the way people look at the FPS. Forget Halo and GTA; this game will grab you and keep a hold of you with a high replay value.
nojive's Full Review: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for Xbox
Imagine yourself a one man army with all of the tactical background, gadgets and stealth ness to take out a whole country. If you can imagine this than you should have came out with this game first.
This is the FIRST game of the Splinter Cell franchise (I have this one, Pandora and Chaos Theory). Thank goodness for this game. It brings you into the game it doesn’t just bring the game to you.
You’re Sam Fisher and you’re on a mission well many missions to ensure that American freedoms are protected. Splinter Cell’s stealth-based gameplay; most of the game is spent sneaking around, using darkness and shadows to hide from patrolling guards. The player is equipped with a "light meter" that indicates how visible they are to enemies, as well as night vision and thermal vision goggles to help the player navigate in darkness and spot enemies. For combat, Fisher is equipped with a silenced pistol as well as a silenced assault rifle that can be used for combat, sniping, and even for launching various non-lethal devices such as "sticky shockers" and "gas grenades". Fisher can also sneak up on enemies from behind to knock them unconscious or grab and interrogate them. Fisher is also extremely acrobatic, and has a variety of maneuvers including the ability to mantle onto and climb along ledges, hang from pipes, and perform a "split jump" in narrow spaces to mantle up a steep wall.
The game heavily encourages stealth over brute force. Although Fisher is equipped with a firearm, he only carries at most 60 rounds of ammunition and rarely is able to obtain more during a mission. He also can only survive about 6 bullet hits before dying, and since most enemies are equipped with fast-firing automatic weapons they have the ability to cut Fisher down in a second or two. Additionally, Fisher must go in "aim mode" before firing his weapon, during which his movement speed is significantly slowed down. Moving while firing also makes Fisher's weapon highly inaccurate, as does the weapon inaccuracy which occurs when firing more than one bullet at a time.
The game is quite linear, instead of exploring an open area; the player frequently goes on a straight route from one point to another throughout an entire level.
You are Sam Fisher, a highly trained secret operative of the NSA's secret arm: Third Echelon. The world balance is in your hands, as cyber terrorism a...More at Walmart
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