Splinter Cell Conviction to sneak onto Xbox 360

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:18

Your IT - Entertainment

Ubisoft confirm a new Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell action adventure for the Xbox 360 and PC.  This time around Sam Fisher is on the run from the government.

Coming this southern spring exclusively to the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Windows PC's is Splinter Cell Conviction.  Ubisoft promising to take the popular franchise in a new direction as Sam Fisher must evade hunters sent by the very government agency he so successfully served in the past.

This is the fifth instalment in a franchise series that is yet to put a foot wrong.  Treading a carefully planed path much like the on screen protagonist of the series, Ubisoft's award winning Montreall studios promise to keep the series somewhat true to its stealth centred roots, but hint at a more action orientated game-play.

From the press release "Where light and shadows were key to gameplay in the original Splinter Cell, stealth action and improvisation help drive Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, making it an adrenaline rush of blood-pumping chase sequences, close combat, crowd interaction with real-world dynamics and intense gun battles."

It will be interesting if this change of pace is accepted by Splinter Cell devotees.

"The Splinter Cell franchise launched on Xbox and is now returning to its roots by coming exclusively to Xbox 360. Since then, Splinter Cell has become one of Ubisoft's most successful and storied titles, because each game has brought something new and compelling," shared Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer, Ubisoft. "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction is poised to take the franchise in a completely new direction, taking advantage of the power of the Xbox 360, which we feel will excite long-standing fans as well as appeal to folks new to the series."

Listed features include;
•          All-new improvisation-based gameplay: Discover a new breed of gameplay, where every object is available to use. Inventory is actually the world around you; you decide how to use it.
•          Enemies will actively search for you: As a fugitive, quick thinking and adaptation are essential to turn the situation to your advantage. However, enemies can also use the environment and other resources to track you down.
•          Use the living crowd: Blend in with a realistic crowd and navigate within a civilian environment, mimic them to go undetected or instigate panic as a way to become untraceable as you escape danger. Active stealth will force you to think and act quickly. However, as always, you will have to weigh the risk of heavy force against other options.
•          Black market: Use your underground connections to gain access to black market gadgets and weapons, and complete your objectives by using consumer-grade gear in ways that were not intended.
•          Crowd in multiplayer: Play with, or against, your friends in the midst of a civilian crowd - but know that enemies will look like any other person, so your sense of observation and ability to act unnoticed are as important as reacting quickly to an unexpected threat.

For more information about Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, please visit www.splintercell.com