Splinter Cell 2: Live Bundle, New Screens

Pandora Tomorrow is nearly here. Here are five new screens today, as Microsoft announces a new Live bundle for the UK market. Plus - exciting multiformat UK/US release date guide!

Microsoft and UbiSoft today announced the release of a great value Xbox Live starter kit, bundled with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is released on Xbox and GBA globally next week. It's the latest excellent Xbox Live bundle, following packages with titles like PGR2.

Gamers can purchase an Xbox Live starter kit, featuring a copy of Ubisoft's long-awaited follow up, a Live headset and 12 months' subscription to Xbox Live, from Friday 26th March, while stocks last. The kit is available for £59.99. No similar deal is planned for the US release three days earlier on March 23.

Microsoft executives said some stuff about how happy they are to release the bundle, concluding, "It's good to play together." But of course it is.

While the Xbox and PS2 releases are released in the States and the UK next week on March 23 and 26 respectively, the schedule for other formats is a slight mess, so we have endeavoured to collate them for you. We're nice like that.

* Unfortunately, these might be wrong!          

Pandora Tomorrow once again centres around the story of Sam Fisher, a lone operative waging a one-man war against an Indonesian terrorist network. Empowered with the Fifth Freedom - the right to spy, steal, destroy and assassinate to protect his country - Fisher embarks on a mission that will take him to the far-most corners of the globe and into the shadowy world of international espionage, encountering numerous threats and begging the question, "Whom can you trust?"

You can trust us to bring you more on the game in the run up to the release of this super sequel. In the meantime, enjoy these five new screens.

Adam Doree
Director, Kikizo.com