Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (video game)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Developer(s)	Ubisoft Montreal (PC, Xbox) Ubisoft Shanghai (PS2, Gamecube)
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft Entertainment Aspyr Media (Mac OS X)
Director(s)	François Coulon
Producer(s)	Mathieu Ferland Reid Schneider
Designer(s)	Nathan Wolff
Programmer(s)	Antoine Dodens
Artist(s)	Hugo Dallaire
Writer(s)	J.T. Petty Clint Hocking
Composer(s)	Michael Richard Plowman
Series	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Engine	Unreal Engine 2.0
Platform(s)	Xbox Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 GameCube Game Boy Advance Mobile phone N-Gage Mac OS X PlayStation 3 (HD)
Release date(s)	November 12, 2002 Xbox NA: November 12, 2002 EU: November 29, 2002 JP: November 27, 2003 Microsoft Windows NA: February 19, 2003 EU: February 28, 2003 PlayStation 2 EU: March 28, 2003 NA: April 8, 2003 JP: November 27, 2003 GameCube NA: April 10, 2003 EU: June 6, 2003 Game Boy Advance NA: April 27, 2003 EU: June 6, 2003 Mobile phone NA: June 24, 2003 N-Gage EU: December 5, 2003 NA: December 10, 2003 Mac OS X NA: September, 2004 PlayStation 3 EU: September 16, 2011 AU: September 16, 2011 NA: September 27, 2011
Genre(s)	Stealth
Mode(s)	Single-player

Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	92.49% (Xbox) 90.50% (Mobile) 90.16% (PC) 88.07% (PS2) 86.82% (GC) 77.28% (GBA) 72.43% (N-Gage)
Metacritic	93/100 (Xbox) 91/100 (PC) 89/100 (PS2) 89/100 (GC) 77/100 (GBA) 74/100 (N-Gage)
Review scores
Publication	Score
Edge	7/10
EGM	9/10 (GC) 8.83/10 (PS2) 6/10 (GBA)
Eurogamer	9/10 8/10 (GC) 7/10 (GBA & N-Gage)
Game Informer	8.75/10 (Xbox) 8.5/10 8/10 (N-Gage)
GamePro	(GC, GBA & N-Gage)
Game Revolution	A−
GameSpot	9.1/10 (Mobile) 8.7/10 (PC) 8.6/10 (Xbox) 8.4/10 7/10 (GBA & N-Gage)
GameSpy	(Xbox) (GBA)
GameZone	9.8/10 (PS2) 9.7/10 (Xbox) 9.5/10 8.6/10 (N-Gage) 8.5/10 (GBA)
IGN	9.6/10 (Xbox) 9.4/10 (PC) 9.1/10 9/10 (Mobile) 8/10 (GBA) 7/10 (N-Gage)
Nintendo Power	4.1/5 (GC) 3.8/5 (GBA)
OPM (US)
OXM (US)	9.6/10
PC Gamer (US)	91%
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Entertainment Weekly	A

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a 2002 stealth video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and built on the Unreal Engine 2. It is the first Splinter Cell game in the series. Endorsed but not created by author Tom Clancy, it follows the activities of NSA Black Ops agent Sam Fisher. The character of Fisher is voiced by actor Michael Ironside. His commanding officer, Irving Lambert, is voiced by actor Don Jordan.

The game is available for Xbox, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Mac OS X.2D versions of the game were released for the Game Boy Advance and N-Gage (the latter as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Team Stealth Action), as well as the mobile phones version developed by Gameloft. A remastered "high definition" version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell was released on the PlayStation 3 in September 2011. The success of the game series spawned a series of novels written under the pseudonym David Michaels.

The primary focus and hallmark of Splinter Cell's gameplay is stealth, with heavy emphasis on light and darkness. The player is encouraged to move through the shadows for concealment whenever possible. The game displays a "light meter" that reflects how visible the player character is to enemies, and night vision and thermal vision goggles to help the player navigate in darkness.