In fact, that's the spy's sole objective. Stealth is naturally the name of the game when you play as a spy, especially since your adversaries are toting assault rifles. With spies crawling over each level in an effort to hack computers and steal data, it's the mercenary's job to stop them by any means necessary. The mercenary is played through a first-person view, and has access to weaponry and gadgets that will help him eliminate this spy threat. The spy, played from a third-person perspective, possesses great agility, being able to quickly climb most obstacles and crawl through vents. Each team has its own combination of skills in order to help it attain the objectives for each level. Like in Pandora Tomorrow, Double Agent's competitive games feature two teams of three people playing cat and mouse, with one set of spies and one of mercenaries. The multiplayer designers have also focused on making the gameplay as accessible as possible for newcomers, and indeed we were able to jump into both roles-the mercenary and the spy-in the competitive multiplayer mode with ease the first time we tried them. In Double Agent, effort has been made to tighten up the levels for quick 15-minute games, while expanding features to keep hardcore players coming back. However, Ubisoft concedes that previously, the experience online could be frustrating for casual players who were shunned by the hardcore competitive groups. Previous Splinter Cell games have earned acclaim for their multiplayer features, with the excellent co-op mode being a highlight. The single-player mode has been covered in our earlier previews, but we finally got the chance for some hands-on play with the multiplayer side of the game at recent events in London and San Francisco. If you haven't been keeping up, Double Agent sees former government spy Sam Fisher becoming disillusioned with his old employers and turning into a terrorist as a result. But when those fans see what Ubisoft is doing with the multiplayer component in Sam Fisher's next mission (to say nothing of the game's unique new story campaign), we think they'll be glad the developers are taking all the time they need to get it right.
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October 20 to be exact, which is probably disappointing to longtime fans of the stealth-action series who are eager to play its first installment on a next-gen platform. The next game in the Splinter Cell series is now set for release in October.