Splinter Cell Conviction revealed News

Lovely. Future Classic this one! ;)

"Sam Fisher is now a fugitive, pursued by the very government he once served. And to survive he'll need to create an underground network of allies to help him out. But he'll be without all the flashy gizmos he's used to, and will have to rely on using his surroundings and quick thinking over night-vision goggles and remote cameras."

Isn't that *exactly* how they announced the last one?

Aw I thought by different they were going for the 'Sam Fisher is now an underground cross-dresser and animal-worrier'.

Wusses.

*Yawn*

They are well and truly strangling this series by releasing so many in such quick succession.


Plus - they might as well call it Splinter Cell: we want to be just like 24 and Prison Break. Fans of US TV, are you Ubi...?

Isn't this going to be using the Unreal 3 engine?

My eyes are on these.
If successful, then it will be a future classic, and an example of how next gen power can be used for more than just shiny graphics.

>"Plus - they might as well call it Splinter Cell: we want to be just like 24 and Prison Break. Fans of US TV, are you Ubi...? "

Is that such a bad thing?
People moan when a series gets stale. They are trying to do something different, and people still moan.

I just can't see what's so "meh" about the concept. Whether they achieve it is something else, but not the concept itself.

This place is so bloddy depressing.

"[Double Agent] was good, but repetitive over time," Mathieu Ferland, senior producer for the game, told IGN."

Would have been nice for him to mention this when it was released.......

Sounds immense... definitely future classic built on pokemon engine

SBfistfun - lol. I was just about to buy Double agent. Might not bother now!

is it me or does this sound exactly the same as double agent?

Double Agent is well worth the £20 you can get it for now.

I thought double agent was ace!!

>"is it me or does this sound exactly the same as double agent?"

The premise was that he worked for both the agency and the terrorist.
Now he's an out and out fugitive.

I've always wanted an enemy of the state-type game. This sounds right up my alley. A thriller, like alan wake.

Double Agent was a great game - the multiplayer was a laugh too. Well, actually it was more an exercise in extreme tension, but you get the idea.

£20 bargain

/ legs it down to nearest game shop

Wasn't this all in Edge?

There's a 6-8 page feature on it!

sc1 was a revolutionary game with its use of shadows as the purest combination of graphics and gameplay.

they keep getting away from that and resembling all the rest.

Double Agent was a disappointment on the 360, I always thought the Xbox version, by a different team at Ubisoft, was by far the better game. Hopefully they're the ones coding Conviction... :)

It's going to be built on the SCDA engine.

"Double Agent was a disappointment on the 360, I always thought the Xbox version, by a different team at Ubisoft, was by far the better game. Hopefully they're the ones coding Conviction... :)"

DA Xbox was developed by Ubi Montreal.

Conviction sounds like a Bourne game in Splinter Cell clothing. Fucking lush.

It's going to be built on the SCDA engine.

And I heard that the engine was new.

I thought the only Ubi game thus far to us Unreal 3 Engine was Rainbow Six: Vegas, and all the rest, GR:AW, Splinter Cell, were all using very advanced builds of the Unreal 2 Engine?

none of these games even have antialiasing. really annoying that this 'next gen' engine lacks one of the most important graphics features. I found Chaos Theory a much better looking game than Double Agent on PC. And a better game, for that matter.

Thank the lord. Double Agent was a MASSIVE disappointment. This cannot be overstated.

As long as his underground allies don't net him access to an SC-20K and sticky cameras. Never really got that . . . everyone else in the JBA had "normal" terrorist guns. Why was Fisher given a special modular weapon that can do just about anything he wants it to? HE WAS A GODDAMN TERRORIST! [FYI I nuked the ship, killed Hisham and enjoyed shooting Dr. Aswat in the face].

Anyway - make it a teeensy bit more realistic in that regard, and I'll pay for and enjoy it. Concept sounds awesome, especially since Assassin's Creed doesn't look that great to me and I need something to sate my desire for stealth.

sounds like crap

Prison Break-esque splinter cell would be class Sam already looks a bit like Michael and Linc's older smarter tougher brother

I actually liked (next gen) DA quite a bit because it ditched the 'dark is your friend' approach that nearly put me to sleep during Chaos Theory and tried to do something new. It's far from being a perfect game (the ending was superbly underwhelming for instance) but for a change, it tried to make you think and strategise rather than just lurk in the darkness and wait for silent kills. Also, any SC game where I don't spend 70% of the time using night vision goggles gets thumbs up from me. What's the use of hyperadvanced graphics if I get to look at green, grainy images all the time? Anyway, DA was still only halfway there because it stuck to most of the mechanics established by the old games and as a result not all of the good ideas went equally well. But some of them did. I still don't understand why people slag off JBA HQ missions because for me those were the hilights of the game. They gave you freedom and they gave you tension and you could actually make a plan and then go implement it, rather than just breeze from one scripted event to the other.

It did have a horrible save system and a totally useless tutorial, tho...

Conviction seems to be going further into the direction of 'let's do something new' and it's supposed to be using crowd mechanics to conceal Sam Fisher rather than just huide him in the dark, it's supposed to ditch the corridor-crawl approach in favour of improvisation (at least this is what UBI reps say over there on IGN). I know half of this will be untrue and half of it poorly implemented but some of it might actually be new and fresh. Splinter Cell never had the wild, imaginative approach of MGS series (you knew someone had to mention it sooner or later) but they are trying to go into different directions and I appreciate that.

Meho: what ending? All I remember were credits.

This better be good. DA was nice and the graphics as well but something was missing. Not too much excitement on playing it. It was just nice to play. I hope the new one is good. And don't be judging from what it sounds like. If you bought DA most of you talking shit you mast have realised that a game is never what you expect it to be from what it sounds. Lets just wait and see.