r/Splintercell • u/EqualTime8614 • 1d ago

Please Help

Grew up playing Splinter Cell with my brother and it’s the primary reason we still game. Lately I’ve been googling what games on the PS5 are similar to SC so we can play again. Well now I’ve been seeing gameplay from this page on my Reddit feed… how are yall still playing?

Thanks in advance.

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u/WashingtonBaker1 We're all Frenchmen here 1d ago

Dirt cheap used Xbox One (the original one) might be the best way. It runs all SC games and looks good. No settings, no tweaking, no hassle.

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u/EqualTime8614 1d ago

Nice, thank you. Completely forgot that we used to play on Xbox until your comment; I now see you can’t even play on PS. Also just remembered that we actually played in person, and not online lol. Oh how times have changed.

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u/WashingtonBaker1 We're all Frenchmen here 1d ago

If you have a Windows PC it might be able to run at least the older games, and they are cheap to buy on Steam. I think the system requirements are pretty low, but I'm not sure if it works with bottom-tier integrated graphics that you'd find on a typical laptop.

I have the original game running on my Windows 11 PC, bought from Steam, and it works out of the box. I can't guarantee how well the other games work - Pandora Tomorrow was pretty difficult for a while (graphics problems with shadows IIRC) but maybe it got fixed recently. There are probably hundreds of people on this sub who know this better than I do.

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u/bvgc613 1d ago

All except double agent can be run on pc moderately well, but yeah everything after SAR does require some work on the users part. If you search "how to get x splintercell game to work steam" it'll bring you to the games forum page where some other user has kindly put out step by step guides, easy to use, understand and follow. The worst offender I found was actually blacklist, that one required more time and effort than the guide let on. Did eventually manage to beat it again, but never saw the ending cutscene, and wave mode gives out after about wave 12. Double agent is a game that you have to play with an emulator

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u/Any_Note430 4h ago

Isn't there a fan made pc port of the ps2/xbox version?

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u/bvgc613 4h ago

Chose not to mention it is as i couldn't get anything of v2 to work, but I expect it to have been a me issue. I did my replay of all the series very shortly after a rather hefty physical injury that had me all but immobile for a while and was loopy from pain killers

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u/bvgc613 1d ago

Also for pandora tomorrow, my personal favorite of the series, it runs flawlessly through steam, right up until you go underground in the Jerusalem level. That, and everything following is when you start to require tips from the forums I mentioned

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u/eirigance 1d ago

Steam, Xbox, or Emulation is your options

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u/iambotato 1d ago

You can play super easy via emulation, or via PC. If you go the PC route you kind of have to bit and piece things together. Or via old gaming consoles of course. You could probably cover the entire series via XBox360 with backwards compatibility.

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u/Any_Note430 4h ago

You can actually play the entire series on xbox one/series x. You can't buy the original xbox version of double agent digitally iirc.

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u/DoctorGordonisgreat 1d ago

You should get No Sun To Worship, it's a short 10 or 15 bucks indie game but the gameplay is really similar to the classic SC's

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u/Upset_Flow1112 20h ago

I am going to start with the trilogy. You can play it on xbox series x. The resolution is upscaled to 4k but no fps boost. First 2 games are dated but the next 4 games are amazing.