I played this on the PC and had absolutely zero technical problems. This is a nicer-looking Chaos Theory only without the content, wit or charm. While there is the addition of swimming in Double Agent it is only used in two levels so it feels more like a gimmick than an addition to Sam Fisher's arsenal. I never bothered using any grenades or other gadgets because of the horrible inventory system obviously meant for gimped console systems without a keyboard or mouse. Compared to Chaos Theory there are practically no enemies to interrogate and hardly any dialog. Would have been a nice sequel if there had been more levels, lines and darkness. Also, between each mission you have to sneak around a compound and do a certain amount of objectives in a certain amount of time. If I weren't such a stickler for hearing all conversations and seeing everything extra I would have skipped every compound mission.… Expand

I love the splinter cell games but this one is so buggy and unfinished its almost not worth playing.
There's even unfinished artwork in the game, (models missing textures, facial rigging that hasn't been weighted properly)
And I cant even reconfigure the mouse controls.
If they had released a finished version instead of this alpha build I'd be giving it a much higher rating.

Also worth a note, Instead of spamming you with advertising for "Airwaves" This time its "Nivea for men"… Expand

This game made me want to skin a dolphin with all the bugs, excessively long loading screens, and generally poor performance. The game randomly crashes to the desktop while trying to load or returning to the game after adjusting settings. This is particularly frustrating in the second to last mission (which is actually 3 missions in one). For some reason, every time you load last save, or any save for that matter, it crashes. The only way around it is to exit to the main menu and load your last save again. However, this process takes a full 2 minutes (yes, I timed it) and will be repeated ad nauseum, especially if you're trying to get 100% stealth on hard. In the JBA missions, you can't be on the same staircase as other npc's or else the game will seriously lag. [***SPOILER***] You can't even finish the final JBA mission because after you disarm the bomb, the game hangs as if something is supposed to happen but never does [***END SPOILER***]. It's a shame to see such a well respected series spit out something as putrid and neglected as the PC version. I hope at least the console versions don't have as many hang ups as this one. Hopefully, Ubisoft will spend more time finessing Conviction so the consumers won't be used as beta testers again.… Expand

Alright, first off I'm going to tell you that i do have the latest patch, and my system is EXTREMELY Powerful. (ATI Radeon 4870X2, 4gb DDR2 ram, Vista 32bit, 750i SLI Gaming motherboard with a case that has 6 fans, and a 9800 quad core PCU) Like everyone else I also had the fun of dealing with the crashes. Mainly on the cruise ship level where it just wont load the level at all, due to some insertion of my character into the level error. Not enough dialog from the enemies telling you what they know, getting clues and info... just wasn't there. To this moment I haven't completed the game, not due to difficulty, but due to the crashes. I spent more time with the crashes then i did playing the game. Graphics contained little to no Anti Aliasing, nice bloom effects by the way... i was blinded by them when ever there was a sun in the sky. Lighting in the level DID NOT tell you where the lighting really was, to know where to stay away from so the enemies wouldn't see you. For example, it would look like you were in a dark area, but the light down the hall is apparently illuminating you. Sneaking up on enemies was entirely to easy, i ran up to half the people i killed and they had no clue i was even running around. whistling wasn't as effective as Chaos theory, also whoever came up with the idea to use a green dot for hidden and a yellow dot for not hidden, is a retard, you can't just have black and white you need to have some gray area to know when your approaching a lighter area of the level versus a darker area, ESPECIALLY when the game doesn't show you light from dark that well, as stated above. I bought this game for $9.00, thank god, cause thats as much as its worth. Ubisoft, i dont know what the hell you were doing when you were releasing this to PC, but you had to have been drunk to have even remotely thought this was even 10% ready. Well done on ruining a great series, might i suggest recall and redo... to late at this point though. Also in response to a Anonymous person who gave this game a 10 and said the following "Well, this game is flippin' awesome! But, I read the reviews above and everyone is complaining about the P.C version!!! EVERYONE knows that if you're going to get games with top-of-the-line graphics, you have to get it for a console, unless you have an extremely good video card! I'd say you're free to your opinion, but you don't need to complain if you have a console where you can truly enjoy the game. These people are basing their ratings on how the game RUNS, not how it actually PLAYS. I suggest you put the proper rating for the playing, and then write about how it runs." Couple things wrong with this comment, 1. Mr. Anon, if you scroll to the top of this web page and read the header, go on do it. Ok now what did it say? "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent by PC Games". PC games, hmm so this probably means that this isn't a console forum, well how interesting. 2. My computer kicks the crap out of every console to date so when you say "top-of-the-line graphics" this isnt one of thoes games. I run Crysis full spec. Crysis hasn't released to console since consoles don't have the power. Sandbox 3 creates compatibility on a lower graphical standard FOR consoles, so don't go there. 3. Mr. Anon. Since we are talking about the PC version of this game. The playability of the game IS effected by how well it runs. So in short your comment is really not thought out, and is truly a great mark of stupidity. If you don't know what the hell your talking about don't say it. I think everyone can agree that its annoying to see a comment as such. My frustration of this game,and its inability to work, and the actual game play not being worth playing plus that awful comment just lead me into a frenzy of this long wall of text you see before you. I think you already know my oppinion on getting this game, but for those people like anon who are just complete dumbas*es i don't recommend this game. THANKYOU! … Expand

It had a great storyline, and the graphics were really great,but i've played MUCH better games with far less system requirements. It was absolute crap to run. I played the game without shooting my guns once because the muzzle flash would kill my computer. Ubisoft seems to test their games on the best computers out there and tells the average consumer to go to hell. I refuse to purchase another of their games.… Expand

Not many things cause me to write stuff like this. I bought Splinter Cell today and I will try and take it back tomorrow. My PC matches the spec easy and I thought I would be in for a treat with the graphics, its poor quality, very glitchy and very crashy.

Too buggy, doesn't support high end video cards. Plain does not work and Ubisoft hasn't even been bothered to generate a new patch. It's unlike Ubisoft to send such a poor effort to market. It could be a very good game, but I can't recommend it (or play it) until Ubisoft offers a new patch. I feel abandoned, or should I say Shanghaid, as it's their (Ubisoft's) PRC development group that created this aberration.… Expand

It has its moments, but this crap was rushed to market far too soon and has bugs of almost Amazonian proportions. I've gotten to a point where I can no longer *reload* the game without it crashing--I have to restart every time. Needless to say, I've stopped playing. I will say I thought the undercover parts were sometimes tense and exciting, and they should've gone further with those. But quality control was clearly out getting drunk when they should've been doing their jobs. That or they released too soon.… Expand

As many other reviewers have pointed out, is this game buggy and unstable. The game however also feels somewhat unfinished, as what could have seeded the ground for some awesome gameplay mechanics, somehow drowns in show-stopping bugs (falling through the floor as you spawn in the initial Okhost level, consistently through 4-5 mission restarts), unintuitive and unfinished levels (you will be surprised how often you try to scale an object which looks climb-able, only to see your character slide off on impact, or otherwise just don't know where to go. The in-game 3d map is a farce.), graphical obscurities (the training level was having an extreme, unplayable shade of white, even after the latest drivers. Perhaps some HDR-effects out of control?), broken/unintuitive mechanics (why am I losing trust with the JBA when they're not even remotely aware of my secret expedition to X?) or even just the whole lot of gameplay opportunities which the developers could have explored a bit more (I was, for instance, frantically trying to find a path down to my downed teammate in the first mission, and was quite disappointed with the fact that I was unable to make the choice of saving him or not while the clock was ticking and I was attacked from all sides, as it would have made perfectly sense according with the mood of the game.) All in all is SC: DA a sad, sore attempt at something which could have been a worthy successor of Chaos Theory, an sure GOTY-receiver even. Something is just missing. It feels like they had a complete, high quality product to begin with, but then took away 20% of it, applied high-quality rendering effects (which paradoxically has a broken on/off switch in the menu) and then shipped it off.. The development team could definitely have used another year working out the quirks and; atleast made the PC-version look and act like a native PC-game, instead of having unchangable keyboard-layouts and very, very controller-catered menues. My advice is clear. Avoid this product. I won't call it a game, as that would be an insult to the medium.… Expand

Do not spend the money. This game was not made well for PC at all. Does not play like original title. Invest time and money into one of the many other games out there to enjoy.

The main problem I have with the single-player game is that it is tediously slow-going! I do not believe I emptied more than three magazines during the entire game. You spend more than half of the game roaming and spying around the enemy's HQ in NYC, trying to find things. You must open safes, pick locks, rifle through cabinets, and (the best part--NOT) solve a ridiculous 3D suduko cube, all of which are pointless other than dragging out the story. The rest of the game is sneaking into structures and sniping the occasional adversary. The genre is listed as action/adventure, but it is actually just an exercise in stealth. If you like action, this game will drive you crazy since it has none.… Expand

Seems I have the same thing to offer as every one else. Loading only works on most recent save. Crashes at least twice on nearly every level. Game play was incredibly choppy even on my system. (SLI XFX7800GT's, 4 disc RAID 5, 2GB cas2 ram, AMD 4400x2, asus a8n-sli premium). Graphics looked great except the lack of anti aliasing. Jagged edges are not attractive. Installed the most recent patch but could not enable anti-aliasing without video trouble, 25% of the screen sort of working! One bug I actually noticed in the game was on the cruise ship, leaving the bar there is a double door entry to an elevator area. The left door actually has 2 doors 1 90 degrees offset from the intended door. This can trap players and 1 of the AI's. Could have been much better, I am sure it will get there in a few patches.… Expand

The PC version of this game is unplayable for me. It crashes after loading any mission. Steam forums confirm there is a known issue with very few people actually having success in playing this game. It's better on the XBOX anyway--the PC version lacks controller support.

Another Example of UBISOFT's inability to update a game they released. I bought every splinter cell game at retail price, and i can't play any of their games anymore with my current computer. But this game in particular was buggy from the start, and to date it's still a nightmare to play. I installed XP on a seperate Drive, installed the game, updated both windows XP and the game, updated every driver, and still the game crashes constantly. And even IF it manages to load a level, you have to play it with horrible sound and missing textures/glitches. (Core i5-760, GTX460, tested on Windows XP SP3, 270.61 nvidia drivers).

When i bought this at release day i had a 7800GT, and it didn't display the graphical glitches i endure now. But the 7800GT was nowhere near capable to run the poorly optimized game, and the games graphical settings kept resetting them after i tuned them down. So the only gameplay i ever saw of it was a slideshow basicly. It seemed like a nice game, with moral choices, and timed sidemissions when you where in New York. But this gets interrupted by random crashes, and when you forgot to save stuff you had to do the same stuff over and over again. I think it's hard to justify the 50 euro pricetag it had at release (Yes i bought it at release, because i loved splinter cell), but even if you payed 10 euro's for it, you'd still be ripped off. It's a buggy port, that never got patched properly, and to date doesn't work. Not even the steam releases. Why isn't there some sort of quality control that needs to be passed first? This is daylight robbery! My suggestion is, buy this on the console, i'm pretty sure that's a fun game. The PC port is just an abomination of a game, that should NEVER have been released.… Expand

Do you know why Sam got his **** face on the cover of the retail package? Yeah, that **** face staring at you. Do you know why? Oh, because he is trying to warn you: "Don't play this game, I didn't want to be in Double Agent, this game sucks." That's what uncle Sam's facial expression is about. But what about the game? Well, to an all time Splinter Cell fans (except for this one), Double Agent is a truly insult. Super buggy, eventually become unplayable at the Africa mission. And the graphic is disgustingly weird, I don't even know how to describe it, it just doesn't look right. About the gameplay......I don't know, maybe it should be good, but due to the terribly buggy experience, I can't feel anything. This game ruined and wasted me five hours. Damn you, Ubi.… Expand

Really buggy. Have had to stop playing as it crashes constantly. This is on a modern computer, no strange hardware, fresh install of xp with all the patches. My computer easily exceeds recommended configuration. Shelved it while I wait for them to fix it. Very disappointed in the commercial reviews. Even when they mention the bugs and crashing, many of them still scored it high.

Please watch out! This game does not support Shaders 2.0 (which is what about 70% of people have on their graphics cards). This game will NOT run on a 2.0 card. Only a certain number of cards exist that can play this game. Please check or download the demo before you buy!

Too short poor support release day patch too short bad port from 360 limited gameplay and weak story lines too short poor controls selling a game that the devs knew wouldn't work too short.

They ruined the multiplayer completely. I've been a fan of the multiplayer since it first appeared on Pandora Tomorrow and playing it non-stop. Double Agent's versus mode is so bad that the SCCT community has started to clone SCCT as an open source project. 'Nuff said. The single player is the same, boring trail and error fest you've grown accustomed to in the previous Splinter Cell games. Unfortunately it's filled with bugs and bad design ideas. Both games have a terrible interface which is much more suited for a console title. It's a port and it requires a very high-end system, even though you won't see anything here that you haven't seen before graphically.… Expand

They broke the game! I loved the first and second splinter cells, never played the third, and I returned with high hopes to the fourth in the series only to be very disappointed. The controls are clumsy and very clearly based on a weak console port. The menu-mouse has a ridiculously high sensitivity that isn't adjustable (the sensitivity setting only affects the mouse in the game engine.) The game forces you to watch an idiotic 20 second cutscene every time you go to the main menu, loading games doesn't work if you aren't dead, and it doesn't even quit properly! It ignores ALT-F4, doesn't Alt-Tab, and it takes up 10GB of hard drive space to screw all this up. Save your cash, this game'll be worth the price of entry when it hits $20.… Expand

All my comments have been posted by other users such as poor interface, buggy conversion, games saves that won't load et cetera et cetera; What I'd like to know is how come so many 'professional' reviews rated it so highly when so many users have such poor experience. You only need to check out the Ubisoft forums to see how many disgruntled PC users there are.

Great graphics! Really puts my evga 7950 gx2 to the test! Running 4 raid 0 sata2 drives, 2gb ram and core2 e6600 oc'd to 3.2 ghz all on a EVGA i680. Not a single skipped frame on max video settings.... however, This game is VERY buggy! It crashes randomly all the time. If I want to get the safe cracking to work, I have to quick save, completely exit the game, and then reload, and then MAYBE, it will work. I can't customize the control's like I used to in chaos theory... but I'm sure they will get it fixed sooner or later... like with patch 1.09! COMMON! WE NEED A MAJOR PATCH HERE UBI! This is very aggravating! Fix all the problems, and this game gets a 9+ rating from me!… Expand

The Anonymous who gave this piece of dump of a game a perfect 10 is a straight up idiot. This is the PC version dim-wit, not consoles so stop wasting my time with your irrelevant and thick ideas. 'EVERYONE knows' you are a knob-jockey twit who should post their comments under the xbox360 page, if at all, not here. This version on the PC just simply did not work, it was almost unplayable and a huge embarrassment to ubisoft and the splinter cell series. As it should be. This game was so almost genius but they completely ballsed it up. I hate you.… Expand

I have bought every other splinter cell out and loved them. This one is no exception it is awesome WHEN IT WORKS! 1. I loose control when I am trying to crack safes. The arrow keys just don

buggy as hell and doesn't work out of the box - really bad port with no thought given to differing controls and optimization for the PC - at the end of the day the developers at ubi shanghai put graphics over content yet again.

Impossible to run, even on brand new machine which exceeds req. sys. specs. Tried on several other machines, with differing hardware and gfx cards, and it's the same deal. The game looks like a triumph for the consoles, but a shameful effort for the PC. Avoid.

Astonishingly poor game. I have never felt so betrayed by a game developer. Almost constant bugs that made the game almost unplayable and to date go unresolved by Ubisoft, who clearly have no interest if the game is enjoyable or even playable. The game is an obvious and poorly executed port of a console game and should never be purchased. I spent $10, yet it remains the worst enoyment per $ expenditure of any game I have every bought.… Expand

The is the glitchiest most incomplete console to pc port I have ever played. The interface and menus are very hard to get working properly. Save games vanish often. The inventory system is incomprehensible. Worst of all, the gameplay feels very clumsy and clunky, a telltale sign of a very poor console port. The 3d map is difficult to use as well, making navigating your goals very difficult. Wow. they dropped the ball on this one on PC.… Expand