Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $9.98

Features:

• Dual objectives to fulfill - NSA government agents and terrorists will each want you to accomplish opposing tasks at the same time
• Discover the tension of being a double agent - Use actual tactics employed by today's real-life double agents to sabotage the terrorists' plans
• Branching storyline with multiple endings - Your choices have an impact on how the story and gameplay unfold
• A world of international espionage - Missions from all over the world, from Asia to Africa to the heart of the US
• Experience extreme situations -- going underwater or into a sandstorm, hiding behind the dust or smoke and even skydiving

Accessories:
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Prima Official Game Guide)	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

well i liked it [Posted on 2007-11-02]
i ran it on a dell dimension e510 with 1.5ghz of ram, radeon x1300, and pentium D dual core 2.8ghz processor and i didnt get very many problems with it besides the sound issue with my sound card in a couple spots. and the only thing that ever wouldnt work was when you are about to go down and disarm the bomb.

My processor feels like a whipped pony now [Posted on 2007-11-08]
I played this with 1 gb memory,an MSI dedicated card,80 gb hard drive and and very angry celeron 3.2 processor that feels like a whipped pony trying to race on Churchill Downs with the big guys.It ran a great race and I'm proud of it.I had Vista installed and had no problem.You really need a good system to play this game. I tried to play it with integrated ATI EXPRESS 200 and could n't load up. I would always crash and get a windows graphics error message. The problem was I didn't have shader3.0 .The msi took care of that and also helped vista aero graphics.The game itself is pretty good. For the price I paid for it it's a good buy and I would play it again.The game takes up 10 gb of hard drive space. I played it on an 80 gb hard drive with no problem but I would advise using a larger hard drive.It's a good game but demands a great computer.Don't knock Celerons as junk. It did the job although a Pentium would have been better.

Do not even think about buying this game [Posted on 2007-12-08]
Loaded this 10gig monster on my pc (P4 3.4 2 gig + Nividia 6800) which ran Bioshock (a game 2 years older than this) OK.

First cut scene slow and jerky- resetting graphics doesn't save right, next time you go in they are reset to highest settings. Known bug, check the net.

Character response time is SLOW. Tried training missions, can't see anything as they are artistic all white rooms with really bad wireframe wall definitions.

I'm literally thinking of throwing this game in the trash. I am a huge fan of Splinter Cell for the XBOX, did not get an XBOX 360, got a new computer instead.

Ubisoft has done an injustice to everyone who bought this game. As I said, Bioshock loaded and ran fine on my PC and graphics card.

Do not buy this game unless you like reading various internet help forums.

Broken game. Pure and simple. [Posted on 2008-04-05]
This game is broken on the PC. I've tried it on two different Quad Core systems using a 8600GTS and a 9600GT card, respectively. On both systems the game was so slow and choppy as to be effectively unplayable. It is not a question of the hardware being unable to keep up - even menu systems, 2D graphics easily renderable by even a decade-old computer, are choppy, slow, and unresponsive.

Something went wrong when this game was ported to the PC. It is completely broken, which is a shame given the general quality of the Splinter Cell series prior to this Double Agent installment.

I cannot recommend this title to anyone. I notice that other reviewers seem to be running it without trouble, but given the fact that negative reviews far outnumber positive ones, it seems to be a hit-and-miss product, with the "miss" option being the most likely.

If you're dying for a stealth game, nothing compares to the Hitman series, which has a proven track record, and is guaranteed to delight and entertain you. Hitman: Blood Money is the latest installment of the series.

Disappointing [Posted on 2008-05-04]
I've been a Splinter Cell fan for years until I've played this game.
Double Agent has stooped to a new low where it's just simply a game of hide-n-go seek.
I have to admit the graphics are excellent, having realistic content and features and of course the use of advertisements is not a big deal (since splinter cell have been sponsering cell phones mostly, now there's a Chrystler in this game) but the story of it is very dull.
Splinter Cell has gone from killing spree, funny dialogues, hilarious characters with different voices of stereotypical foreigners to a snore-fest walk.
What's also infuriating is his lovely walky-talky that now turns into a Stop-n-GO Street Light. Ummmmm... last time I've checked, I don't think anyone would appreciate wearing photocells where it distributes LIGHT and especially in three colors.
The story is understandable, but Ubisoft can do so much better. The missions are so repetitive to do the same things, just in a different way, just to simply get a wanted man dead. There's really no great end to this game.

My favorite piece of this game is actually the FIRST mission, and Shanghai, but unfortunately everything else is garbage because of the fact that you'll be stuck in a building filled with angered mobs walking around you all day while you wheel your way around them. That's probably the ONLY stealthy thing in the game, is to simply not get caught. What makes it funny is that you'll be sent out of the area and start over again.

Finally, the "Trust Bar". It's stupid. I can lower my trust with Lambert as much as I want, and I wouldn't care because it wouldn't end the game. Just to summarize this, the game follows solely on the story line. And what makes it hilarious is that I get to see Lambert again in the end of the game, and it gets me thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought this guy doesn't trust me anymore what happened?"

Splinter Cell also has bugs that'll just completely send the game into an error zone, even when it's updated.

I'm sorry Ubisoft, but you can either grab your old team who created splinter cell in the past to come back to work, or just simply stop the game entirely, because I can only imagine how horrible the sequels will be after this.

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