When Microsoft announced at E3 that their backward compatibility program would extend right right to their original Xbox console it’s likely a few people might ask “why bother?”. After all, the console ran a distant second place to Sony’s PlayStation 2 and was quickly put to pasture in […]
It seemed that with Metal Gear Solid (1998) and its sequel (2001) Konami had the third person stealth genre to themselves. However Ubisoft would soon step in with their take and give the house that Kojima built some real competition. Using the military and espionage themes of author […]
On release, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell brought a new angle to military franchises with its combination of stealth gameplay and gadgets. It was true “tactical espionage action” where Metal Gear Solid only talked about it (a lot). Considered the high point of the series was Chaos Theory which […]