Splinter Cell: Double Agent

[Bazza21]

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Mobile Game Review

Title: Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Gameloft
Release Date: N/A 2006
Format: J2ME
Game Features: Intricate Storyline, Easy/Medium/Hard Difficulty Levels, Secret Medals
Reviewed on: SE W980

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Summary

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Follow Sam Fisher currently working undercover for “Third Echelon”, a secret branch of the government’s National Security Agency. In Double Agent you will be assigned to gain the trust of a terrorist agency and ultimately uncover their plans to explode a ship. When the time comes you will have to turn away from your new found “friends” and stop the terrorists plans for escape and destruction.

Review

The “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell” series has been a big hit since its debut in 2002. Since then four major titles have been released, these include: Splinter Cell – Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory, Double Agent and Essentials. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction will be the 6th game in the series.

In SC: Double Agent, you play Sam Fisher, a black ops agent for “Third Echelon”. You have been assigned to work undercover for a terrorist agency, making you a “Double Agent”.
You’ll have seven missions to complete in order to win with game using weapons and most importantly stealth. Stealth is a key factor of gameplay in Splinter Cell: Double Agent as it can mean life or death if it is not used wisely. If stealth is not used appropriately, an alarm will be raised causing guards to flock to your location. When in dark areas, guards can’t see you, giving you the opportunity to grab them and knock them out. If Sam raises the alarm too many times you will fail the mission and points will be deducted.
Another tactic players can use is shooting guards with various types of weaponry, though this poses the threat of you being detected and most likely shot. Players will be assigned a selected weapon for each mission, giving you a different ways to take out guards and win your mission.

Your story starts by rescuing a terrorist from prison and gaining his trust by helping him escape. Once out of prison you will join the terrorist agency in a plot to blow up a ship with a nuclear device, though first you must retrieve the nukes from underwater. Double Agent features two underwater missions where you will interact with the environment and also battle a great white shark, making it unique to the mobiles series and of course enjoyable. Ironically when all is said and done, you will have to defuse the bombs that you in a previous mission planted, saving the ship and stopping the terrorist’s plans of destruction and chaos.

Graphics wise, Double Agent has most of the same features as previous Splinter Cell games. With unique environments that are both interactive and delicately detailed, Double Agent is a crowd pleaser. With different costumes such as scuba equipment now available to Sam, Double Agent adds a nice sense of realism and authenticity. Environments feature operating cameras and lights giving Sam lots of objects to avoid and also use to his advantage in certain situations. You’ll also see explosions happen before your eyes and if you’re near it, you’ll see your body blow up into a million fragments.

As far as sounds are concerned it’s not too bad, considering there aren’t many sound effects in the game. Though there is some background music for the main menu and also some in game background tunes. Sound effects wise the main sound effect is your gun and also when you grab a guard and knock him out. The background music is a nice simple polyphonic tune, nothing to fancy and nothing to simple, average at best.

Conclusion

The gameplay, graphics and sound all work well together to make Splinter Cell: Double Agent a great game on the whole. The storyline is quite short with only seven missions, though the missions do have different objectives you have to complete which do take up some time. As far as Splinter Cell games go, I’d vote Double Agent as one that has flexibility for improvement but definitely the favoured one from the series.

Screenshots

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Scores

Graphics: Graphics: 8.0/10
Small touches of realism make the game that much better

Sound: Sound: 7.0/10
It’s nothing overly entertaining, but it keeps the game together

Gameplay: 8.0/10
Short, but challenging and enjoyable

Story: Story: 8.5/10
Interesting story with nice detail, though quite short

Overall Score : 8.5 out of 10

[the_dead_man]

Excellent review, well done.

[SeaGoddess]

Very nice. Way to go Bri

[Bazza21]

Thanks for the support everyone, hope you keep reading and enjoying the reviews!

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[Ghost]

Great review Bri

[t-mac2008]

great review but i think that graphics and overall grades of 2D games should be reduced because when you see 3D game that's better
you're shocked to see they have same grade instead of different one

[the_dead_man]

great review but i think that graphics and overall grades of 2D games should be reduced because when you see 3D game that's better
you're shocked to see they have same grade instead of different one

there is no 3D version of double agent, besides that, one must look into all aspects on a review, just because its 3d doesn't mean its graphics are always better.

[Joshua_pohan]

Nice review. This is one of my favourite games.

[power2go3]

Virtua Fighter review?

[the_dead_man]

Virtua Fighter review?

Depends on if the game is really good for reviewing considering all aspects.