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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell introduces a new type of game to the line-up: a 3rd person stealth action game with cyber-terrorism, shadow agencies and covert operations on the menu. The player controls Sam Fisher, a field operative of a secretive "black-ops" NSA sub-agency called THIRD ECHELON. Alone, yet armed with some of the best hi-tech weapons on the market, Sam Fisher is geared up to infiltrate and neutralise the enemy - all without leaving a trace. Sam is sent into action when two CIA agents

mysteriously disappear in Azerbaijan...

A New Echelon of Stealth Action: Never seen before stealth moves, highly interactive environments

• Diving somersault, ledge hang, pipe climb, peek around walls, drop attack, drag and hide bodies, close-quarters stealth attack, gunpoint cooperation...
• Wall bounce, drop attacks and the traditional peek around corner and shoot, diving somersault..
• Pick up and use any small object in the environment, shoot any light and take advantage of shadows, devise cunning solutions from your environment (aquariums, oil barrels, etc.)

Pulse-Pounding Action on a Global Scale:Diverse missions around the world in the realistic TC Universe

• Undertake 14 missions through 4 countries, with over 100 different characters
• Infiltrate high-security strongholds (including CIA headquarters), neutralise anyone who opposes mission goals (from hackers to special forces soldiers), seize critical intelligence, destroy threatening data and equipment, and disappear without a trace
• You are authorised to operate with carte blanche: succeed by any means necessary. You exist above the law, and your deeds blur the lines of morality

Deep Environments. Unparalleled Immersion:Customised Next Gen Unreal Engine, deep lights and sound effects

• Driven by Ubi Montreal's highly modified version of the Next Gen Unreal Engine
• Custom technologies include Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders, Texture Rendering and Zshadow Mapping bring environments to life

The Xbox potential pushed to the limit: Visual effects only available on Xbox

• True to life Dynamic lighting & shadowing
• Volumetric lighting
• High resolution textures
• Glow effects
• More varied and fluid sound effects and dialogues afforded by the hard drive

If you’re on Xbox Live, the following content is available for you to download directly to your Xbox console:

• Kola Cell (Mission, Free)
• Vselka Infiltration Part One (Mission, Free)
• Vselka Submarine (Mission, Free)