Cover of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Ubisoft Montreal · 2005

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It's 2007, and Japan's new information warfare force has East Asia on edge as tensions with China and North Korea climb. Sam's first job is to pull computer engineer Bruce Morgenholt out of the hands of Peruvian separatists before his work on the Masse algorithms leaks. The trail runs through a Panamanian freighter, a Manhattan bank and a private military company called Displace International.

Books connected to this game

  • Read afterTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

    Another standalone mission a year on, with Lambert and Grim back in Sam's ear. Nothing carries over from Pandora Tomorrow's plot; release order works.

  • Comes beforeTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

    Set after Chaos Theory, this one changes Sam's life in its opening minutes but doesn't give away the earlier game's plot. Play them in order.

  • Background forTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout

    Another one-off job from the Lambert years, before Double Agent. It shares nothing with Chaos Theory's plot but sits comfortably after it, with the same team running Sam.

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