Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Xbox)

Naturally, before playing on Splinter Cell, due to all the rumours about it being an exact copy of Metal Gear, I was sceptical. However, after just a few minutes of playing as Sam Fisher; the third echelon special forces operative, I soon realised how brilliant this game is. Now, admittedly the name Sam Fisher doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Solid Snake but he is certainly a far better stealth operative with more gadgets, moves and grey hair than Snake could ever muster. The game starts with two agents lying in the cold spying on an enemy force. They creep into a vent and make their way down to a bunker of sorts. They discover a huge ...  Read the complete review

To be honest, I wasn't all that interested in Splinter Cell until a few months back when I played it on a demo. After spending a few minutes on the demo, I was blown away. Splinter Cell seemed to be the game that I thought Metal Gear Solid 2 should have been. Not to say that MGS 2 was a bad game, its just that I thought it had far too many flaws holding it back from greatness. ...  Read the complete review

This is a somewhat difficult review to write - Splinter Cell (SC) has taken me through moments of pure gaming heaven, and of deepest joypad-smashing hell. Possibly conceived by Ubi Soft as an answer to Metal Gear Solid, SC is set in the Tom Clancey universe. This has a number of implications - firstly, the engine shares a number of traits with former Clancey titles such as Rainbow Six (ie. twitchy controls and faux-realistic physics). Secondly, the plot is penned by Clancey himself - although, as a basic cautionary tale of nuclear paranoia and sinister middle-eastern alliances, he could have knocked it up in twenty minutes on the back of a cocktail napkin. ...  Read the complete review

Splinter Cell is certainly one of the top games that I have ever played. Having purchased an Xbox when it was released, I have always kept up to date with new releases, and when Splinter Cell came out, I rushed out and bought it, expecting a real treat, and I wasn't let down. The game features a realistic, believable storyline about a genocidal president from Georgia who plans to link with a mercenary from China to dominate the globe. You play the part of Sam Fisher, a black ops splinter cell agent from the National Security Agency in the USA. You must stand on the enemy line and penetrate the defences to obtain vital information that takes the world to the ...  Read the complete review

Enter the life of a Splinter Cell; Sam Fisher. You are an agent of the NSA and you are a ghost. You will enter and leave buildings undetected, collect secret information, assassinate certain threats and try and keep the USA in one piece. If ever I've heard an inviting storyline, it's that. In Splinter Cell, there are 14 missions to progress through which are all stealth-based. Breaking necks, using numerous gadgets and slowly making your way through high threat areas is always an aspect of the game and it's done perfectly by Ubisoft, as is expected from them. The main idea of the game is to use an indicator which tells you how well ...  Read the complete review