Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is a 2004 action-adventure stealth game from Ubisoft, which both developed and published it. As the follow-up to the original Splinter Cell, it marks the second entry in the series bearing Tom Clancy's endorsement. Players control Sam Fisher, an agent of Third Echelon, a covert NSA black-ops unit. Michael Ironside reprises his role as Fisher, while Dennis Haysbert voices his superior, Irving Lambert—this being the only game in the series where Don Jordan does not provide Lambert's voice. The theme music was composed by Lalo Schifrin.

Upon release, critics received the game positively, calling it a worthy sequel and praising its multiplayer mode, which later became a series staple. The original Xbox online multiplayer was shut down in 2010, but the game is now playable again through the replacement Xbox Live service Insignia. A side-scrolling version for Game Boy Advance and mobile phones received mixed reviews. A remastered high-definition version came to PlayStation 3 in September 2011, and the Xbox version became backward compatible on Xbox One in June 2019. The next entry, Chaos Theory, arrived in 2005.

Gameplay remains largely similar to the first Splinter Cell. Minor improvements include graphical upgrades, the removal of health kits as an inventory item, and the addition of a laser sight to Sam's pistol for precise aiming on the move. New abilities let Sam whistle to distract enemies, open doors while carrying a body, shoot while hanging upside down, perform a SWAT turn to move stealthily past doorways, and execute a half split jump. The PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions include an extra single-player mission to make up for their shorter gameplay compared to the PC and Xbox releases.

The plot begins in March 2006, with the U.S. training the military of newly independent East Timor. An anti-separatist Indonesian guerrilla group called Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), led by Suhadi Sadono—a former CIA-trained operative now resentful of U.S. support for East Timor—attacks the U.S. embassy in Dili, taking hostages. Third Echelon sends Sam Fisher to investigate. His boss, Irving Lambert, tells him that an old friend, Douglas Shetland, a former soldier turned PMC owner, is among the captives.