8 Things We Dearly Miss About The Original Splinter Cell Trilogy
5. Infiltrating The Train
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is the black sheep of the trilogy. Not every step it makes is in the right direction, but many are. One of its biggest strengths is the set-piece mission "Runaway Train".
You're tasked with contacting a possible defector, in the hope of finding out any information, from the latest terrorists to threaten Uncle Sam. You're then dropped by helicopter onto a moving train... because how else would you get on board.
It's a short mission but one that's set on a premise so unique you can't help remembering it fondly. The level has some great highlights: for example, shimmying along a pipe underneath carriages and clambering along the side of the train as another passes.
The danger and staggering creativity here will pull you further into the game, so much so that it makes for one of the more impactful and immersive stealth missions you'll ever play.
You're extracted on the roof by an Osprey stealth helicopter, before you reach the next station, which is the perfect cherry on the cake.