Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction Review

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction Review

Review by IGN 9.3/10 – Outstanding

Sam Fisher is back, and he is not in a good mood. Of all the smart decisions made in crafting a new Splinter Cell title, this might be the best one developer Ubisoft Montreal made. 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. That anger, that aggressiveness is built not only into the story but the gameplay changes as well. It was a huge risk deviating from the trial-and-error style that made the series famous, but it paid off. Splinter Cell Conviction is awesome.
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Review by CVG – 8/10 in EDGE

Edge has awarded Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction 8/10 in its latest lead review – claiming that the title is ‘in reach of greatness’.
The mag is particularly impressed with protagonist Sam Fisher’s ability to turn environments into ‘torture chambers’ at the press of a button.
‘[Even] the presence of a piano suddenly fills the room with ominous potential’ it reports.
It adds: ‘The environments, at their best, are playgrounds for Fisher’s lethal abilities, giving him every opportunity to outflank and outwit opponents who otherwise outgun him.’
It calls one particular chase around the Lincoln Memorial Ground ‘heart-pumping’, and praises the new, less-stealthy style of play. ‘As Splinter Cell goes from covert to overt, a new-found dynamism emerges,’ Edge reports.

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