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Splinter Cell Double Agent (Mobile)

06 Jun, 2007, 3:00 pm IST | by Avinash Bali | Handheld Gaming Handheld Gaming

Now I haven’t played a Splinter Cell game (or any mobile game in the past for that matter) so I really didn’t know what to expect as I booted this game up on my sparkling new Nokia 6233 but I had heard a lot about developer Gameloft’s high quality and as expected, Double Agent was a treat for sore eyes. Not only does the game look pretty wicked for a side scroller but it manages to pack in all the thrills of the console version in the palm of your hand.


The story of Double Agent’s Mobile version is pretty similar to its console brethren; only it’s not all that detailed and fleshed out. And in case you’ve not played Double Agent at all, here’s a quick recap; Sam Fisher’s daughter has been killed in an accident and now as a man with nothing to live for, he undertakes the most dangerous mission of his life that sees him infiltrating the highly nefarious JBA (John Brown Army) army. Throughout the game you’ll have to perform missions for both the NSA as well as the JBA (hence the name Double Agent) with tons of moral choices cluttering your tedious journey (no one said being a Double Agent was easy).


The game starts off with Sam rescuing Jamie Brown from prison to gain access into the JBA after which you’ll embark on a plethora of diverse missions like disarming bombs, broadcasting transmissions for the terrorists, retrieving nuclear devices etc. Now even though Double Agent is an action platformer you can’t go around blindly killing everything that moves since that would get you killed pretty fast; stealth is still the name of the game here and you have to make sure you conceal yourself from the enemy at all times. If you are the sloppy variety and fail to do so you’ll trigger off an alarm due to which every enemy in the vicinity will get alerted of your presence and reduce you to Swiss cheese. To avoid this sort of an unfortunate incident all you have to do once spotted is lay low till the Alarm meter comes down to normal.

Tags: Double Agent , Mobile Games , Gameloft

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