Double Agent is a bump in the road hopefully for the splinter cell series but it’s still a decent stealth game

User Rating: 8.3 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Nijuu Spy X360
By luckypool04 | Review Date:
Sam seems to have lost the spark that made his original installments so fun. He has been striped of almost all darkness and seems to have lost his good nature in it. In his first installment, Sam was a good natured old guy who just wanted the bad guys to either die or sleep but by his 3rd installment he had become increasingly agitated. Now in Double Agent, he has almost lost touch with being the good guy and almost losing his mind by losing his daughter Sara. STORY: Sam enters the game with a highly routine stealth mission, except another newbie agent will be accompanying him. He is sent with his new friend to do some type of recon work and while there he finds out a missile is about to fire. He then is forced to keep his new friend safe and deactivate the missile. After that, he learns his daughter Sara is killed by a drunk driver. Later on, he enters Ellsworth Prison, which he intends to get in the good graces of a member the JBA (John Brown's Army). Overall the story amps the series up a few notches in certain area's but it still requires more work.

ENTERTAINMENT: Many new additions seem useful such as the flash wall mine or the smoke wall mine but usually you only need your sticky shockers, your 20-K launcher gun and knife. Almost every single level in the whole game is lighted with the sun and I barely ever used my night vision or heated vision. The new trust meter is an interesting new factor but it sometimes becomes a little irritating; although you rarely ever have problems and if you do, I usually just reloaded an old save. The graphics are allot like Chaos Theory but in parts are polished very nicely, for your 360. Voices are nice and provide a little more to the experience but the music is forgettable.

PROS: Great new concepts, a little better multiplayer experience then Chaos Theory, Fun and interesting new game; which features extra replay value.

CONS: Practically every mission is always in the dark and I used my night vision and heat vision rarely, Horrible loading times which get very annoying after awhile.

OVERALL: Double Agent provides a good amount of replay value considering all the space and new weapons and the extra endings but is just plain good. It’s not the Sam we have come to expect with the previous entrees and he seems to have lost some Spark value. It’s still not as bad as I have heard it to be and grips on to a few good new ideas. It is a big bump in the road for Sam but hopefully he faces a lot more darkness in his next installment otherwise I feel its moving in the wrong direction. A worthy rental, otherwise it’s a good low priced game.

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