Score: 2/5
I realize I'm a little late on the ball with this one (it came out last year) but Christ this game was disappointing. If I could afford it I would fly to Montreal, walk up to the Ubisoft offices and scream "SPLINTER CELL IS SUPPOSED TO BE A STEALTH GAME". You see, apparently Ubisoft got bored of publishing awesome if a little overly patriotic games about a dude who's damn near invisible despite the fact he sports three flashlights on his forehead at all times and decided they'd rather go for the bland 3rd person shooter game.
Not that there's anything wrong with 3rd person shooters (Resident Evil 4 anyone?) but I have a problem with the switch for a few reasons, first and foremost being the old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it". See I thought Chaos Theory was a damned fine 3rd person stealth shooter, probably the height of the series. Double Agent was also good despite the steep difficulty curve. Now we have this and I'm just left wondering if maybe they ran out of dark places to serve as a backdrop.
I mean the games not terrible and a few missions are strictly sneak type levels but the game is just so damn easy and whenever Sam goes into the sun for another jaunt with waves of terrorists I lose interest. Also how long has it been since the first game cam out? Why is Sam not using a walker? Wasn't he like in his fifties in the first one?
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