Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent is an
action-adventure stealth game, developed and published by
Ubisoft. The series, endorsed by American author
Tom Clancy, follows the character
Sam Fisher, an agent employed by a black-ops division of the
National Security Agency, dubbed
Third Echelon.
Double Agent was released for the
Nintendo GameCube,
PlayStation 2,
Xbox and
Xbox 360 in October 2006. The
Wii and
Microsoft Windows versions were released in November 2006. A
PlayStation 3
version was released in March 2007. Originally the game was set for a
March 2006 release, but Ubisoft moved the release date to October 2006
in order to have more development time. Ubisoft then released their
fiscal quarter results for Q1 2006 and announced that Splinter Cell
Double Agent would be put back at least one month in order to boost Q3
2006 income.
There are actually two separate versions of
Double Agent. One version (
Generation Seven version) was made by
Ubisoft Shanghai, who developed
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and was released on the Xbox 360, Windows, and PlayStation 3. The other version (
Generation Six version) was made by
Ubisoft Montreal (
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory)
and was released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and
Nintendo Wii. The version for mobile phones was developed by
Gameloft.
The Generation Seven version features a completely custom engine while
the Generation Six version plays more like the classic Splinter Cell
games. The games share the same general plot but feature different
storylines, plot twists, and levels. Even the levels they share have
completely different level designs. They do however, share the same
background music, a few cut scenes and all voice actors
System Requirements Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent:
Windows 2000/XP/7
Intel Pentium 4 or better
1 GB RAM
8 GB free Space
128 MB Vram