And don’t forget Fisher’s support team: his handler, Irving Lambert, communications lead Anna Grímsdóttir, and field runner Will Redding-all plugged into dim chambers and speaking through encoded channels. There’s the lock-picking, the split jump, the fiber-optic camera, and the night vision-casting the world’s dingiest corners in its grainy gleam.
Then there is their wearer, Sam Fisher, an NSA agent who, with his sculpted rubber suit and knack for hanging upside down, is the vision of a government-backed Batman.
When you think of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, what do you think? You probably think of the goggles: that luminous trident of green orbs, iconically confounding, considering that humans traditionally possess only two eyes.