Watch out for the bugs (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PC))

Member Name: spinny4

Product:	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PC)
Date:	11/01/07 (470 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Challenging, good story.

Disadvantages: Lots of Bugs

Sam Fisher returns in the latest game of the Splinter cell series : Double Agent.
As a regular player of the SC series, I was looking forward to getting this game, only to be quite disappointed.
It takes up 10GIG of space in your computer for a start, the installation is long, as is loading up levels in the game.

The training missions I found rather complex, even though i have played all the previous SC games. The sound and light aspects have been taken away and replaced with a traffic light system, where green is invisible, yellow you are at risk of being seen, and red is where you have been spotted.

The storyline is better than the previous games I thought, as Sam has to become a Terrorist to infiltrate an organisation from inside, as well as doing jobs for the company he currently works for.

You also get to go to the terrorist headquarters where you can do optional tasks to gain trust. This trust is throughout the whole game and every action you take has an influence on the trust, whether it is for the terrorist group or for sams company. You get to play the headquarter level a number of times in the game, which i quite enjoyed, as each time there were different tasks to carry out.

The game is full of bugs, which a patch can fix a few of them, but unfortunately i have the problem where when i go to load a game, it crashes to the desktop. Sometimes, i also found it impossible to crack the safes, as the dials would not turn, whatever i tried, thus leading to a loss of trust. I sometimes got into lockers that weren't there as well as being able to walk through walls in one level.

Overall, the game content is very good but as i cannot finish the game due to the crash to desktop factor, i am very frustrated and the numerous bugs in this game vastly let it down.

Summary: Sam Fisher returns in the latest game of the Splinter cell series : Double Agent.