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Topic	banananor ranks the steam games he has completed
banananor 04/08/19 11:08:12 PM #60:	#37: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction In my mind, Splinter Cell has always been Metal Gear Solid's boring cousin that works for microsoft sometimes. More realistic, more reliable, more grounded, but way less entertaining. That's the price of keeping your sanity, I guess. I guess Ubisoft realized their gameplay wasn't quite cutting it, and tried to transition into more of a bourne/taken action game. For the most part, it's a huge success. Sneaking around, making some stealth takedowns, and then marking the last few and popping them off with a smooth animation is a great core gameplay loop. A little bit ahead of its time, actually. Not sure how many games have that 'instantly shoot people you've tagged' button. It's been like 5 years since I've played this one, but I feel confident in saying that the story was competent, but still nothing to phone home about- compared to a movie. Their commitment to semi-realism just prevents Splinter Cell from going beyond its Tom Clancy roots. It's just a solid, solid, solid, solid story with solid mechanics and smooth gameplay. What's not to like? I just can't put it higher because I don't find that much to love. Since the series was first used to show off cloth physics on the xbox, I've been save-scumming my way through stealthy scenarios. This was the first game I actually found a joy to play, even if there was less to make fun of. Well, aside from the fact that Sam Fisher somehow became like ten years younger. At least they still had Michael Ironsides! I'm still looking for a random studio to create a stealth action game with Michael Ironsides and David Hater voicing the two leads. But you don't hack computers by mashing the keyboard anymore, or have super robotic animations while shimmying around. But still, my fondest memories of Splinter Cell are of playing the co-op in Chaos Theory. To this day, my friend and I still quote the weirdly excited duo. ("I'm reeeeady." "DAMN we're good.") Conviction has that co-op, too, with all of the modern gameplay improvements. If you ever notice the game on deep sale, I would highly recommend it for that experience alone --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured. <cite>banananor posted [p:920225470] in banananor ... [t:77570109]...</cite> <quote>#37: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction In my mind, Splinter Cell has always been Metal Gear Solid's boring cousin that works for microsoft sometimes. More realistic, more reliable, more grounded, but way less entertaining. That's the price of keeping your sanity, I guess. I guess Ubisoft realized their gameplay wasn't quite cutting it, and tried to transition into more of a bourne/taken action game. For the most part, it's a huge success. Sneaking around, making some stealth takedowns, and then marking the last few and popping them off with a smooth animation is a great core gameplay loop. A little bit ahead of its time, actually. Not sure how many games have that 'instantly shoot people you've tagged' button. It's been like 5 years since I've played this one, but I feel confident in saying that the story was competent, but still nothing to phone home about- compared to a movie. Their commitment to semi-realism just prevents Splinter Cell from going beyond its Tom Clancy roots. It's just a solid, solid, solid, solid story with solid mechanics and smooth gameplay. What's not to like? I just can't put it higher because I don't find that much to love. Since the series was first used to show off cloth physics on the xbox, I've been save-scumming my way through stealthy scenarios. This was the first game I actually found a joy to play, even if there was less to make fun of. Well, aside from the fact that Sam Fisher somehow became like ten years younger. At least they still had Michael Ironsides! I'm still looking for a random studio to create a stealth action game with Michael Ironsides and David Hater voicing the two leads. But you don't hack computers by mashing the keyboard anymore, or have super robotic animations while shimmying around. But still, my fondest memories of Splinter Cell are of playing the co-op in Chaos Theory. To this day, my friend and I still quote the weirdly excited duo. ("I'm reeeeady." "DAMN we're good.") Conviction has that co-op, too, with all of the modern gameplay improvements. If you ever notice the game on deep sale, I would highly recommend it for that experience alone --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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