I’m not a big fan of stealth games. I prefer going out all guns blazing, not in an all-odds against me sneaking around trying to accomplish tasks. Stealth games are similar to most other videogames, except that there are two hundred bad guys in a level who shoot first, bury in the backyard, and then ask questions. You’re given a knife and a wimpy-ass handgun and some other tools which help you sneak around in the dark. Sneak into the light and you’re spotted like a crap clucking ape.
Now splinter cell chaos theory was one game I really enjoyed playing. True, it involved a lot of sneaking around, but I played it a few years back, and it was interesting and never got too easy or too hard. A lot of thinking was actually involved.
I heard of Splinter Cell Double Agent a few days after it released last year. Didn’t get the time to play it. I got the game recently, a mammoth 9GB dvd. I remember the old days when a game barely filled up one CD and today it needs twelve. Anyways, I found the game a lot different from the last. The stealth element is decreased, and the brilliant light and sound detectors are missing, (read about them here) but there’s an almost binary mode of being hidden, visible or in danger. Simple as pie.
I found the new game a bit more fun and flexible. I’m also playing on easy mode so there are a lot of tircks you can do to disable someone. New gadgets, weapons make the game more interesting.
What’s the most interesting thing about this game is that you’re a double agent and you’re working for a friend and an enemy. You have to do missions for both of them while not losing the trust of either. Often you’ll have to make a choice and that’ll affect the outcome of the game.
I noticed a few bugs in the game with the navigation and the loading of saved files which doesn’t work and has cost me many a good play minutes. but overall the game is really nicely done and the first one you actually get emotionally involved with because you have to make big choices.
Later.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy’s_Splinter_Cell:_Double_Agent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Splinter_Cell:_Chaos_Theory
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