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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is an action-adventure video game with heavy emphasis on stealth. It is part of the Splinter Cell series and was released for the PlayStation Portable handheld system. It…

50 6 April 2006

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 6 April 2006 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2006. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable only. It runs on Unreal Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is an action-adventure video game with heavy emphasis on stealth. It is part of the Splinter Cell series and was released for the PlayStation Portable handheld system. It was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft on March 21, 2006 in North America. It is the fourth entry in the series and was powered by Unreal Engine 2.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Tom Clancy’s series

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is the 34th of 108 entries we hold in the Tom Clancy’s series. The next entry was Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent in 2006. Its critic score of 50 is 20 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint - Red Patriot at 96.

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How it was received

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials launched on 6 April 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Ōkami and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Ōkami, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All.

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When did Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials come out?
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials was released on 6 April 2006 for PlayStation Portable.

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