Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a stealth action game released for the Game Boy Advance featuring a side-scrolling design. Players assume the role of Sam Fisher, an elite operative tasked with covert missions. The game emphasizes stealth strategies and tactical gameplay, adapting the series' signature elements for handheld gaming while maintaining the core narrative of espionage and combat.
2D versions of the game were released for the Game Boy Advance and N-Gage (the latter as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Team Stealth Action), as well as the mobile phones version developed by Gameloft. A remastered high definition version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell was released on the PlayStation 3 in September 2011. The success of the game series spawned a series of novels written under the pseudonym David Michaels.