Splinter Cell any good?

[yes plz]

The first one that is and on the PC with a keyboard and mouse. I was thinking of starting the series but was wondering what others thought of the games, especially the first one.

 

[sah]

It won't kill you, but forget about Thief-quality stealth gameplay. The game is quite... rigid in terms of exploration and problem-solving.

 

[uhjghvt]

I'd say it plays sort of like a dumbed-down version of hitman with a bunch of tom clancy nonsense thrown in for flavor

 

[DefJam101]

Not worth the time, they are all fairly boring.

The last one is pretty much Spiderman 3 in videogame form, lol.

 

[Gragt]

Only played Pandora Tomorrow. Was decent but, had some good levels but wasn't great. Again if you hope to find the level of gameplay Thief has to offer, you'll be disapointed. It's very linear with most of the time one way to solve problems. As for the story, it's the typical Clancy stuff with no real memorable character.

 

[aweigh]

excellent series of games, and all 4 SC's are much better than the last Thief game. the SC games are the second-best stealth/action games currently being developed after the Hitman franchise. and SC 5 looks fucking cool, basically it's gonna be something like Assassin's Creed but done RIGHT, and with less GTA-ish crap.

 

[ecliptic]

Chaos Theory had the best soundtrack to any game I've played. The gameplay was decent to boot. The first one was too frustrating for me, and Double Agent was too simplistic and forgiving. I felt that Chaos Theory was just right.

 

[Gragt]

[...] and all 4 SC's are much better than the last Thief game.

Pandora Tomorrow certainly wasn't as good as Thief 3. Despite its flaws and differences from the previous games, it is still a game worthy of the Thief name. I remember Pandora Tomorrow as being very linear, not offering many different ways to complete the levels and ghosting being next to impossible. As you said yourself it's stealth-action, it's closer to the Hitman or Metal Gear Solid series than Thief. And if we compare the implementation of stealth and the level design, not even going into the story or the setting, Thief is the better game. It fails as an action game but then again it wasn't its purpose.

Now maybe the games after PT took a different way but I doubt the devs tried to go the Thief way.

 

[J1M]

Do you like sneaking around, and using save/load as the only option to learn a level? Well then you are in luck.

 

[flabbyjack]

No. Steal with Metal Gear Solid.

 

[ghostdog]

If you can get past Tom Clancy's moronic stories, you'll find a mediocre sneaking gameplay. If you like this kind of gameplay you'll find the game playable.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

My CQC is stronger than yours.