Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®

The core of splinter cell is quite nice, the movement offered is fun if a bit clunky and the gadgets provided to you are a great way to allow you to tackle a situation in the manner you choose. The problem is, you'll very, very rarely make use of any movement out of your own volition, as the game is terribly linear. It's basically a long corridor, no room has any alternate entrance, and even though Sam can run, jump, and climb freely there's nowhere to climb to, nothing to explore. To add insult to injury the game forces you into combat on 2 occasions, at which points the game devolves into sitting in a corner and popping the heads of incoming enemies, who have a tendency to gain nightvision when alerted. The game feels like a huge waste of potential, were it not so linear it could have been great. The end result is just mediocre.

I wouldnt recommend this game. I love stealth games and I really wanted to like this game, but I just couldn't/ As other people have already covered the mechanics are decent but the level design is very linear and consequently doesn't provide much of a challenge and isnt rewarding to crack. Go play thief or hitman instead.

No controller support, key bindings not working too bad one of my favs

That is all. It shows a protection at fault at startup and I couldn't even play a bit.

The akward platforming and the extreme linearity of each level broke me mentally. I thought i knew something about stealth games, i mean ive played thief and all the deus ex games, recently ive also played intravenous each i liked quite a bit. i thought i was prepared for this game but i was wrong. The maps are so designed in such tight, linear fashion that i often found myself wondering what was i really supposed to do and really the only thing you need to know to beat this game is the right moment to strike. This is more of a game that tests how pacient you are as oppose to how smart you are. You know in pretty much all the other games that i mentioned the maps are really complex in terms of their design. You need to be vegilant and look for possible path ways that can lead you to where you're supposed to go and obviously you also need be smart when it comes to utilising your tools. None of that existes in this game. You sit in dark corner, shot a couple of camaras/lights out maybe toss around an object to grab the enemies attention and you try to grab them from behind, that's the whole game. It's nauseatingly repatitive and mindless, again you just need to know the right time of when you're supposed to engage. And for a stealth game, i found that brute forcing your way with combat to be quite efficient mostly because the a.i is just stupid and when you're not forced to not be lethal it's just better to shot your way through. It may not be the most satisfying shooting experince but it's way less furstrating. There's also a fair bit of trial and error in this game which for game that severely underdelivers on the stealth aspect just made my brain melt to the point i had it running down my nose and ears. Honestly, i don't understand what made this game popular. Sam fishing might be a cool character but i reckon that's about the only genuinely possitive aspect i can say that this thing has.