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Splinter Cell: Double Agent Announced
by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 14, 2005 9:09am PSTUbisoft today announced that Splinter Cell 4 is now titled Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and will be released this spring on PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and GameCube. According to Ubi, the game "will completely revolutionise and reinvent the spy action genre by introducing an unprecedented double agent concept and an entirely new breed of game play that adds an exciting new dimension to the gaming experience". Key features include
Over at FileShack you can find a teaser trailer, though if you're expecting in-game footage you'll be disappointed.- Dual objectives to fulfil: NSA government agents and terrorists will each want you to accomplish opposing tasks at the same time. - Discover the tension of being a double agent: Use actual tactics employed by today's real-life double agents to sabotage the terrorists' plans. - Explore a branching storyline with multiple endings: Your choices have an impact on how the story and game play unfolds. - A world of international espionage: Missions from all over the world, from Asia to Africa to the heart of the US. Experience extreme situations: underwater or in a sandstorm, hiding behind the dust or smoke - and even skydiving. - New authentic gadgets: Master the latest weapons and gadgets used by NSA government agents in addition to black-market terrorist weapons. - Innovative online play: The critically acclaimed multiplayer action of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is back with entirely new innovations for each platform.
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the only thing that has me worried is that the 360 version is being done completely by the Shanghai studio.
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I'm sooo excited i think I'm gonna pass out on this game..
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Sup Alex Denton
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OMG this must be a new record of simulship multiplatform releases! 5 platforms!
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The "underwater" part has me worried though. Water usually sucks in games with the odd exception (Quakeworld).
- Dual objectives to fulfil: NSA government agents and terrorists will each want you to accomplish opposing tasks at the same time.
- Discover the tension of being a double agent: Use actual tactics employed by today's real-life double agents to sabotage the terrorists' plans.
Those are text-book Jack Bauer situations we're talking about, and I have yet to see a game that attempts to do that non-linearly. (Deus Ex kind of did...) If they can pull this off it's going to be sweet!
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Honestly, Ubi's support of Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory's multi-player has been atrocious. They released a patch for Pandora Tomorrow about 6 months too late and after everyone quit caring because Halo 2 had been out for a month.
And let's not even go to the atomic failure of Chaos Theory's co-op maps.
Oh yeah, and where's the new versus map Polar Base that we were promised?
Lame.
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Sounds like DX: Invisble War to me. So I wouldn't necessarily say SC 4 will "introduce" this "unprecedented" feature.
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wahahahah, yes today's real-life double agents are breaking cover to talk to a game company on how they do their thing.
also, "unprecedented double-agent concept" - holy crap wow no one's ever thought of the concept of a double-agent before.
The marketing is so over the top from UbiSoft it's like reading humor.
Third time's the charm, I suppose.
Any chance that the 360 will go through a second hardware version by then?
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