Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Developer(s)	Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft
Designer(s)	Clint Hocking
Composer(s)	Amon Tobin Jesper Kyd
Series	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Engine	Unreal Engine 2.5
Platform(s)	Mobile N-Gage Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube Nintendo DS Nintendo 3DS PlayStation 3
Release	March 21, 2005 Mobile NA: March 21, 2005 N-Gage NA: March 23, 2005 EU: March 2005 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox NA: March 28, 2005 EU: April 1, 2005 JP: November 17, 2005 WW: April 21, 2008 (XBLA) GameCube NA: March 31, 2005 EU: April 1, 2005 AU: April 14, 2005 Nintendo DS NA: June 28, 2005 EU: July 1, 2005 Nintendo 3DS JP: March 17, 2011 EU: March 25, 2011 AU: March 31, 2011 NA: April 10, 2011 PlayStation 3 EU: September 16, 2011 AU: September 16, 2011 NA: September 27, 2011
Genre(s)	Stealth
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	(Xbox) 94% (PC) 91% (PS2) 89% (Mobile) 87% (NGE) 86% (GC) 81% (3DS) 54% (DS) 51%
Metacritic	(Xbox) 94/100 (PC) 92/100 (PS2) 87/100 (NGE) 85/100 (GC) 81/100 (3DS) 53/100 (DS) 50/100
Review scores
Publication	Score
EGM	(Xbox) 9.5 out of 10 (DS) 3.83 out of 10
Eurogamer	(PC) 8 out of 10 (DS) 5 out of 10 (3DS) 4 out of 10
Game Informer	9.75 out of 10 (PS2) 9.25 out of 10 (3DS) 5 out of 10
GamePro	(Xbox) (3DS)
Game Revolution	A− (PS2 & GC) B (3DS) D (DS) D−
GameSpot	8.6 out of 10 (PS2) 7.1 out of 10 (GC) 6.7 out of 10 (DS) 5.6 out of 10 (3DS) 5.5 out of 10
GameSpy	(PC & NGE) (GC) (DS)
GameTrailers	9.5 out of 10
GameZone	(Xbox) 9.7 out of 10 (PC) 9.1 out of 10 (NGE) 9 out of 10 (PS2) 8.9 out of 10 (GC) 8.7 out of 10
IGN	9.6 out of 10 (NGE) 8.8 out of 10 (GC) 8.5 out of 10 (PS2) 8.4 out of 10 (3DS) 6.5 out of 10 (DS) 6 out of 10
Nintendo Power	(GC) 4.1 out of 5 (DS) 8 out of 10 (3DS) 5.5 out of 10
OPM (US)
OXM (US)	9.9 out of 10
PC Gamer (US)	91%
Detroit Free Press
The Sydney Morning Herald	(Xbox) (DS)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a stealth game developed by Ubisoft and released across all sixth-generation video game platforms in March 2005. Though originally slated for release in the fall of 2004, it was delayed until the following spring when it came out for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube and Microsoft Windows. Handheld versions for the Nintendo DS, Mobile phone and N-Gage were also released. A Game Boy Advance port was planned, but later cancelled.

Chaos Theory is the third game in the Splinter Cell series endorsed by novelist Tom Clancy. As with previous entries in the franchise, Chaos Theory follows the activities of Sam Fisher, an agent working for a covert-ops branch within the NSA called "Third Echelon". The game has a significantly darker tone than its predecessors, featuring more combat and the option for Fisher to kill people he interrogates as opposed to simply knocking them out. As a result, it was the first Splinter Cell game to receive an M-rating by the ESRB, an assessment which has since been applied to all subsequent releases in the series. Actor Michael Ironside reprised his role as Fisher, while Don Jordan returned from the original game to voice Third Echelon director Irving Lambert and Claudia Besso returned as hacker and analyst Anna Grímsdóttir having both been replaced by Dennis Haysbert and Adriana Anderson respectively in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.