Avishek Sen Gupta ([info]avishek) wrote,
@ 2006-02-13 09:15:00
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Current mood: cheerful
Current music:Splinter Cell soundtrack

I am a Splinter Cell...
Finished playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory last night. Though i think it's this morning. It was 3:00 a.m. so you've to judge for yourself. Anyway, the game is amazing. When I bought it, I'd been expecting another FPS without any variety. Couldn't be more wrong.

The character is very well detailed, and has this array of amazing visual equipment and sneaky moves at his disposal. The best part of course is that for most of the game, you need to play using your night vision on , and that rules! Seeing the workd in shades of washed out shades of green and being almost blinded by the merest candle is something pretty cool.

Then there are moments when your ears are burning because you have to defuse 3 bombs and you don't know where they are and there are guys chasing you with Shock Sticks, and there's this techno soundtrack - it feels so amazing that half of the times I forgot to defuse the bombs and just *felt* as if I was in a movie. No. Really.

The end is satisfying too. The story is a bit loose though, and the save system has some limit after which it screws up. Other than that, Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory ranks right up there with Halo, Halo 2 and Half Life 2.

I've tried the CoOp a few times and you have to play it to see it, believe me.

Try Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory. You might like it.

That concludes what I did this weekend. lol!




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[info]amitng
2006-02-14 07:51 am UTC (link)
Splinter Cell was rocking - I'm quite waiting for Chaos Theory as well. :)

However, disagree with Halo being in the same league. I felt Halo was markedly inferior in gameplay and general interest generation after a point in the game. The end just dragged on and on..

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Not sure...
[info]avishek
2006-02-14 07:56 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure. When I first approached Halo, I didn't know what to expect. Of course the graphics are not on the same par as HL2, etc.

But I think the really big factor which hooked me onto Halo was that I started playing it using the huge projector in our office. Now when you see the ring stretching that high and that wide...

Though I don't think I'd rank Halo that high if I came to it after playing all of these games. It kind of occupies a niche, I guess.

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Re: Not sure...
[info]amitng
2006-02-14 08:30 am UTC (link)
The concept was decent and so were the graphics. Initially, I was quite wowed. But after finishing it, I just didn't get the same satisfaction as with Splinter Cell, Deus Ex or Matrix Revolutions.

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