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7 unusual facts about Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate

Checkmate, like the previous two books, was written under the pseudonym David Michaels, although the previous two books were written by Raymond Benson.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate is a 2006 novel set in the Splinter Cell series and a prequel to the 2005 novel Operation Barracuda.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

For the Generation Seven version, McCann composed all music, except the Main Theme, which was composed by veterans Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan of Sonic Mayhem.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials

Mission 6: United States Penitentiary, U.S.A. Leavenworth, Kansas, November 16, 2008, 20:10 (Double Agent, original level)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue CIA operative, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it inside Los Angeles International Airport.

Sadono initiates a suicide bombing and follow up attack on the U.S. Embassy in Dili, capturing a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel including Douglas Shetland, an old friend and comrade of Fisher.

Dennis Haysbert, at that time best known for his role as David Palmer on the television show 24 is the voice for the character Irving Lambert, Fisher's boss, making this the only time he is not voiced by Don Jordan.


Anshan Teng'ao Airport

In Tom Clancy's novel The Bear and the Dragon, Anshan Air Base is heavily damaged by USAF F-117 stealth fighters to neutralize it in preparation for a raid on a nearby ICBM launch site.

Bodoni

Tom Clancy used Bodoni font for the artwork of all his affiliated works until his novel Dead or Alive.

Charles Rembar

Rembar founded the law firm of Rembar & Curtis, which represented writers such as Louise Erdrich, Tom Clancy, Herman Wouk, and Norman Mailer both as lawyers and often as literary agents as well.

Choplifter

Choplifter is played by U.S. submarine crew members in Tom Clancy's book The Hunt for Red October, and the Sonar man aboard the USS Dallas, Jones, has the high score.

Ed Kealty

Edward "Ed" Kealty is a fictional character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series of novels.

However, in the 2003 Tom Clancy novel The Teeth of the Tiger, Ed Kealty reappears as the US President, seemingly to have been elected after Robby Jackson's assassination, earning the nickname "The Comeback Kid".

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing (1995, ISBN 0-425-14957-9) is a nonfiction book written by Tom Clancy which explores the inner workings of the United States Air Force's 366th Fighter Wing based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

Gordon C. Strachan

In a 1997 interview with Tom Clancy for the video Eye of the Storm, John Ehrlichman stated Strachan "knows a lot, that he's not telling."

Gruppo di Intervento Speciale

The GIS members are present in the movies Sensenfukoku and Angels & Demons; in the videogame Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and in the expansion Athena Sword.

Hellenic Force in Cyprus

In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, the character Kure Galanos is the daughter of an ex-ELDYK sharpshooter.

High Justice

Pournelle's view of corporate mega-projects is similar to that of Robert A. Heinlein as expressed in stories such as The Man Who Sold the Moon, or more recently in the work of Tom Clancy.

Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood

Tom Clancy's video game composer Bill Brown called the Neverhood soundtrack "the Best of any of them video game soundtracks, the only music other than mine that I really like".

Jean Sabbagh

In 1986 Jean Sabbagh, with his knowledge of submarines and the war, collaborated in the translation into French of two books by Tom Clancy: The Hunt for Red October as Octobre rouge, and Red Storm Rising as Tempête rouge.

Krytron

The krytron, incorrectly called a "kryton", also appeared in the Tom Clancy nuclear terrorism novel The Sum of All Fears.

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Tom Clancy partially set his novel The Hunt for Red October in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, and gave the book's protagonist and his family a history of mistreatment at the hands of Great Russians.

Mark 12 nuclear bomb

Though the weapon went out of service in 1962, it resurfaced in a fictional role in Tom Clancy's 1991 book The Sum of All Fears and the 2002 film, where the plot included an Israeli copy of the Mark-12 being lost by accident in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in southern Syria near the Golan Heights, and then recovered by a terrorist organization.

NBC suit

In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, a character may be outfitted with different levels of exposure protection, including half-face respirators and other face masks.

Okno

A complex like Okno features in the Tom Clancy novel The Cardinal of the Kremlin, based on actual satellite photography of the site.

Raoul Felder

Felder has practiced divorce law for more than forty years, and has represented clients such as Rudy Giuliani, Robin Givens, Carol Channing, David Merrick, Riddick Bowe, the former Mrs. Carl Sagan, the former Mrs. Tom Clancy, the former Mrs. Patrick Ewing, and the former Mrs. Martin Scorsese.

Reagan Era

Tom Clancy wrote three best-selling novels that illuminate the Reagan era: The Hunt for Red October (1984), Red Storm Rising (1986), and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988).

Rene L. Moreno

He has also starred in video games, such as Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Ultimate Spider-Man, Call of Duty 2, and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.

Robby Jackson

Robert Jefferson "Robby" Jackson is a fictional character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels.

Rotary Rocket

Ultimately, the company did not attract sufficient funding –even though numerous individuals provided a total of $33 million of support, including writer Tom Clancy).

Shooter game

Notable examples of the genre include Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series and Bohemia Software's Operation Flashpoint.

Softmod

Softmods for Xbox used to include a font exploit installed through exploits in savegame code for MechAssault, Splinter Cell, and 007: Agent Under Fire.

Soviet battlecruiser Kirov

In the Tom Clancy book Red Storm Rising, the ship is part of a Soviet naval task force supporting assault landings in northern Norway.

Supinfogame

Thus, many students and graduates appear in the credits of significant published games like: Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, Crysis 2, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance and so on.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Determined to fight the West and quash dissent among the North Korean populace, Jung attacks some of North Korea's largest cities, such as Sinpo and Hyesan.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

In response, Artemis takes up a profitable contract with Las Trinidad and launches a surprise attack on the United States Navy carrier strike group in the Strait of Magellan.

Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers: Cloak and Dagger

Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers or Net Force Explorers is a series of young adult novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as a spin-off of the military fiction series Tom Clancy's Net Force.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour

Out of 7 total missions, there are 4 missions from the original Rainbow Six, one from Rogue Spear, and one from Rogue Spear: Urban Operations.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Take-Down – Missions in Korea

The game is not based on the Rainbow Six game timeline since the game was not released outside of South Korea and was only made by Kama Digital Entertainment for the South Korean gaming market with major content difference and the game's events on South Korean soil.

Tom Clancy's SSN

SSN is also the title of a board wargame published by Game Designer's Workshop in 1975, and was the first attempt at a serious modern submarine and anti-submarine warfare simulation game published for the entertainment market.

Tom Clancy's The Division

The Division is inspired by Operation Dark Winter and Directive 51, real-world events which "revealed how vulnerable we've become"; society has become "fragile" and "complex".

Ubisoft Red Storm

The company also expanded into turn-based strategy (ruthless.com and Shadow Watch) and military RTS (Force 21).

Tom Clancy and Doug Littlejohns, a British Royal Navy submarine captain, founded Red Storm Entertainment in 1996.

In 2004, Red Storm released Ghost Recon 2, the follow-up to the original game, designed by now Lead Designer Christian Allen.

Zaibatsu

In the Tom Clancy book Debt of Honor, a group of zaibatsu seize control of Japan and invade the US-held Mariana Islands.


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