Sam lurks in the shadows, finds his moment to pounce and strikes with deadly efficiency. He isn't avoiding enemies, he's stalking them. In past Splinter Cell games, enemies were meant to be avoided in Conviction, Sam is a hunter. Sam's codename used by Third Echelon is "panther," and that's fitting. He can get in and out of cover quickly, shimmy across ledges faster than the Prince of Persia and beat a hasty retreat if he gets into trouble. These things aid in keeping players immersed in the world, but the real reason things feel so fluid is the change in approach to stealth. Fancy new projection technology integrates text into the scenery to point you towards your goal, and back story is shown with movies playing out on walls as you progress through a level. Levels are loaded while you're watching slickly presented cutscenes. From the moment the game starts, you never sit around waiting for something to happen. There are no in-game loading screens unless you die. Ubisoft pulled off a few magic tricks to make this happen. You're always being pushed forward, so much so that I played through the entire single-player campaign in one sitting without even realizing I'd been up all night. Conviction sets itself apart from its predecessors with its pacing. This is going to be one long day for Jack Bauer Sam Fisher. Turns out the people responsible for his daughter's fate are planning a major terrorist attack on Washington D.C. With new evidence leading to his daughter's killer, a tormented and semi-retired Sam Fisher is called back into action. Sam's daughter was killed, he murdered his best friend Lambert, and he split from Third Echelon, the government agency he'd called home for years. Don't worry, if you never finished that game, you'll get caught up quickly as to what's going on. The story takes place a few years after the end of Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Unfortunately, as I'll get into later in this review, the PC version isn't nearly as strong as the Xbox 360 version. Splinter Cell Conviction's single player campaign is awesome. It was a huge risk deviating from the trial-and-error style that made the series famous, but it paid off.
That anger, that aggressiveness is built not only into the story but the gameplay changes as well. Sam's angry and you hear it in every grunted line of dialogue, can see it in the brutal takedowns and interrogation moves and feel it pulsating through Sam with every step. Of all the smart decisions made in crafting a new Splinter Cell title, this might be the best one developer Ubisoft Montreal made.
Sam Fisher is back, and he is not in a good mood.
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