Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
| Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell | |
|---|---|
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| Genres | Action-adventure, stealth |
| Developers | Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft Shanghai Gameloft Ubisoft |
| Publishers | Ubisoft Gameloft Aspyr Media |
| First release | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell November 17, 2002 |
| Latest release | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction April 13, 2010 |
| Official website | splintercell.com |
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon". The player guides Fisher, who usually has the iconic trifocal goggles at his disposal, to overcoming his adversaries in levels based on Unreal engines that were extended to emphasise light and darkness as gameplay elements. All the console and PC games in the series were critically acclaimed, and the series is commercially successful.
Games
Overview
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Novels
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2004)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda (2005)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate (2006)
For Checkmate, Grant Blackwood took over as author behind the David Michaels pseudonym, Benson having declared that he was "finished with Splinter Cell". Unlike the first two books, Checkmate is not written from the first person perspective of Fisher, nor does Checkmate continue the running subplots that were established in the previous. This novel was released on November 7, 2006. The book starts off with a ship by the name of trego sailing towards the American east coast. Sam Fisher is called in from a training mission to disable the ship. After Fisher stops the ship from disemboweling the American west coast with nuclear waste he is informed that a town by the name of Slipstone has just been radioactively attacked and 5,000+ people are dead. All these events lead to more questions which eventually leads Fisher to Ukraine, Iran, Dubai, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. This book is known for its many spelling mistakes and spontaneous scene changes.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2007)
On November 6, 2007, Fallout, was published, Blackwood's second Splinter Cell novel and the fourth in the series. The story follows Sam Fisher as he combats Islamic fundamentalists who have taken over the government of Kyrgystan.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2009)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Endgame (2009)
Common elements
Plot and themes
Trifocal goggles
Characters
Gameplay
Development and history
Origin
Graphics and technology
Reception
References
External links
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