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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

You are Sam Fisher, the NSA's most elite black-ops agent. To achieve your mission you will kill from close range, attack with your combat knife, shoot with the prototype Land Warrior rifle, and use radical…

53 28 June 2005

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 28 June 2005 on Nintendo DS.

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What Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2005. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 2008. Citywide blackouts ... stock exchange sabotage … electronic hijacking of national defense systems ... this is information warfare. To prevent these attacks, operatives must infiltrate deep into hostile territory and aggressively collect critical intelligence, closer than ever to enemy soldiers.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is the 31st of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown in 2005. Its critic score of 53 is 17 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory launched on 28 June 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari and Ys: The Oath in Felghana. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana.

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When did Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory come out?
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was released on 28 June 2005 for Nintendo DS.

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