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GAF: How was Splinter Cell: Conviction?
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papersleeves
Member
It's a good action game. It's a terrible Splinter Cell game.
NullPointer
Member
Random fact: Co-op interrogations are hilarious.
Local too, and far more fleshed out than you'd think.
Anton Sugar
Member
It's like the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol of the Splinter Cell series.
kunonabi
Member
I'm not really a fan of RE4 and neither were the rest of friends who were big RE players. We all dropped out around RE4. I played Outbreak but I was off the main series once RE4 hit.
All I hear from RE fans is bitching and moaning because of RE4.
Messofanego
Banned
People have some good revisionism on RE 4. Lots of people hated it for the direction it took RE in, and diehard RE fans are bitter that the prototype RE 4 never made it.
Anton Sugar
Member
We never were and likely never will get a "classic" Resident Evil game. RE4 still had a lot better understanding of atmosphere and tension compared to RE5 without taking on too many characteristics of an action-shooter.
RE5 took it a bit too far for my tastes.
RE5 took it a bit too far for my tastes.
FunkeeFresh
Member
I thought the lighting stuff in the gameplay was really clever... It's a fun game, just don't expect splinter cell. I'm rubbish at stealth games, so the change of pace really suited me.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I'm still looking for someone to play some co-op with if anyone's interested. My gamertag is TheDarkestRed.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
It's the same old trial and error bullshit that Ubi's been pulling with this series since Day fucking one with the original. Nothing has changed, everything just looks prettier.
It's a pretty good game. My problem with it was certain design choices where it was near impossible to go through the game totally stealthily. It leans too much on the action side of things and that was disappointing.
I hope for the next game they add some mechanics from the older games like moving dead bodies, whistling, and other non-lethal, silent options like knock-out gas.
I hope for the next game they add some mechanics from the older games like moving dead bodies, whistling, and other non-lethal, silent options like knock-out gas.
I'll help you out; I need a reason to pop in my copy (well there is the Ghost Recon beta). My GT is Johan El Fuerte; I'll send you an FR with a message (or vice versa). My brother and I were playing it on split screen co-op before he moved in with his girlfriend. I have all the DLC map packs as well so if you wanna do the other modes, I'll be down for that as well. Send me an invite if you see me online.
On topic, I thought it was a good game. For reference, I only played the first Splinter Cell, so I didn't play all of them. But SC was purely a stealth game; Conviction is basically Batman: Arkham Asylum with a "win" button. The five-seven broke the game. I just hated the Iraq section like so many other people. It was pretty annoying and just a straight up shooter section. I also hated the Washington D.C. section; I had a ton of trouble with it on hard, but it was doable. The D.C. level reminded me Modern Warfare 2's D.C. level.
But otherwise, I enjoyed it for what it was.I bought it for 15 bucks during a Best Buy Black Friday sale so I got my money's worth. The interrogation sections weren't anything special and didn't do anything for me, but they were cool I suppose. I did like the disarming animations and thinking of ways to take down enemies in a room. The challenges were also cool as well. I liked messing around with the gadgets.
Speedymanic
Banned
Best damn 24 game not named 24 to ever be released.
It's serviceable but it doesn't run that amazing. For a game that old I can't even max it out and I get frequent framerate dips in random areas, and this is on a computer that can run Max Payne 3 on a mix of very high/high and Witcher 2 on almost all high settings. It's just not an amazingly well optimized game, but it runs well enough with some settings tinkering.
JacksUsername
Member
I actually had quite a lot of fun with it, but I never played much of the originals. I just didn't really care for the story.
This.
elementalsin
Member
For what it was, it was an ok enjoyable game that is worth a rental.
However, regardless of title I will never consider it a splinter cell game.
However, regardless of title I will never consider it a splinter cell game.