User Rating: 7.8 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell PC
I think this is a relatively good game. It's very much an action game. I'm usually an RPG fan so I dinged the game on its linearity. The game leads you 'by the nose' from one place to the next without any option to take other paths or try different things (e.g. one door at the end of the hall in which there's an open window that leads you out a ledge...). There's also no character development. You don't even get rated on your missions. It doesn't really matter if you kill someone, knock them out, or just sneak around them. There also isn't a great deal of weapons that you slowly acquire over the course of the game; you have most of your tools early in the game. The graphics are pretty good. There appears to be a minor bug in the engine that occasionally doesn't draw textures properly but it's not a major problem. The developers clearly spent a lot of time on the game getting the movement of the character to be as realistic as possible. Pulling yourself up over the top of a fence, putting someone in a choak-hold, or climbing a pole look really awesome. I also thought the use of night-vision and heat-vision goggles was pretty cool, although the night-vision goggles seem to work much better than I would expect from real ones.
