Customer Reviews:
Chaos prone
Will not work with Vista, because the disk protection will not load into Vista. Works ok in XP and is somewhat fun.

Dissatisfaction
I have no idea how this game is, because I was not sent the version I ordered. I ordered a CD-ROM and received a DVD; I don’t have a DVD drive on my computer. Why should I have to buy a new drive because Amazon made an error?

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
It is a great game for adults (for you liberals out there that means over 18 and out of mommy and daddy’s house).

Yep, another victim of Starforce
I was aware this game had starforce, but I decided to install it anyway, because I thought “How bad could starforce be”. Personally I’ve never had a problems with starforce, NEVER, until this game. But thats because all my games before this one did’nt have starforce on them. First my Optical drive was turning slowly and then acting as if it was stuck. I was running this game on my DVD-ROM drive. Then one night I poped in my IL2 Pacific Fighters Flight Simulator game, and with no warning, my DVD ROM drive made a gun like POP noise, guess what, my IL2 Pacific Fighters CD is broken in about 7 to 8 big pieces. Talk about getting extremly mad. I kinda guess it was probably the starforce. Then later that week, my Windows XP home edition would not boot up, only show a black screen, I had a feeling it was also caused by starforce. Not only did I lose my optical DVD ROM drive, I also had to buy another Pacific fighters sim game CD. And I had to do a total reinstall of Windows XP home edition. You may be wondering why im not mad about what I experience. Well thats been a year ago and now Im fully recovered. Personally I would love to sue starforce for all the damage that was done to me. Just like some of the other reviews have told you. DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION OF THE GAME. If you really want to play this game, go for the console version.

(Alittle word for starforce company–>I hope you have to file bankrupcy, further more I hope you go to jail for making junk…)

Do *NOT* buy this version of the game
The Windows version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is infected with Starforce, which besides potentially wrecking your Windows installation, can also physically destroy optical drives (and also may not work with newer hardware or operating systems).

Because of the infection, pick up one of the console versions of the game if you’re interested. Obviously the graphics won’t be as good, but they’re still fine. Another alternative will be to play it through Gametap’s rental service, when it shows up on there.

The game itself is a solid entry in the stealth action genre. Worth playing if you’re a fan of the genre.

Note that as of today, this is the ONLY version infected with Starforce. Earlier and later entires in the series do NOT have Starforce, just this one.

Customer Reviews:
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
The power source is worthless, as is IOGear’s customer service department. It will be an utter waste of your time and money to buy this item or anything else from this company.

–Lisa H.

Careful
Great hub IF you need both USB and Firewire all the time. The hub will not power on or work unless you connect both the USB and Firewire cables to your computer. Therefore you cannot just use usb, or firewire.

Shipping it right back…
What a piece of crap. I haven’t even had it for 24 hours and it is going back to Amazon. The unit doesn’t work at all, in either a PC or a Mac. Some of the lights came on, indicating things were plugged into them when clearly nothing was, and they also didn’t include the firewire cable that was supposed to come with it. It is obvious from other reviews that IOGear makes an entirely inferior line of garbage products that no one likes.

I wish I had not been so captivated by the idea of having such a nice hub and had read the other reviews, because it would have saved me the hassle of having to return it.

Does not always read the cards
Mostly it works ok, and I really like the form factor.But many times it will not read the card. This could be an issue of power, but I DO have the power supply plugged in. (I suppose it could also be the computer, but I do not have the same problem with a portable reader plugged into another port on the computer)

IOGEAR USB/Firewire Hub
Great Product! One of the few consumer-level hubs that provides Firewire 400 connections. Although it has seven ports, one USB and one Firewire are used to connect to your computer-duh! So, in reality you have two Firewire 400 and three USB connections available for external devices. Not once has my Mac complained about “not having enough power” for any USB devices being plugged in. The little rubber desk stand is a somewhat flimsy and will never stand upright with various cables and devices tugging at it. I used a cable tie to lightly attach my unit in an inconspicuous location underneath my desk. It’s a “done deal solution!”