I was bored, and started browsing steam, and noticed that Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has a metascore in the 90's.  
 
Most people seem to hate these games, but with a metascore that high, and a price of 10 bucks, I figured it couldn't be THAT bad right?  
 
And I gotta say, it's a pretty fun game! 
 
The tutorials are *horrible* so learning the game was trial and error, but its relatively forgiving too.  
 
All in all, a thumbs up.     

Chaos Theory is the best game in the series I think.  It really polished everything that they tried to do in the series before and had the most consistently awesome campaign.  It had a bunch of cool little touches that were new at the time and have been copied since, like the knife kills, the ability to pull enemies off ledges, and the ability to slice through thin barriers like paper walls and tents. The graphics were also amazing.  On Xbox it looked better than the 360 games in the early days.

I actually enojyed all of the Splinter Cell games, even Double Agent (lots of people had weird glitches with that on the PC, but I only ran into one and that was easily dealt with) 
But yeah, Chaos Theory is the best in the series so far, can't wait to see what Conviction is gonna be like

" Chaos Theory is the best game in the series I think.  It really polished everything that they tried to do in the series before and had the most consistently awesome campaign.  It had a bunch of cool little touches that were new at the time and have been copied since, like the knife kills, the ability to pull enemies off ledges, and the ability to slice through thin barriers like paper walls and tents. The graphics were also amazing.  On Xbox it looked better than the 360 games in the early days. "

Splinter Cell ROCKS.

One of the best games, if not THE best game on the Xbox. The soundtrack is amazing.

People hate Splinter Cell? First I've heard. There was dislike towards Double Agent and then Conviction due to all the delays and changes, but that's about it. Lot of hype going for it now since it looks awesome.

Yeah, the Giant Bomb guys all seem to really hate Splinter Cell. I love listening to their rants about it because it is funny. However, I love Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I think it is a great game.

ROFL! Who hates the Splinter Cell games? Are you mad?
All games have 90+ for PC (except Double Agent).
Splinter Cell games are THE BEST STEALTH ACTION GAMES EVER CREATED!

Did you purposely make a Katy Perry reference in your topic title?

Best in the series definitely. You should try the co-op mode sometime it's a ton of fun.

I've enjoyed all of the SC games (pretty evenly) with the exception of Double Agent (which I bought and hated twice). 
I've never noticed much undo criticism toward the series. What are these tasteless folks saying? Huh? HUH!?!

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is one of the best games ever made. Good for you.

Ive never managed to get into the Splinter Cell games (even though I somehow managed to own the first on PC, the second on PC and Xbox and the third on Xbox and Ngage) but thats easily explained since I find it very hard, and boring, to play stealth games. It always felt like it could be up my alley (much like MGS was and MGS4 is) but its never clicked but I suddenly what to give Chaos Theory another try but the intro movie (before the menu) takes sooooo long. I had to bear through the intro movie to play the multiplayer, which I had a short-lived love affair with, and it was enough that it stopped me playing the game at times.

I like pandora tomorrow the best, even though it had the worst ending of any video game ever. Nobody really hates Splinter Cell, it's just repetetive after 4 games. Hoping the next one will be a good reboot.

Chaos Theory was the best because of Co-op.

I have a copy of Chaos Theory. I liked the game until I found out about Starforce protection. Then I found out my other games published by Ubisoft had it as well. Grrrrr, made me so made, I could just spit.

" People hate Splinter Cell? First I've heard. There was dislike towards Double Agent and then Conviction due to all the delays and changes, but that's about it. Lot of hype going for it now since it looks awesome. "

" Did you purposely make a Katy Perry reference in your topic title? "

I too loves me some Splinter Cell action. I remember getting the first one on the Xbox when it came out and being blown away. I've been a fan of the series ever since. Well, I'm not a fan of Double Agent and I think they should have made Conviction it's own series and called it the spiritual successor to Splinter Cell, but that's another story.

Since when do people hate Splinter Cell? Chaos Theory was superb. 
 
I suspect most of the people who 'hate' Splinter Cell actually just can't hack the difficulty.

i've only played two splinter cell games, first one and double agent. i really liked double agent from what i have played. the game seemed more easier then the first one because the first one seemed kind of u have to play the game this way to beat it. which i didn't really like about the first game. when i rented doubt agent for 360 i was like wow this is great.

I really like chaos theory, too bad the game has shitty DRM I can't play it on vista. I might have to buy it on steam later on because it won't have that DRM and it would work. That game is way better than double agent.

Splinter Cell is pretty darn awesome, man. I wasn't crazy about the first one but could appreciate what it was trying to do. Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory are both excellent games, though. I can't wait to try out the new one next year.

Double Agent's multiplayer was the bomb.