Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Splinter Cell Double Agent has the best single player of any 360 game to date. This game really is amazing.

User Rating: 9.4 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Nijuu Spy X360

By for_the_horde | Review Date: October 24, 2006

In the age of September 11 paranoia, an era that has engendered TV hits like 24 and created political and religious forces to separate and clash, Ubisoft may have found a strange conduit into the core of it all. Ubisoft's Shanghai Studio felt its five-year-old stealth game should explore the moral ambiguity of the professional spy and, by giving Sam Fisher a dual role as a mole in a radical organization while still serving the National Security Agency (NSA), it's changed the course of the long-standing Tom Clancy-themed series.


The game design is still familiar on the surface. Double Agent is still by and large a traditional stealth game. You'll sneak around, break necks, stab thugs in the chest, snipe, explode, pummel, and beat them. It's all in a good day's work for Sam Fisher. But by giving gamers choices eventually leading to multiple outcomes in a branching story, not only does Ubisoft solve the biggest problem embedded in all previous Splinter Cell games -- which was its empty, worthless stories -- it went one better. Double Agent digs down into the very role of duality by giving gamers hard choices to make. Whether that means confronting the option of nuking innocents on a cruise ship or betraying Fisher's associates with a gunshot to the head, it's now possible. Splinter Cell forges a path into the messy core of managing two extreme organizations without losing the trust of either one and the results are subtle and complex, engaging and even a little thought provoking. Not only that, but the multiplayer will leave you breaking necks forever, as you gain ranks and unlock achievements. There is plenty to unlock, with new maps, skins and videos to show off to your friends.

Splinter cell Double Agent is by far my favourite xbox 360 game and deserves a well earned 9.5.

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