Feature: What The Hell Is Splinter Cell Now?

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Feature: What The Hell Is Splinter Cell Now?

Added: 14.08.2013 17:00 | 7 views | 0 comments

It's not the Splinter Cell of Chaos Theory and Pandora Tomorrow, but it's not the all out shoot-fest of Conviction either. So what is it?

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And then Double Agent happened.

It was the game that started, for my money, to lean on Sam Fisher a bit further in terms of narrative and who he was as a person ('oh, no! My daughter!' etc.). Inevitably, cracks started to show in Splinter Cell's, to that point, unreservedly proud stance of what it was. Despite playing Double Agent on four different consoles (for reasons that need never be revealed), I still thought there was something to it and, more importantly, stealth remained king. The story always threatened to get in the way a tad, and it was certainly worse than its...