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Played them both, enjoyed them both.
But Splinter Cell takes MGS2 out behind the shed and spanks it's FMV bottom until it's bright red, then throws it away.
Why?
It's just more fun.
No stopping every 15 secs for a CODEC message from some manga-monkey to lecture us all about genetics and the evils of blah blah.
Nope, the occasional voice in head method of telling you where/why/when you should be going places.
"You can point your gun at the soldiers and they shake and give you their stuff" we all wah-wah about Solid Snake.
Big deal.
Splinter Cell you can interrogate them with a pistol against their head, stuff their big villain heads into scanners to open doors, club them unconscious with your gun or drop on them from the darkness.
Cut-Scenes.
*sigh* Hideo Kojima wants to be James Cameron. Ok, fair enough, good on you Kojima-San. But that means us having to sit through interminable cut-scenes of Goodfellas length whilst various characters reeled of expositional stuff worse than an Agatha Christie novel.
Splinter Cell?
Haven't seen one yet apart from the beginning.
It's just sneak/shoot/hide with no "And now we'll yank you from the game world to show off Kojima's really really poncy moralistic attitude on life"
Imagine a Japanese Jehova Witness coming to your door, you open it and have to stand there for upwards of 6 minutes while they drone at you.
Dull.
Remember that bit on the tanker when you got inside and that bloke's shadow fell across the aisle, the "oh no,he'll see you" element? Cool right? Yes. But only for that one section, apart from that you could bomb about in a Benny-rage and as long as you shot their radio it was all good.
Pah
Every single moment of Splinter Cell is not letting your shadow fall into view.
"Oooh, you can shoot ice-cubes"
Remember that? Kojima rubbing his trouser legs and talking about "real world mechanics"? The demo where we all shot the magazines and windows?
Hurrah! Except one you were out of the tanker, you didnt bother did you? You just snuck about and waded through cut-scene after cut-scene.
Not with Splinter Cell.
I've already grabbed a bloke for a human shield and proceeded to work my round a house shooting tvs, windows, cupboards, stereos, radios.
Then smashed him on the head and run away.
It's just a better game.
More involving,less movie-like (read: Boring) and the character isn't called "Solid Snake".
I mean come on, how cool can you be with a porno-man name?
But Splinter Cell takes MGS2 out behind the shed and spanks it's FMV bottom until it's bright red, then throws it away.
Why?
It's just more fun.
No stopping every 15 secs for a CODEC message from some manga-monkey to lecture us all about genetics and the evils of blah blah.
Nope, the occasional voice in head method of telling you where/why/when you should be going places.
"You can point your gun at the soldiers and they shake and give you their stuff" we all wah-wah about Solid Snake.
Big deal.
Splinter Cell you can interrogate them with a pistol against their head, stuff their big villain heads into scanners to open doors, club them unconscious with your gun or drop on them from the darkness.
Cut-Scenes.
*sigh* Hideo Kojima wants to be James Cameron. Ok, fair enough, good on you Kojima-San. But that means us having to sit through interminable cut-scenes of Goodfellas length whilst various characters reeled of expositional stuff worse than an Agatha Christie novel.
Splinter Cell?
Haven't seen one yet apart from the beginning.
It's just sneak/shoot/hide with no "And now we'll yank you from the game world to show off Kojima's really really poncy moralistic attitude on life"
Imagine a Japanese Jehova Witness coming to your door, you open it and have to stand there for upwards of 6 minutes while they drone at you.
Dull.
Remember that bit on the tanker when you got inside and that bloke's shadow fell across the aisle, the "oh no,he'll see you" element? Cool right? Yes. But only for that one section, apart from that you could bomb about in a Benny-rage and as long as you shot their radio it was all good.
Pah
Every single moment of Splinter Cell is not letting your shadow fall into view.
"Oooh, you can shoot ice-cubes"
Remember that? Kojima rubbing his trouser legs and talking about "real world mechanics"? The demo where we all shot the magazines and windows?
Hurrah! Except one you were out of the tanker, you didnt bother did you? You just snuck about and waded through cut-scene after cut-scene.
Not with Splinter Cell.
I've already grabbed a bloke for a human shield and proceeded to work my round a house shooting tvs, windows, cupboards, stereos, radios.
Then smashed him on the head and run away.
It's just a better game.
More involving,less movie-like (read: Boring) and the character isn't called "Solid Snake".
I mean come on, how cool can you be with a porno-man name?
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he made a mistake you dont need to crucify him for it though blank.
i got the same problem but with a gamecube with sonic and wrestlemania but im only gettin 1 game for xmas and 1 for b'day which is in 1 week exactly 2day
splinter rules i have ir but since i'm not allowed my xbox until christmas day i can't play any of my games
but i have played mgs 1 and 2 and there both boring but this is written by tom clancy one of the best writers of this sort of stuff there is the graphics look 100 times better and there are more moves you can do you have more gadgets and its more realistic in splinter cell apparently you can use anything lying around not so in metal-gear-solid then theres the story line its story kicks mgs ***
but i have played mgs 1 and 2 and there both boring but this is written by tom clancy one of the best writers of this sort of stuff there is the graphics look 100 times better and there are more moves you can do you have more gadgets and its more realistic in splinter cell apparently you can use anything lying around not so in metal-gear-solid then theres the story line its story kicks mgs ***
i dont like the metal gear solid games so i say splinter cell by a long way
Silent85 wrote:
> And Blank yet again I dont agree with you. I dont think it will look
> the same however I could be wrong anyways other things may tip the
> gameplay either way ie controls who knows the ps2 version could be
> better than xbox.
I never said it would be the same, I'm just sick of Mantis saying it won't be the same and using games like DOA3 as proof. The man doesn't know what he's talking about.
> And Blank yet again I dont agree with you. I dont think it will look
> the same however I could be wrong anyways other things may tip the
> gameplay either way ie controls who knows the ps2 version could be
> better than xbox.
I never said it would be the same, I'm just sick of Mantis saying it won't be the same and using games like DOA3 as proof. The man doesn't know what he's talking about.
coldfusion008 wrote:
> By Playing Splinter cell and Metal Gear Solid 2, i would prefer Metal
> Gear Solid 2!
good for you
And Blank yet again I dont agree with you. I dont think it will look the same however I could be wrong anyways other things may tip the gameplay either way ie controls who knows the ps2 version could be better than xbox.
> By Playing Splinter cell and Metal Gear Solid 2, i would prefer Metal
> Gear Solid 2!
good for you
And Blank yet again I dont agree with you. I dont think it will look the same however I could be wrong anyways other things may tip the gameplay either way ie controls who knows the ps2 version could be better than xbox.
By Playing Splinter cell and Metal Gear Solid 2, i would prefer Metal Gear Solid 2!
well everyone is entitled to their own opinions mav I respect yours and by no means is mgs2 a bad game!
Personally, I reckon Metal Gear Solid 2 is better than Splinter Cell. They're both good, but MGS2 is better and more fun. 'Nuff said.
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