Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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 Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft Shanghai Ubisoft Toronto Gameloft Ubisoft 
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Ubisoft Gameloft Aspyr Media 
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| First title | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002) |
| Last title | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013) |
| Platform (s) | Android , Game Boy Advance , GameCube , IOS , Microsoft Windows , mobile phone , Mac OS X , N-Gage , Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo DS , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Portable , Wii , Wii U , Windows Phone , Xbox , Xbox 360 , PlayStation Vita |
| Genre (s) | Action adventure , stealth game |
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell , as Splinter Cell known is one of Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai and developed by Ubisoft published video game series. The genre focus is stealth , but action-packed passages are also included. As a secret agent Sam Fisher, the player carries out assignments on behalf of the National Security Agency's (NSA) secret operations structure Third Echelon . Third Echelon is the United States' answer to the growing threat of cyber terrorism . Their units are as Splinter Cells called (Splinter Cell). They always act alone and are on their own, apart from a permanent connection with the headquarters. Third Echelon is classified as "top secret", the existence of which is denied by the US government.
Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a stealth shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai. It was published in 2002 by the parent company Ubisoft and represents the first part of the Splinter Cell series.
The game is about the agent Sam Fisher who works for the fictional American secret service Third Echelon . He sends him on various missions, mostly behind the enemy front. The focus of these missions is not so much on eliminating enemies as is common for shooters, but rather the unnoticed and silent procedure is the central element.
Splinter Cell is set in 2004 and in Asia, especially in the Transcaucasus and China . It is about the Georgian President "Nikoladze", whose plan is to conquer neighboring Azerbaijan . Third Echelon, involved in the case through the murder of two of its agents (Special Agent William R. Blaustein and Special Agent Alice Madison) in Georgia, sends Fisher to prevent the planned attack.
The game received very good reviews due to its novel game principle. The average rating of all versions at Metacritic is about 90 out of 100 points.
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is the successor to Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell published in 2002 and the second part of the Splinter Cell series. It was released in 2004 for Xbox, Windows, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and N-Gage. Like its predecessor, it is a stealth shooter. This means that the fighting is in the background. In many places it is more important to be inconspicuous and thereby avoid fighting.
Like its predecessor, the title is about the agent Sam Fisher , who works on behalf of the fictional American secret service Third Echelon . In this part of the game series, Fisher is sent to Indonesia to neutralize an anti-American military leader who has come into possession of a biological warfare agent.
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow received mostly positive ratings from the trade press and achieved better meta-ratings than its predecessor. Critics praised the further developments of the concept known from its predecessor and the graphic improvements. In return, they criticized the lack of variety and insufficient innovation.
About 2.7 million units of the title were sold. Despite the positive reception, the title thus sold worse than its predecessor, of which around four million were sold.
In 2011 the title was published together with the predecessor Splinter Cell and the successor Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory in a graphically revised version for the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo 3DS.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a stealth shooter and the third installment in the Splinter Cell series. It was developed by the Canadian studio Ubisoft Montreal and published by the French publisher Ubisoft. The title was released in 2005 for Xbox, Windows, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 and N-Gage.
The plot was suggested by author Tom Clancy. As in the predecessors, the main character is Sam Fisher , an agent who works for Third Echelon , a fictional and secret operations structure of the National Security Agency (NSA). He first investigates the kidnapping of several computer scientists. His investigations lead him to East Asia, where he comes across a Japanese general who wants to start a war between North Korea and the United States. The title is a shooter concept in which the player often reaches the goal more effectively by inconspicuous action than by brute force.
Chaos Theory received mostly positive reviews from the trade press. The Windows version and the Xbox version in particular performed well and achieved meta ratings of over 90%. They were described as exceptionally strong in graphic and playful terms. The versions for the other platforms tended to perform less well, as, according to the reviewers, they are technically and creatively weaker.
Despite the positive reaction from the magazines, the sales of Chaos Theory were lower than those of its predecessors.
In 2011 the title was published together with its two predecessors Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow in a graphically revised version for the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo 3DS.
Splinter Cell: Essentials
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is the fourth installment in the Splinter Cell series, which was released in 2006 exclusively for the PlayStation Portable. Like its predecessor, Chaos Theory, it was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
The plot of the game takes place in 2009 and is largely identical to the successor Double Agent , which was developed for multiple platforms. American agent Sam Fisher visits the grave of his daughter, who was killed in a car accident. At the grave he is arrested by the police, charged with the murder of his superior Irving Lambert and then interrogated. During the interrogation, Fisher recounts various events from the past that ultimately led to Lambert's death. The events he describes represent the missions that the player must complete. The game received much worse reviews than its predecessor. The multiplayer mode was particularly criticized.
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent is the fifth installment in the Splinter Cell series, which was released in 2006 for numerous platforms. The title was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft. It should, according to Ubisoft originally already end of April 2006, around a year after the release of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory will be published . However, due to development delays, the release date has been postponed several times.
Splinter Cell: Double Agent takes up the plot from the predecessor Splinter Cell: Essentials and extends it. The main character, agent Sam Fisher, infiltrates a terrorist organization and tries to crush it from within. To do this, he has to earn her trust by doing jobs for her. However, the player must be careful not to act so much as a terrorist that his client, the NSA, classifies him as a traitor. At the same time he has to make sure that his camouflage is not exposed.
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is the sixth part of the Splinter Cell series. It was released for Xbox 360 in March 2010 and for Windows on April 29 of the same year. A variant for iOS developed by Gameloft has been available in the App Store since May 27, 2010.
Like its predecessors, Conviction is a stealth shooter. The player takes on the role of the American agent Sam Fisher again. In Conviction is primarily aimed to elucidate the death of Fisher's daughter and take revenge on those responsible.
Conviction is the first title in the series to receive USK-18 clearance.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the seventh part of the Splinter Cell series, which was released in September 2013 for Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U. The game was developed and published by Ubisoft.
Like its predecessors, Blacklist is a stealth shooter. The player takes on the role of the American agent Sam Fisher again. In this title, protagonist Sam Fisher is the head of a newly formed and top secret unit called 4th Echelon . With the help of this he has to stop a group of terrorists called "The Engineers", who are giving the USA an ultimatum through the "blacklist" and carrying out more and more serious terrorist attacks, at all costs, before the blacklist countdown reaches zero.
Splinter Cell 8
At the end of June 2017 it was announced that Ubisoft was working on an 8th part.
Novels and comics
Seven books on Splinter Cell have been published so far. The books have so far been written by various authors under the pseudonym David Michaels . The 2013 novel Blacklist Aftermath is the only one in the series that was officially written by Peter Telep and was only published in English. A comic with the title Echoes was published in 2013. All books and the comic were published by Panini Verlag in Germany .
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Babylon Phoenix (2004)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda (2005)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate (2009)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2009)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Final Phase (2010)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath (2013; English only)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Echoes (2013; comic)
Trivia
In the video games Asterix & Obelix XXL 2 and Asterix at the Olympic Games there is a former Roman super spy who now works with Asterix and the others and bears the name Sam Schiffer . Not only from the name, but also from the equipment (camouflage suit, climbing rope, night vision device with three "tubes") you can see that Sam Schiffer is supposed to be a parody of Sam Fisher and the Splinter Cell series. Rayman Legends includes an unlockable Sam Fisher style costume with night vision device.
Movie
In November 2012, Ubisoft confirmed that a film version of the game was planned. The main role, Sam Fisher, is played by British actor Tom Hardy . The script will be written by Eric Singer , who was previously responsible for the script for The International . Nothing has been known about the plot since then, the staff working on the film was changed several times. In July 2015, it was reported that Frank John Hughes would largely rewrite the film script.
synchronization
In the original, Michael Ironside up to and including Splinter Cell: Conviction Sam Fisher lent his voice. Since Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Eric Johnson is the new voice actor for Sam Fisher and also an actor for motion capture , since Ironside does not have the physical fitness for the motion capture process. In the German version, Sam Fisher is voiced by Martin Keßler (known as the German voice of Nicolas Cage and Vin Diesel ). Lambert - with the exception of the first part of the series and double agent - is voiced by Jürgen Kluckert ( Morgan Freeman , Benjamin Blümchen , Mr. Krabs from Spongebob SquarePants ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Splinter Cell: Conviction - Released exclusively for Xbox 360 for business reasons . In: GIGA . ( giga.de [accessed on January 30, 2017]).
- ↑ http://www.giga.de/spiele/splinter-cell-retribution/news/splinter-cell-7-ubisoft-bestaetigt-die-entwicklung/
- ↑ Chip.de: Splinter Cell Film: Tom Hardy plays Sam Fisher ( memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 15, 2012
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439829/ accessed on February 24, 2011
- ↑ Mike Fleming, Jr: Ubisoft's 'Splinter Cell' Gets New Scribe For Tom Hardy Film: Comic Com . Deadline. July 14, 2015.
- ↑ Digitalspy.co.uk: 'Splinter Cell: Blacklist': Eric Johnson on being the new Sam Fisher , accessed October 4, 2013
