Give me one Good reason to keep splinter Cell Double Agent!

Manlove is my forte

Manlove is my forte

Manlove is my forte

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I'm currently renting SCDA. And to be fair this game infuriates me.

I tried the Tutorial and it game me FA clues in how to play the game. You play any other UBISOFT game like GRAW (and presume GRAW2) and they hold your hand through the tutorial telling you what to press, when and why.

SCDA. "You are in a white room there is a hostage. You must interigate her, you do not have the 5th right that means you can not kill anyone. There is a police man he is looking for the girl. If he is detected she will be killed"

"You are in a white room there is a police man and a guard. No, lets change that. There are two heavily armed terrorists. You must get to the hostage undetected"

Thats not a tutorial. its a bloody practice level or something. Why not just stick me out in the field FFS. I was completely unaware of things like dragging the guy straight under the water and stabing him in the chest. It took me ****ing ages to figure out how to incapacitate people. I was never warned that the faster I move the louder my footsteps, and these grunts can hear my foot steps.

So far I am only just over a fence and down a zipline, on the first level. I have managed to deal with 4 guards, and open a gate with no problems. I can usually get the 5th, however the sentry light and the 6th guard and the sentry light have got me a couple of times and the controls are winding me up. Sometimes something works perfectly other times not joy and I'm mashing the A button to grab the guard and nothing is happening.

The only thing this game is doing for me is making me mad:mad:.


So is this game worth playing through, or should I just send it back and get something more enjoyable.
 
It gets better, i was the same when i 1st played it, my biggest problem with the game now is the terrible V-sync problems. Ubisoft should be ashamed to release a game with such terrible problems. :mad:
 
I was the same with that tutorial in that white room. Totally confused, so it went back on the shelf.
Though to be fair, i am not a huge splinter cell fan, but that did bug me.
 
JUMPURS said:
I was the same with that tutorial in that white room. Totally confused, so it went back on the shelf.
Though to be fair, i am not a huge splinter cell fan, but that did bug me.
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Did the same, then a month later i had a free day and was determined to have a crack at it.

Came on here and got quite a bit of help, which saw me through the worst of it/
 
Kronologic said:
I really enjoyed the original splinter cell on the xbox and all the other versions I played on the xbox. But this one just makes me uncontrollably mad.
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I'd never played any other version, this was my 1st, so i guess it was a lot more taxing for me.

Give it a couple of levels, if you hate it still sell it.
 
I admit the tutorial was a bit pants but the game itself is probably the best game I've played on the 360. The story sucks you in and if played properly with stealth on hard is a very intense gaming experience. Keep at it. If you have rented this game then I will imagine you don't have a manual. If so, read a walkthrough to discover all the controls for hacking and using your gadgets.
 
At least keep a save on your HDD, it unlocks a couple of headgears on GRAW2.

Woo, and indeed, hoo ;)

Yes I hated the tutorial also. I think they assumed that most people buying this have played the previous games, which is not a good assumption to make.
 
Lol I guess I was wrong then, Miss k said you were getting mad at something and I replied "It cant be the game its only the training level" :D

A good tip would be to use the secondary fire on your pistol to disable lights (not shoot them, it uses an emp type thing[left trigger I think]) makes the game a whole lot easier. And if you put on full sprint towards an enemy of course they are going to hear you :p Its all about paitience and timing with this game but it is well worth the play through I had such a laugh playing it and its probably one of my favourite games on my 360. Anything your stuck on just invite me to private chat and I should be able to help since I've got 100% stealth on most levels :)

I also enjoyed the multi-player, but that was ruined by the morons who played online and can't take losing, so the host closed the room as he was about to lose and we didnt get any points :mad: It got to a point where it happened every game so I just quit.
 
kalanium said:
Lol I guess I was wrong then, Miss k said you were getting mad at something and I replied "It cant be the game its only the training level" :D

A good tip would be to use the secondary fire on your pistol to disable lights (not shoot them, it uses an emp type thing[left trigger I think]) makes the game a whole lot easier. And if you put on full sprint towards an enemy of course they are going to hear you :p Its all about paitience and timing with this game but it is well worth the play through I had such a laugh playing it and its probably one of my favourite games on my 360. Anything your stuck on just invite me to private chat and I should be able to help since I've got 100% stealth on most levels :)

I also enjoyed the multi-player, but that was ruined by the morons who played online and can't take losing, so the host closed the room as he was about to lose and we didnt get any points :mad: It got to a point where it happened every game so I just quit.
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That was the problem, I would wait very patiently for the opportune moment, crouch and creep in very slowly, grab the baddie, haul him into a dark spot and knock him out. rinse, repeat, until I get caught (usually because Sam fishier is an ignorant lazy uncooperative **** sucker that seams to have an arm reach of about 4 inches and thinks he knows best when it comes to clobbering baddies.). I then die and start all over again. I'm trying desperately hard not to shoot my weapons, but if it carries on the way its going I'm going in Rambo style.


So I'm getting a little mad at having to redo this silly part, and if this is how the rest of the game is going to be, I don't think I can handle the rage. It's really a good thing I was not exposed to high levels of radiation in a botched nuclear experiment, otherwise you'd be hearing "KRONO SMASH, KRONO BASH" And Ubisoft would be removed from the map.


Edit: the thing is I really enjoyed the first one. I guess part of the problem is that i don't have as much time to dedicate to games these days and I cant be dealing with a game thats no "too hard" but is "too time consuming"

I may find I have the same attitude to MGS, and Tencho if I played either of them atm.
 
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Kronologic said:
I'm currently renting SCDA. And to be fair this game infuriates me.

I tried the Tutorial and it game me FA clues in how to play the game. You play any other UBISOFT game like GRAW (and presume GRAW2) and they hold your hand through the tutorial telling you what to press, when and why.

SCDA. "You are in a white room there is a hostage. You must interigate her, you do not have the 5th right that means you can not kill anyone. There is a police man he is looking for the girl. If he is detected she will be killed"

"You are in a white room there is a police man and a guard. No, lets change that. There are two heavily armed terrorists. You must get to the hostage undetected"

Thats not a tutorial. its a bloody practice level or something. Why not just stick me out in the field FFS. I was completely unaware of things like dragging the guy straight under the water and stabing him in the chest. It took me ****ing ages to figure out how to incapacitate people. I was never warned that the faster I move the louder my footsteps, and these grunts can hear my foot steps.

So far I am only just over a fence and down a zipline, on the first level. I have managed to deal with 4 guards, and open a gate with no problems. I can usually get the 5th, however the sentry light and the 6th guard and the sentry light have got me a couple of times and the controls are winding me up. Sometimes something works perfectly other times not joy and I'm mashing the A button to grab the guard and nothing is happening.

The only thing this game is doing for me is making me mad:mad:.


So is this game worth playing through, or should I just send it back and get something more enjoyable.
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I'm in the same boat. Bought this around release time. Other games came out so I did not get to play beyond the crappy training level. I plan on starting this game again next week. I have never even played a splinter cell game before, just bought it on recommendations!!


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Here is my list of games in my queue at the moment. Currently they are all more appealing than SCDA

1 Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
2 Saints Row
3 Rainbow 6 Vegas
4 Call of Duty 3
5 F E A R
6 Viva Pinata
7 Ghost Recon Adv Warf 2
8 The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth II
9 Battlefield 2 Modern Combat
10 Prey
11 Far Cry Instincts Predator
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It was such a fun game for me I found myself giggling constantly at both the character dialogue and parts of the game play.

An example would be I had a room with around 5-6 bodies (all knocked out) with the light switched off and another enemy was heading right towards the room looking for me because he heard a noise. At this time I was carrying another body towards the room on my back and he was coming right towards me and I was trapped, so I dropped the body in the corner and picked up a glass bottle from the bar and lobbed it at his head knocking him clean out. Then another enemy heard the glass break and came to investigate.

So there I am with 2 bodies in clear view and another enemy coming to see whats wrong I quickly got the to the bodies and I dumped one in the other room (full of bodies) and got to the other one just in time (but not enough time to get it to the room before the other guy). So Im just running around this small round table, in broad day light with a body on my shoulders and I still got my 100% stealth rating at the end of the level :D

In the end the room had around 8 bodies all piled up in the corner :p
 
It's greast game, but i cant help think without playing the previous titles you kinda walk in blind.

Its not a greatly hard game, just ned patience to time your actions
 
I would get rid of Ninety Nine Nights as well its an aweful game with a terrible story, gameplay and only has save points at the end of every level I think.

So if you think SC DA is frustrating this is just as bad since the levels are long and if you die you have to start again (which happens quite a bit in my experience from the demo and brief plays at a mates).

With double agent I think you can save anywhere? (been months since I played it so not sure) If you're unsure about a certain part just quickly save and try again if u mess up.
 
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