it's embarrassing that it took me *this* long to play this and it turns out. Peak was hiding in plain sight (Happy 20th Anniversary Chaos Theory!!!)

It's still very playable out of the box and holds up surprisingly well, the best out of the classic trilogy.
And that's a shame there is zero effort from the publisher to promote it, polish it up and put it in front of more people.
They want to cash in on the SC brand in their other games, but 'kids' have no clue what Splinter Cell even is.

Blacklist, as good as it is and it's pretty good, isn't a peak of the series or a good place to start, and even that game is 12 years old. SC 1-3 should have been polished to a mirror decade ago, and they're just out there abandoned.
It would take a coffee break to deploy an update patching in proper widescreen and addressing the starting & available resolutions.

Originally posted by .:Jj:.:

It's still very playable out of the box and holds up surprisingly well, the best out of the classic trilogy.
And that's a shame there is zero effort from the publisher to promote it, polish it up and put it in front of more people.
They want to cash in on the SC brand in their other games, but 'kids' have no clue what Splinter Cell even is.

Blacklist, as good as it is and it's pretty good, isn't a peak of the series or a good place to start, and even that game is 12 years old. SC 1-3 should have been polished to a mirror decade ago, and they're just out there abandoned.
It would take a coffee break to deploy an update patching in proper widescreen and addressing the starting & available resolutions.

my very first introduction to SC was Blacklist lmao

Best Ubisoft game, Rayman 3 is up there too.

anyone know if there is still a way to coop this game online? Not the versus mode, the coop side. Or is LAN the only option?

Originally posted by T/-/iN3Ey3s_B/eeD:

anyone know if there is still a way to coop this game online? Not the versus mode, the coop side. Or is LAN the only option?

I have a bunch of mods installed and a few extra files modified so I couldn't check one way or the other, but try this solution:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/13570/discussions/0/1651043958651257044/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY69X7EgsmM

Ah, the inevitable "but I want to obsess about the half-baked crappy multiplayer aspect of a legendary single player game" crowd, shuffles in and ruins another thread.

Originally posted by Babs:

Ah, the inevitable "but I want to obsess about the half-baked crappy multiplayer aspect of a legendary single player game" crowd, shuffles in and ruins another thread.

What are you even talking about?

Originally posted by Babs:

Ah, the inevitable "but I want to obsess about the half-baked crappy multiplayer aspect of a legendary single player game" crowd, shuffles in and ruins another thread.

yeah... what are you even talking about

Splinter Cell is an enigma in terms of how it has a fantastic massive legendary sprawling single player campaign and it has some half-baked multiplayer/co-op aspect where the servers were gone a year after the game was new (because nobody played it) and this results in 20+ years of whining of idiots "nostalgia pining" for the ability to play co-op or its lame multiplayer add-on.

The people who actually enjoy the game are playing single player and not represented on this or any forum because they are busy playing it and having fun.

The only ones who show up on the forum are the ones begging for the crappy co-op and multiplayer features to be re-released.

I know of no other game that has a phenomenon like this to this extent.

There's -literally- a billion better shooters that did mutliplayer better before this game was released.

Originally posted by Babs:

it has some half-baked multiplayer/co-op aspect where the servers were gone a year after the game was new (because nobody played it)

Which parts are 'half-baked' and what does it have to do with this thread?

Originally posted by Babs:

the servers were gone a year after the game was new (because nobody played it)

The official multiplayer service was shut down on April 2016.

And a lot of people played it throughout the years. I've completed the co-op campaign 4 or 5 times, and played SvsM a lot. Popularity (or absence of it) is often unrelated to technical/legal issues, cost-cutting, restructuration of services on the backend and business decisions regarding the management of IPs that often result in casualties, premature/uncalled-for abandonment of support, even when costs of continued support and manpower involved are negligible for the mother company.

Originally posted by Babs:

20+ years of whining of idiots "nostalgia pining" for the ability to play co-op or its lame multiplayer add-on.

You seem to be very eager to insult a lot of people without a reason, in a situation where the vast majority of players and fans of the series don't use forums, social media or otherwise don't express their opinions online.
Can I also call you an idiot? Because so far you sound like one.

Originally posted by Babs:

The people who actually enjoy the game are playing single player and not represented on this or any forum because they are busy playing it and having fun.

'Actually'? So people who play coop or SvsM don't enjoy the game? Or is it impossible to enjoy the game in those modes? Maybe these modes are not 'real' Splinter Cell? I'm sure you have some developer quotes to back that up.
Again- what are you even trying to say here and for what reason, besides whining for the sake of it?
'Represented'? Barely anyone talks about anything other than a single-player campaign. Did SvsM touch you in your private parts? You're delusional.

Originally posted by Babs:

I know of no other game that has a phenomenon like this to this extent.

What phenomenon? People talking about problems with the game? Since there are no problems with playing solo campaign, they talk and ask about problems with playing other game modes.
It's not a 'phenomenon', unless you're 15 and have no idea what you're talking about, and it's your first year on the Internet.

People have been discussing the campaign for 20 years, what more they should ask about at this point?

Originally posted by Babs:

There's -literally- a billion better shooters that did mutliplayer better before this game was released.

This game is not a shooter, it's a stealth-action game with shooting mechanics. Even when playing online as a merc, it's still not a shooter.
What games featured a game mode like that? A 'literally' billion of them?
You have no idea what you're talking about and come off as an extremely silly and jaded person.

This thread is about the game's anniversary, not bizarre out of place whining about the fact that some people dare to talk about one of the game modes.
You made an exhaustingly terrible post, congratulations! Certainly lives up to the standard of most private profile posters. Embarrassing.

The real Splinter Cells are the friends we made along the way.

wowww i remember playin when it came out on xbox

Originally posted by .:Jj:.:

Blacklist, as good as it is and it's pretty good

Ugh... no. It's horrible, like Conviction.