Original Splinter Cell a "big under-delivery"

TVGB: "Clint Hocking, creative director at Ubisoft, considers the original Splinter Cell to be a "big under-delivery.""

[bradlinho]

I liked it myself. I hope Conviction "under-delivers" too!

[LTC]

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[BreakNeckSpeed]

Wouldn't expect less from the like of you silly kids.

[wohoo]

Surprising comments to me. I'm rather fond of the first game as well. The best is still Chaos Theory though, Conviction won't be able to touch that imo.

[Parapraxis]

Splinter Cell Conviction is up on torrent sites already.

Oh I got a DD (denial disagree), remember kids, google is your friend.

[Greywulf]

Hiding in the dark and sneaking around was epic. The tense moments were great as you felt like if you were revealed, you'd definitely be killed. You aren't some super soldier, you're just a normal badass. If you're outnumbered, thats it. Its also why I loved the hitman series. You're a normal person, who is just cunning and leathal! If that was a under-delivery, then Ubisoft needs to go back to the boards.

I know that now at days, multiplatform developers want to rush out garbage for the biggest return on investment, but Splinter Cell 1 & 2 were amazing titles. They really defined the way stealth games should be played, Even taught metal gear a few tricks. I hate when you can just be rambo in a game and get away with it, it requires absolutely no challenge at that point, or fear as a player.

Sad the new series went the direction of having torture chambers and no more hiding bodies, ill give it a shot, but the gameplay is focused on action and beating people to death.

[AngryFork]

Atleast in the original you could carry dead bodies...

[Consoldtobots]

what I wonder is how Tom Clancy lets his name go on this series that has drifted so far from his material.

[mikepmcc]

I hope to god it does as well...for the sake of future splinter cell games.

[Bigpappy]

They tried to dumb down the original because people were crying about alarms making the game too hard. A real spy can not afford any alarms.

[Wrathman]

i loved it.keep the under-deliveries comin i say

oh and metacritic rates them all above 93 bar double agent..which did suck a bit.and vgchartz has the series at 5million units sold.thats on the xbox and 360 brand alone.

[Cueil]

don't go a trash my memories jerks! Telling me how one of my favorite games could have easily be my favorite game except no one at Ubisoft knew how to build that type of game... *sigh*

[jjesso1993]

I been playing convictions for few hours now and i dont think you can compare it to older splinter cell games. But this dose not make it bad game in way if you look at the game and dont think of the older splinter cells it can be really enjoying it has really good story and voice acting is really good grahics are sub par for a game being in develoment for over 5 years. So ovrall i would rate convictions a 9.1 but if you go in to playing thinking oh this going to beat choas thery then you going to rate this in the high 5. I really surprised by this and after demo was not expecting this to be as good as it will deffo pick this pc.

[Kratos Spartan]

Love the series. Meh on Double Agent though.

edit @ Bea

Yea it was good when seperated from the Trio, but it just didn't feel like the Splinter Cell I was accustomed to. I liked it, but don't like it when compared to the others.

[BeaArthur]

I thought Double Agent was pretty good. It's my least favorite of the ones I have played but I like the spin the put on it. The only annoying part was that you were constantly in the light so it made being stealthy more difficult.

[LinuxGuru]

I remember staring, with my jaw on the floor, at an original Xbox demo unit at Walmart like 8 years ago that was running the Splinter Cell demo...I was blown away. The game was awesome!

[Kushan]

I could never get into splinter Cell myself, got very bored very quickly but that's just me. I'm still going to give conviction a shot.

[mikepmcc]

Thank you, sir, for providing exactly what Ubisoft wants for Conviction; people who are now giving them an excuse to water down the franchise even more into a shallow mess.

[Baka-akaB]

that is rather stupid imo . it's not his fault Ubisoft couldnt see they could do a new ip with the content offered in conviction , and keep the Splinter cell serie in the original direction .

Blame ubisoft , hell there are the only one to blame here . WHo was the last publisher to successfully create a new ip worth 8 million units the game on ps3/360 ?

That's right that's Ubisoft with Assassin creed . Why not even try to redo the exploit with a modern bourne clone instead of making it a splinter cell game ?

[DARK WITNESS]

interesting stuff... can you imagine what SC would have been like had it been sort of an open world sandbox theme..

or better still, sc rpg.. sounds like the sc we know and love is not the game they had in mind.

but anyway...

[wh0am1]

I thought it was fantastic
Chaos Theory was a great sequel

the xbox version of Double Agent was great
the 360 version was alright

nobody seems to remember pandora tomorrow though
i'm not even sure If i played it or not

[Bigpappy]

It was a different take, as it was out doors mostly in the jungle. But I had fun with it (disarming the traps and what not). Double Agent is the only one I did not complete.

[chak_]

first 3 are blasts. period.

After that ubi went the wrong way of the force, dumbing down games and trying to make them more "open" for new customers.

I have excellent memories of the first one, pandora and chaos theory, they were just awesome.

[kesvalk]

ubisoft, you're doing it wrong...