Overview
-Estimated trophy difficulty: 8.27/10 – According to current Difficulty Thread Average
-Offline: 37 (21 ,11 ,4 , 1)
-Online: 0
-Approximate amount of time to Platinum: 15-20 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 2
-Number of missable trophies: Four – Urban Legend, Stealth Operative, Passive Aggression, and Immune
-Glitched trophies: Urban Legend
-Does Difficulty affect trophes: 2 – Echelon Mercenary and Echelon Recruit
Roadmap:
Splinter Cell HD, being the first of 3 games in the trilogy, is a stealth action classic from the Playstation 2 days. This game requires good stealth, and it’s a welcome change to the run and gun play of modern titles. If you're looking for an easy plat, then this isn’t it, but if you’re looking for fun and to relive old memories then I highly recommend picking this up. You have to complete the game twice, because difficulty trophies DO NOT stack, however, I recommend two playthroughs anyway to make things easier on yourself.
WARNING: I’d highly advise you backup your save often as many people have had save game corruption when the game freezes. I haven’t had this problem, but I know several have.
Saving is important in this game so I'll give a quick overview. Save often utilizing Quick Save and the normal Save option. I used Quick Save mainly and Saved before hard sections when I planned to back up my save to USB Stick. Avoid using Quick Load as it can prevent some trophies from unlocking, instead, use the Load function as this doesn't keep the game running in the background. Save to USB often when going for Urban Legend and if you die simply delete your game save and copy across from the USB Stick.
Step 1: Hard Playthrough
I’d recommend playing the game on hard first, and do your best to go for Stealth Operative, Passive Aggression and Immune on this playthrough. It’ll be tough, but you really should get these trophies out of the way and only Passive Aggression will be tricky. See the trophy descriptions for more information.
Step 2: Normal Playthrough
After your first Hard playthrough, you should start a Normal playthrough, and you should go for Urban Legend this run. Check for tips in the trophy description as this is, by far, the hardest trophy to obtain.
Step 3: Clean-up
Some grinding for several trophies will still be required upon completing 2 playthroughs of the game but you can use Level Select to make your life easier by going into Load Game. Choose Levels here rather than from your saved game. See the trophy descriptions for which levels are best to replay.
I wish you all good luck and now onto the guide. Here's a video I found very useful throughout my journey to the platinum. It will help with achieving Stealth Operative, Echelon Mercenary and Immune. This is a great run through with no alarms and no damage which will help you plan your way through the trickier action segments in the game.