Post by Kristov on Jan 10, 2005 22:16:21 GMT -5
Okay...
my brother got this book for Christmas. While it is based off of the popular Ubisoft action series, somehow it manages to stay different.
It follows the exploits of Sam Fisher. Fisher lives in Maryland, and is an international ball-bearing salesman. He has one daughter, Sarah, in college. His wife died several years ago of cancer. Fisher is somewhat antisocial, rarely ever leaving the house, doing business from his home office. If he wants movies or CDs, he orders them from the Internet. He cooks for himself and only leaves the house to go to the martial arts studio nearby, where the attractive instructor seems to have a thing for him but he can't reciprocate. Fisher is living an uninteresting, bland existence.
Or so it seems. Fisher is actually a Splinter Cell, a one-man army employed by the NSA. He is invisible, sharp, and deadly. And he gets the job done perfectly.
Two fellow Splinter Cells are mysteriously assassinated, which is strange, since nobody is supposed to know who the Splinter Cells are. To prevent a nightmare in the intelligence community, Fisher is deployed to Iraq to gather intelligence and hopefully solve the problem. But somebody has it out for Sam Fisher, and now that his daughter is vacationing in Jerusalem, they know which strings to tug...
The idea was created by Tom Clancy but the book was written by David Michaels. "Who the hell is that?" you might ask. Michaels, like Fisher, is not who he appears to be. David Michaels is actually Raymond Benson, a spectacular author best known for writing many James Bond novels and movie adaptations after the death of Ian Fleming.
Splinter Cell, unlike the games, does not solely focus on the missions, the action. Rather, it builds story using things not found in the game. Fisher's relationship with his Krav Maga instructor is hilarious when read, his very American existence in Maryland is also funny, and his attitude towards everything is very entertaining, like his response to being deployed in Iraq.
"Iraq. S**t."
But the action creates a differnt mood. Of course, there's the stealth action we all know from the games. But then there are other parts a game wouldn't have, like when Sam is chased, under cover of an Interpol officer, by men wielding powerful rifles. A great part, that echoes in people's minds today, is when he is captured by the baddies and, to make it look like a regular terrorist killing, is prepared to be beheaded on tape. I won't say what happens.
If anybody interested sees this book, get it. It's more than any of the games can offer.
my brother got this book for Christmas. While it is based off of the popular Ubisoft action series, somehow it manages to stay different.
It follows the exploits of Sam Fisher. Fisher lives in Maryland, and is an international ball-bearing salesman. He has one daughter, Sarah, in college. His wife died several years ago of cancer. Fisher is somewhat antisocial, rarely ever leaving the house, doing business from his home office. If he wants movies or CDs, he orders them from the Internet. He cooks for himself and only leaves the house to go to the martial arts studio nearby, where the attractive instructor seems to have a thing for him but he can't reciprocate. Fisher is living an uninteresting, bland existence.
Or so it seems. Fisher is actually a Splinter Cell, a one-man army employed by the NSA. He is invisible, sharp, and deadly. And he gets the job done perfectly.
Two fellow Splinter Cells are mysteriously assassinated, which is strange, since nobody is supposed to know who the Splinter Cells are. To prevent a nightmare in the intelligence community, Fisher is deployed to Iraq to gather intelligence and hopefully solve the problem. But somebody has it out for Sam Fisher, and now that his daughter is vacationing in Jerusalem, they know which strings to tug...
The idea was created by Tom Clancy but the book was written by David Michaels. "Who the hell is that?" you might ask. Michaels, like Fisher, is not who he appears to be. David Michaels is actually Raymond Benson, a spectacular author best known for writing many James Bond novels and movie adaptations after the death of Ian Fleming.
Splinter Cell, unlike the games, does not solely focus on the missions, the action. Rather, it builds story using things not found in the game. Fisher's relationship with his Krav Maga instructor is hilarious when read, his very American existence in Maryland is also funny, and his attitude towards everything is very entertaining, like his response to being deployed in Iraq.
"Iraq. S**t."
But the action creates a differnt mood. Of course, there's the stealth action we all know from the games. But then there are other parts a game wouldn't have, like when Sam is chased, under cover of an Interpol officer, by men wielding powerful rifles. A great part, that echoes in people's minds today, is when he is captured by the baddies and, to make it look like a regular terrorist killing, is prepared to be beheaded on tape. I won't say what happens.
If anybody interested sees this book, get it. It's more than any of the games can offer.
