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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®

Good game, barely functional port

If you want a review about the actual content of the game, I've only played about 4-5 of the missions, but what I've seen so far is a pretty good stealth game. Instead I'm going to talk about my experiences running this game to address a far more important issue: -Installed and fired up the game, going through the tutorial and the first mission without any difficulties before shutting off the game. -Came back to the game. It'd been a couple weeks since I last played so I decided to go through the tutorial again real quick just to make sure I remembered how to play, only to find that the camera in the intro cutscene was in the wrong location and there were all kinds of bizarre graphical glitches like being able to see the inside of Lambert's mouth through the side of his head. The game also started crashing regularly in the main menu when I tried to load saves, restart missions or change settings. -Eventually I turned to Google to look for a fix for my problem. Apparently this game does NOT play well with modern systems and has to be set to run in XP Compatibility Mode, and a bunch of changes have to be made directly to the game's .ini files to change any of the settings without crashing the game (sadly I don't remember what the settings are and where to find them, so you'll have to look for them yourself.) -After a few more crashes and issues like the game minimizing during menu and FMV transitions, the game finally sputtered to life and ran without issue. -Except that, while I could save and reload in a single play session no problem, if I quit the game entirely and then came back my save files had such severe graphical corruption that the game was unplayable, forcing me to start the mission over from scratch and then do each mission in one sitting Honestly I'd recommend just getting the console version, or the HD trilogy.

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