Splinter Cell

Covert infiltration specialist

Splinter Cell is a stealth video game franchise featuring covert operative Sam Fisher, who works for a fictional NSA black-ops division.

The name comes from the concept of small, deniable units that can be disavowed if caught.

By extension, a splinter cell is any small, autonomous group operating secretly within a larger organization: The agency deployed splinter cells across hostile territory.

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black ops · Tom Clancy · covert · espionage · triple agent · night vision goggles · goggles · night vision · operative · sneak · silenced · NSA · Ubisoft · tactical · darkness · extraction · mission · surveillance

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operational scale

Splinter CellRainbow Six

Military tactical shooter series

Call of Duty · Battlefield · SWAT · platoon · fireteam

stealth approach

Splinter CellDOOM

Seminal nineties shooter franchise

run-and-gun · Call of Duty · Rambo · guns blazing · frontal assault

visibility/detection

Splinter Cellpublic figure

Prominent, widely recognized person

conventional warfare · shock troops

Family

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Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13