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07-21-2003, 08:10 PM
I think that I have now got enough information to make a guess about this game that actually has a reasonable chance of being true. Before, I was gathering information, which is why I have not posted any messages in a long time. I believe that before one speaks or writes something down, one should think carefully.
For anyone who does not know, there are more than 3 screen shots of this game. I have found eight more besides the original three.
Based on what I have seen, I notice the following things: Fisher is shown wearing the short-sleeved version of his rig (which lead character artist Martin Caya calls "The Cloak".) Fisher wears this version when it is hot. For example he wore it in Myannmar (formerly Burma). He is wearing green jungle camoflauge grease paint on his face and lower arms. Also note the type of foliage seen in one of the pictures. Taken together, all of this strongly suggests, without neccesarily proving, that part of the game takes place in a jungle location. I cannot say categorically that it is not possibly a place in Africa (for example the Congo River Basin). But I would say it is more probable than not that the location is somewhere in South or Central America. We know that Clancy is interested in the interplay of bad things in that area. We know, in particular, that Clancy is interested in drug intrigues (ref. Clear and Present Danger). We know from the new book he is writing, The Teeth of the Tiger," that he is also interested the posibly of cooperation between drug trafficers in that area and Middle Eastern terrorist groups, because both want to humble the U.S. and show that we are weak and have no power to interfere with them. Also, when there is danger, those who have common enemies may wish to become friends.
We also know that it would not be so weird for this game to mention something in South or Central America even though Clancy has already done that. After all, the first Splinter Cells mentions things in Georgia even though Ghost Recon had already done that.
The last thing to support this is, that somewhere I have heard a report of an old-style former Soviet submarine having been bought by one of the drug cartels in real life. This is actually not as far-fetched as it seems, if the sumarine were old and likely small and perhaps deisel rather than nuclear, and certainly not a missle submarine. Perhaps, in real life, the plan was/is to use the submarine for smuggling, to drop off shipments? The cartels have MUCH, MUCH, MUCH money -- hundreds of billions at least. The shipments might be quite large, to make it cost-effective to use the submarine. And in the additional screenshots I have, there is one from a cutscene. It shows an enourmous submarine inside a pen, which looks like a missle submarine, possibly a Typhoon. My question is, what if in this game the premise is that in the future one of the cartels or a group of the cartels decides that it does not want to just buy a small submarine. What if, instead, they decide.
For anyone who does not know, there are more than 3 screen shots of this game. I have found eight more besides the original three.
Based on what I have seen, I notice the following things: Fisher is shown wearing the short-sleeved version of his rig (which lead character artist Martin Caya calls "The Cloak".) Fisher wears this version when it is hot. For example he wore it in Myannmar (formerly Burma). He is wearing green jungle camoflauge grease paint on his face and lower arms. Also note the type of foliage seen in one of the pictures. Taken together, all of this strongly suggests, without neccesarily proving, that part of the game takes place in a jungle location. I cannot say categorically that it is not possibly a place in Africa (for example the Congo River Basin). But I would say it is more probable than not that the location is somewhere in South or Central America. We know that Clancy is interested in the interplay of bad things in that area. We know, in particular, that Clancy is interested in drug intrigues (ref. Clear and Present Danger). We know from the new book he is writing, The Teeth of the Tiger," that he is also interested the posibly of cooperation between drug trafficers in that area and Middle Eastern terrorist groups, because both want to humble the U.S. and show that we are weak and have no power to interfere with them. Also, when there is danger, those who have common enemies may wish to become friends.
We also know that it would not be so weird for this game to mention something in South or Central America even though Clancy has already done that. After all, the first Splinter Cells mentions things in Georgia even though Ghost Recon had already done that.
The last thing to support this is, that somewhere I have heard a report of an old-style former Soviet submarine having been bought by one of the drug cartels in real life. This is actually not as far-fetched as it seems, if the sumarine were old and likely small and perhaps deisel rather than nuclear, and certainly not a missle submarine. Perhaps, in real life, the plan was/is to use the submarine for smuggling, to drop off shipments? The cartels have MUCH, MUCH, MUCH money -- hundreds of billions at least. The shipments might be quite large, to make it cost-effective to use the submarine. And in the additional screenshots I have, there is one from a cutscene. It shows an enourmous submarine inside a pen, which looks like a missle submarine, possibly a Typhoon. My question is, what if in this game the premise is that in the future one of the cartels or a group of the cartels decides that it does not want to just buy a small submarine. What if, instead, they decide.