Splinter cell

Basic

¹ These games were developed for the PlayStation 3 as part of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy HD - a reissue of the first three parts as part of the Classics HD project ^[2] .
² The 3DS version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is called Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D .

Others

The plots of all parts of the game tell how terrorists develop weapons of mass destruction , and Sam Fisher should prevent them from using these weapons. Missions range from ordinary reconnaissance to capturing enemy commanders.

Stealth is the main element of the gameplay . Random shooting can attract unwanted attention to Fisher, making it difficult to complete the level. In the first two parts, after three alarms raised, the game ended. With the third part, with each alarm raised, the level of caution of enemies increases. They put on body armor, reinforce patrols, and even set up ambushes.

A game is a combination of problems that need a quick fix. Pandora Tomorrow first appeared in stealth games two-on-two multiplayer mode. In Chaos Theory there is also a cooperative mode of passage.

Also, a sound level scale appeared in it. It is noteworthy that the sound level is now affected by shots (even with a silencer), but the dialogues of Fisher and the victim captured by him (which can also be executed or pardoned) do not affect. And compared with the previous two parts, the number of dialogs with the “victims” has increased many times. Almost everyone can be seized and interrogated.

Another indicator was introduced in Double Agent , which the player should follow - the ratio scale. In this part, Fisher becomes a double agent and infiltrates a terrorist group, where he must fulfill the tasks of both terrorists and the Third Tier. The scale shows how well terrorists and the NSA relate to Fisher’s actions, and if one of the scales drops to zero, the game will be lost.

Conviction has a new Mark and Execute ability, which allows you to first mark all enemies in sight and then kill them.

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - The NSA is organizing a new secret unit, the third tier. Sam Fisher , one of the first operatives of this unit, must prevent a flare-up war between the US and China, and find the hiding President of Georgia Kombayan Nikoladze to prevent him from using his secret weapon called "Ark".
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow - Sam Fisher must stop the charismatic Indonesian military leader Suhadi Sadono, who decided to use the dangerous biological virus Pandora Tomorrow against the United States (the use of this virus was called the Springfield Demonstration).
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - Sam Fisher must stop the conflict between the United States and North Korea , which was unleashed by the hackers of Display International, led by his old friend Douglas Shetland.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials - Sam Fisher arrested by NSA agents on suspicion of Lambert’s murder. During interrogations, he recalls his past.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent - Sam Fisher infiltrates a terrorist organization as a double agent. It should prevent terrorists from using nuclear missiles and at the same time not reveal themselves. Fisher suddenly has to make a moral choice between saving millions and dying units.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction - Sam Fisher discovers that the “Third Tier” has begun to do dark things. Fisher is declared the enemy of the country and he is forced to hide from the best agents of the US special services.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Sam has been appointed the leader of the “Fourth Echelon” and together with the team must prevent a series of terrorist attacks in the United States called the “Black List” ^[1] .

Initially, Tom Clancy rejected the idea of ​​three-eyed glasses by Sam Fisher , arguing that it is impossible to combine thermal vision and night vision in the device. The developers believed that using two different types of glasses would complicate the game, and Clancy had to agree. ^Three -eyed glasses later became a symbol of the series ^{[3] [4]} .

Splinter Cell used Motion capture technology for all characters except Sam Fisher himself. The animators wanted to give him more plasticity and flexibility in movements.

Books

All books based on Splinter Cell were written by various authors under the same pseudonym David Michaels (the first six books). The first two books were written by American author Raymond Benson, known for several stories about James Bond. Grant Blackwood wrote the next two books, after which Peter Telep wrote.

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2004, Raymond Benson)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda (2005, Raymond Benson)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate (2006, Grant Blackwood)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2007, Grant Blackwood)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2009, Peter Telep)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Endgame (2009, Peter Telep)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist: Aftermath (2013, Peter Telep)

Comics

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (2004, Penny Arcade) - a humorous story.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Digging in the Ashes (2010, Eddie Deighton and John Sloan) - prequel to Splinter Cell: Conviction .
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Echoes (2013, Nathan Edmondson and Marc Laming) - a prequel to Splinter Cell: Blacklist .

Movie

The existence of the film was confirmed by a commercial in the collector's edition of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory . Paramount Pictures received the rights to the film Initially, Peter Berg was declared to be the director, and JT Petty and John Jay MacLaughlin were to be scriptwriters.

In the summer of 2005, JT Petty and Peter Berg, who chose to concentrate on the action movie Kingdom, left the project, and the rights to the film went to DreamWorks SKG, the producer of the film and manager of the writer Tom Clancy, Michael Ovitz, initiated the change.

In the fall of 2012, it was announced that the main role in the film would be played by Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight: Revival of the Legend ), and Eric Singer ( International ) would take on the script ^[5] .

• Official website of Splinter Cell