Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®

Just a warning to my fellow retro PC enthusiasts out there; The version of the game you get here is the 1.3 version that has removed EAX functionality completely. The option will remain greyed out in the options menu, and even if you manually set EAX=True in the options menu you will only get basic sound. This is a major bummer! Great game otherwise, too bad about the missing retro hardware compatibility.

This is the original ignorant PC port that they released way back when, not updated at all. Only 4:3 resolutions maxing at 1280x1024, and no controller support at all even though it originally came out on Xbox. Many companies are doing way better these days with fully updated ports, as with AVP Classic here on GOG.

Splinter cell the first chapter is one of my favourite stealth game. If you don't know what is splinter cell nowadays here in fig you can take for 1.30 euro when have discount, if you don't like it after you played you can't suffer too much because is very cheap when they have the offer. It's a good game where you need to take advantage of environment, and you need to be in the shadows and be the shadow. You can plan the action, but in some point can't kill people, in most cases you should hide other bodies in the shadows to don't let other guards detect their disappearance. I recommend to buy. (Buy when there's the discount offer will be 1.30 euro 💶 can buy, come on it's a really good game, in the worst case scenario you just lost 1.30 €) Nice game, but they disappointed me to do not put Italian language --> the original release has and this doesn't. I don't understand a lot of dialogues because their accent and speaking too fast. I used to play with a lot of games in English flawless but this I have some difficulty to fully understand. I don't understand how gog does not put Italian language when in the original game release had.--> gog this you need to improve.

My review is based on the retail release: The game itself back in it's original release was brand new and fresh in the stealth genre. It was amazing, to use the enviroment with its lightning and background noise. The graphics were good for the time and the soundtrack was also very well done. The GoG-Version delivers you the mission pack, which adds more and good levels to the game. It's awesome to see them here, because I had to buy an used retail-version of the levels over amazon. Back in January 2009 the Complete Pack offered only Splinter Cell 1 till 4, without the missions pack. But buying the old mini-addon is not everything. I had to update (or downgrade) Splinter Cell 1 for compatibility with the mission pack. I downloaded back in 2009 the "SplinterCell13DVD.zip", which was not easy to find on the old UbiSoft-Forums. Who knows if this patch package is still online, I saved it on my harddrive. After applying this patch, you have to install the mission pack. Nice to see GoG providing it and spare us with all the patching. More I cannot say about the compability of the GoG version (because I own retail), but I thing it should run very well on modern OS. I played the retail version on Win Vista and it worked well. I give 4 stars, because the Sequels Splinter Cell 2 (Pandora Tomorrow) and 3 (Chaos Theory) are even better. On technical and completeness side I would give 5 stars (if there are no issues compared to the DVDs on Win Vista and upwards).

It's no coincidence that Splinter Cell 3 - Chaos Theory is considered the best of entry in the franchise: you had more tools to play around with and more ways to tackle every level and situation. Splinter Cell 1 is, sadly, not that type of game: yes, each and every single level is as vast and engaging as stealth will ever get, but there's also only one way to solve every problem. You'll beat it once, maybe go for a perfect ghost run but you'll most likely never touch it again.