I'm a HUGE Splinter Cell fan (although I haven't played pandora tommorow, I should). I had really really high hopes for Double Agent and it was great, but fell short of the amazing Chaos Theory. First was amazing too, but I prefered CT.
Going back to that stupid compound after every level was incredibly annoying. The pick a side stuff was in my opinion totally crap implementation. I mean Sam Fisher was always the 'unknown hero' in the previous games, but deciding whether to kill Lambert or not just felt empty.
The Kinshasa level was crap imo. Splinter cell should not have a level like that, totally bright, no shadows, no night vision. A day level could have been much better.
Shanghai level however, was in my opinon brilliant. They really nailed it with that one. The others were good too barring Kinshasa some of the compound bits.
The reason I was upset is that ALL the levels in Chaos theory was great imo. They were incredibly atomospheric, immersive and interesting. CIA and Japan levels were superb.
Sorry about the rant. I'm really looking forward to the new Splinter Cell too. I'm annoyed they still want day-time levels but hopefully they'll be better implemented. Sam Fisher being a bit confused and stuff is interesting too, but I hope they don't crap it up.
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