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As I have posted on the Steam forums (here) there is a way to get the DLC maps (Kolacell, Vselka Infiltration, Vselka Submarine) on your Steam copy of Splinter Cell.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell on PC

This may also apply to you if you have a copy of Splinter Cell and cannot get the DLC maps/update to install.

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I first recall playing Full Throttle in primary school on an old mac; it was absolutely great then however I cannot recall ever playing through the entire game. It has been at least 13 long years since I last played this game.

Ben, just out of the dumpster and ready to kick some ass.

I was visiting my regular game store and I saw 2 copies of Full Throttle on the shelf (yeah sometimes they just find crates of vintage stuff laying around). This game from 1995 is sitting on a shelf in 2009. Unopened. Sealed in plastic. The asking price was 30 USD so I just had to oblige. I purchased both copies–one sits on my shelf waiting to be opened never, and the other copy I opened.
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a screenshot of brokensword

Broken Sword, Ireland screenshot

I first played Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (alternatively titled Circle of Blood in the US) on a mac; it was included on a demo disk with a magazine around the time of its release (1996). The scenes of Paris in the game are absolutely stunning and I can still recall the scenes in Paris even though the game is over 13 years old. The game has obviously had a lot of hard work and care put towards it as witnessed by the hundreds of unique lines of dialogue and a captivating, in-depth story with a range of characters and locations all around the world.
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I have played GTA (or Grand Theft Auto as it used to be called) since its earliest incarnations, I have played just about ever iteration of the series. Although I have not completed every single title, I have played them enough to get the grasp of what each one is about.

I initially started playing GTA IV on Xbox 360 and eventually ended up restarting the entire game once it was released on PC. Trust me when I say the PC version is superior in just about every conceivable manner.

I played GTA IV until I had completed approximately 55% of the game (having unlocked all the islands), at this point I grew bored and let the game sit around for some time. I have recently started playing it again and have completed it.

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I remember Steam’s first steps, there were so many puns involving steam engines, steam rollers, and all manner of other steam technology and everyone saying how it was going to fail, and how it wasn’t working. I think it was such a difficult step in 2003 to launch such a service, it was a drastic move that would have been devastate to Valve if it had failed, but instead they took the step and steam is the biggest most bad ass success in gaming today. I buy practically all of my games on Steam.

While we’re all pointing very angry fingers towards the MPAA and RIAA and their relevant industries for trying to spread draconian DRM, steam has managed to slip somewhat similar DRM right under our eyes, but to be perfectly honest with you I do not at all feel threatened–I line up with everyone else and order anything that remotely interests me. To say I’ve spent a bit of money on games using steam would probably be a bit of an understatement. I’ve also enjoyed exploring older games like the early Doom incarnations and wolfenstein too; although I have played all of these I have never owned them myself and never gone through the entire games.

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