Splinter Cell: Stealth Walkthrough

This is a video walkthrough of how to complete Splinter Cell completely on the hardest difficulty with no unnecessary detections.

Introduction

Hello everyone. I just finished completing every Splinter Cell game in the franchise with 100% stealth and wanted to share how to do this yourselves. Most of the games feature a few areas where it's impossible to sneak through (forced combat situations), but obviously a majority of these games offer methods for bypassing your enemies completely without ever laying a hand on them.

In this guide, I'll be covering the original Splinter Cell game for the PC. Please do me a favor and drop a like on the youtube videos you watched and used to help you.

01 Police Station

This is the Police Station, the very first Splinter Cell level in the franchise. The level begins with you ziplining into a burning building and locating a valuable asset who has information on two missing NSA agents. You can bypass every single guard in this level. I ended up only knocking out a single guard at the very end who was standing infront of an objective computer and refused to move. You could potentially throw something to get his attention and get him to walk away from his computer, but I didn't want to risk that because of the very limited space.

02 Defense Ministry

The 2nd level in the game is called the Defense Ministry. Your goal is to interrogate Grinko's driver, laser mic a conversation between Grinko and Masse, and then obtain information off of Nikoladzes private computer in his office. This level took a while to complete mainly because of the ending where guards storm into the office and earch for you. I managed to get through this level without knocking out too many guards. There were a few that were required like the retinal scan general and the guard that stands next to his desk, but aside from that, I managed to find a way to bypass most of them.

03 Oil Rig

I never would have thought this level possible to sneak through, but it's one of the few levels in the game where this is even possible. You just need to make some insane runs from cover to cover to avoid being detected. Once the US military starts to attack the oil rig, guards will start shooting, but as long as they don't aim at you, they will not have identified you as an intruder. The only person I needed to knock out in this level was the geek at the very end that was required for the mission.

04 CIA Headquarters

One of the most popular missions in the franchise, the CIA headquarters has you sneaking into one of the most secure buildings in the world. This mission is all about stealth and requires you to sneak from shadow to shadow without killing anyone. I had to knock out a few guards for important reasons like obtaining a keycode from their satchel or securing the end location for extraction, but otherwise, I managed to successfully complete with one without too much of a problem.

05 Kalinatek

One of my favorite levels from this game. Kalinatek offers a good variety for a splinter cell level with a lot of stealth and then a lot of action towards the end. This is one of the first instances of a true "Forced" combat situation. You absolutely can not avoid combat in this level and are forced to either run past enemies who detect you, or neutralize them. Now I ended up neautralizing them with fire extinguishers, sticky shockers, and airfoil rounds. But I did not kill anyone throughout this mission, and I still stealthed through all areas that were possible.

06 Chinese Embassy

This level is pretty straightforward. This is the first level in my series of videos where I managed to complete the level without touching a single guard (Mainly because there's no reason to knock anyone out this time)

07 Abattoir

Omg does this level suck. Easily the most difficult level in the game. The start has you sneaking around a minefield avoiding a spotlight that doesn't render correctly. Then you need to sneak through a meat processing facility with guards that can see straight through smoke. It's an impossibly frustrating level and I can't believe I managed to slip past most of the guards without being detected. There was one casuality in this level at the very beginning when a guard mistakenly blew himself up, but I can't be blamed for that.

There's also another forced action sequence when you reach the hostages and need to protect them. All guards that run into the room need to be knocked out in order to secure the objective. The game will mistakenly claim that Grinko has been killed even if you knock him out. I checked with thermal vision, and Grinko is absolutely not dead, so I have still not killed anyone.

08 Chinese Embassy Redux

We are back to the Chinese Embassy, this time we have permission to kill people, but we're not going to bother with that. Instead, you can simply sneak past everyone. There's a forced action sequence when you get inside the embassy and you need to knock out 3 guards before they destroy a computer containing valuable intel. I found this section to be glitched, if you knock out these guards too quickly, it'll give you a mission failed screen saying they destroyed the computer (when they didn't even get close).

There's another NPC you need to knock out in the main foyer in order to access a retinal scan lock on the 2nd floor, and then the target himself will end up killing himself at the very end. So still no kills on my end and no detections.

09 Presidential Palace

Another difficult level, Presidential Palace is the first level in the franchise to feature Sam wearing a balaclava. This level has a few instances where you have forced action like when you go down the elevator into the library, and when you are caught by several guards in the basement and forced to fight your way out. I managed to run past all the guards in the basement, but if you don't knock them out, they will never stop chasing you, so you are basically forced to knock them all out. I did manage to run past the guards in the library though without having to knock any of them out, if you do this, they will just get killed by other soldiers in the building and won't be a problem when you leave.

After a incredibly risky move in the buildings main foyer, I had very little health for most of the mission which made the basement scene incredibly difficult.

Final Game Statistics

If you follow this video walkthrough, you should end up with around the same amount of kills, knockouts, and detections.

Total Kills: 1
Total Knockouts: 34
Avoidable Detections: 0
Unavoidable Detections: 6



Stay tuned and I'll publish a guide for Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow next! And please check out my youtube channel where I have full video playlists of every splinter cell game with perfect stealth playthroughs.

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Thanks for this! It was really helpful!