No matter the drawbacks and differences of each game, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series continues to be amongst my favorite gaming series, and I wholeheartedly look forward to continuing with the rest of Double Agent and enjoying it to the fullest. Conviction was, and continues to be, awesome fun, but I really wish it relied a little more on Splinter Cell’s famous stealth. Double Agent is proving itself to be a bit more difficult, but in a way that I’m enjoying, though I do believe the game could be improved in giving a little more direction to the player regarding missions. The differences between Conviction and Double Agent are drastic, amazingly so, but I still love each one for what they are.
In this sense, the manual is your friend.
What it doesn’t allot you, is to make a mistake such as… tossing a grenade when you meant to crouch, or even shoot your weapon when you meant to jump. However, one of the benefits of Double Agent being an actual stealth game, is that the point is to be slow, smooth, and steady, which gives you time to learn the controls and what to do. Not even in the training sessions really teach you anything about what the buttons do, the only tips they give are for the finer points of playing, and even those aren’t explained all that well. Double Agent, on the other hand, doesn’t give you anything.
It takes you step by step teaching you what to do and how to do it. While Conviction throws you into the game pretty quickly, getting you up, running, and shooting people right away, there are still pretty detailed directions for learning the controls. And while getting back into a stealth game (that’s really stealth, and not Conviction’s fake stealth) is an adjustment after days of playing Halo: Reach, as well as MW2 and the other Halo’s, I’m really enjoying it.Īnother huge difference that I’m not enjoying as much, is the whole “learn by doing” aspect that Double Agent has to it. I haven’t even finished the first mission, and I know that already – you learn it pretty quick because, well, you die otherwise. If you try shooting around blindly in Doubt Agent, you’re downright dead, no questions asked. It relies heavily on stealth and wit, unlike Conviction, which you can really just shoot your way through MW2 style. Double Agent is definitely more of a classic Splinter Cell game. I just started Double Agent today and woah.
I’ve long since finished Conviction, just need to eek through the last bit of it again on realistic in both solo and co-op, and I still have a ton of fun playing it. It was far more action-y than the first one, but it had been a few months and so I didn’t really recognize the differences. Well, I didn’t suck when I got Conviction, in fact, I was pretty decent at it. I knew it was going to be the first game I got, amongst Halo 3 and Halo ODST, when I got my XBox, and I wanted to start playing the series so I would (a) know a bit of the backstory and (b) to get a feel of the game so I didn’t entirely suck when I got Conviction. I was caught up in the hype of Conviction coming out soon, had watched the trailers, and it just looked so cool. I played the first one on my GameCube some months before I got my XBox 360. Both versions of the game share the same background music and a few cutscenes.I’m a huge Splinter Cell fan. Even the levels that are set in similar world locations have completely different level designs.
The other version (referred to as Version 2) was developed by Ubisoft Montreal (who worked on Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory) and was released for Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Wii.īoth versions share a similar premise and general plot, but they have different storylines, plot twists and levels.One version (referred to as Version 1) was developed by Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Shanghai (who worked on Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow) and was released for Xbox 360, Windows, and PlayStation 3.There are two separate versions of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agentthat were released by Ubisoft for 6th gen and seventh gen consoles: The standard US boxart for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
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