The Official Splinter Cell Conviction thread

Played the demo through a couple of times yesterday, me and chokka both said the same thing, it's missing the shadow meter... You don't have that sense of sticking to the shadows :(

Other than that, it's brilliant :D

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I blundered though this the first time around, it's really worth watching the spotlight (?) video to see what you can pull off. I hope there won't be too much of the screen tear from the opening scene in the full game. It's also present in the sticky camera remote view.
 
Tried the demo yestarday and really enjoyed it. I actually never played the older Splinter Cell games, though i do enojy the genre more these days so i might try the older games first, get a taste of the series before i play this.
 
Just started playing through from number one today. Good fun although I do miss HD goodness :)
 
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Hmm getting rather confused as to which version I ought to pre-order. Some places have a "Special Edition", but only one of these places (GAME) state that it comes with the Shadow Armour skin, which I really want. It is £42.99 from there, whereas the other places that don't state that they have the skin have it for sale for £39.99 (Gameplay, Play.com etc). Any idea whether they're all the same?

Edit - Fail, must have accidentally clicked on the normal version at Gameplay.com. They have the Special Edition and it has the armour as well :)
 
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I felt it doesn't really offer much of anything now, it's not a stealth game like the original and earlier games, it doesn't punish you for mistakes even on hardest (just backtrack and take cover whilst they all come out and you pick them off, then go back in to get the stragglers), yet it still feels awkward and restrictive for an action game.

To me it's been dumbed down and is trying to offer a bit of everything, and not really excelling at anything, it's still not a bad game, but it doesn't offer enough for me, I feel it's a game catering to lost customers who got frustrated by the unforgiving stealth games.
 
Mr_White said:
I felt it doesn't really offer much of anything now, it's not a stealth game like the original and earlier games, it doesn't punish you for mistakes even on hardest (just backtrack and take cover whilst they all come out and you pick them off, then go back in to get the stragglers), yet it still feels awkward and restrictive for an action game.

To me it's been dumbed down and is trying to offer a bit of everything, and not really excelling at anything, it's still not a bad game, but it doesn't offer enough for me, I feel it's a game catering to lost customers who got frustrated by the unforgiving stealth games.
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I do agree with a few of your points, but I think that essentially, as the series story has moved on, they've been trying to find ways to refresh the franchise. I feel as though they've had a few Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon developers involved with the design of this one as the game does definitely borrow certain elements from them. I find that the new one has enough new changes and options available, along with a few other bits, to keep me interested in this. I am certainly looking forward to playing this from a story point-of-view. I've enjoyed every one of the SC games and I wasn't at all impressed at the videos that were released a few years ago with their design concepts that they had at that time (crowd fights, Sam hiding in plain-sight, no sign of shadow-sneaking and useful gadgets that have made the games what they are) and I am very glad that they went back to the drawing board for this.

That said, it is the multiplayer aspect that really excites me, particularly the co-op as it has been designed as an entirely separate game mode, with a proper inhouse multipayer development team. Something new for the SC games. There's nothing better than timing a takedown on two enemies with your mate over Live. Really want this game now!
 
Damn, I'd forgotten just how tough the original SC is. Well, not tough, just hard to perfect the things you try to do. I've just finished the first mission at the police station, and I wanted to try and do it without knocking anyone out. I had to take out loads of lights and still ended up having to take out a couple of guards just to get into places that I needed to get to as they didn't seem to want to move after patrolling for ages!

Still, it is a damn good game and it plays really well on the 360 despite it being an original XBox title :)
 
Just finished the demo – didn’t realise it was out, as my PS3 gets the lion’s share of my spare time, so that was a nice discovery!

Its enjoyable enough for me to want to pre-order it, but checking one place, they want £42.99 :eek: Most other places are flogging it for £39.99, which is still too high imo; but that’s for another thread.

The gameplay seemed miles away from the stealth of previous games, although it was there (as such), it seemed that the avenues you are herded down were geared towards action, which is a shame as I liked to decide how to play these types of games, not have the options taken away somewhat.

Graphics were nice enough, the new cover system does what it says in the tin, the weapon sounds were good, but losing the shoulder switch was a pain – guess that’s a re-skinned Gears’ for you though!

All in all it’s a buy for me, but I’d like to see a lower price first, so I shall hold fire on this one…
 
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1082854p1.html


9.0

Presentation
Stylish menus and cool projection technology make for a unique experience. The story is an amalgamation of different seasons of 24, but it's nice to see Sam so angry.

8.5 Graphics

Nice animations. Gritty but good-looking environments. The framerate occasionally dips, but it's nothing major.

9.0 Sound

Michael Ironside does a great job reprising his role as Sam Fisher. The enemies have some nice quips. Solid musical score.

9.0 Gameplay

Stealth is fast and fun. Mark & Execute is a great addition. The AI is
excellent if you play on Realistic difficulty.

8.0 Lasting Appeal

The single-player and co-op campaigns are short, but there's a lot of other things to do. And you'll probably want to play through everything more than once.
9.3

Outstanding OVERALL
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I don't know - I can still see this being way to easy now - execution stuff looks cool - but even on Realistic on the demo - I ran into the main room got spotted on purposed, killed a guy up close to enable execution, then just ran away and waited for them to calm down and took the rest out - easy! Previous games would need much more tactics, think this was the wrong move myself!

That said I will still enjoy my pre-order and get involved in some co-op action as I love Sam! :)
 
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