Due to Santa being nice enough to stuff a gift certificate to Best Buy in my stocking this year, I recently picked up Splinter Cell: Double Agent.  What I didn't do was read the fine print: You must have a video card that supports shader model version 3.0.  I have an ATI 800XL, which is a pretty bangin' card for the money I paid for it 2 years ago, however it doesn't support v3.0...SCDA comes crashing down within 30 seconds of firing it up.

*sigh*

The reviews over on the Newegg page aren't very encouraging either.  Regardless, this does give me an excuse to finally break down and get a new video card (though I was waiting for the 512mb version to come out).  Hopefully it will all be worth it.

It's also worth mentioning that SCDA weighs in at a whopping 10 gigs of drive space, so it should be a lengthy play.