Splinter Cell: Double Agent Single- And Multiplayer Demos // UPDATE

In the sneaky footsteps of the game's release into stores for the PC this week, Ubisoft now sends along two very distinct demo versions for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent: a single-player one, and - you guessed - a multiplayer one as well, for a grand total of 1.64 GB! Both versions are available for download locally, and here is a tidbit about each of them.

The single-player demo has 850 MB, and it allows you to partially try out one level from the game, called "Okhotsk". (You'd think that for that kind of size you would at least be allowed to play an entire level, not just "partially"...)

The multiplayer demo has 790 MB, and it allows you to try out one map playable in LAN and online. There are Free and Rankings modes available, only one skin per team (spies / upsilon), no bots, only one gadget, no bonus, no coop challenges, no live news. And no single-player of course.

Even if you can deal with these enormous sizes, you're not out of the woods just yet! Just take a look below at the recommended system for playing Splinter Cell: Double Agent:

PC hardware recommended requirements

- Processor: 3500 MHz Pentium IV / AMD or better

- RAM: 1GB RAM

- Video Card: 256MB DirectX9-compliant video card

- Sound Card: DolbyDigital 5.1 and EAX 4.0 compatible

There were no minimum requirements included with the demo notes, but you can take a wild guess if it's going to run well on your system, before choking up your bandwith.

UPDATE: Tz, tz, tz... It's been a while since I've seen so much lazyness, as there is stuffed inside Ubisoft's Shanghai studio (the one that is said to have ported Double Agent from Xbox 360 to PC). Are you sitting down? Splinter Cell: Double Agent requires a graphics card with Shader Model 3.0 support. If you don't have one, tough luck! And it's likely that you don't, since only about a quarter of gamers have a graphics card that supports SM 3.0 - while the other three quarters are left completely outside by the new Splinter Cell PC game. In case you're already boiling with rage after reading these lines, I suggest you take that rage and unleash it in this topic from Ubi's forums.

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