Here's a somewhat informal playthrough of the first half of Splinter Cell's Severonickel, which was cut from the game about 2 months before launch. Project Deluge enabled the circulation of this beta build, allowing Severonickel, and the Xbox version of Nuclear Power Plant, to finally surface after over 19 years.
Do note that this Xbox emulator is an active work in progress, and has difficulty displaying various key aspects of the game. For instance, it currently has trouble with layering on-screen objects in the correct order. This problem is also exacerbated when dynamic lighting is introduced, which the emulator also has immense difficulty displaying at all. I have faith that in time, the emulator will greatly improve and fix these issues.
This work-in-progress build of Severonickel notably does not feature any music or ambient sound. Various sound effects are missing as well.
By default, this beta build skips over Nuclear Power Plant and Severonickel, meaning it was probably compiled very soon after the decision was made to cut these two levels. As such, what you see here is likely as finished as Severonickel ever was, which is truly a shame. Enormous efforts had to be undertaken to even access the two levels in this build.
This version of the level also presents an interesting challenge. Not only do you spawn with nothing, but most major inventory items are not queued to load in the engine when you load the level. This includes the SC-20k, pistol, lockpicks, optic cable, etc. When you attempt to spawn these items in, the game crashes. It seems this level was cut before the player inventory was addressed at all. Fortunately, the disposable pick successfully spawns in, as there are a handful scattered throughout the level. That's really all you need if you're careful enough.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Xbox v8 (13 September 2002 prototype build)
Played in xemu emulator v0.6.1-12-ga8c73197da for Windows x64
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