Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
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 Ubisoft Montreal Gameloft (Android and iOS)
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Ubisoft Gameloft (Android and iOS)
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| composer | Kaveh Cohen Michael Nielsen Amon Tobin |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Windows April 13, 2010 April 15, 2010 Xbox360 April 29, 2010 iOS May 27, 2010 Mac February 17, 2011  |
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| platform | Windows , macOS , Xbox 360 , iOS , Android and Bada | ||
| Game engine | LEAD ( Unreal Engine 2.5 , mod. ) | ||
| genre | Stealth shooter | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Gamepad, keyboard and mouse; Touch screen | ||
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| medium | DVD-ROM ; App Store | ||
| language | Audio and text: German , English , Russian | ||
| Current version | 1.04 (June 22, 2010); 1.02 for mobile platforms (July 15, 2010) | ||
| copy protection | Ubisoft Game Launcher ( DRM ) Ubisoft account required. Internet connection required to start. |
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is the title of the sixth part of the Splinter Cell series , which was released in March 2010 for consoles and on April 29 of the same year for Windows. As a variant for iOS developed by Gameloft , it has been available in the App Store since May 27, 2010 .
Like its predecessors, Conviction is a stealth shooter. The player takes on the role of the American agent Sam Fisher, who is investigating the death of his daughter.
Conviction is the first title in the series to receive USK -18 approval.
Gameplay
Splinter Cell: Conviction is a shooter, in which it is less about the mere elimination of opponents than about inconspicuous movement. A large number of fights can be avoided if the player hides skillfully and moves as silently as possible.
The player is sent in the role of the American agent Sam Fisher as part of the campaign in various operational areas, in which he has to complete certain objectives. Common goals are eavesdropping on conversations, shutting down individuals or sabotaging facilities.
The game includes some changes to the previously known gameplay. A newly introduced element is the Mark & Execute function, which allows the player to mark several opponents as such and to switch them off with a click, without having to target each individual opponent with the mouse. Other innovations include interrogations in real time and the ability to use objects in the vicinity as weapons or distractions. Some old elements known from the predecessors have been removed, such as the combined night and heat vision device and the light sensor.
action
In co-op mode you play the agents Archer (Third Echelon) and Kestrel (Voron). The action takes place 10 days before the events of the solo campaign. The two were supposed to get lost EMP weapons back. In the end, Archer gets the job of eliminating Kestrel. However, the latter reads the message and a fight ensues in which one of the two dies. The survivor of the two is then killed in a sequence by Andriy Kobin.
Victor Coste, who tells the story, is interrogated in an unknown facility.
Sam Fisher is now self-employed investigating the death of his daughter Sarah. After a tip he goes to Valletta on Malta , but he is unexpectedly contacted by Anna "Grim" Grimsdottír. Fisher is more or less cooperating with Grim. He switches off a gang under Dimitri Gramkos, whom he interrogates. Gramkos tells Fisher that a man named Andriy Kobin hit his daughter and is currently in an old city museum. Fisher goes there and ends up hiring Kobin. However, he refuses to betray his clients, as they threaten to kill him otherwise. During the interrogation, several Splinter Cells suddenly appear and take Fisher prisoner. Third Echelon (abbreviated as "3E"), Sam Fisher's former employer, had set a trap for him. Fisher is taken to a private airfield by Black Arrow, a private army that 3E works with. The new 3E director Tom Reed assigns Grim to interrogate Fisher and make him disappear. However, Grim explains to Fisher that she works as the mole in 3E for President Caldwell. She is concerned because Reed Third uses Echelon to smuggle Russian EMP technology into the country. Grim cannot do anything about it, otherwise their cover would be blown - Fisher, on the other hand, has freedom of action, since he is no longer a 3E agent. Grim tries to help Sam escape from the airport and get him to work with her, but Sam vehemently refuses. After a few unsuccessful attempts to persuade her, she finally approaches Sam's daughter Sarah, who, according to Grim, is still alive. Sam angrily insinuates that she is lying and knocks Grim to the ground. Grim can use the injuries to his face to explain to Reed that Fisher fled by force. Sam fights his way to Grim's car and contacts his old friend Victor Coste. The two served together in the Iraq war , where Coste once saved Fisher's life. Coste and Fisher meet at the Washington Monument, where Sam receives information about Black Arrow.
Coste tells Fisher that Black Arrow was hired as a security company for a research lab called "White Box" that develops EMP technologies for the Department of Defense. This seems suspicious to Coste, as Black Arrow would not normally protect companies. Sam is now to investigate whether there is a connection between the two parties regarding Black Arrow's plans. Coste gives Fisher a backpack with weapons and a portable EMP generator, which Sam can use to create darkness around him and thus to escape more easily.
Fisher fights for an escape route from the Washington Monument, which has since been stormed by 3E, and finally reaches "White Box". During the infiltration he learns that a certain Lucius Galliard has bought the laboratory. Black Arrow kills or forces all scientists to work on the EMP technique for them during Fisher's investigation. Colonel Prentiss, commander of Black Arrow, also kidnaps a scientist who is supposed to work for him at another location. While Fisher fights his way forward in White Box, Grim calls him with Sarah on hold, which proves that Sam's daughter is still alive. Fisher finally penetrates the office of Black Arrow Major Robertson and taps data from his computer for Grim. However, this does not go completely smoothly, as Sam has to defend the computer from several Black Arrow troops and the download is hacked on top of that. Sam has to prevent this in order to maintain Grim's cover. Back on the first floor, it turns out that Black Arrow Major Robertson is the hacker. With the help of a huge pulse from Black Arrow's EMP test system, Sam finally manages to turn off the hack and kill Robertson. During the escape, Sam decides to tackle Lucius Galliard.
The President's Secret Service takes Fisher to the Lincoln Memorial because the Vice President made a speech there and one of Galliard's companies was in charge of security. Sam overhears a conversation between Galliard and Tom Reed over the surveillance cameras, during which the name "Megiddo" is mentioned.
After the conversation, Fisher goes to Galliard and interrogates him. Galliard tells Sam that Megiddo is not a person, but a name for the people who really have the city under control. Megiddo also existed in other major cities. Galliard also tells Fisher that Reed wants to detonate the EMPs that are being worked on in White Box and then portray himself as a hero. An assassin finally shoots Galliard and flees. Sam pursues him until the assassin dies in the explosion of his getaway car. Again, Fisher must flee from 3E units. Sam now goes to the headquarters of the Third Echelon. There he meets Kobin again and interrogates him a second time. He tells Fisher the same thing as Galliard, except that Reed not only wants to "play the strong man", he also wants to take out the president because she didn't want to cooperate with Megiddo. When Fisher asks about his daughter, Kobin says that Grim knows more about it than he does. Sam lets him lie and fights his way forward. Finally he reaches Grim's office. She plays Fisher a tape recording of the former director of Third Echelons and Sam's old friend Irving Lambert, whom Fisher had to shoot on a mission as a proof of loyalty to the JBA terrorist Emile Dufraisne. In the recording, Lambert says that a mole inside Third Echelon's threatened Sarah and that she should be used as leverage against Sam. As a result, Lambert decided to fake Sarah's death and thus take her out of the game and bring her to safety. Lambert hired Andriy Kobin to get a body that looked like Sarah and eventually lied to Sam about her death - all for the good of Third Echelon. He also says the mole was never found and that the threat to Sam and Sarah remains. Sam then ransacked Grim's office, angry that he had to live with a lie for years. Grim tries to calm him down and asks him to bring one of the three EMP guns on Michigan Ave. To put the reservoir out of action, as it would hit Sarah's apartment if it was ignited. Meanwhile, Grim goes to the White House with Reed and tries to save the President.
Once at the reservoir, Sam first frees the scientist kidnapped by Black Arrow. She explains to him that the EMP weapon consists of two generators. These must be destroyed at the same time, since if only one generator is destroyed, the other detonates immediately. Sam transmits the location of both generators via GPS to Victor Coste's helicopter, which can ultimately render the weapon harmless. After the generators are destroyed, Sam and Sarah meet again. Coste, however, urges a hurry and is now heading for the White House. During the flight, the three watch the detonation of the other two EMP weapons.
Shortly afterwards, the helicopter was shot down by anti-aircraft positions in the White House. All occupants survive the crash landing. Coste urges Fisher to go to the White House and help Grim. Meanwhile, Coste brings Sarah to safety with his contacts. Reluctantly, Fisher leaves his daughter and makes his way through downtown Washington, which was destroyed by the EMP, to the White House. Among other things, he “secures” the Vice President, who works with Reed. Finally, Fisher manages to fight his way through the building secured by Third Echelon and meet Grim in the press room. She has a plan how to get close to Reed without him killing President Caldwell right away. She shoots Sam, ties him up and takes him to the Oval Office , where Reed, with half a dozen Splinter Cells behind him, has the President in his hands. Reed wants to make it look like Fisher killed the president. Then he would shoot Fisher while he was fleeing and be celebrated as a hero in front of the press. He lapses into a speech, which gives Fisher an opportunity to overwhelm him and, with Grim's help, turn off all the Splinter Cells and save the President. In conversation with Reed it becomes clear that he was the mole and that Lambert ultimately had to die because of him. During the conversation, the player can decide twice whether Sam should hit or shoot Reed in order to get revenge on Reed for making Sam believe for three years that Sarah was dead. The President then withdraws the Army, which wants to storm the Oval Office and arrest Fisher.
Now the player is given the choice of killing Reed. If you spare him, Grim takes over the execution. She asks Fisher to help her rebuild Third Echelon as she has no one else to trust. Sam says he's done way too much already, doubts Grim's trust and says goodbye to her. This final conversation between Grim and Sam is omitted if the player kills Reed himself.
After Reed's execution, Victor Coste can be seen again in the interrogation room. He says that after the story he spoke to Sam again on the phone. Sam would take time out to catch up on lost time with Sarah. He also said the importance of standing by and protecting his family. Finally he said goodbye to Coste with the words: "Vic, thank you for everything. I love you like a brother". Then you can hear a hand grenade explosion, shots and screams. As the guards storm out of the room, Vic tells the player directly that he expected that. This suggests that Sam wants to break into the facility and save Vic.
Development history
In 2007 a flyby trailer was released for the Ubiday in Paris, which shows Sam Fisher as a bearded homeless man in a park filled with people. At E3 2009 you saw in game scenes that Sam Fisher no longer works for the American government in the latest part, but works independently and is looking for his daughter's murderer. In New Zealand, a promotion for the game ended in disaster as an actor nearly got shot by police officers. The actor who was supposed to play the main character Sam Fisher aimed at people walking by with a fake weapon. The police were quickly notified to prevent an alleged bloodbath. The man was allegedly almost gunned down by the police, but the officers were informed in good time that the scenery was just an advertising campaign and that the weapon was not real.
Due to the enormous increase in the level of violence, Splinter Cell: Conviction is the first in the series that has received USK-18 approval. The PEGI again gave the age recommendation 18+.
reception
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Splinter Cell Conviction received the following ratings at E3 2009:
- Joystiq: Best of E3 2009
- IGN: PC Best Action Game
- Gamepro: E3 Silver Medal
- 1UP: Best 360 Game
- Kotaku: Best Console / PC Game
- Jeuxvideo.com: Best Infiltration Game
- Gamespot: Best Xbox 360 Game
- Best action-adventure game
- Crispy Gamer: Top Ten of E3 Best Xbox 360 Game
- GameFocus: Best Xbox 360 game
- 3D Juegos: Best E3 Game
- Gamespy: Xbox 360 Game of Show
Web links
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction at MobyGames (English)
- Official Splinter Cell website with information on all parts of the series
Individual evidence
- ↑ gamestar.de
- ^ A b c Hilary Goldstein: Test Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction . In: IGN Entertainment . Ziff Davis , July 14, 2010, accessed February 1, 2014 .
- ↑ gamestar.de Splinter Cell: Conviction - E3 game scenes: Sam Fisher shoots around
- ↑ When guerrilla marketing goes backwards: Splinter Cell takes care of the police
- ^ Meta evaluation "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ^ Meta evaluation "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ^ Meta evaluation "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ^ Meta evaluation "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: Metacritic . CBS Corporation , accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Kevin VanOrd: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". GamePro, April 29, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ^ Ben Card: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". Game Revolution, April 27, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Hillary Goldstein: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: IGN Entertainment . Ziff Davis , July 14, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Justin Haywald: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". (No longer available online.) 1UP.com, March 14, 2012, archived from the original on May 11, 2012 ; accessed on March 3, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Simon Parkin: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: Eurogamer . Gamer Network , April 15, 2020, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Kevin VanOrd: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , April 13, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Chrsi Antista: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". GamesRadar, June 24, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Alec Meer: Test "Splinter Cell: Conviction". In: IGN Entertainment . Ziff Davis , April 13, 2010, accessed August 27, 2013 .
