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Tom Clancys Splinter Cell Double Agent from Ubisoft
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Product Description Splinter Cell: Double Agent brings back veteran agent Sam Fisher, for an enemy unlike any he's faced before. To stop a devastating attack, he must infiltrate a vicious terrorist group and destroy it from within. For the first time ever, experience the relentless tension and gut-wrenching dilemmas of life as a double agent. As you infiltrate a terrorist organization in its American headquarters, you must carefully weigh the consequences of your actions. Kill too many criminals and you'll blow your cover. Hesitate too long and millions will die. Do whatever it takes to complete your mission, but get out alive. Includes gold key ticket. New authentic gadgets, used by NSA government agents in addition to black-market terrorist weapons Xbox 360 extras include - 2 additional alternate single-player missions, 9 all-new merged versus and co-op maps, and new underwater and sandstorm combat
Customer Reviews
Michael Ironside should play Sam Fisher in the movie Posted 13 March 2007
PROS:
- Unreal Engine
- No forced grab cover as with many new games.
- SAVE ANYWHERE!
- Excellent main character voice acting, especially Michael Ironside. It really helps.
- Excellent music. This really helps too.
- Complicated story with interesting morality. I never understood irrational "ends-justify-the-means" ethics, which this game obviously employs, but it's certainly realistic to our ultra-nationalistic, ultra-militaristic government, so using it as a plot device in this game makes perfect sense. The enemy is mostly domestic so no one can claim anti-Arab, anti-Muslim or racism. Branching storylines and alternate endings as in a special edition DVD.
- Very very interesting psychological training levels (although this is far too brief and actually doesn't really train newbies on most weapons and gadgets).
- Sammy gotta girlfriend. Awwwww.
- Map - don't know where to go? Look at the map.
- I never once had to consult the internet due to bad design, didn't know where to go, what to do, glitches, etc. Double-plus good on that.
CONS:
- Deplorable recycled enemy voice acting during combat. Your enemies will even switch from new voice actors to completely different (old) voice actors if you enter combat. They'll say things like "let's try something different, fall back!" and other various quotes from older Splinter Cell games (Chaos Theory). Tons of them are from the exact same voice actor, which again is from older games and there is not even an attempt to make him sound like a different guy each time. How much effort could it take to get some voice actors into a studio to some new lines. You could get a bum off the street to do this.
- infinite health nonsense like in Call of Duty 2, Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas, etc. no med kits, health packs, etc. I don't get this with the new games. It's a revolt against the old Doom health/armor tradition. Logically, it only makes sense if you have some sort of Halo character with a recharging shield or something similar. Sam ain't got that, WWII soldiers certainly didn't, neither do characters in other games - you might be able to give Gears of War a pass because they are wearing some sort of goofy suit in the future, but they really should either explain it (or explain it away) for this and other games. Infinite health changes the context of gameplay. There is no urgency to get to a health kit or be more careful if your health is down. Get shot a bunch of times? Just duck down for a couple of seconds, no prob.
- too many timed missions (entire levels are timed in this game in which you must complete complicated tasks and aren't even able to run - you're forced to walk). It's annoying.
- they took away the light and sound meters in favor of a lame traffic-light Homeland Security style color system. I miss the light and sound meters, they were cool. The color system is also redundant (they have it permanently on screen in 2 different places) -- why not have only 1 color alert (on his shoulder strap) and the light/sound meters for flavor. The light meter allowed you to see when you were APPROACHING vulnerability of exposure. Now they just have a yellow light which indicates only the exact moment of vulnerability, not when you are getting close. The sound meter similarly allowed you to see when you were able to surprise enemies more easily due to loud ambient noise.
- grenade throwing system downgrade. They used to show you an exact arc of where the grenade would land - this was realistic because throwing stuff into an exact location is fairly easy in real life. Even children can do it, so I gather an expert military veteran can do it. Not anymore because it's gone. Why?
Still an excellent game and I'm sure they'll give it a sequel. Chaos Theory was a little better IMO.
Great Game Posted 22 February 2007
If you've played any game in this series then you know what to expect. What separates this series from other series that did not survive the jump to "next gen" is that they get it right. I can't think of anything I would change about the game. If you're expecting Doom or Quake then you bought the wrong game. This game is about stealth and accomplishing your goals with the LEAST amount of collateral damage (in most cases). Sure the "morale choice" aspect of the game could have had more of an impact but the fact that it doesn't really does not detract from the experience in my opinon. I would definitely recommend this title.
Fun...But a lot of the Same Posted 10 January 2007
This game is great, but not 5 stars great. A lot of the "difficult morale" choices that you have to make, really aren't that difficult. if you do the "bad" thing, you get better gadgets...and being that it's a video game, I don't really find it that hard to do. This Game feels a lot like Chaos theory, with just enough tweaks to make it still seem fresh and new. I am a big SC fan though, and really think that all the games are good.
Very cool stealth game Posted 10 January 2007
My husband says this is an excellent version of Tom Clancy Splinter Cell Series. He has nothing bad to say about this game.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Posted 09 January 2007
Just like the other Tom Clancy games, this one was awesome.
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