Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction
Sam Fisher is out for blood. In Tom Clancy's Splinter
Cell: Conviction, this normally cool cat has honed some extra-sharp
edges, but that's what happens when you mess with a man's brood. At one
point in the game, a voice-over tells us that the boorish brute is "pure
Sam, pure Sam when he's mad," but that simple explanation doesn't say
the half of it. The franchise's gruff star is a changed man, and with
Conviction, Splinter Cell is a changed series. This is not the
challenging stealth purebred you'd expect, but rather a more
approachable kind of stealth-action mongrel. You still silently snoop
about in the shadows, but features you'd expect in a Splinter Cell game,
and even in stealth games in general, simply aren't present. You can't
move bodies out of plain sight, you don't pick locks, and you can't
choose to knock your foes out--only kill them outright. Yet the new
mark-and-execute feature helps make up for a bit of that lost spark by
providing tense thrills of a different sort, and fantastic storytelling
will keep you invested in the campaign. But if you really want to see
Conviction at its best, you should grab a buddy and sneak your way
through the shadows of the cooperative campaign. The joys of
coordinating attacks and wriggling out of a tough jam make co-op play a
knockout, and its flexibility will keep you coming back again and again.
Genre : RPG / Action
PRICE : RM16
