Worst Splinter Cell?

[Polacanthus]

Am I super picky is or is this game just horrible? I dont have to play stealth at all. I am easily shooting myself through any level and the AI is so dumb, they all line up nicely in a row to collect a headshot or look over an edge one after another to be foreheadpierced... I cant hide bodies, the controls are horrible, and shotguns are way more percise than anything else.
As soon as i get night googles which make me look through walls enemies can do that too... quick time events here and there and the lack of emotion in cutscenes is overplayed with shaky cameras and projected keywords and images... I thought double agent was horrible, but this did top it for me. Im trying to finish the game but its seriously annoying me to death with its bad checkpoints and parts where you simply fail and retry a few times... always easily killing the same hordes of guards, which at some point magically know where you are because the programmers wanted them to.

I love how "flashbanged cevlars" seem to be easier to penetrate. All together its once more a cheap console portation and burries the SC series for me another foot deeper... I guess I will stick to Chaos Theory... I wrote a more objective review about this game, but that day it disappeared from the shop.

So. My question is. If I dislike this game a lot, are any of the newer SC parts possibly worth a try? I loved the first 3 parts of the series, especially 1 and 3.

[Venator]

actually the multiplayer is the best part , and i mean face-off
There you won't have to do with "stupid AI" and you will need good strategy , reaction and skills to overcome a good player.Anyway the PRO way of playing face off is without gadgets and guns , only pistols and the points system makes you go after the other and you become the hunter , and the other the prey.
Hunter and Inflitration are ok too.Frankly i like how it's polished.They game is not horrible at all, just play face off with someone and you ll see the real challenge. It is true that this is not like its predecesors.For example i played chaos theory in co op with a friend.First 2 missions were great , the next ones were absolutely boring from my point of view.It''s not a bad thing tho to have some little action.Anyway they fixed that in Blacklist where u can choose ur style : ghost, panter or assault so any type of player can play his own style.

[Venator]

The* game

[Polacanthus]

For me Splinter Cell used to be a singleplayer game mainly. Multiplayer games can't really be stealth, because of the fact your opponents are always activly looking out for you, so there is no real possibility to stalk around them, as I already experienced in the CT MP and in Double Agent aswell. I'm just massivly disappointed how many of the features older titles used to have, which actually made it the great SP game it was, are now gone. Seems to be very much the policy of bigger studios, to actually cut their games to a thiner product, and still demand a lot of money for it. There I can't really complain, because I purchased this game in a Sale for just 4 bucks.
If I wanted to shoot myself through corridors of enemies, I wouldn't go for a stealth game. I will take a close look into the multiplayer.

[Beast]

It's not precisely a stealth game, and that was advertised obviously enough to me before it came out years ago.
Do I like it as much as ANY other Splinter Cell? No. No I don't.
It's still miles ahead of many other games out there.
Not the best, and actually the worst in the franchise (opinion), but not a bad game at all.
A bit Hollywood, really.

[j4ck_fl4sh_3k]

Could be, don't forget that the PS3 version of Double Agent is awful and ubisoft should applogise for the state that is was released in... that said glad ive finally got a chance to play Convition as I've played all the others and its not as thou is a big part of the Sam Fisher story, I mean I went from DA to BL and was like "oh, sara is dead" to "What the F? she alive again!"

[Polacanthus]

Got no problem with a plot twist, but you know... modern spy movies AND movies, now always have inside job conspiracies... and it's kind of becoming super lame, predictable and unoriginal. And that frozen and frustrated, humour abandoned Fisher... is not really making anyone feel touched, does he?

[42 Sav]

I think this is definitely the worst in the franchise but it's still way better than most games that come out now. The biggest problem in this game in my opinion was uPlay. I played the game a lot on Xbox and now I can't play it on here because everytime I try to play it, uPlay crashes. I think Blacklist is way better than this one cause it has way more customization, more levels, better multiplayer, pretty much everything about Blacklist is better.

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

Conviction was a great game, the reason why I bought it was because it had cover system - back then I just discovered Rainbow Six Vegas, and I was fascinated by cover shooters. So I bought this.
As you would expect, I played it as a shooter first. Later, I played it again and tried to do stealth as much as possible.
It's true that this isn't a pure stealth game like previous titles, but anyone who says that it's not a stealth game, wake up and stop whining. It's still a 80% stealth game, if player plays it right.

[Liquid ID]

I like my stealth optional but preferred. Blacklist was a fantastic meld of all the styles and incentives. I do not miss MISSION FAILED because stealth got broken. Conviction was a huge step in the right direction for me. I am replaying it now years after finishing it on 360. The first time through I played very slow and methodical. It worked. Now, after my Blacklist training, I play a more hard and fast panther style cat and mouse game. Conviction's controls are a bit unrefined, but with the cover system and last known location, you can feel like a badass with either stealth or sheer brutality in motion. And Conviction layed the groundwork for that killing in motion found in Blacklist.
I also love the projected objectives and flashbacks. It keeps you in the moment without breaking action with cutscenes or UI overlays.
Conviction broke from the Splinter Cell mould for sure, but I think they got it right and have evolved into a game for many different types of players.

Also if you think pre-Convition games had brilliant AI and infallible stealth elements, you must be working on pure nostalgia because things like enemy AI had the potential to do some seriously stupid things, except far more slowly.
Newer Splinter Cells have so much more flexibility and *gasp* FUN for a wider audience while staying true to itself, if you choose to play that way. Play Conviction on Realistic and try to survive a gunfight without at least removing obstacles and gaining an advantage first via stealth.. its going to get rough. Unless you're skilled... and as a veteran to Splinter Cell you should be.

Maybe you're just so good at the stealth that the newer games don't push the envelope of that challenge for you anymore. But they are far from bad games, and Blacklist in particular is one of the best games I've played in the last year or two.

[MiphilesMicSunshine]

WORST SPLINTER CELL EVER

[Chew Ass and Kick Bubblegum]

Blacklist was the worst SC game for me.
I really tried, I wanted to love it, but I just couldn't.
Conviction, Pandora Tommorow. Those are my personal top SC games.

[d-^^eathstare>]

best splinter cell available to date imo, first part is a classic but blacklist was pretty weak storywise and had clunky mechanics :(

[LeRutY]

Conviction and Blacklist worst SC ever. Even Double Agent (Version 1) is way better, because more SC. SC 1-3 no words needed, the best ones.