Comments on: Splinter Cell: Conviction Set For February

By: Aorawn

Aorawn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:36 +0000

LOL AMERICANS ROFL ROFL

By: Urthman

Urthman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:08:47 +0000

The guy doing the Saturday (?) demo at PAX was the most over-the-top video game presentation I’ve ever seen. He sounded like a WWF announcer, “OH MY GOD I can’t BELIEVE how UTTERLY BRUTAL Sam Fisher was to that guy’s FACE! But is he DONE? NO WAY! He’s JUST GETTING STARTED! Now he’s going HUMILIATE HIM by breaking a TOILET WITH HIS HEAD! SAM is UNBELIEVABLY HARDCORE! Because those BASTARDS KILLED his DAUGHTER so THIS TIME it’s PERSONAL! BUT the guy STILL WON’T TALK! ARE YOU GONNA TAKE THAT?”

I swear. I don’t have the quotes exactly, but I am not exaggerating even a little bit.

I was hoping for a youtube video. This is the best I could find, but it’s a later part of the game and the demo guy has toned it down a lot, although catch the end where he yells “SHOOT HIM! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?” when the guy playing the demo has a gun at the enemy’s head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWMBBPmyKg

“UBISOFT! MAKING GAMES THAT DON’T SUCK! FOR BRODUDE FRATBOYS LIKE YOU!”

He really wanted to make me hate this game, and I mostly do, but the was a pretty cool stealth bit where when you get out of sight, you leave behind a ghost that represents where the AI last saw you and where they currently think you are, so you can watch them close in on your former position while you sneak around and ambush them.

By: whalleywhat

whalleywhat — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:06:33 +0000

Whatever, this game is gonna rule. Just bought Chaos Theory off Steam in anticipation.

By: Katsumoto

Katsumoto — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:06:48 +0000

Um, that was meant to be In reply to Optimaxetc. Damn iPod touch!

By: Katsumoto

Katsumoto — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:02:45 +0000

In fairness, I completed T:ds without killing anyone! I think it’s just as stealthy as the previous two. Well… I took out a few zombies, does that count?

By: Lars Westergren

Lars Westergren — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:03:49 +0000

I don’t know, Virtual Virtual Pool was pretty good, and look how popular World of World of Warcraft is!

…either that, or typing a message on a tiny mobile screen is hard. :P

By: Starky

Starky — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:26:10 +0000

Actually the Americans are right with fall, it was we English that changed (to a french word, pah!) to Autumn and they that kept the English fall.
English colonists took “fall” with them to Yewessay and it stuck, while us lot back in ol’ rainy land decided fall was too working class, and needed to be tarted up a bit, so we nicked the word off the french. Like coz dey like sound well posh like innit.

Damn those Yanks and their keeping our old language, words and measurements!

Shame they lost sarcasm though, but then I firmly believe that the phenomenon of sarcasm is a cold weather creature, natural-selection like it is purged from people in warm weather climates. It’s main source of food is one simple question, one that with good weather is literal and this offers no nourishment.

Lovely weather isn’t it?

By: nutterguy

nutterguy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:32:54 +0000

Definitly looks more like they are going for the Bourne look and story for that matter, which is NOT a bad thing mind you. Every action film since (Bond) has been trying to copy that fighting style, time for a game to try replicate it.
I’m pretty sure Sam Fish*coughBournecough*er is even younger looking than he used to be…

By: FRIENDLYUNIT

FRIENDLYUNIT — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:47:50 +0000

I agree. If they could see it in their hearts to write yyyy-mm-dd OR dd-mm-yyyy that would be fine. Changing your mind halfway though is just disingenuous.

At least it wasn’t publicised that it would be released in “fall” though eh.

As a die hard fan of SC I’m very close to passing on this one.

By: Tyshalle

Tyshalle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:15:32 +0000

Yeah, this does not look especially impressive; and I had the same thought about the graphics. They do look worse than they did in the first game.

Also, is it just me or is Sam younger in this game than he has been in any other thus far?

By: radomaj

radomaj — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:56:09 +0000

I played Chaos Theory when I was 14 years old and I did it with a mostly non-lethal playthrough (although the game did get the better of me and I killed a guard when I didn’t have to). Mostly tried to avoid shooting lightbulbs and used that electrodisabling gun-thingie. It’s not teenagers that need ACTION – I find that it is people in general.

By: Esc

Esc — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:57:37 +0000

As an american who has to communicate with his finnish office regularly, I say: “All hail Fructosember! Death to Saccharinary! “