GamesRadar: "It's a cold world out there for high-tech deep-cover agents of nebulous moral character. The news that Ubisoft is taking Splinter Cell: Conviction back to the drawing board prompted us to brainstorm a few ways to revitalize the floundering franchise. Note to Ubi boss Yves Guillemot: if you use our ideas, we expect a commission! Or at least a nod in the credits."
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They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
i can tell you that the government or any government has our backs on this. the glo al trend goes to digital.
wait until money is digital only. we are already on the way there.
spies. where is Splinter Cell: Bum Fight?
As a result of poor innovation and "me too" attitude in developing Splinter Cell Conviction, Ubisoft realized it could not develop what was planned for the Xbox 360 exclusive due to the poor hardware, no standard HDD and last-generation optical disc format which all had negative effects on the development process due to those hardware features being exclusive to the Xbox 360 platform.
The fear of a GTA, Assassin's Creed and Metal Gear Solid wanna-be threatened the development team and the Splinter Cell fanbase to the point that Ubisoft had to make the decision to scrap the game and begin at the beginning again.
Had this been a PLAYSTATION© 3 exclusive the developers could have used the power of the Cell processor, a standard HDD and the next-generation Blu-ray disc capacity to meet their plans for the sequel to the franchise. However, the poor decision to use a dying platform with poor hardware has put a serious dent in the time, money and resources of the developer.
Sam Fisher is still a bum and maybe he should have found a "Home" in the first place.
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The Sams, Sam & Max and Splinter Cell: Election weren't bad. The rest, not so much.
send Sam to a town somewhere in the middle east which is in the middle of a war... ok, then have him sneak his way through a battlefeild of people and get this... robots.
His look could do with a change, maybe have more gray in his hair, maybe shave the beard and have a mustashe. he looks liek he could war a bandana, do that as well.
I think these sujestions would be keepimg with the history of splinter cell
sites have jumped on this SSC u turn thing. Delays and total changes in direction may benifit this game. Its costly, yes, and annoyinf for us punters, of course but Its the braver thing to do especially if they knew it was kack. Guess we'll never know.
Maybe they can make sam appear in MGS4 like that assasin creed guy, I hear he always wanted to work with his IDOL;)