OK so I've got this idea of visiting the world through the medium of Splinter Cell...actually I've already done that, but I mean using the missions in Splinter Cell as a way of choosing which places in the world I could visit - for more details read my first post, which isn't too far down the page.
After evading Agents with Magnums in one hand and curiously large syringes in the other in Maryland it would make sense to stay in America and visit more locations, and if this thing ever happens that's what I would do, but for now I'll stick to the order they come in the game.
With the fifth game announced and looking incredible this idea is even more exciting, but for now I'll continue with the journey of the Stealth Action game that wowed us all.
Tbilisi
Country: Georgia
Area: 726 km2
Population: 1,480,000
Language: Georgian
In Sam Fisher's first mission for Third Echelon he is sent to Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia. A covert operative within the government has gone dark and Sam is sent to investigate, the trail leads to dead bodies and a lot of suspicion that opens the doorway into a wider conspiracy.
You tour the city, keeping to the shadows and taking down guards and enemies silently. After the initial investigation you go to the Georgian Defense Ministry in the city to investigate the connection between the country's president and a Russian mercenary. The ministry is an impressive building and possibly worth a visit, but I think I'd settle for the guided tour rather than entering by the roof!
Tbilisi is a city I'd be particularly interested in visiting as it's one that gave me this idea. I would probably not even have heard of Tbilisi if it wasn't for Splinter Cell, and it's the way that it's widened my understanding of the world that would make me very interested in visiting Georgia and it's capital.
Aside from that I know little about Tbilisi, other than the South Ossetia war with Russia of last year. I've briefly learned that it has a democratic government due to one of the largest and most successful non-military coups of recent times in 2003. It also boasts a large amount of architecture some unsanctioned, it will soon host two of the largest skyscrapers in the region and already holds some fascinating buildings like the Roads Ministry Building, which I'd love to see.
And there we are - the second stop on my Splinter Cell tour; where will we go next?
Word of the post: Curry —Idiom
| . | curry favor, to seek to advance oneself through flattery or fawning: His fellow workers despised him for currying favor with the boss.
curry (v.) c.1290, "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-Fr. curreier "to curry-comb a horse," from O.Fr. correier "put in order, prepare, curry," from con- intens. prefix + reier "arrange," from a Gmc. source. The surviving sense of curry favor is c.1510, altered by folk etymology from curry favel (c.1400) from O.Fr. correier fauvel "to be false, hypocritical," lit. "to curry the chestnut ('fawn-colored') horse," which in medieval Fr. allegories was a symbol of cunning and deceit.
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