TheParanoidGamer Writes: If you were to think about some of top gaming franchises of all time you would think Halo, Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy. Another game that would make the conversation would have to be a franchise known as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. There’s been five installments to this franchise as well as a few hand-held iterations. With the help of Michael Ironside, Sam Fisher has become one of the most iconic characters in the history of video games. Splinter Cell is a beloved franchise, but recently it has shown it has fallen afar from the greatness it used to have.
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage appears to be adopting a key Splinter Cell mechanic, which is great news for the characterization of Basim on PS5 and Xbox.
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I'd love to see Jensen Ackles play a new up and coming Splinter Cell, and have Fisher train him. It will never happen, but it's a great idea.
they ruined this franchise by taking the mainstream approach trying to pull in newer fans
They need to bring back that old 2v2 multiplayer that everyone loved.
Um, they tried that. No one liked it.
Actually, it was a good game, it just wasnt a good Splinter Cell game.
...or a death. A lot of companies need to move on to making new IPs already.