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Posted May 01, 2012
The CIA, the NSA, the Russians, and the shadowy Third Echelon are involved in a complicated plot--and only Sam Fisher can straighten it out.

The first game of phenomenal action sneaking series Splinter Cell creeps onto the GOG.com catalog today for just $9.99!

Something is up in Russia, and it doesn’t look good. Rumors of shadowy deals, illicit collusion, and dark plans abound, so the US government turns to their secret “wet ops” specialists: the Third Echelon. You’re Sam Fisher, former retired SEAL and new member of a Splinter Cell, a secret government-backed team that exists in no book, has no paper trail, and is completely disavowed if you’re ever caught. You’re sent in to investigate some ominous rumors in Georgia, Russia, and you must succeed in uncovering the plot and saving the nation--or die trying. No pressure, right?

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell was an incredible arrival in the action-sneaker genre when it showed up in 2002: it had a fantastic plot that read like a techno-thriller from genre master Tom Clancy, the gameplay’s emphasis on light and shadow, high-tech toys, and careful planning interspersed with bursts of lethal action, and the impressive Unreal Engine 2 graphics all made this game a blockbuster success. Winner of multiple awards across a number of platforms, this initial entry in the series has all of the great gameplay elements that fans of the genre will love: Fisher’s acrobatic abilities to jump, mantle, and split jump; his assortment of lethal and non-lethal weapons, and the story that feels like it was ripped from today’s headlines--which isn’t bad given that the game is a decade old!

Save the America today for just $9.99 on GOG.com!
Posted May 01, 2012
Yesterday, I was imagining this game being released on GOG.com, and here it is. I think I might have some fortune-telling skills. :)
Posted May 01, 2012
I remember when the game was originally released on the PC, my then main machine, a laptop with a powerful DX7 GPU, could run the game, but it was sooooooo slow (Framerate) that I felt huge disappointment in how fast my very expensive and good for other games laptop, was not powerful enough.

The game remains beautiful to look at even though, naturally, the graphics are not as good as a more modern game. The lighting effects are still great and the gameplay is solid enough if you like stealth games.
Posted May 01, 2012
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serpantino: I love having the 2 price brackets but I'd justify this at the $9.99 price well before I'd justify Thief costing the same (It's not really worth that, it's just riding on it's fame and if it had been lesser known it would've been $5.99). However as people have said, you can get most of the whole batch around the same price. This is part of the reason why GOG should try and prioritise games that are hard to get elsewhere.

The 3 green lights in the darkness that guards can't spot thing... I think that was probably just a design decision so you knew exactly where you were in the dark and I like to tell myself it's not really there.
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Posted May 01, 2012
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haydenaurion: I do have one question about this release.
When I tried the demo version awhile back and turned shadows on in the game settings the game crashed to "Blue Screen of Death" for me. I did some searching and found out that it was a known bug and possibly an ATI graphics problem if i'm not mistaken. Does anyone know if that was ever fixed or if there's a community patch that fixes the crash?
I have no idea on that specific problem, but I played through the first three Splinter Cells with ATI cards (think Radeon 8500 for all three?) and the only problems I had were sound card related.
Posted May 01, 2012
This is a great franchise, but I'm most excited about Chaos Theory. By far the best title in the franchise IMHO. Never played Conviction due to DRM, but it sounds like the franchise went south anyway by removing stealth elements... and the timed missions in Double Agent sucked out all the fun.
Posted May 01, 2012
Overpriced (you can get SC 1-4 all-in-one DRM free for less money over here - incl. English, German, French voice overs) and no bonus content. That's bad.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by TParis
Posted May 01, 2012
It's Ubisoft, so the price is expected. Just look at their whole catalogue and you'll get the picture.
Posted May 01, 2012
Terribad game from an overrated series... UbiSoft stole Thief's mechanics, (see what I did there <.<), and used them in an ultra linear extreme trial and reload environment, and then had the gall to call it "Stealth Action Redefined"... Pandora Tomorrow's multi is the only thing that keeps it from being just as bad as the original so I'll never understand how this series managed to survive long enough to get to Chaos Theory, which is admittedly quite good. They started slipping again with Double Agent, but at least it had a somewhat engaging, albeit predictable, story, whereas the plots in the first three titles are more effective than Ambien... Metal Gear is better, Thief is better, Tenchu is better, Hitman is better...

Note: There's a decent chance I'm whining because I wanted Blood Omen, Soul Reaver 2, or Defiance today instead of a game I felt ripped off for purchasing a decade ago -.-
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Misanthropic
Posted May 01, 2012
I love first SC. Chaos Theory is technically way better but there is no magic for me in SCCT. May be Georgians are way more funnier and charismatic as game main enemies than japans. Oh. Spoilers, sorry ) SC1 have much more interesting music than CT. And levels. I know they are linear. But. There so much details in there - paintings, clocks etc. CT-levels are not that interesting in details.
Well, even SCCT is no match for Thief series. Well, but I am still thinking that first SC and Thief 1/2 are best examples of pure-stealth genre. I know I am prejudiced a little.
Bu I guess I will not buy SC1 again (3rd time). I mean, I already have SC on steam and have no plan to replay soon. And it is not Thief games which I bought gladly again (3rd time - 2 retails versions and GOG).
But. I definitely look into SCPT on GOG. To have a full digital access to three classic SC games (even if PT is not that good).
Posted May 01, 2012
Don't expect this game to work on every crappy system. I have it on Steam, and it's close to unplayable on my laptop (1.3GHz Core 2 Duo, Intel 4500mhd) at minimum settings/resolution though some other UE2 games run significantly better (ex XIII.)
Posted May 01, 2012
Come on ! Where is the french version ? I'd buy it instantly if it was there. Playing Sam Fisher with Daniel Beretta's voice is a real pleasure. The english version is of no interest to me.
Posted May 01, 2012
Was anything done to make it work properly on modern systems? Cause shadows don't display correctly on any ATI card, and they often can't be made to show at all on modern NVidia cards. Wonder if this is the same here.
Posted May 01, 2012
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Malleus: Was anything done to make it work properly on modern systems? Cause shadows don't display correctly on any ATI card, and they often can't be made to show at all on modern NVidia cards. Wonder if this is the same here.
That can't be true. I played it no more than a years ago or so, and it was working great with my ATI card.
Posted May 01, 2012
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Malleus: Was anything done to make it work properly on modern systems? Cause shadows don't display correctly on any ATI card, and they often can't be made to show at all on modern NVidia cards. Wonder if this is the same here.
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Kamikave: That can't be true. I played it no more than a years ago or so, and it was working great with my ATI card.
There are shadows, and I'm not sure you'd notice it if you haven't seen how some of the shadows should be, but nonetheless they are glitchy. I'll try to dig up some comparison shots I made back then.

If you're interested, the game originally uses a shadow projection method that was designed for the XboX. On the PC, this only works with a Geforce 3 or 4 series card. They added another shadowing method for other graphic cards for the PC version, but that doesn't get shadows right. Better than no shadows I admit it, but I played this game too many times on too many different hardware not to notice the difference. :)
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Malleus
Posted May 01, 2012
Well, can't say I remember how it was when I had a Geforce 4, so I'll take your word for it. ^^
Now, knowing GoG, as long as the game is playable, I doubt they modified something so specific.
Post edited May 01, 2012 by Kamikave
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