Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®

This rewiew is written by someone who didn't play the game back when it came out and views it through the lens of other stealth games. Personal preference: I like my stealth games to give me freedom (how do I incapacitate guards, what gadgets do I use, which route do I take). This game though, doesn't give any. The levels are very linear, usually only one way to sneak through an area. Every now and then this route involves some bad and frustrating platforming. Gadgets also disappoint, almost nothing that would allow to manipulate guards, intead when I want to distract them, I have to eiter sprint for a while, or allow myself to be seen, which is kinda jank. The rifle on the other hand is in a weird place, it has a lot of cool munitions it can fire, but it's weird and disorienting that player recieves access to all of them at the same time. All in all, I'm kinda disappointed.

Is it better than the Ubisoft Connect version? In a few ways, but it has problems of it's own, so no it's not. I didn't know as I played that the in game settings were now unusable, you'll have to choose them from a different launcher with the games options. Great, though they're a bit finnicky with what resolutions you can use, some of them like 1080p won't let you choose the levels from the main menu without the game crashing. I also wasn't able to assign tab as a key to cycle around the inventory, which is the key I always use. Apart from that there are a few subtle visual glitches I noticed, like misaligned light projections, for exemple in the training, the fan dynamic shadow now appears on the wall instead of showing up in the ground and a few ground textures are glitched or missing, like on the chinese embassy level, it's noticeable that the floor texture repeats itself infinitely when in the original it isn't like that. I think this release needs just a bit more tweaking, Something I'd love to see is if the cutscene resolution was the same as in gameplay, so it doesn't have the violent switching that makes me see my desktop for a second everytime I start a new mission. Also, a huge problem with the thermal vision, it has no sense of depth or any greens to show mid temperatures, it's completely ruined from the original graphics and the part in the abattoir is nigh unplayable.

After starting a new game the game crashes immediately

old mechanics but still good game

This game is a MASTERPIECE.The gameplay and art direction is fantastic.If you examine the story carefully it is a well crafted GEO-POLiTICAL story which is AWASOME.