Ok, confession time: I don’t know much about theSplinter Cellfranchise. Stealth-y tactical shooters aren’t really, y’know, mything. But I was really intrigued byConviction‘s visual style and thewrite-pertinent-info-on-the-walls mechanicthat Ubisoft showed off at E3 this year, and co-op kind ofismy thing, so I guess I ought to start paying attention.
For those of you in the dark (like I was),Splinter Cell: Convictionfeatures a co-operative campaign that serves as a prequel to the rest of the game. It’s pretty standard spy stuff: A rogue Russian military officer has stolen some warheads, and America and the rest of the well-behaved Russian military team up to stop him. Of course, this is is a videogame, two dudes—one American, one Russian—are going to do it all themselves. Naturally.
Even if the story is kind of bland, the gameplay should make up for it, right? I hope so. The co-op campaign doesn’t feature any of thedark and gritty espionagewe’re used to seeing (the Russians prefer explosions, apparently), and I didn’t see any haunted messages floating on the walls, so I’m not sure this all ties intoConviction.
Luckily, Ben PerLee has a preview coming tomorrow morning that will put all of this in way better context than I can. This trailer will just have to hold you over until then. And in case you just really like it for some reason, the same trailer is available on Xbox Live.
