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Your target is leaning on the ships rail looking out at the mountainous waves, you make a slow gentle approach in the shadows, he moves and you freeze. He turns and looks directly at you, staying completely still you wonder if you should have just shot him with your silenced pistol. Out of the corner of your eye you see a guard come into sight from behind a life boat, he looks over toward the target you’ve been toying with then turns away and continues his patrol. Your original target seems not to have noticed you and starts walking in the same direction as the guard, you shadow him for a moment until the guard is out of sight, the sound of the guard’s radio chatter in the distance masks your kill. The body slides into the roiling sea without another living soul bearing witness as you melt into the shadows.
Stealth returns for a third time
The days of sneaking around, hanging from pipes upside down and other covert shenanigans are back. This is the third installment in the Splinter Cell series and it delivers on every level of expectation. You play Sam Fisher, a combat veteran with a deadpan sense of humour, an incredible level of fitness and all the high tech toys you could want. Another world threatening conspiracy demands the attention of a person with a rather impressive set of black ops knowledge.
The aim of this kind of game is to avoid conflict until you want to engage. Essentially you’re a shadow in an enemy location until you decide to strike. The story is non-linear so if you kill the person you were meant to interrogate you may then need to find a computer terminal to get the information you were sent after. Basically it will adapt to your style of play, totally covert god of intrusion, or silent death creeping inevitably forward. Graphically speaking it’s a very good looking world you inhabit, and the audio reinforces the atmosphere of the myriad places you find yourself creeping through.
Multiplayer magic
There are the usual multiplayer modes we have come to expect of this franchise and they’ve all had a refit. The co-op mode features a number of missions that you can play with a friend. This mode plays out in third-person perspective like the single-player game, and the missions run parallel to the action you encounter. Essentially you can team up with another and together you can tackle those insurmountable obstacles that require two covert specialists instead of one. The adversarial mode offers a mix of old and new content wrapped in the same two-on-two mould, you get to play a mercenary or spy as do the other players. There are a number of different types of play in this mode, but all combine the fun of the co-op mode with the usual satisfaction experienced by beating another human player/s.
The story mode for the single player mode is not just more of the same, it’s well polished and contains a set of improvements which complement the game play, plus the multiplayer modes really make this well designed offering. This is a great game delivering a set of well thought out missions for the single and multiplayer experience. All in all, a very atmospheric and detailed world in which to do some wet work.
Specs
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Requirements: ???
Rating: 90%
Price: EUR*49.99
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