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| Overview |
| Cost |
S$64.90 |
| Brand |
Ubi Soft |
| URL |
Official
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| Reviewed |
26/03/2003 |
| Reviewer |
smokin Renegade |
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| Summary |
| Pros |
| Well Exciting and a Different gameplay with many gadgets and moves. Interesting plot and Great graphics. Loading time...not bad. |
| Cons |
| Try and Try untill you suceed. well not untill you have your hair turn white. Heatlh packs and Ammunition dont come easy. More controlls to master. |
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| Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell |
| Get Ready To Move Into Stealth Action. This Games Glues To Your Seats As Tom Clancy's Splinter's Cell Comes Burting Out Of Your PC!!! |
THE STORY:
Tom Clancy sans Jack Ryan. SC opens with main man Sam Fisher waxing poetic about the burden of his Fifth Freedom--the freedom to do whatever's necessary to defend America from terrorist threat. He alone must infiltrate, spy, and assassinate, while you alone must control Mr. Fisher, via mouse and keyboard, through nine sorties in settings ranging from Georgian police stations and Chinese embassies to CIA headquarters and besieged oil rigs. Set in a near-future scenario where ex-Soviet satellite states threaten to go rogue, SC stars Sam Fisher, a field operative called back into service to head up Third Echelon, a new, covert arm of the National Security Agency. Typical plot of a Clancy novel, there are more plot twists, high-tech threats, and Russian surnames than you can shake a Kalashnikov rifle at. Sadly, the complexity in the story line does little to pull players into the game. Unlike books, which have the luxury of prose to develop their premises, SC ushers you briskly through its unfolding mystery, destroying much of the story's mystique in the process.
Luckily, while the plot fails to properly thicken, the gameplay doesn't disappoint us. Building upon MGS' third-person stealth mechanics, SC brodens its gameplay repertoire by infusing the hide-and-seek elements. Not only are you sneaking around, but you're doing it in the dark, with night-vision goggles, fiber-optic wire cameras, and prototype weaponry. SC's brilliance lies in the way the various aspects of the game unite to compliment its central theme: stealth action.
We could argue that Splinter Cell is still heavily script-driven, often resulting in much trial-and-error playing, or that given its PC-centric save-anywhere-anytime system, the game is on the easy side. We could bitch about how, despite its sharp photorealistic graphics, the game still lacks built-in anti-aliasing for a less jagged look, or lament about how Sam Fisher's standard 5.7mm sidearm has about as much stopping power as a water weenie. But we won't, because that would be missing the big,beautiful, and utterly compelling picture. This is, hands-down, one of the best stealth-action games on the PC. Don't have an Xbox? You still don't need one.
Minus Points
Dont expect the game to be 10/10 rating because it has some minor problems that i have encountered. SC's got some typicall Counter-strike problem. The door can't be opened when u stand behind it stopping it from opening. This might remind you of the hostage maps that we might have encountered before 1.5 when terrorists could move hostages to block people from coming through.
Well the controls are complicated cause the gameplay has many controls and movements. Most improtantly you have to have lots of patience because this game is more of a trial and error. You try and try untill you complete the stage and dont expect to heal yourself cause health packs and ammunition dont come easy. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the enemy is not so high though, and the enemy can't see you if you hide at dark spots. Even when the enemy is a 2 feet away from you. I felt that, it is a bit unrealistic. Maybe you could increase the difficulty of the game making it harder, brain breaking and mind twisting for you to actually complete the level, going against harder enemies with better AI.
Well overall its a exciting and mysterious game with lots of gagdets and movement. You also dont need a very good graphics card to run Tom Clancy's Production. Dont bother about the minus points if you are a Hardcore Tom Clancy's Fan.....Because I AM ONE and i am getting the game. If you like Max payne than go ahead and try TOM CLANCY's Splinter's Cell. |
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