Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent Demo
Ok, so here's my review for the Splinter Cell: Double Agent demo. I haven't played the Splinter Cell games in the series before and this is my first Splinter Cell game and its a demo only. I don't know much about Splinter Cell and its characters and stories. So, please apologize if I made any mistake in this review.
So, I bought a magazine CD before 1 year and it included demos of some cool games. I got the SCDA demo from it. I guess you must be thinking that why I didn't reviewed this demo before. Well, the Video Card I owned at that time was not enough to play this cool game. So, I didn't got a chance to play this game. But later well, I forgot about the game and I got it when I simply checked my collection. I heard about the SP series and I always wished to have one. But I got only this demo. Anyways, Splinter Cell: Double Agent is a great game with great graphics and gameplay. You play as Sam Fisher, A guy working for a secret agency. The demo includes only two missions. In the first mission, you play in a snowland from where you need to get to a ship. But first, its para jumping from the sky! whooa! You land on a snow terrain and then some guys will appear in heli next to your equipments. You must have to eliminate those guys and then take the equipments. The game's pretty challenging and I got too tired of walking without alerting the guards! sheesh!(I always get scared when I play such games, I dont know why!LOL!) But there are several controls and movements you can do. It reminds me of Hitman but its far better than Hitman. Stealth kills are there by getting behind an enemy and then getting hold on their neck. Either you can kill him with your knife or just knock him down. I had a great gaming with this awesome game. There were weapons like silenced pistol and another gun which you can use. There were also smoke grenade, flash grenades and such things(I only used the gun). Also lockpicks and Hacking devices were there. The game is just plain fun but also very challenging. The thing that attracted me towards Splinter Cell was the cool night vision on Sam's head. It was very pretty looking and nice. The device also has heat sensor and wave vision. But there are too many controls so you may forget them. I guess the console version is better.
After eliminating the guards in the first mission, you will reach the ship in the next one. You can go underwater in the first mission and get to another area in the map without being known. In the next mission, you must eliminate all the guards in the ship and get to a cabin. This is very hard because you need to kill each guard without being seen by anyone else. You can take the body and place it anywhere you like just like in Hitman so that guards cant see it and wont be alerted. After eliminating the guards , new guards will appear and a new area of the ship will appear and you need to eliminate the guards in that area too. There are also several ways to get the guards attention to somewhere else liking switching the lights off, smoking the guards and sending them to unconsciousness etc. Another thing I forgot to tell was the watch which has an inbuilt 3D map and other options. The 3D map can show the position of your enemies in a 3D map. The option is good but the map sometimes look confusing. You cannot move it. You can only view each section of the map, zoom and rotate it. But sometimes, you cannot see some portions in the map with only rating. If you could move the map with arrow keys, it would better help with the problem. The map also should have improved.
Now back with the mission, after eliminating the guards in the second area and going down to the turbine, you would meet the captain who is standing alone near the mission objective in the map. Some primary objectives will also appear which you can use to complete the mission easily. You can view a cutscene when you reach near the captain showing a bald man holding a torch and patrolling. The game ends there and what will happen is a suspense. The demo ended perfectly in the way it should end with a great suspense what will happen next. A splinter cell: DA advertisement will appear on the screen and the game exits.
The game was really great and I liked it alot. It made me to like SP series and I am looking forward to buy the full version of SCDA. Though there are few small weaknesses, the game is suitable for those who likes the Splinter Cell series and Hitman like action adventure games, its a must try! The new Splinter Cell: Conviction also is also out now to buy which tells the continuation of SCDA. But first is first so after playing and completing Splinter Cell: Double Agent, then only I shall buy conviction. So, those who are out there have not seen Splinter Cell, try it and feel it.
Positives:
+Good gameplay and stories.
+Good texture and map.
+Great options and equipments.
+Stealth killing, underwater swimming gives a great experience to all gamers.
Weaknesses:
-No 3D map movement with arrow keys, makes tough to see a portion of a map.
-Hard to get used with controls in keyboard.
-The demo contains no tutorials which makes it tough to understand the controls, A good voice, text tutorial option should have included.
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