Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater vs Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a prequel to the series, and a simply stunning game where you are thrust into the cold war, and the Russian jungles on a mission to stop a nuclear war. A crazed faction has split from the Russian government and they have access to nukes, you must infiltrate their base in the wilderness and stop them. With the aid of some of your closest allies, and an inventive story full of action you have a stunning ride ahead of you.One of the most critically acclaimed games, this has to be one of the most interesting to play, and a brilliant game in the series. Here you have a new stealth mechanic, older versions of the technology form the other games and all the drama and advanced stealth tactics you could wish for. A brilliant game with a story that grips you from the very beginning, you are in for a stunning ride.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the latest game under the Splinter Cell franchise and it is possibly the best one yet. As opposed to the more disappointing Conviction, Blacklist manages to combine the best of both the original and Conviction titles and added in all the features that players have complained the sequel lacked, including actual stealth-based gameplay where you can avoid an enemy instead of forcing you to engage him, as well as performing non-lethal takedowns.As usual, you'll have access to an arsenal of impressive gadgets which does make your job a whole lot easier, but this time around, certain unique enemies are able to counter your devices, forcing you to come up with new alternative plans rather than simply sticking to the "distract-and-take out" routine. This is very unlike Conviction where the gadgets had made the game too easy.
The storyline is also pretty good since the protagonist, Sam Fisher, now has free reign to do what it takes to take down a group of terrorists called The Engineers and their ultimate terror attack plan to launch escalating attacks on US interests around the world, codenamed Blacklist. Your mission? Flush out their leader and take him down.
Aside fromt he campaing, the game has cooperative missions that you can play with friends online as well. However, the servers have long since been taken down and thus, you either have to play those coop missions alone - it's possible, thankfully - or you can try LAN.