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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®

Third-person stealth action balancing undercover loyalty and conflicting objectives

Ubisoft Montreal · Published by Ubisoft · Released Feb 13, 2009

Action

Reviews
Mostly Negative
35% of 1,954
Recent reviews
Mostly Negative
31% of 19 in 30 days
Playing now
7
right now
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update
Unknown
no patch notes found

Metacritic: 80/100 (critic reviews)

What is Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®?

A single-player, third-person stealth action game about an agent infiltrating a terrorist group. You carry out missions across international locations, use stealth and gadgets to avoid detection, and choose between NSA and terrorist objectives. Your choices affect the story and equipment upgrades.

For you if...

  • +you enjoy sneaking through missions with upgradeable gadgets
  • +you want choices that lead to different endings

Not for you if...

  • you prefer action that does not require stealth
  • you need working online co-op or multiplayer modes

What players say

35% of 1,954 reviews are positive · 31% of 19 in the last 30 days

Players praise the double-agent premise and its loyalty choices, though some find the stealth weaker than in earlier games. Their most common complaints are PC crashes, visual glitches, and other technical problems that some say persist even after installing patches.

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent® system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

Processor
3 Ghz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 3000 (3.5 Ghz Pentium 4 or Athlon 3500 recommended) - Game optimized for dual-processor-enabled computers.
Graphics
DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled 128 MB video card (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*)
Memory
1 GB or above (1.5 GB recommended)
Storage
8 GB available hard disk space
DirectX
DirectX® version 9.0c or higher

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Steam features
Family Sharing
Age rating
17+

Steam Deck: Playable

  • Default controller config not fully functional
  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • The native resolution is not the default one
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Text only: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain.

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