Zero Punctuation: Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Comparing the 2 is pointless - gameplay styles are both different, although Conviction is very much about stealth despite what the naysayers may claim. Just not the same kind of stealth.The_AC said:
A couple of things:
- Reed wants the Vice President to become President, Reed himself doesn't want to be President.
- It says Sam is 5'10" on the front of the Double Agent box.
Thanks for the crack at my place of residence. It's always nice to know that blind hate at Quebec will be present with everyone regardless of whether they've been there or not.
I understand what you mean about stealth, though. My experiences with stealth are pretty limited but I always preferred to simply run by them rather than kill or 'knock out' guards. One thing that's always bothered me, though? Why, in video games, are there no fat, lazy security guards who do nothing more than sit in their office?
I understand what you mean about stealth, though. My experiences with stealth are pretty limited but I always preferred to simply run by them rather than kill or 'knock out' guards. One thing that's always bothered me, though? Why, in video games, are there no fat, lazy security guards who do nothing more than sit in their office?
He teared this one apart. Great review even a game im not iterested in, i got a little interested in double agent, thief and hitman.
Why the intro and ending music have to be so much louder than the review itself, im wearing my headphones, i have to turn down the volume, turn it up and the down againg.
Why the intro and ending music have to be so much louder than the review itself, im wearing my headphones, i have to turn down the volume, turn it up and the down againg.
Damn, now I want to play hungry hungry hippos.
Haven't laughed this hard at a review in awhile, nice one.
Very sneaky cheeky little self advertisement their at the end. I almost didn't notice it it was so sly.
Haven't laughed this hard at a review in awhile, nice one.
Very sneaky cheeky little self advertisement their at the end. I almost didn't notice it it was so sly.
Legion said:
I think you may have missed the part when Yahtzee said that holding down a button to go into stealth mode works well. And even if there were things that can be classified as good in your own personal opinion it doesn't really seem to matter all that much because they don't seem to be enough to save the game as far as Yahtzee is concerned.
Because they figure that people are smart enough to watch the video first to comment on it. And when they aren't they don't let them hang around here.tburke0 said:
Now I'd like to see something in Half-Life 2 where you really need to stealth. I mean, there was that one house off to the side on Highway 17, but you can never actually disappear once you've been spotted. Is that something only in stealth games or do you guys know of any others that actually let you get out of sight and confuse the guards that aren't stealth games by genre?
I'm somewhat suprised to see that Yahtzee shares my view on Splinter Cell series - I love stealth games, but Splinter Cell never grew on me, mostly due to extreme linearity. It ruins it for me, turning a open-ended land of options and posibilities into a set of moves that need to be executed in a specific order to move to the next room. Half the fun of a stealth game is picking your method and approach...
The biggest thing I got out of this review is that Yahtzee likes Hitman. Therefore, he is a god.
Anyway, good review. Touched on the problems I had with the game. Still, It was a lot better than Double Agent.
Anyway, good review. Touched on the problems I had with the game. Still, It was a lot better than Double Agent.
Finished the game yesterday. Almost everything Yahtzee said about this one is spot on, but it was still an enjoyable rental.
I wonder how the story writers will go about wringing another installment out of this series, now that pretty much every even half-interesting loose end in the overarching storyline has been tied up.
I wonder how the story writers will go about wringing another installment out of this series, now that pretty much every even half-interesting loose end in the overarching storyline has been tied up.
Mmmmmm.... delicious shameless plug....which I would totally follow up on except that I'm broke.
My only experience with splinter cell was one of the early games when I was very young. I had to sneak around a burning building. Fire hurts and I couldn't really get the hang of it.
Returned to the video store to rent something else fairly quickly.
Needless to say I wouldn't call myself a fan of the series but I may be able to deal with it now being a veteran of Demon's Souls thus having raised my patience.
Returned to the video store to rent something else fairly quickly.
Needless to say I wouldn't call myself a fan of the series but I may be able to deal with it now being a veteran of Demon's Souls thus having raised my patience.