Is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Worth Playing in 2023? | Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Review

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  • @InfoGuyGaming
    @InfoGuyGaming Рік тому +86

    It is shame we don't get more stealth games nowadays, great vid btw.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +8

      Thank you!

    • @Nightshade31401
      @Nightshade31401 Рік тому +6

      There have been a few good indie games but aside from the new MGS remastered collection there's not much else. Splinter Cell is apparently getting a reboot but I don't have high hopes for that.

    • @osuna3525
      @osuna3525 Рік тому +2

      Specially since the advent of VR. Imagine Spies vs Mercs in VR. Running and hiding in the dark. Literally looking over your shoulders and down at your legs and arms and hoping you're hidden enough.

    • @Nightshade31401
      @Nightshade31401 Рік тому +1

      @Garland846 And NOT suck all of the money out of every fans wallet through nostalgia baiting? Not a chance.

    • @fightingforce8498
      @fightingforce8498 Рік тому

      Assassins creed?

  • @osuna3525
    @osuna3525 Рік тому +79

    Chaos Theory taught me to _see the things everyone else ignores._ 17 years later... Politics, News, War...Information warfare. This game was very prophetic. Between good story telling and Michael Ironsides deep humor this game held wisdom. An aura.

    • @MaskAnimations
      @MaskAnimations Рік тому +8

      Okay

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +6

      Growing up, I had an equivalent experience with noir

    • @Seb851s
      @Seb851s Рік тому +2

      ​@@thesummerofmarknoir ?

    • @Deadsmegma
      @Deadsmegma 6 місяців тому +1

      Thats Tom Clancy in a nutshell

    • @xCobraCommanderx
      @xCobraCommanderx 5 місяців тому +3

      As a Communist and John Brown fan who enjoys Splinter Cell as entertainment I agree.
      🤣

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker Рік тому +26

    The best Splinter Cell and arguably the best stealth-action video game I've ever seen in my life. Holds up incredibly well.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +2

      It’s kinda baffling that not many games have managed to match it in, what, the last 20 years?

    • @stiffygames876
      @stiffygames876 Рік тому +1

      Sad that the only game to come close was another splinter cell game blacklist after that most stealth games went to shit...well mgsv was ok and the Hitman trilogy was fun

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +2

      @@stiffygames876 dishonored 2 was alright too

    • @stiffygames876
      @stiffygames876 Рік тому

      Agreed but we will never get back those mgs1 or those mgs2 days...sad we have to settle with pages that literally states that today's viewers will not be able to handle the mgs2 twist

    • @Deadsmegma
      @Deadsmegma 6 місяців тому

      Splinter Cell and Thief. The best stealth games.

  • @blinkachu5275
    @blinkachu5275 Рік тому +13

    Still the best (not just one of the best, simply the best) stealth game in existence
    The animations, the detail, the ways you can tackle objectives and navigate around the maps, how you can choose to go full assault or full stealth (did a ghost playthrough, it's HARD af but fun af), and most importantly, the CAMERA
    The camera is SO good in this game it's a wonder it's not used as a template more often
    The way it subtly moves around Sam to either have him in the focus or depending on the situation, how it changes focus without you really noticing. If you're in a tight hallway it moves to the left or right of Sam depending on Sam's distance to the wall. If you're in the vicinity of an enemy it will focus on that enemy so it's easier to gauge distance. If you're near a corner it will automatically move so you can peek around that corner without having to press a button.
    It's so fucking good and most of all: it just works. In my 18 years of playing this game I've NEVER had issues with the camera. Not with clipping, not with being too close to Sam (because if it's too close it simply moves up so you can still see everything).
    And of course, lastly, Sam is just an absolute amazing character

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +2

      Holy shit these are some great observations, I never noticed how good the camera is! It’s safe to say it plays a huge role in how smooth the gameplay feels

  • @schwarzengerman
    @schwarzengerman Рік тому +24

    The one thing about the PC version that makes me prefer playing it on the Series S, is that using the mouse wheel is a bit cheap since you can just set Sam's speed to an ideal stealthy one and not think about it much. On a controller you have to be aware of how fast you're moving him which really adds to the tension of creeping around guards.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +6

      Great point, I hadn’t even considered that when researching the video

    • @Mentalex0
      @Mentalex0 Рік тому +6

      nah. thumb gaming is cancer

    • @yesdude3914
      @yesdude3914 Рік тому +2

      Wait, its possible to play chaos theory on the new xbox? Please tell me how I'll literally buy one rn

    • @Brother8237
      @Brother8237 Рік тому

      Ya plus it made doing any kind of acrobatics if you wanted to very difficult because I would have to stop for a sec turn my speed up then run and probably fail whatever bs jump I was trying

    • @blinkachu5275
      @blinkachu5275 Рік тому

      @@yesdude3914 Just buy the game as an original XBOX disc and pop it into your new XBOX Series S/X
      Backwards compatibility will download an update and it will work on your new XBOX Series S/X
      Played through the entirety of Double Agent for the original XBOX that way
      a lot of games are supported under backwards compatibility and the Splinter Cell series falls under that

  • @d.fortner6653
    @d.fortner6653 Рік тому +7

    I still play this game till this day can’t believe it will be turning 20 years old in 2025. This game has so many good levels with the lighthouse, bank, penthouse, hokkaido, battery and kokubo sosho being my favorites.

    • @davidsquire1278
      @davidsquire1278 Рік тому

      I still play too. Currently doing my first playthrough on hard mode and its amazing

    • @d.fortner6653
      @d.fortner6653 Рік тому

      @@davidsquire1278 I need to try it on hard mode i just haven't built up the courage to do it yet

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      Battery has one of the best themes ever. So, so atmospheric

    • @d.fortner6653
      @d.fortner6653 Рік тому

      @@thesummerofmark Yeah i agree with you. Everytime i hear the battery theme i get so immersed by it. It makes me always feel like i’m in sam fisher shoes sometimes.

  • @AaronWilliamGilbert94
    @AaronWilliamGilbert94 Рік тому +6

    Can I just say that you are my favourite new content creator, and how you don't have 500k subs is a crime. Keep doing what you're doing!

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      Thank you so much!!!! 😊 Much appreciated. I will continue making videos as long as people enjoy them for sure

  • @ozmantiswine3678
    @ozmantiswine3678 Рік тому +5

    i've never actually played any of the tom clancy games outside of ghost recon just because i wasn't really interested growing up, but this video definitely peaked my interest in chaos theory. it looks like a game that has a lot more heart than what's on the surface, from dialogue, to the sound design, even the small details of the plot sound thorough. gonna have to figure out how to get started since i'd be going in blind, but i'm genuinely interested in giving it a shot thanks to you. keep up the good work!!

    • @Brother8237
      @Brother8237 Рік тому

      I just grabbed it off of g2a then downloaded it onto the Ubisoft application on my pc works great didn’t even have to do anything other than change some of the key binds to my liking. Absolutely recommend giving it a try, it makes the mechanics in modern games look like child’s play it’s not even funny how well this game holds up.

  • @sir1thomas1
    @sir1thomas1 3 місяці тому +1

    Great video dude
    I've been replaying Chaos Theory and it's a shame we haven't gotten a sequel that builds on its mechanics
    Also when it comes to the tanks in Seoul you can blind them with smoke grenades or toss a frag into the open top hatch that will kill it. I too got screwed by them a few times, I swear it's a gamble on if they can see in the dark or not.

  • @vjsmyth
    @vjsmyth Рік тому +2

    Great video! The best use of sticky cameras is for firing them at guard's heads 😂

  • @Boggs2534
    @Boggs2534 8 днів тому

    WOW - excellent analysis and tidbit on music!!! My favorite childhood game Im 27 now and my heart and mind always come back to this at times. So so so good. Subbed

  • @PaulDuVall
    @PaulDuVall 9 місяців тому +2

    Great video! I wish I could go back and play Chaos Theory for the first time. I was 14 when it first released, and boy was it a great time for gaming. If you get a chance to play the co-op missions, I highly recommend them. It was such a blast having a friend over and playing Chaos Theory split screen co-op.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  9 місяців тому

      Hey, thanks a lot for the kind words and good luck with your channel! I wish I could wipe this game from my brain and play it again for the first time. I’ll see if I can get some friends together and make the co-op work

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 Рік тому +1

    I still remember how this game made me feel when it first came out. It really suprised everyone with its quality, and it STILL looks awesome today. 😍

  • @Evobed562
    @Evobed562 5 місяців тому +1

    I play chaos theory all the time on my rog ally, played through all of the splinter cells but hands down chaos theory is the best of them all I played countless hours back on ps2 now I can enjoy the game at high fps with max graphics my younger self would of never that that would be possible

  • @TheChaoskg
    @TheChaoskg Рік тому +2

    As always, hip-hop mentions are super appreciated.

  • @gilgamesh310
    @gilgamesh310 Рік тому +3

    Some of the music reminds me a bit of that in the rather obscure game Excalibur 2555 AD. That wasn’t a great game, but it had a fantastic soundtrack. The eerie theme you mentioned, reminds me of a theme in that especially.
    This is a great game in any case. I agree with most of what you said. I think Mark of the Ninja is the only stealth game released since, that I liked about as much.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      Ohh Mark of the Ninja, now that’s a game I haven’t played in a long time. I loved it! My buddy Arkham666 made a great video about it, you should definitely check it out

  • @ShadowSpy666
    @ShadowSpy666 Рік тому +4

    Legendary game, truly a masterpiece and a cult-classic, not only for the stealth genre. If you didn't play it, you are missing out a lot! I think I'll restart it soon, really miss good ol' Sam. Ubisoft are dumpsters because they abandoned this franchise and this story, yeah I get it, we'll get the remake, but there could have been much more evolution in the character arcs :) Thank you for the vid and for reigniting my nostalgia for this gem!

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      Thanks so much for watching!! Honestly, with Ubisoft in current state, I’d much rather they left the series alone. I don’t trust modern Ubisoft to make a good Splinter Cell game

    • @ShadowSpy666
      @ShadowSpy666 Рік тому

      @@thesummerofmark I don't trust Ubisoft either, I would "die" to get a messy and buggy splinter cell game...but don't kill my hope, maybe in this 12th hour there is still someone at Ubisoft management / senior level with some brain left and the ability to live up to the standards of this series. Btw, as stated, I reinstalled Chaos Theory as said :) aged like wine

  • @Krahamus
    @Krahamus Рік тому +2

    Loved Chaos Theory one, i would love to see comparison of double agent ps2 version and pc since they are very different games.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      Oh man that’s a can of worms I don’t know if i wanna open hahah

  • @tbsportsgaming
    @tbsportsgaming Рік тому +3

    The best SC for me. still beautiful

  • @mad8598
    @mad8598 Рік тому +1

    Your Dishonored 2 video showed up in my recommendations and I’ve subscribed. I hope the UA-cam algorithm god smiles on your channel soon and you build up more views.
    Also, THANK YOU for recording your own voice overs instead of using text to speech software! It’s so much better to hear a real person’s voice than that uncanny artificial cadence.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for subscribing and for the kind words! Wow I didn’t even know using text to speech was a widespread trend - all the content I watch record their own voice overs

  • @dennissinned6299
    @dennissinned6299 Рік тому

    Beginning of a downtown mission at the 5:40 mark...
    Lambert : Fisher, the National Guard is deployed, be careful with them.
    Fisher : I feel safer already.
    LMAO

  • @TrueGooner1511
    @TrueGooner1511 8 місяців тому

    To answer the title question: ABSOLUTELY 💯

  • @mindofgod1543
    @mindofgod1543 Рік тому

    Played it several days ago. On Expert. With lowest light setting. Still fun.

  • @alexursu5233
    @alexursu5233 Рік тому +8

    Peak of the series, indeed ❤

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 4 місяці тому

    whilst most maps were very linear in its linearity so many different paths to go around were hidden that to this day i keep finding new ones
    and the free climbing in the game creates even more pathways the devs didnt even plan for

  • @irascible5119
    @irascible5119 Рік тому +1

    i was just playing this a couple weeks ago, they actually gave it away on ubisoft connect a couple years ago O _ O ive always favored double agent though. the prison, it has a prison level cmon. cool video. Its Always Summer In Mark. NEXT VIDEO WHEN?

  • @dominic.ovalle
    @dominic.ovalle Рік тому

    And let’s not get started on the coop. What a wholesome experience that was 🙌🏾

  • @Imhighinparisbro
    @Imhighinparisbro 3 дні тому

    I played splinter cell 1, POT, DA, Conviction & Blacklist ( in that order) chaos theory was the only one I didn’t get to play. I finally got to play/beat it last month and sheesh! This was the best one in the series hands down! it’s sad that Ubisoft like the idiots they are didn’t take this series to next level. Chaos theory set a crazy bar all they had to do for the sequels was just turn it up a notch awhile still keeping it the same. Add a few mechanics like the swimming mechanic they added in DA and the smoothness/cover system of conviction. Instead they fucked it all up by having an identity crisis. That’s what happens when you try to rush development and add new people to make your IP instead of keeping the original ones that made it.

  • @arkham666
    @arkham666 Рік тому +4

    Chaos theory is 18 years old. Dude stop making me feel old.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      The first Splinter Cell came out 57 years ago

    • @arkham666
      @arkham666 Рік тому +1

      @@thesummerofmark that's exactly how I remember it too.

    • @BreiiisBreiiis
      @BreiiisBreiiis Рік тому +1

      I got bad news for you...

  • @DarthZombie510
    @DarthZombie510 Рік тому +9

    Trash game, no towers to climb, no feathers to collect... Ubisoft were extremely sloppy with this one!

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +2

      Ubisoft getting lazy smh my head

    • @DarthZombie510
      @DarthZombie510 Рік тому +2

      @@thesummerofmark Sam Fish is my favorite video game character, he's so badass when he stomps all the goombas n shit.
      Where my sam fish nft at, ubisoft? Take my money!

  • @Snare9
    @Snare9 2 місяці тому

    Just revisited MGS 2 (2001), MGS 3 (2004) and SP:CT (2005) and i found crazy, how technicaly advanced and playable SP:CT still is, especially comparing to this two, which feels kind of broken and unplayable (2023 Collection)...

  • @robbyg1232
    @robbyg1232 Рік тому

    its insane how good this game still looks, my only gripe is how linear the missions are in all 3 games they never really expanded it much. But ill happily take scripted levels over the shit we got recently with SC.

  • @cakes2785
    @cakes2785 Рік тому +2

    YES! LETS GO!!!!

  • @FriedPotatoesForLife
    @FriedPotatoesForLife 3 місяці тому

    I played double agent pc version and it was a beautiful realistic experience and I played this game on my modded ps2 with high hopes…
    The first mission was on a cave type area I wanted to skip it bad cause it felt kinda boring after some minutes in, unable to find the ways…
    But I still wanted to proceed to the next mission hoping to see better places with less confusion then comes the second mission
    It was on a ship with lots of rooms and stairs but I still played more than an hour trying to complete it and I did complete the part where you put a tracker inside 6-8 boxes hidden on the ship then the other part was to eliminate a particular target but on the ship I already cleared all the enemies 😂 and I knocked out some enemies without killing them too, and now I have to go search all over the ship once again to find the knocked enemies and kill the target. Lol
    That sucked and that’s when I quit trust me this game is garbage, I’m not dum or something 💀 I tried so hard to search the entire ship carefully lots of doors and doors and stairs after stairs and doors confusing I started sweating and got motion sickness with the urge to puke 😂
    Don’t play this garbage.

  • @LevisH21
    @LevisH21 11 місяців тому

    Ubisoft should start showing us how the remake of the franchise looks like by next year.

  • @recruit7416
    @recruit7416 Рік тому

    Can someone help me? What button do i press when i am looking with the sniper vision to get into computers?

  • @carteljameson8395
    @carteljameson8395 Рік тому +2

    No less than a masterpiece and the greatest stealth game ever made. Says a lot that MGS3 came out a few months before and Chaos Theory thoroughly outclasses it.
    As for Pandora Tomorrow, tbh, I still play these games on an Xbox. Just a modern one. Getting some old games to run on PC is a hassle sometimes and the Splinter Cell series is no exception. So just booting them up on an Xbox One or Series console is just incredibly convenient for me. Sure, it's not 60fps but these are slow paced games to begin with, so it's not exactly a deal breaker. Also, when you get to Double Agent, I highly recommend playing the OG Xbox version of it as it is the best version and the PC port is the 360 version of DA.
    Can't wait for your video on Blacklist though. It doesn't have Ironside as Sam Fisher but it's still the second best game in the series. Extremely underrated.

  • @septic07
    @septic07 Рік тому

    Hello, could you please tell me what the song in the first few seconds of your video is? Is that from Chaos Theory?

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      Amon Tobin - Battery Theme. And yes, it’s from Chaos Theory

    • @septic07
      @septic07 Рік тому

      thank you very much 🙂@@thesummerofmark

  • @RackTheMilesWelding
    @RackTheMilesWelding Рік тому +1

    Long lived the 2000s

  • @BadGhosts
    @BadGhosts Рік тому +2

    POG

  • @dennissinned6299
    @dennissinned6299 5 місяців тому +1

    What modern stealth games ? What run for their money ? There are only 2 stealth franchises : Splinter Cell 1 -3 and Thief 1 -3 . That's it.

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 4 місяці тому

    you can just kill both factions that are shooting eachother in bathhouse

  • @triscitt
    @triscitt Рік тому +1

    Copped it today for $3. Jesus Christ its so fun

  • @glitchydust4015
    @glitchydust4015 Рік тому

    Seoul is seperated because that this game was not meant to be played on PC as the default console.

  • @johnlynch42069
    @johnlynch42069 Рік тому

    To answer the question, yes!!

  • @denissavgir2881
    @denissavgir2881 6 місяців тому

    Why do you think that computers beeping and booping is immersive? When I'm around computers, even if it's thousands of them in a datacenter, I never hear any such beeping and booping

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  6 місяців тому

      Because of aesthetics, basically. If I’m sneaking through a data center in a game, I subconsciously expect a certain soundscape to complement the experience. The more textured said soundscape is, the more “absorbed” into the world I feel. Hope my explanation makes sense!

  • @nimrod789
    @nimrod789 Рік тому +9

    splinter cell > metal gear solid

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +4

      I’ve never played MGS, that series wasn’t really a thing in my country growing up. Should i?

    • @nimrod789
      @nimrod789 Рік тому +1

      @@thesummerofmark nope

    • @xCobraCommanderx
      @xCobraCommanderx 5 місяців тому +2

      @@thesummerofmarkdefinitely give the original 3 games a try. They are really great games for their generation.

    • @MINITANK24
      @MINITANK24 5 місяців тому

      ​@@thesummerofmark you should definitely give the MGS games a try they're outlandish and silly but fun

  • @average_jojo_enjoyer01
    @average_jojo_enjoyer01 Рік тому +5

    am gasit pe ce sa lucrez la bac

  • @sj-30000
    @sj-30000 Рік тому

    When did fisher ever smile?

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. Is it about something that I said in the video?

    • @sj-30000
      @sj-30000 Рік тому

      @@thesummerofmark
      It's on the thumbnail 🤷🏻‍♂️
      Anyway, there's no reason why they couldn't put all the splinter cells on the premium subscription.
      They've got Syphon filters on there, so there's no excuse. 😐

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      @@sj-30000 oh gotcha. It’s just Chad photoshopped over Sam Fisher haha

  • @KB8Killa
    @KB8Killa Рік тому

    I’ll save y’all some time. YES

  • @theduck2970
    @theduck2970 Рік тому

    Yes, because not only is it still the best Splinter Cell game, it's one of the greatest in the genre. And that only makes the fact that Ubisoft dropped the ball even worse. How do you have such proof of what makes a game so memorable and great only to blow it all?
    Rhetorical question, to be honest. We all know it has to do with money.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому +1

      I don’t think we’ll ever see a classic Splinter Cell game. Not from this Ubisoft

  • @Jaxever
    @Jaxever 5 місяців тому

    Yeah it is

  • @Bale4Bond
    @Bale4Bond 2 місяці тому

    Fird person stealth game

  • @MikoMikoMikoMiko
    @MikoMikoMikoMiko Рік тому

    KIA's fury

  • @pintadocachorrao
    @pintadocachorrao Рік тому

    yes, next question

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      Favorite pizza?

    • @pintadocachorrao
      @pintadocachorrao Рік тому

      @@thesummerofmark peperoni, next question

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  Рік тому

      @@pintadocachorrao good choice. Favorite rapper?

    • @pintadocachorrao
      @pintadocachorrao Рік тому

      @@thesummerofmark I don't usually listen to rap, but if I had to choose a rapper I would probably choose Snoop Dog, next question

  • @DJWoozie
    @DJWoozie 11 місяців тому

    RAPPER LIST GOT ME HOOKED

  • @BluesFanUK_
    @BluesFanUK_ 9 місяців тому

    In the era of remakes - how the feck have the Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia games but been given a respectable do-over? Ubisoft are too busy rehashing the same shitty Assassin's Creed game to do it.

    • @thesummerofmark
      @thesummerofmark  9 місяців тому

      As sad as it is, I think we should all come to terms with the fact that the Ubisoft of today is a fundamentally different Ubisoft than the one from the 2000s 😭 They were so great once upon a time

  • @fightingforce8498
    @fightingforce8498 Рік тому

    Bank stage 😂😂

  • @TonyfromTO
    @TonyfromTO Рік тому

    Splinter cell and kotor was the height of gaming.

  • @omaewamoshindeiru616
    @omaewamoshindeiru616 Рік тому +1

    my favourite in the series for sure