Q&A - Splinter Cell Double Agent - PS3

[Steven W]

Ubisoft explain what we can expect from the PS3 version of Splinter Cell Double Agent.


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[Perfectionist]

Found screenshots: http://eurogamer.net/gallery.php?gam...ticle_id=72235

PC: "Splinter Cell Double Agent Updater"... Game is up to date!
(\SCDA\support\UpdateLauncher\SC4UpdateLauncher.exe)

Have to say this is some real BS that they release "DLC" for playstation without bothering to make the patch available on the PC updater too. I will be waiting and not buying Conviction unless they have changed their ways, ridiculous situation where you get treated like a second class citizen by a publisher for actually having BETTER hardware... As they said themselves, "90 percent of the PS3 gamers will only play SCDA in 720p"

They don't really deserve a second chance after what they did to Deus Ex but whatever.

[Terbinator]

Reviving a three year old thread ?

[Perfectionist]

Yeah, it's one of the first hits on google for info about the patch And I bet I'm not the only one who decided to get around to playing Double Agent before even looking at Conviction (released today btw after about 4 years)

Talking of year gaps, a funny thing, they seem to have switched part of the in-game advertising scheme off because there are bottles of spirits looking like they are meant to be vodka or whiskey shape but they have the sides and tops noticeably missing so they look rather like ice cubes. Weirdly though you still see adverts for nivia men shaving products etc in it tho, maybe Ubi were charging the advertisers as a subscription per year or something

[Perfectionist]

See what I mean

[Perfectionist]

BTW in that rightmost pic above, you see those unnecessary spectacles? Your character wears throughout the whole Kinhasa missions, near the end of the game no less (closeup pic): They are actually meant to be sunglasses, I found out!

I am thinking it's also due to the advertising branding servers being shut down too:

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It seems a bit stupid that they didn't bother to include backup textures with the game unless they just assumed that their games wouldn't be worth playing in 3 years (unlike many others...) when they have apparently either shut most of the servers down (though like mentioned the rather unrealistic static NIVEA For Men ads - which block out where television screens would be in the game - seem to be still present) or ceased to do business with most of the advertisers...

Reminds me a bit of how they are making the new game stop working totally if you lose your internet connection:

• rockpapershotgun.com/2010/01/27/new-ubisoft-games-must-always-be-online
  
  
• gamingbolt.com/2010/02/26/splinter-cell-conviction-will-use-ubisofts-new-drm

...I think these two things are probably connected. They and their affiliate partners are unlikely to want you to be able to skip the ads by playing offline (or blocking the game/server from your firewall). Two birds with one stone, from their perspective maybe, if gamers are stupid enough to buy into and support these kind of new even more abusive practices.

edit: Oh and just to prove I'm a real customer: [1] [2]. Wish I wasn't now though, looks like they deserve all the piracy they can get!

[Avenger1324]

I think bumping this thread will confuse some people who will assume it is for the recently announced SC Conviction.

Personally I really enjoyed SCA, playing it on Xbox 360. I have heard they did a lousy job in porting it to the PC, which may be what you were searching for when this thread showed up.

If you choose to play it as a stealth game there is little variation in the difficulty. Stick to the shadows, take out guards when they aren't in sight of anyone else, and you can get around 90% of the game without much trouble.

The online side was a nice unexpected bonus. 3v3 spies vs mercs (though sad to report this has been dropped for Conviction). There aren't many people still playing online, though as a full match is 3v3 at most it doesn't take long to fill a server. I know for those of us familiar with the likes of Battlefield offering up 64 player battles, that 3v3 sounds pathetic, but the way the maps work it does offer up a lot of fun if you find some good people to play with.

For PC gamers though this game was disappointing due to the lack of effort put into porting it to PC. Whether they have done any better with Conviction remains to be seen, but given the publisher, and their choice of controversial DRM, I know I won't be touching it on principle.

[Perfectionist]

Yeah, talking about the PC version (see my first post ) - looking at the other review threads, it seems that Hexus tends to not bother with a PC review if they've done it for it on a console already (terrible logic since games that were made primarily for consoles are usually the worst done), I would've posted on a platform specific thread for the game if it existed. Hexus never bothered to check the PC version, there's no review at all. More reason to not bother reading any part of Hexus apart from the forums heh. www.pcgamer.co.uk for game (not "video game") reviews.