Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher Goes Bookworm

Prophetus · 14th Jan 2005, 02:35 PM

Well, seems the video game, Splinter Cell, metamorphorsed into literary success as one of the New York Times Top 10 books. The game's character, Sam Fisher, is transported from the computer screen to old fashion paper by author David Michaels.

In this day and age when reading consists of cannibalized english for IRC chats, forum posts, and web sites mispelling Tsunami, its refreshing to receive a good reason to actually read the old fashion way. However, for those of you who refuse to read from paper, UBI Soft is currently negotiating with Hollywood executives for a movie based on the game.

dub · 14th Jan 2005, 03:23 PM

Is'nt splinter cell a tom clancy "thing"... himself an author?

Deep Qantas · 14th Jan 2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by |dub|

Is'nt splinter cell a tom clancy "thing"... himself an author?

Nah. Tom Clancy is a fictional character.

Black_Seeds · 14th Jan 2005, 07:57 PM

:S im going to hope that ur kidding, as Tom Clancy is indeed a writer, although he didnt write books for either Splinter Cell or Ghost Recon, but he helps design the games

Prophetus · 14th Jan 2005, 10:17 PM

Although the game is under Tom Clancy's name, and he did author several books that spawned these games, he has no connection to this particular series of books.

TossMonkey · 15th Jan 2005, 07:53 PM

Cue the confusion.

As for the movies, well since Michael Ironside is the voice of Sam I wouldn't expect anything less than a dubbed version. In the same way that Viggo Mortissen does the voice for Master Chief I think a movie would be wrong if his voice wasn't in it.

enfestid · 15th Jan 2005, 10:23 PM

Are you joking, or being serious?

http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1091994/

Mas · 16th Jan 2005, 07:15 AM

On the subject of Tom Clancy, I got his Rainbow Six book for christmas, and i must say its a great read. Has anyone else read any of his other books?

The Swan Mocker · 16th Jan 2005, 10:08 AM

I got Rainbow Six for Christmas too. Haven't read it yet though too much other crap to read through first(currently reading the Video Game Theory Reader)

14th Jan 2005, 02:35 PM	#1
Prophetus Old Fart Join Date: Dec. 4th, 1999 Location: ...standing behind you... Posts: 3,093	Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher Goes Bookworm Well, seems the video game, Splinter Cell, metamorphorsed into literary success as one of the New York Times Top 10 books. The game's character, Sam Fisher, is transported from the computer screen to old fashion paper by author David Michaels. In this day and age when reading consists of cannibalized english for IRC chats, forum posts, and web sites mispelling Tsunami, its refreshing to receive a good reason to actually read the old fashion way. However, for those of you who refuse to read from paper, UBI Soft is currently negotiating with Hollywood executives for a movie based on the game. __________________ Logic separates us from animals. Reasoning by emotion makes you an idiot.

14th Jan 2005, 10:17 PM	#5
Prophetus Old Fart Join Date: Dec. 4th, 1999 Location: ...standing behind you... Posts: 3,093	Although the game is under Tom Clancy's name, and he did author several books that spawned these games, he has no connection to this particular series of books. __________________ Logic separates us from animals. Reasoning by emotion makes you an idiot.

15th Jan 2005, 07:53 PM	#6
TossMonkey brown bread? Join Date: Sep. 4th, 2001 Location: Great Britain. Posts: 6,098	Cue the confusion. As for the movies, well since Michael Ironside is the voice of Sam I wouldn't expect anything less than a dubbed version. In the same way that Viggo Mortissen does the voice for Master Chief I think a movie would be wrong if his voice wasn't in it. __________________ All those moments will be lost, like tears in the rain. Time to die. PSN: Fifth-Elephant Quakelive: FifthElephant no good reason

16th Jan 2005, 10:08 AM	#9
The Swan Mocker Twisted Geek Kiddie Join Date: Mar. 24th, 2004 Posts: 28	I got Rainbow Six for Christmas too. Haven't read it yet though too much other crap to read through first(currently reading the Video Game Theory Reader) __________________ Majestic 12

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14th Jan 2005, 03:23 PM	#2
dub ‏ Join Date: Feb. 12th, 2002 Posts: 2,853	Is'nt splinter cell a tom clancy "thing"... himself an author?

14th Jan 2005, 07:57 PM	#4
Black_Seeds Moo Join Date: Nov. 14th, 2004 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 607	:S im going to hope that ur kidding, as Tom Clancy is indeed a writer, although he didnt write books for either Splinter Cell or Ghost Recon, but he helps design the games

15th Jan 2005, 10:23 PM	#7
enfestid Registered User Join Date: Sep. 6th, 2003 Location: USA Posts: 617	Are you joking, or being serious? http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1091994/

16th Jan 2005, 07:15 AM	#8
Mas Paul Aka Mas Join Date: Dec. 9th, 2003 Posts: 513	On the subject of Tom Clancy, I got his Rainbow Six book for christmas, and i must say its a great read. Has anyone else read any of his other books?