The story in 3 was better but I still didn't think it was great.
The control system in 3 is what turned me off the game. In 2004, those tacked-on FPS controls and the overhead view were completely unacceptable. Splinter Cell had far better controls three years earlier than that.
But, like I said, at least it appears that Kojima finally abandoned that 1996 control scheme.

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