Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

A foundational (but frustrating) stealth gem.

Stealth game. They get a 0. Well this one does anyways because you just want to shoot bad guys.

Hasn't aged as well as some of the other entries in the series, but man, do I love this franchise, I read all the books in middle school and I wanted to be a spy so bad at age 11

A solid game but one that's comparatively rigid to its sequels. levels are linear where in many cases you only have one solution for obstacles and they're not always enthralling. There's also annoying crap like where you always have to hide bodies because they're scripted to be found later and trigger alarms regardless of whether or not there's a guard routine in that trajectory. Despite this, the game still does some neat things with sound and light design so it's far from horrible.