OT: Amon Tobin and Splinter Cell 3

tinkthank · #1 January 20th, 2005, 10:45 AM

You folks helped me out a few months ago with RPG games, I thought I would ask this here:

There is an excellent musician whom I really like, Amon Tobin aka Cujo (mostly does Acid Jazz, Trip Hop, Intelligent D&B), perhaps one of the best artists in this field, and I was hoping to find out when a new album of his was due out, and I read in one music magazine that his next one in 2005 is a soundtrack for a computer game. Googling gave me Splinter Cell 3, and Amon Tobin indeed has written the "soundtrack" for it. It isnt out yet, but from what I gather, it is an FPS kind of game.
If Tobin was given free reign, the music will surely be good. But what is this game about? Do you think it is recommendable? I dont really dig FPSs, is it a hybrid of some sort?
Thanks much

deccan · #2 January 20th, 2005, 09:04 PM

Splinter Cell is a sneak game. You play an NSA operative who sneaks around trying to accomplish mission objectives. You usually can't kill people, but you have a large variety of ways to knock people out and cart them unconscious bodies out of sight.

I found SC1 to be cool, but SC2 felt repetitive to me. SC2's story also sucked.

tinkthank · #3 January 21st, 2005, 09:25 AM

Hey thanks very much. Sneaking and not killing sounds good. I liked Thief II a lot, one of my all time Favorites.
Maybe I will check the soundtrack out first. It comes out on Ninja Tunes, an exceptionally good label (well, the label Cujo normally publishes with). Thanks much.

bax · #4 February 10th, 2005, 04:43 PM

The album is out now and it's amazing. I can't wait to check out the game. My friend downloaded some sample of it awhile ago, and well, it got me. I went out and bought it. In fact, I've got it playing right now. Forget about it being a game soundtrack, as an album it's currently my favorite. It'll be cool to see how it works in soundtrack format. I think you can hear or some of it on the ninja tune site, but I don't remember the link right now. It's definately worth checking out

tinkthank · #5 February 11th, 2005, 06:04 AM

Hey thanks -- is it as good as Bricolage? Well I'll be sure to check it out soon. Thanks.