Splinter Cell Conviction Trailer: 'It Was Time to Do Something Kinda New'

Raise your hand all that are born on the 1st of January!

If you were to show this trailer without the age check, what are the consequences? Does the ESRB come after shacknews?

Has there ever been any evidence to suggest that those age checks work in any way? I mean, if a kid would actually fall for the trick and enter their actual birth year, I'd be surprised they figured out how to use the internet in the first place.

Does anyone else have problems with this ESRB verification and Chrome?

I can select everything, but Go simply will not work.

As a huge fan of all the 'Splinter Cell' games, my favorite part of these games was planning tactics in my head while on the move in the dark, making quick decisions and dealing with the consequences as they happen in real time under constant pressure.

The new 'Mark & Execute' system seems like it takes the planning out of my head and lets me script it out perfectly: you choose 3 marks and click a button and Sam automatically kills them with no mistakes. (Having only watched this in video clips) it kind of takes the danger & suspense out of it for me. Sam was never a marksman under pressure and that was always part of the fun of the original gameplay... you can take a shot, but you might miss that light or you might graze that guy instead of killing him... and then you're in trouble! Plus, it was way more fun to not use the guns and find ways to beat the game without killing anyone with a bullet.

I would have been thrilled with another as-we've-played-it-before 'Splinter Cell' game, so this new direction is going to have to do a lot more to convince me.

I'm seeing much more extreme violence and more 'action' in Conviction, so obviously they are still trying to make Splinter Cell more of a game for the masses. It's a huge game for UbiSoft, but it's no Gears or Halo, and I kind of don't want it to be but oh well.

Looks like a console game. Auto-aim, WOW! I'd rather aim myself. Can't wait to see the next one....Splinter Cell in space!

P.S. everything that goes to consoles (I know this is on PC but it's going to be a port) just gets ruined.

Hmmmm this took my excitement from about 3 to about 9. This game is now back on my radar. I really dig the Bourne esque action scenes. PRevious splinter cell games were good but lacked a lot of intense action.

these age gates are great, I've checked into it but if you're under 18 you're screwed. I can't think of anyway around it really. It just such a damn good system

Finally a Splitter Cell with enough ease of use and action. Even a ass like me might like it.

so this is how I sound when I speak english

Hmmm, I understand what they are going for on the quick target/kill thing, but it looks far too automated. I guess this is just a consideration with consoles, you can't be that precise with the analogs.

Looking forward to it.
Using the 'target' mode seems a bit too easy - whats the downside?

"Pushing this genre forward", "we did our homework". There's probably some kind of one-armed bandit generating catch lines in marketing departments. I'm glad this time we didn't get "to the next level".

The E3 gameplay demo was interesting though.

Looks better than it did before, although without "Mark and Execute" it'd be horrible.

Mark and Execute reminds me of the Desperados strategy game where you can record a move then hit Spacebar to carry it out. Good for throwing knives at enemies when you're close enough. It's more fun than actually clicking on the enemy.

The ledge hanging/shooting looks so stupid. I know there's not a whole lot of realism to be expected in these games, but this move sticks out like a sore thumb as it defies the laws of physics.

Panthers?....kittens toying with what?

Yet again with these ridiculous interviews? I don't care what the developers look like.

If they want to be part of the marketing process, they should be happy to have their names show up over the gameplay footage as they speak.

But why does there have to be more time spent showing these people in some generic, unfinished office building than they spent showing the actual game?

Interesting you click on HD Stream link and get to bypass the age gate. Didn't know what you guys were whining about at first. This might just be the coolest SC ever going by what I've seen so far. Might even get me over the bad taste from Double Agent. First SC game I didn't even bother finishing.

So basically, less stealth and more action. At no point in the video does anyone talk about stealth, all they talked about so how frustrating stealth is.

Where is the ghostly bypass with no enemy the wiser?!

Look, if your solution to the "helpless if spotted" problem in stealth is forget stealth and replace with action, then it's not stealth.

This looks absolutely fantastic. It looks like they've made some really creative new gameplay systems to stop it just being a remake of Chaos Theory.

I thought Metal Gear Solid was the first Action Stealth game, really..

I usually sell or give away my console games but I kept all the Splinter Cell titles. Looking forward to this one.

That was great. I like that the stealthy players are rewarded with the targeting system.

I wonder, though, since they want the 'hardcore shooter fans' to get in o this, is there a separate system just for that where you're rewarded for that style of play?

Auto-Aim.

Enough Said.

This looks AWESOME. Curious about the multiplayer, though.

ew agegates have finally hit the shack :(

can you guys at least auto fill month and day to Jan 1 for us and i'll just pick the random year?

Ridiculous. I hate these "interviews". Commercials full of "Captain Obvious" moments and advertisement bullshit,

ffs, just put a 'Are you old enough' yes no box, rather than a day/month/year dropdown, that's incredibly annoying

also I was born in 1903

more gameplay less talking please kthx

Man that video got me even more hyped up for this game. The last time being spotted mechanic is really cool

I understand doing somthing new, but why use the splinter cell name when it had already had its peak in Chaos Theory, if they wanted to go into a new realm of Bourne-Esque fugitive gameplay they should create a new franchise. It just seems like you will have trouble attracting the players that just didnt like old splinter cell, and maybe even pre-existing cell fans that dont like the changes.

I am interested in seeing where this ends up tho. :)