I have played games from both the Splinter cell and Metal Gear series', I enjoyed what I had played from the Metal Gear series: Metal Gear Solid Substance as well as enjoying all three of the games in the Splinter cell series all on my Xbox. I'll be honest here I only played one of the Metal Gear Solid games and I also personally took a preference to Splinter Cell.

However that's not what I want to discuss, not which is better, but rather the fact that they are being compared as two like games by some. Countless times I've seen people say that Splinter Cell is a Metal Gear "Wannabe", or that either series was trying to imitate the other. It doesn't bother me that people would dislike either of the games, obviously it's personal preference, what does annoy me though is that people are suggesting that Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid are games that are trying to imitate each other or are tying to and failing. It seems to me that this is just being said because they fit into the same genre, stealth/espionage-action.

Either the people who are saying this are people who are taking allegiance to one of the games and are speaking in ignorance regarding the other game. Or they, in my opinion, have got the wrong end of the stick, gone into one of the games thinking it would be just like the other and leaving disappointed. No surprise there, I think many people would agree that the two series' are dissimilar although they do fit into the same genre. This is like comparing Counter Strike and Halo in my opinion. I mean yeah in a review you could compare the different aspects but it would be unfair to suggest that Halo was aspiring to be Counter Strike and had come out like it had due to its failing in doing so although both are first person shooters.

Anyway, I just wanted to write a first blog entry that would be relevant to some gamers, and I thought I might as well get this off my chest whilst doing so seeing as Splinter cell double agent news has been released lately.

Thanks to anyone who bothered reading!