Platforms: Xbox 360, PC, DS
Splinter Cell star Sam Fisher is back from a four-year vacation, and he's a changed man. Gone is much of the steathy, softly-softly sneaking about that characterized the early games in this Ubisoft series -- and instead Conviction's packed with lashings and lashings of action-heavy gunplay.
That's a huge risk, according to IGN, but it paid off. Splinter Cell Conviction is awesome. Review aggregator Metacritic, which takes an average of many review scores, puts the game at a respectable 88%, so IGN -- which gives Conviction a glowing 9.3 -- isn't far from the collective mark.
Giant Bomb concurs, calling it the most accessible Splinter Cell game yet, and picking out the Jason Bourne-like storyline for particular praise. Swap out Fisher's family-related rage for Matt Damon's identity-seeking Bourne, says the review, and Anna Grim Grimsdottir for Joan Allen's Pamela Landy and you'd hardly notice the difference.
Most critics pick up one major caveat: it's not exactly a lengthy game. 1UP goes so far as to call the game's standard $60 price sorely inflated, putting the lifespan of the game, multiplayer and all, at around the ten-hour mark. Other sites suggest a quick player could find the end of the game's main storyline after just five, and that's pretty much in line with our findings.
Link to watch trailer: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...on-impressive-over-priced-say-critics/1396230
Splinter Cell star Sam Fisher is back from a four-year vacation, and he's a changed man. Gone is much of the steathy, softly-softly sneaking about that characterized the early games in this Ubisoft series -- and instead Conviction's packed with lashings and lashings of action-heavy gunplay.
That's a huge risk, according to IGN, but it paid off. Splinter Cell Conviction is awesome. Review aggregator Metacritic, which takes an average of many review scores, puts the game at a respectable 88%, so IGN -- which gives Conviction a glowing 9.3 -- isn't far from the collective mark.
Giant Bomb concurs, calling it the most accessible Splinter Cell game yet, and picking out the Jason Bourne-like storyline for particular praise. Swap out Fisher's family-related rage for Matt Damon's identity-seeking Bourne, says the review, and Anna Grim Grimsdottir for Joan Allen's Pamela Landy and you'd hardly notice the difference.
Most critics pick up one major caveat: it's not exactly a lengthy game. 1UP goes so far as to call the game's standard $60 price sorely inflated, putting the lifespan of the game, multiplayer and all, at around the ten-hour mark. Other sites suggest a quick player could find the end of the game's main storyline after just five, and that's pretty much in line with our findings.
Link to watch trailer: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...on-impressive-over-priced-say-critics/1396230
