Enemy AI will certainly seem generic by modern standards, but at the time, Chaos Theory's manipulative gameplay experience was (and to an extent still is) unparalleled. If there was one Splinter Cell game to play definitively, it'd be Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

Standout missions like the Bank and Battery emphasize the best moments of stealth sandboxes throughout all Splinter Cell games. Gameplay-wise Chaos Theory made things far more open-ended over Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, with different objectives and maps playing out more like puzzles than linear stages. The game's relatively complex, information warfare conflict between warring nations and organizations is still one of the most nuanced and interesting storylines in Splinter Cell. Even if the game is aesthetically dated by modern standards, the lighting system and stealth mechanics are still the most refined in Chaos Theory. Read on to see screenshots of the game in development and see the video series on Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Longtime fans of Splinter Cell likely won't be surprised to find that Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is still the franchise at its best. Combined with full motion and facial capture, Ubisoft used a pipeline including 3ds Max and MotionBuilder to ensure that the game’s characters move fluidly no matter how acrobatic the player wants to be.

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