i played splinter cell and it is horrible. the camera angle does not auto fix itself and u have to change it every time u go around a turn. plus, it takes way too long to turn around. some ppl were shooting me from behind, so i pull my gun out and turn around. because it takes so long, i was shot! and before u tell me that i should have turned, then brought my gun out, ur wrong. i tried that. the character just faced the dirrection i came from. u have to move the camera around and that takes forever.
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back to the original question...my favorite game is a tie between sonic adventure 2 (and perhaps DX when it comes out), wind waker, melee and metroid.

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