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You can shoot out all the lights with your silenced weapon, which will make a noise that the guard will investigate, but it will make things easier for you if you get away with it. Or you can just shoot the guards with your sniper scope, regulating your breath to get a steadier target. At this point, the reticule hovering over the guard's unwary form gets the better of me, and I unload half a clip into his back.

I receive a disapproving glance, but it seems to do the trick. Anyone familiar with the exploits of Solid Snake will recognise the aim-steadying feature mentioned here as an idea cribbed from Metal Gear Solid. But whereas in that game you popped a nice calming Diazepam to aid your sniping, Sam Fisher simply holds his breath. Not as cool perhaps, but certainly more believable. This is a Tom Clancy game after all, and hence set in a rigorously almost-real, day-after-tomorrow universe.

All the gadgets, weapons, technology - even the political situation that frames the plot - either exist today or very easily could within the next five years. In fact, most of the gadgets can be bought at Spymaster.

Whether or not this realism is a good thing or not is probably a matter of taste. In any case. Grdgoire quickly regains his train of thought. You could also have shocked him with your sticky shocker, putting him out of commission for a couple of hours. Or waited until he wandered away, used your split-jump thing to straddle the corridor and shoot out one of the lights so that he came to investigate. Then once he walked underneath you, you would just have needed to drop down on his head and knock him out.

Maybe next time, eh? By this stage it's becoming clear that there are three main ways to tackle any given situation. You can be stealthy, remaining in the safety of the shadows at all times and avoiding confrontation. Your light meter tells you how visible you are, and if no shadow exists, you simply create one by knocking out the lights when no one's looking.

You can use your gadgetry, such as your sticky shocker and snake cam, overcoming enemies with your superior equipment budget. Or you can use your athletic moves - dive rolling, split-jumping, abseiling and pole-climbing your way past any given threat. Usually, of course, it's a combination of all three. In fact, the only thing you can't do is go in all guns blazing. I tried this a couple of times, and apart from being swamped with guards every time and running out of ammo, I also failed the mission simply by virtue of breaking my orders to keep a low profile.

This seemed like a bit of a cheap way to enforce stealthy behaviour, as the game should make you want to stay hidden for fear of your life rather than your boss, but we're assured this will be properly balanced by release day.

All the NPCs have an alert state signifying their state of vigilance, explains Gregoire. Every time a security breach is detected, the alert state in the whole level will go up a notch -permanently, making progress that much harder. Security breaches don't just mean getting spotted by a surveillance camera either - all dead bodies must be extremely well hidden if they are not to be found and reported.

Getting back to the mission at hand, we soon find ourselves at the next threat -a geek in a laboratory with a keyboard round his neck.

This time, on Gregoire's advice, I spare his life. If you sneak up behind him and use the action key, you'll get him in a submission hold. Once again I oblige, and Sam grabs the lard-ass round the neck and puts a gun to his head. Now you can either interrogate him, use him as a human shield or discard him. Soon enough the tubby egghead is lying on the ground, unconscious.

Another mission objective appears on my interface, but by then I am enjoying the spray of glass and shrapnel as I shoot every breakable item in the room, laughing maniacally as I go. Gregoire looks on, frowning. So far I've eliminated only two foes, but if you're talking stealth and style, it doesn't come much better than this. Stuffy academic types are always quick to tell us that videogames are about exercising power.

Well, if shooting a bunch of witless, scuttling Nazis in the head with a machine gun gives you a kick, how much more satisfying is it going to be to lure your opponent into a shadowy trap, put him in a submission hold and pump him for information, only to pistolwhip him and dump his lifeless body in the nearest stairwell? It's going to be brilliant, of course. In the meantime. I'm getting impatient, and I push Gregoire about some other aspects of the game. What about the ends of levels - are there bosses to contend with?

No we don't have boss characters," clarifies Gregoire. To pace the game, we have special sequences, using special gadgetry such as a laser mic that you have to use to intercept a conversation. The gameplay involves keeping a target centred on the windows of a moving car, or a lift.

In another one, you have to enter a locked security door. To do this, you fire a sticky camera onto a wall near the door, then hide while a guard comes and taps in the code. You have to switch to heat vision in order to see what keys he touched, by watching the residual heat signature on the buttons, to retrieve the combination and open the door. Well, that certainly shut me up. Bosses seem like a silly idea now. I could go on and on about all sorts of other cool aspects of Splinter Cell, even though I only played through a handful of levels before outstaying my welcome.

And I haven't even mentioned the plot yet terrorist cells, information warfare, yadda yadda. However, the game is just weeks away from completion, and chances are I'll be reviewing it for you next issue, so I'd better not shoot my load prematurely. Needless to say, it's looking superb, and it'll be a calamity if it proves to be anything less than the landmark of stealth gaming it appears to be.

For this reason, we've made sure that we'll be the first ones to see it and review it when it's finished and we'll be bringing you the world exclusive review very soon.

What's more, readers will be the first ones to play it well, apart from us when the exclusive playable demo arrives on our cover discs. Because we care. Gone are the days of vision cones, arbitrary dark zones and myopic guards -Splinter Cell's lighting system makes hiding in the shadows about as real as it gets. With one single source of light we can illuminate a whole scene, and everything casts a shadow on everything. The light shines through the fence and casts a shadow on Sam, who casts a shadow on himself.

This gives a very realistic look to the game, and it's also consistent with the kind of gameplay we have in the game, because it's all about playing with light. One of the small revolutions going on in games at the moment is the addition of advanced real-world physics', which calculates the movement and interaction of objects and characters in real time such as a bullet and a crate, or a corpse and a flight of stairs.

It's set to become standard issue in shooters over the next couple of years, but at the moment it's all a bit new and exciting.

Unreal-powered games such as Devastation and UT are amongst the first to show it off, but Splinter Cell has a heavily modified Unreal-based system of its own. We're not talking rag-doll deaths here - that feature is not in Splinter Cell - but we are talking advanced object interaction. So, if you see a can on the ground and you're clever, you'll pick it up and throw it to distract a guard. If you're not so clever, you'll kick it over and alert the same guard to your presence. You can also shoot out lights, knock boxes off shelves, blow up computers, that sort of thing.

Of course not every item in the game can be thrown or destroyed, and there is a risk that once we get used to interacting with the environment at such a high level we'll be that much more disappointed when we can't.

It's something that Ubi Soft needs to manage carefully, but if done right, the rewards for gameplay could be immense. Sam Fisher: wily secret agent and deep-cover operative for the Lightbulb Retailers Association of America the only reasonable explanation for all the light fixtures he destroys, ostensibly in the interest of efficient skulking.

He'll sneak right into your heart. Then blow it up. Ultimate moment: Near the end of the game, five guards surround you and it looks like your espionage days are over. But one momentary power failure later, you take out your would-be captors in a few seconds of night-vision mayhem.

Stay low. Stick to the shadows. Neutralize enemies and leave no trace of your passing. You are Sam Fisher and this is Splinter Cell , a game that not only redefines the stealth game genre, but a game that is destined to live on as a milestone in the evolution of gaming.

What Doom did for the world of gaming in the early 90's; Splinter Cell has done for the 00's. The game starts innocuously with a basic training course, which teaches you the basic game moves and you sense that this is not your average game. The controls are intuitive, which is amazing given the number of different actions you can take. Don't get me wrong. The PS2 version is beautiful in it's handling of shadows from multiple light sources and heat waves from open flames.

While there isn't much in the way of background music, the ambient noise is subtle and realistic. Sound is an integral part of this game, as you frequently hear your enemies long before you see them. Overall, the graphics and audio combine to submerge you in the world of Splinter Cell , in such a way that you actually feel the fear of being discovered, reminiscent of playing Silent Hill 2 at 2am.

Levels that in other games might be completed in minutes by racing through them can take you 30 minutes in Splinter Cell , as you slowly infiltrate unknown areas, sneak through the shadows, distract guards with thrown bottles, peering under each door before opening it and by methodically casing areas.

Don't worry; Ubi Soft spares you the frustration of having to replay each level over and over again by auto saving at predefined checkpoints. Ubi Soft did a solid job of porting the game to the PS2. For incentive they included four new levels, changed some existing levels and added several cut sequences that shed a bit more light on Sam's background.

One new level lets Sam show off his snow camouflage outfit and another is a very cool nuclear power plant level. These are awesome and will have your XBOX friends green with envy. A great compliment you can give a game is the recognition of how much time you spend thinking about a game while you are not playing it. Splinter Cell is so immersive that it actually begins to change your thinking in everyday life.

A pseudosequel expansion pack? Well, it's all of these things, and yet none. Confusing I know, but that's the nature of things when you're working for a top-secret branch of the CIA. Which of course I'm not. Let's have a look at the game then. From the first moments, it's good to be back. As soon as the curtain rises on the magnificently sun-drenched insertion point, Pandora Tomorrow reminds us why we loved its precursor so much. The faultless presentation, the immaculate looks, the beyond-Bond spy kit - everything is as we left it in the world of Third Echelon - and that means great.

A few new features quickly become apparent. The HUD has been streamlined, such that the lock-pick and optic cable are now built-in, context-sensitive items that never appear in your inventory. Enemy alert modes, once vague and amorphous things, have been neatly clarified - trip one alarm and all tangos don flak jackets; slip up twice and they add a helmet.

Dumping unconscious bodies has also been made more transparent, your light meter now flashing helpfully to indicate a safe drop-point. And even Sam Fisher, 'the most reluctantly ageing badass in the world', has become a little more nimble. On top of his regular wall-peeks and split-jumps, the grizzled gunman can now do half-split-jumps, hang by his legs to shoot, and perform the so-called SWAT turn - a kind of stealthy switcheroo that allows you to pirouette past open doorways with complete discretion.

As you'd expect, they're all completely farfetched and extremely cool. The sophisticated stealth system also impresses just as much as ever. The game opens in Indonesia, where the US embassy has been raided by militant insurgents, kicking off a typically close-to-the-knuckle Tom Clancy plotline about anti-US terrorism and bioengineered virus agents. It's a politically sensitive scenario, so there's a 'no lethal force' order in place for much of the mission and indeed, the entire solo campaign.

Straight off, I decide to be really clever and beat the no-kill edict with a bit of foul play. Sneaking up and pistolwhipping the terrorist guarding the embassy gates, I proceed to dump his inert form in a stream, thinking there's no way in hell the game is monitoring his oxygen levels.

More fool me. Two minutes later, I fail the mission for drowning a man. It may be a small thing, but to me, that's impressive. It's smart, it's coherent with the gameworld, and it's the sort of thing that makes Splinter Cell the best stealth series out there.

Saying this, Pandora Tomorrow is not without its problems. The single-player missions have a definite expansion pack feel to them, because, er, that's exactly what they are. There are some superb moments, which occasionally surpass what the original game managed -including a cool over-and-under escapade on a train and an excellent Die Hard -esque airport mission - and yet the same old criticisms of Splinter Cell still apply.

The game is still relentlessly linear, the occasional painfully obvious choice of pathways somehow only highlighting the lack of genuine decision-making. Again, the developer has singularly failed to capitalise on some of the best moves and gadgets in the game. Things like the split-jump, heat-vision, human-shield and remote spycams are criminally underused. But perhaps the most significant letdown is the Al. While it hasn't actually got any less advanced since the previous game, it does give that impression, having been watered down in response to criticism that the original game was too difficult.

But instead of taking the tricky route of rethinking level design or adding new gadgets, the developer has simply made the enemies deafer, blinder and more stupid. NPCs will walk within a foot of your position and not see you, they'll happily ignore the deaths of nearby comrades, they won't bat an eye if you shoot out every light in the room and leave them in pitch blackness, and they'll certainly never leave the room to pursue you.

Not only does this rip holes in the thin gauze of immersion covering our eyes, but it makes the whole thing a bit on the easy side. Veterans should probably head straight for the Hard mode, and this is never a good sign for game balance.

Despite all this, Pandora Tomorrow is still Splinter Cell, and as such is great fun. The missions are well designed and full of inventive stealth set-ups, and for me, more of the same is just dandy.

But things really haven't progressed very much since the original. However, before we declare Pandora Tomorrow an expansion pack masquerading sequel, let's not forget the really exciting part: the superb, innovative multiplayer game. You see, Pandora Tomorrow is actually two games in one. The single-player campaign was developed in France as a straightforward expansion for the original Splinter Cell - that's the 'Pandora Tomorrow' bit. Meanwhile, in Shanghai , an entirely different team was working on a new multiplayer concept, dubbed 'Shadownct Vs Mercenaries'.

The basic idea is this. Two teams face off in a brilliant computerised version of hide-and-seek. One team plays in first-person mode and has all the firepower on its side - that's the meres. The other team plays in classic stealthy third-person, and has agility, sneakiness and deception on its side - the so-called shadownets.

From this brilliant concept, everything else follows naturally. There are a few different game modes, but basically the meres have to protect a number of items from being nicked, hacked or otherwise tampered with by the shadownets. To help them in this aim, the levels are littered with motion detectors and hacking monitors linked to the mercenary comm channel, and they can add to this array by laying spy-traps, trip lasers and proximity mines - all there to cause headaches for the shadownets.

The shadownets are basically wannabe Sam Fishers -junior spies who haven't quite taken the stabilisers off yet. They can perform many of the same moves, such as wallpeeks, split-jumps and whizzing down ziplines, but they're not as invisible or as powerful as Sam himself. Plus, they're only armed with stun guns, flashbangs, diversion cams and the like, so their best bet is to stay out of sight and only pounce when surprise is most definitely on their side.

The result is a superbly balanced game of cat-and-mouse with more tension than Jordan's bra-strap. There is however, one caveat. Due to limitations imposed by the Xbox version, there's a maximum of four players in the game. Two-on-two is the default, but you can do handicap matches or even nail-biting one-on-one duels as well. It's an unusual limitation for a PC game, which in recent times have been moving towards more players and bigger environments, but it works surprisingly well.

Apart from the refreshing change of pace, it's a more intimate style of game where every player is a crucial part of the proceedings. The eight levels are well designed and cleverly honeycombed with tunnels and access shafts that only the shadownets can move through. And with teams of just two, co-operation is inescapable.

This, combined with the fact that it's eerily suited to office LANs, has made tor many lost man-hours at PC in the past two weeks. As you can see, we're rather impressed with Pandora's new multiplayer game - in fact, we've been quietly lobbying for someone to do something like this for years. Our only real criticism is that, because the two halves of the game have been developed at opposite ends of the Earth, the default control systems for the two are noticeably different.

This is hugely annoying when you come to switching between the two games, but hardly the end of the world. Quibbles aside, the multiplayer game is by far the more impressive aspect of the Pandora Tomorrow package. It's different from any other multiplayer game out there, and it's thoroughly and addictively playable.

Indeed, the spies vs meres game mode has already done wonders for the multiplayer scene in the office, and if the PC fraternity can only see past the game's console leanings, it has the potential to do the same online. Ultimately, the multiplayer game has saved Pandora Tomorrow from being simply an above-average expansion pack.

The solo missions are undeniably solid, but bundled with one of the coolest and most distinctive multiplayer concepts in years, Pandora Tomorrow is essential gaming. Another influence of the Xbox version on Pandora Tomorrow's multiplayer game is a huge emphasis on voice communication.

With a headset in place you can liaise constantly with your partner, co-ordinating attacks and setting up diversions, ambushes and hit and-run attacks. As a spy, you can hack into the mercenary voice channel by tagging them with a spy bullet, and you can even whisper threateningly in their ears when you've got them in a headlock. A game company once asked me why I only scored their game a 9 out of Them: You liked our game, didnt you?

Me: Yup. Them: Was anything wrong with it? Me: Nope. Them: So why didnt it score a 10? Me: Cause it didnt wow me. Pandora Tomorrow is that wow game and thus deserving of a 10 and Im not just talking about a damn, these graphics look fine kind of wow and damn, they do look fine.

From the opening cinema to the last stage, from single- to multiplayer, Pandora Tomorrow is the most incredible stealthy soldier game around. Sure, you may argue that, barring the Metal Gear Solid games, the genre isnt that huge to begin with, but were talking setting-a-new-standard-while-smashing-the-old-one stuff here. Some save points are way too far apart, and the A.

Combine that with the slow, methodical pacing, and were talking dangerously high blood pressure when youre reloading your last save for the 50th time. Weekend warriors need not enlist. But wow is the single-player game regardless, even though gameplay hasnt changed any from the original Splinter Cell.

As a lone secret agent, you will see incredibly tense scenarios and a wide variety of realistically rendered environments to covertly operate in. From a passenger train speeding through the French countryside to the lush jungles of Indonesia to a superdetailed LAX airport, each stage is amazing to see and explore.

The games pace takes a dramatic turn for the worse halfway through when you reach Jerusalem, where the action slows down while the difficulty picks up and the checkpoints seem to disappear better than our protagonist.

Try to stick with it, though the final few stages are the best. Even more wow is the multiplayer game. Folks, this is the reason to get on Xbox Live. I dont care about the money for the subscription, for broadband, and for the cable dude to come out to your pad you gotta play four-player Pandora.

Here, two spies who play in the traditional Splinter Cell third-person style try to complete certain stealthy operations while two mercenaries who are in first-person view try to stop them. The two sides play completely different from each other, balanced with a variety of complementary weapons and gadgets. Once you try a bit of this hot spy-on-mercenary action, youll never want to go back to boring ol deathmatching again. On top of that, the multiplayer maps are some of the most cleverly designed in any videogame ever, offering spies multiple ways to hide and many paths from point A to B that their enemies cant access, while giving the meres lots of tools cameras, motion detectors, etc.

Incredible stuff. Get Pandora Tomorrow. After all, it will be the game all your Xbox Liven friends will be talking about and playing until Halo 2 comes out.

You dont want to be left behind in the dark, do you? Just as Tetris stuck in my noggin at the height of its popularity, Pandora's incredible online multiplayer mode has invaded my reality.

I spot security cameras I never noticed before on my way to work. I instinctively note the placement of windows and air vents each time I enter a room. While everyone else is watching the movie, Im spotting the best places to mine the theater. Sure, Im obsessed. But who can blame me? Pandora nails every important aspect of multiplayer-intricate level design, cool gadgets and weapons, and most of all, a fantastic balance between the two very different types of gameplay.

Games this innovative and polished at the same time are rare indeed. Setting traps, causing diversions, spying in on the other teams conversations, letting them spy in on yours to feed them false information the possibilities for co-operation and strategy in multiplayer Pandora are so endless, it makes even a deep shooter like Rainbow Six 3 seem like a simple Doom clone.

All of this greatness does come with a price: a supersteep learning curve. Youll need to spend hours learning every nook of the huge levels and mastering the complicated controls before you can enjoy multiplayer.

But once you do, there is literally nothing like it. Which I guess is why I can forgive Ubisoft for playing it safe with the single-player game.

I have the same compliments gorgeous graphics, cool gadgets, great controls and complaints guards who cheat to know where you are, confusing storyline as I did with the original Cell, because this is basically the same game.

Once again the missions where you cant kill or get spotted even once often devolve into frustrating trail-and-error gameplay. The stealth formula works best when its the player who decides between going in quiet or guns-a-blazin, not the game. Now, if youll excuse me, Ive got to get back online. Listen to Shoe and Mark; dont listen to Sam Fisher. Pandora Tomorrows crotchety superspy may gripe about his salt-and-pepper scruff and achy knees we knew we smelled Ben Gay through that stealth suit , but this guy is definitely not getting too old for this His outstanding sophomore mission which improves on the breakout first games specs in all the departments youd expect proves that Uncle Sam is just getting started.

He gets slick new moves although you barely use em , players get the requisite convoluted spy-game plot, and the whole package is bathed in the wowie-zowie light-and-shadow effects that made the original famous.

And if the single-player game still feels a little too similar to the originals, Pandora Tomorrow goes beyond the call of duty with the most novel multiplayer mode Ive ever played. But this black op isnt for everybody. Although a few single-player levels the best ones in the game offer multiple paths to the objective, youll still face lots of tedious trial and error. Even so, that palpable sense of tension the very real fear of getting spotted never falters. It makes for too many memorable moments: slinking past passenger windows on the wind-whipped side of a bullet train, diving for cover when lightning flashbulbs guard-patrol routes during a thunderstorm, going full-auto when Sams handlers let him off his leash, and much more.

The revolutionary spooks-versus-guards online game packs an Everest-steep learning curve likely to intimidate casual spies. In fact, I can guarantee that you wont have fun the first time you dive in. Youll stumble around in the dark, wrestle with the controls which are different from those in single-player , and wonder if youll ever get the hang of this. But stick with it: Once you master tactics and memorize a levels layout, you wont be able to log off until you try a new level and have to figure out its intricacies from scratch.

With Sam Fishers current stealth conflagration more than living up to the hype, and newly converted Xbox Live gamers everywhere learning exactly what the phrase game rating content may change during online experience means after listening to a year-old punk swearing at them, were back with a host of Splinter Cell tips and tricks for executing both enemies and this irritating online menace.

Weve got strategies for weapon use and a host of cunning tricks to employ for turning you from ass to assassin. You really have only two weapons to choose from on each mission and sometimes only a pistol on the stealthier missions.

A couple of different projectiles, though, will keep the enemy on its toes. Combined with your covert movements and superior tactics, your weapon setup proves more than reliable. Modular Assault Weapon System provides lots of power in a compact package.

The assault rifle comes with 60 shots, which might seem like a lot, but it goes real fast if you hold the trigger down and barrage the enemy with automatic fire. To conserve ammo and keep your accuracy high, fire quick bursts or single shots to the head. In sniper mode, you can pick off targets at a distant range with just the soft hiss of a bullet.

Lock on to your victim and then zoom in with your 4x or 6x scope for a closer shot. Depress the left trigger and hold your breath for about 3 seconds long enough to steady your weapon and set up the perfect kill shot. Your SCK also doubles as a launcher. It spits out special ammunition like ring airfoil rounds , sticky shockers, diversion and sticky cameras, plus all types of grenades. Its like your own weapons locker slung across your back. In stealth situations that require you to cross a lighted area to reach your enemy or ones in which grabbing one enemy will alert another nearby guard opt to use your SCKs sniper mode.

You may be quick enough to down your enemies without the alarm going up. Your handheld weapon usually shoots at light bulbs instead of skulls.

Your pistol, equipped with 40 shots, can pick off lights as you move along to keep the shadow quotient high. It fires more slowly than your SCK, and its tougher to get a long-range shot off since it doesnt come with a zoom feature, so use it on human opponents only at close range. If you play it smart, you can also shoot out cameras with your SC pistol, though its probably more sensible to holster it in favor of the SCK when you have an option.

For those split-second situations when you have only the pistol in hand, go for the head shot. One pinpoint slug to the skull can drop anyone even enemies in full body armor. Think of it as a shock bomb. The sticky shocker is a high-voltage discharge device coated in adhesive resin. When you fire the shocker, it clings to your target and jolts the victim into unconsciousness. If any cell of Third Echelon is captured or compromised the government will disavow any knowledge of its existence and the remaining members will vanish.

Fisher is inducted into the Third Echelon with an important first mission. Fisher will uncover more than a couple of corpses when he infiltrates the Georgian government and unveils a threat that will have devastating consequences for the American people.