This was the beginning of a new love!!! After i bought it, The SC series turned to be my favorite series all times!!!
At the first it was the training level as you are Sam Fisher and today you'll train to be a "Splinter Cell" - an operative of Third Echelon of the National Security Agency (NSA) that is sent out into the world to exercise the use of the "Fifth Freedom": the freedom to spy, steal, destroy, extort, and assassinate to protect the USA. You have also Colonel Irving Lambert is your commander with the help of Anna Grimsdóttír and Vernon Wilkes. (This is the right place to say that the plot is undefined and I didn't understand the plot from the beginning of the game... However you can know the plot in the level of who are the bad guys and the good guys)
However I was needed about 5 minutes only to figure out how to move...
The controls are pretty complicated if it's your first time you play, however you get very used to it later though...
The graphic is FANTASTIC and so detailed and at that time it was even revolutionary because this is the first game that put emphasize on shadows and lights and also sound and graphic to create the perfect stealth game.
The game features 9 levels they are very linear though and there is almost always only one way to go for completing your objective but actually it isn't THAT terrible...(although it can be annoying from time to time).
Our Hero Sam Fisher knows to perform plenty of acrobatic moves like rolling, split jumps, hanging on a shafts, climb on pipes, grab characters and interrogate them and even to make them your human shield!
In the game you may use the coolest gadgets you ever dreamt of!
The first gadget you'll learn to use is your Night Vision Goggle (NVG) which consist of 2 visions (Night vision and Thermal Vision only from the 5th level)
The 2nd gadget you'll learn to use is your silenced 5.72 mm Pistol The 3rd (and the best) is the SC-20K which is your primary assault rifle 5.56 mm (silenced) but it's not a normal rifle! This rifle has night and thermal vision in its scope and the cool part is that there's a launcher under the barrel that can launch few cool things (I'll name few):
* Ring Airfoil - A deadly ring that when you shot it on a guard he will be out of focus for few seconds and you'll be able to grab him easier, another shot will Knock him out.
* Sticky Shocker - When you shot it the guard will be knocked out immediately. if you shoot it on a wet place it will knock out every guard near that place!
* Sticky Camera - shoot it on a wall and it'll show you a live transmission of the place you shot it at with all the visions + zooms
* Diversion Camera - same as the sticky but without the zooms and the visions but if you shoot it, you can whistle to attract the guard and when it comes near the camera to release a gas that will knock him out
Also you have a Optic Cable to see what's going on behind the door and also a microphone to hear conversations by hacking their lines (but you use it only 2 times in the whole game...)
If a guard catch you he will turn on the alarm and 3 alarms mission over
so you better hide your bodies in the dark and play stealthly (even if you do allowed sometimes to kill. Sometimes it is very annoying that you've already have 2 alarms and then you pass one part of the level and sddenly you have another alarm because of a body you didn't hide the body well and NO-ONE could see that body because you've already killed all the people in that area and shot all the cameras...
In the end Splinter Cell is a MUST-HAVE game for everybody, the graphic and the sounds are excellent and it's also revolutionary. Even you already bought later SC games you may buy this game to feel how the original game is like because there's a different "feelings".