Future Soldier looks to be another stand-out title in a strong year for Ubisoft. Taking an already established brand and making it something even more special isn’t easy, but that is, quite frankly, Ubisoft’s modus operandi. Ghost Recon has been around for many years now, and has achieved success by taking a popular genre, the third person shooter,...

Format: Xbox 360 (version reviewed), PC Unleashed: Out Now (PC version out 30/04/10) Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Players: 1 – 2 Site: http://splintercell.us.ubi.com/conviction/ Brutality is something that a lot of games characters can be quite keen to show off in cut scenes, but when it comes down to gameplay the end result is often just a...

Apr 12, 2010

With the UK release of Splinter Cell Conviction almost ready to leap out of the shadows and stun us all on April 16, Ubisoft has released a final trailer for the game featuring Third Echelon boss, Tom Reed. In the trailer, Reed gives us a nice monologue justifying what he does and why he isn’t so fond of Fisher, describing that agents on the job should be...

Short and sweet. Not words that gamers like to associate with demos, but to be fair, they can’t all be like Darksiders and Just Cause 2. However short as it is though, the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo, just released on Xbox Live, makes up for it by being sweeter than 12 sugar packets liberally sprinkled over a slab of milk chocolate. We’ve seen the videos...

More sexy Sam Fisher shenanigans, this time involving a shotgun that rather curiously does have some stealth properties to it, rather than just being a loud and proud death bringer. The suppressed Spas-12 shotgun demonstrated in the trailer above comes as a bonus if you decide to pre-order the brilliant looking Splinter Cell: Conviction. Nothing new seems to be...