Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Splinter Cell Blacklist builds on the stealth roots of the franchise, while exploring new directions to embrace the realms of action and adventure. Players can define their personal play styles and be rewarded…
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Toronto, released 20 August 2013 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 22 hrs to finish.
What Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Toronto and released in 2013. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LEAD Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world. Some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist – a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on US interests at home and abroad. Sam is back in his ops suit and goggles, and he’s more lethal and agile than ever. Granted the freedom to do whatever it takes to stop the Blacklist, Sam flies from exotic locales to US cities as he races against the clock to find out who’s behind this devastating threat.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 28 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the 55th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. It arrived a year after Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Digital Deluxe Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 78 is 8 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.
How it was received
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 355 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 22 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 148 hrs, roughly 6.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.53 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E6400 or 2.80 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+ or better, 2 GB RAM and 512 MB DirectX® 10–compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist launched on 20 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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