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WARNING to all CDRW drive owners

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 27 / 37
Date: March 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Just a friendly warning to all CDR/CDRW/DVDR/DVDRW drive owners. UBI Soft as a "feature" on their PC software that prevents installation from any drive with write capacity. Why they feel that will slow down a game cracker, and why they don't mind blowing off an entire segment of the market, is entirely beyond me, but that's not the point here. Call UBI Soft tech support BEFORE buying this or any other PC game from them, and check to make sure whether or not you will be able to install. Software (such as Chessmaster 9000, just to grab a random example) doesn't come with a warning on the box (in "some" cases, they claim -- I haven't found a single box that does), nor is there a warning on the Amazon product pages (short of reviews like this). One could speculate that they're perfectly happy to let people buy their software knowing some won't be able to install it, but I'll leave their motivation to give no warning to consumers to your imagination.

UBI Soft's tech support has said that this "feature" extends to *all* of their PC titles. So fair warning, particularly to folks with laptops where DVD/CDRW drives came standard, ask before you buy. Perhaps if enough people have a problem with this flawed policy, UBI will smarten up. "Flawed" because limiting installs to drives without write capacity isn't going to slow a determined game cracker/pirate down, it's only going to prevent normal consumers from being able to install the game. Worse, they don't find out until they've opened the package and tried to install, which in some cases is enough to prevent a return and refund from the seller.

I'm certain this game deserves more than 1 star, and suspect it will see some good reviews from people who are able to install, but I can't give it more than a single. That's a commentary on UBI Soft and their "feature", not about the game itself. In fact, when I get around to writing a review of the XBox version, it may well merit a 5-star rating.

CDRW issues?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: June 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the reviewers that have had problems with the copy protection. I just installed the game, and when I tried to run it, got a message saying something like "Please disable CD/DVD emulation software and restart the game." Well.. I DID have Virtual CloneDrive running, and I use it for 100% non-piracy purposes. I quit that app, then reran SC:PT a few times and got the same results. SO THE GAME DOESN'T RUN, and I have no emulation software running.

This is extremely bad form for a game, and I'm tempted to just ask for a refund instead of trying to work around the problem. How could they do this crap to their paying customers? DON'T BUY THIS GAME. We should be protesting poorly-tested copy protection schemes (which are always going to be cracked anyway). After paying $$ for a game, I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS LIKE THIS.

Don't buy this until a good patch comes out!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this because I really enjoyed the first Splinter Cell. I was hoping it'd just be the same as before, with the multiplayer incorporated smoothly. I discovered to my disgust that this is a piece of crap. After I installed, I tried to set it up to play. Appearently it doesn't like my drivers I have for my Radeon 9800. So I rolled back to the ones it said were working. Bull ****! Those didn't work either. I install the patch, and I get horrid frame rate, plus the graphics are completely distorted! I have a rainbow color about an inch thick running around my whole monitor when I play! It is so distracting I can't even play it. So I fire up the multiplayer. Absolute crap. Horrid framerate, same bad graphics, aweful sound, the works!

So I uninstall it, planning to return it. I then discover that it's anti-copying scheme screwed up my virtual cd drive software. It blocked the program from making virtual drives just because Ubi Soft was afraid someone would copy it and pass it around on the net. Yet they can still do that anyways! All it does is block law-abiding citizens from using legally purchased software.

I managed to fix their problem, yet I refuse to install their software again until they fix this game and promise not to add this anti-copying crap to other games.

ZERO, ZILCH, NADA LAPTOP SUPPORT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are buying this for your laptop, DON'T. I walked into a retail store and picked up a few games. This one was one that DID NOT MENTION anything about no laptop support on the box. I bought it and opened the box only to read in the instructions INSIDE that it did not support some laptop chipsets. Boy, did my opinion of UBISOFT just go down. I installed it anyways in hopes of still salvaging the software, but was met with a notification that I didn't meet the requirements. Hrumph, big surprise. Nevertheless, it doesn't work on a laptop, so don't buy it if you are in hopes of that.

Don't give UBI any of your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: May 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think everyone should boycott this company and force them to rethink their bull**** idea that a customer who purchased a legitimate copy of their game cannot run the game because of other virtual drive software on their machine (ie. alcohol 120%). There is no way I will give $50 to this f'd up company.

Be Careful!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Be careful when you buy this. Your video card has to supprt pixal shading. I bought a DELL less than a year ago and my video card is not good enough. Make sure you check if your card is on the supported video card list. Otherwise, you'll spend 40 bucks on something you can't use.

Wasted $

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Just blew $35 on Far Cry and Pandora Tomorrow ... no more purchases from UBI Software ... guess we all have to install regular CD drives to play this company's games ... well, I'm physically disabled and not going to pay $50 for some to install a $20 part to play a $20 game(... one company's games) ... so many decent games out there(FPS/RPG/RTS), I'm not jumping through hoops to play anyones game ... if it doesn't work on my system, as it is, I'll pass - I have no copy software, just one basic CD-RW drive that came with my computer ... I hope UBI Software take a nice revenue hit for this bs anti-piracy nonsense

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all if you do not have ahigh end system this game WILL NOT WORK even with the patchs installed.Second i loaded this game on a $5,000 AlienWare system and still it took me TWO DAYS to get it up and running.
O.K. the game play and graphics are nothing special and the game play is so LINEAR that if you do not do the exact thing at exactly the right time you will get detected or killed.Case in point on the Paris train mission if you move too fast and do not go with the programming pace you will have to repeat and repeat the same thing over and over.
This game was $40.00 wasted thanks Ubi-Soft,and all those good reviews are probably UBi-Soft employees.Talk to your friends and check the websites this game is 90% bugged.

Never would install.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Never could get this to install even after changing the DVDR drive for a DVDrom drive. UBIsoft needs to get it's act together. It is no good alienating paying customers to stop copying by others. If you pay for a product it should work.

No Star Review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. For one thing it does not even come with a reference book for installing and installing issues. I like some of the other consummers purchased this game in good faith thinking that a computer less than a year old with a high end video card (when purchased) would be able to run it. BUT after installing it and uninstalling it and then installing it again, and after making the upgrade as suggested for their video links this game still would not run. Even after going to UBI's support page and doing all of the suggested fixes still no GAME PLAYING!
So, I then went to my final resouce and called UBI in person and there I was told that the game would not work on a less than a year old video card and that I was pretty much of of the $40 spent on this nothing game. So in my words UBI is making money while we are lossing!!! Thanks, but no more games from your company UBI!

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