If you played stealth games around the PlayStation 2 then you might remember a franchise called Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. The fifth game was released in 2010 called Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and this game was also offered to Games With Gold members in July of 2018. Was the second to last game in the Tom Clancy: Splinter Cell series a good entry?
If you want to progress in this game, you are going to have to rely on stealth. Going in all guns blazing will not get you far. You do have a pistol with a suppressor and you can also perform melee kills if you get close enough to an enemy., If you perform melee kills, you can target multiple enemies and then shoot those enemies in succession but the more you want to do this, the more melee kills you will have to be successful on.
There are a couple of points in the game where you can interrogate enemies where you take the enemy to something breakable until the enemy decides to tell you what you want to know. These interrogations are not as fun as they are in a game like The Punisher. The melee kills are the same kill every time so you won’t see different melee kills like in Blood Stone 007.
There is one level that is not like the others which is the level in Iraq. This level is played through as a flashback but some of the things you could do since the beginning of the game you can’t do in this level like targeting multiple enemies and shooting them in succession.
As long as all enemies are not alerted to your presence before you have a chance to take some out, the game is not that difficult. If enemies do spot you, you will see a white outline of yourself at your last known position according to the enemies. With this outline, you can use misdirection to take out your enemies.
I have no problems with the controls. Everything you can do in this game is easy to pull off and there is nothing I would change about the controls.
The story of the game starts with Sam Fisher sitting in a restaurant in Malta. There are rumors that the death of Sam Fisher’s daughter was intentional. An old colleague calls Sam letting him know a group has arrived and will kill Sam so Sam has to take them out without being seen. That is the story at the beginning of the game.
The graphics are good for Xbox 360 standards One thing they do with the graphics I like is when Sam can’t be seen by enemies then Sam will be in black and white. If enemies can see Sam then everything will be in color. Not only are you given a waypoint but you see your next objective on a building or wall so you know what you have to do next.
I like the music in the game. Also, the voices of enemies when they find an ally down so they start to panic and want to find you as soon as possible. I also like the sound effects so there is nothing I would change about the sound in the game.
The campaign doesn’t take long to complete. You could finish the entire campaign within an afternoon. There are multiplayer modes with most of them being cooperative and allowing people to play split-screen, by linking multiple consoles together or playing together online. There is also a prologue campaign where two players can team up in a campaign that takes place a week and a half before Sam’s story. If you want to play the modes where you take on waves of enemies by yourself, you are also able to do that.
The gameplay is fun and it’s pretty easy to start playing even if you never played a Tom Clancy game before. I have no problem with the controls. I like the story in the game. I have no problems with the graphics or sound and there is replayability in the game. However, the campaign is shorter than campaigns in most other shooters. I don’t particularly appreciate how the game introduces you to targeting mechanics but then they give you the level in Iraq where you can’t use the targeting mechanics. So I give Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction on Xbox 360 7 out of 10. A few problems are too big to overlook, but it’s still a fun game to play if you have nothing better to do.
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