Over the years Fisher has confronted countless threats to global security, but such constant vigilance has come at a steep price. While on a mission to Iceland, Fisher learned that his daughter Sarah had been struck by a drunk driver.
Despite heroic efforts to rush back to the states to see his child, Sarah died of her injuries less than an hour before he arrived. Devastated by the loss of his only child, Sam disappeared from sight. When Homeland Security agents finally located Fisher in New Orleans, their worst fears were realized.
Surveillance photos showed Fisher in the company Emile Dufraisne, a known domestic terrorist. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Sam Fisher is one of America's most wanted criminals. Third Echelon wants answers: Why did their best agent throw away decades of service and join forces with Dufraisne?
Only Sam knows the full story, and the truth is far more sinister than anyone suspects. The field operatives of Third Echelon are America's best-equipped and most highly trained covert agents, sent alone into crisis spots all over the world.
Relying on the most advanced espionage tools and awesome physical abilities, these agents execute sensitive operations that the US government cannot officially acknowledge. Among this elite cadre of operatives, Sam Fisher is a living legend. One of the first agents recruited into Third Echelon in the s, Fisher led an illustrious career as a covert operative until the tragic death of his daughter Sarah in The Director of Operations at Third Echelon during Sam Fisher's time with the agency, Lambert was responsible for briefing and supporting Third Echelon operatives in the field.
Deep Environments. Dynamic lighting and sound effects that match reality. Diverse mission objectives that can be achieved by different means for increased replay value.
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Granted the freedom to do whatever it takes to stop the Blacklist, Sam flies from exotic locales to U. Own Your Play Style Splinter Cell Blacklist builds on the stealth roots of the franchise, while exploring new directions to embrace the realms of action and adventure. Players can define their personal play styles and be rewarded for those choices. Before entering a room, you can do several things. You can shoot out the lights outside so you can't be seen in the doorway.
You can also use your snake cam, to give a sneak preview of what's going on in the next room. A grainy fish-eye view of the next room appears: inside, a guard stands restlessly between cells of prisoners, his back to the door. Gregoire continues: Once you get inside you can do many things. You can just look, trying to understand the pattern of the guards' movements so that you can sneak through the area. You can shoot out all the lights with your silenced weapon, which will make a noise that the guard will investigate, but it will make things easier for you if you get away with it.
Or you can just shoot the guards with your sniper scope, regulating your breath to get a steadier target. At this point, the reticule hovering over the guard's unwary form gets the better of me, and I unload half a clip into his back. I receive a disapproving glance, but it seems to do the trick. Anyone familiar with the exploits of Solid Snake will recognise the aim-steadying feature mentioned here as an idea cribbed from Metal Gear Solid.
But whereas in that game you popped a nice calming Diazepam to aid your sniping, Sam Fisher simply holds his breath. Not as cool perhaps, but certainly more believable. This is a Tom Clancy game after all, and hence set in a rigorously almost-real, day-after-tomorrow universe. All the gadgets, weapons, technology - even the political situation that frames the plot - either exist today or very easily could within the next five years.
In fact, most of the gadgets can be bought at Spymaster. Whether or not this realism is a good thing or not is probably a matter of taste. In any case. Grdgoire quickly regains his train of thought. You could also have shocked him with your sticky shocker, putting him out of commission for a couple of hours.
Or waited until he wandered away, used your split-jump thing to straddle the corridor and shoot out one of the lights so that he came to investigate. Then once he walked underneath you, you would just have needed to drop down on his head and knock him out. Maybe next time, eh? By this stage it's becoming clear that there are three main ways to tackle any given situation. You can be stealthy, remaining in the safety of the shadows at all times and avoiding confrontation.
Your light meter tells you how visible you are, and if no shadow exists, you simply create one by knocking out the lights when no one's looking. You can use your gadgetry, such as your sticky shocker and snake cam, overcoming enemies with your superior equipment budget. Or you can use your athletic moves - dive rolling, split-jumping, abseiling and pole-climbing your way past any given threat. Usually, of course, it's a combination of all three.
In fact, the only thing you can't do is go in all guns blazing. I tried this a couple of times, and apart from being swamped with guards every time and running out of ammo, I also failed the mission simply by virtue of breaking my orders to keep a low profile. This seemed like a bit of a cheap way to enforce stealthy behaviour, as the game should make you want to stay hidden for fear of your life rather than your boss, but we're assured this will be properly balanced by release day.
All the NPCs have an alert state signifying their state of vigilance, explains Gregoire. Every time a security breach is detected, the alert state in the whole level will go up a notch -permanently, making progress that much harder. Security breaches don't just mean getting spotted by a surveillance camera either - all dead bodies must be extremely well hidden if they are not to be found and reported. Getting back to the mission at hand, we soon find ourselves at the next threat -a geek in a laboratory with a keyboard round his neck.
This time, on Gregoire's advice, I spare his life. If you sneak up behind him and use the action key, you'll get him in a submission hold. Once again I oblige, and Sam grabs the lard-ass round the neck and puts a gun to his head. Now you can either interrogate him, use him as a human shield or discard him. Soon enough the tubby egghead is lying on the ground, unconscious.
Another mission objective appears on my interface, but by then I am enjoying the spray of glass and shrapnel as I shoot every breakable item in the room, laughing maniacally as I go. Gregoire looks on, frowning. So far I've eliminated only two foes, but if you're talking stealth and style, it doesn't come much better than this. Stuffy academic types are always quick to tell us that videogames are about exercising power.
Well, if shooting a bunch of witless, scuttling Nazis in the head with a machine gun gives you a kick, how much more satisfying is it going to be to lure your opponent into a shadowy trap, put him in a submission hold and pump him for information, only to pistolwhip him and dump his lifeless body in the nearest stairwell?
It's going to be brilliant, of course. In the meantime. I'm getting impatient, and I push Gregoire about some other aspects of the game. What about the ends of levels - are there bosses to contend with? No we don't have boss characters," clarifies Gregoire. To pace the game, we have special sequences, using special gadgetry such as a laser mic that you have to use to intercept a conversation. The gameplay involves keeping a target centred on the windows of a moving car, or a lift. In another one, you have to enter a locked security door.
To do this, you fire a sticky camera onto a wall near the door, then hide while a guard comes and taps in the code. You have to switch to heat vision in order to see what keys he touched, by watching the residual heat signature on the buttons, to retrieve the combination and open the door. Well, that certainly shut me up. Bosses seem like a silly idea now. I could go on and on about all sorts of other cool aspects of Splinter Cell, even though I only played through a handful of levels before outstaying my welcome.
And I haven't even mentioned the plot yet terrorist cells, information warfare, yadda yadda. However, the game is just weeks away from completion, and chances are I'll be reviewing it for you next issue, so I'd better not shoot my load prematurely. Needless to say, it's looking superb, and it'll be a calamity if it proves to be anything less than the landmark of stealth gaming it appears to be.
For this reason, we've made sure that we'll be the first ones to see it and review it when it's finished and we'll be bringing you the world exclusive review very soon. What's more, readers will be the first ones to play it well, apart from us when the exclusive playable demo arrives on our cover discs. Because we care. Gone are the days of vision cones, arbitrary dark zones and myopic guards -Splinter Cell's lighting system makes hiding in the shadows about as real as it gets.
With one single source of light we can illuminate a whole scene, and everything casts a shadow on everything. The light shines through the fence and casts a shadow on Sam, who casts a shadow on himself. This gives a very realistic look to the game, and it's also consistent with the kind of gameplay we have in the game, because it's all about playing with light. One of the small revolutions going on in games at the moment is the addition of advanced real-world physics', which calculates the movement and interaction of objects and characters in real time such as a bullet and a crate, or a corpse and a flight of stairs.
It's set to become standard issue in shooters over the next couple of years, but at the moment it's all a bit new and exciting. Unreal-powered games such as Devastation and UT are amongst the first to show it off, but Splinter Cell has a heavily modified Unreal-based system of its own.
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