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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double
Agent

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell:
Double Agent is the fourth installment in the Splinter Cell series of video games developed and
published by Ubisoft. The series, created by American author Tom Clancy, follows the character Sam
Fisher, a "Splinter Cell" employed by a black-ops division of the National Security Agency, dubbed
Third Echelon.
Originally the game was set for a March 2006 release, but Ubisoft moved the release date to September
2006 in order to have more development time. Ubisoft then released their fiscal quarter results for Q1
2006 and announced that Splinter Cell Double Agent would be put back at least 1 month in order to boost
Q3 2006 income.
"Double Agent" was released for the Xbox 360 on October 19. The PS2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube
versions were released on October 26, 2006. The PC version was released on November 17 and the Wii
version on November 28.It was recently announced that a PS3 version is coming out in March 2007. |
Gameplay
As part of the JBA, Sam must complete objectives set by them to gain their trust as well as complete
objectives from the NSA. The decisions he has to make will become increasingly difficult as he
progresses through the game. Earlier decisions, such as deciding whether or not to free all of the
prisoners during the prison breakout, will just affect his score, but as the game progresses, Sam is
faced with serious choices that could kill thousands if made wrong, but may blow his cover if he
doesn't do it.
Despite this, Sam must make the JBA trust him, in order to gain access to the restricted areas of their
base and complete NSA objectives. If he is seen in restriced areas before he is allowed to go there, it
will dramatically effect his trust with the JBA. Similarly, if he is caught using an NSA gadget or
picking a lock in JBA HQ, he will be killed on sight.
He is also watched by the JBA in most of his missions, if he is seen completing NSA objectives or is
thought to be doing something out of the ordinary, his trust will go down. Killing people apart from
those ordered to be taken out will affect his NSA trust in the same way. |
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