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Hello, and welcome to the first episode of New High-Score. Today we'll look at Splinter Cell and what it has in common with real life even. I should mention that there are a bit of spoilers

So from what I can gather, Sam Fischer works for a spy agency in the USA, starting with the NSA. The first game starting with saving the lives of two government operatives who went missing and are in Georgia, Russia. What we have going on here is the stereotypical America vs. Russia espionage. But why does this stereotype even exist in the first place? Haven't you wondered that? As of lately, there've been a lot of America vs. Russia and espionage scenarios.

Well this all starts back in about the 1920s. Soviet Russia was spying on USA military and industry, focusing mainly on aircraft and munitions (ammunition) industries, and also penetrating what's basically the USA systems and departments of defense, such as the United States Department of State (which is responsible of foreign affairs) and the United States Department of War which no longer exists actually. It dissolved into three other agencies, each one responsible for either land, water, or air military units, and thus forming together to make the United States Department of Defense.

To sum up the 20th century (concerning the USA and Soviet Russia) it was a negative one. Soviet Russia was just about the complete opposite of the USA. One forming around democracy and republicanism and capitalism, the other with communism and socialism. Even during WWII when the USA and the Soviet Union were allies, the relationship was still complicated. Stalin wasn't very trusting of the USA or Britain, and after WWII Russian spies managed to steal the blueprints for the nuclear bomb and created their own, kicking off the Cold War.

Now we jump to the future a bit, where there's a spy agency called the Third Echelon. The president of the USA (Pres. Caldwell) wants to shut down that agency. However the director of the Third Echelon, Tom Reed, wants none of that. He plans to assassinate the president. This isn't so much different from today. There have been countless attempts on assassinating the president* on just about every modern president, excluding two or three since Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln (yes, an attempt was put on Lincoln, but obviously only one was successful). For example, at least two letters were sent to President Barack Obama that were laced with a very poisonous substance. It would just be easier if you read them all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mpts_and_plots

In the latest Splinter Cell game in the series (Splinter Cell: Black List), Sam Fischer goes up against a terrorist organization, stationed in the Middle East. It's Sam's and Sam's Team's job to counter these terrorist plots to do increasingly strong attacks against the USA. I don't need to tell you what this is connecting to, do I?

So what have we learned today? Today we learned about political and military relationships with Russia, learned about past presidents, and learn that Splinter Cell really revolves around geopolitical relationships, and even internal political relationships. So I propose a good way of predicting the new Splinter Cell games is to just watch the news and make your predictions.

Now, we just got a New High-Score. Thanks for reading.