context: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a third person gaming series developed and published by Ubisoft, the first part of which was released in 2002 by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. The game has five sequels: Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory, Double Agent, Conviction and Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
question: When was the first Splinter Cell game released?
answers.text: 2002