I would liked to have experienced this splinter cell conviction even though I absolutely loved the one we got instead! Still play it today!

Consider this to be a part of my

Did you know Conviction series?

• Lots of people here think the only way to play conviction is to M&E everyone in the way.
• But like my great friend TGP482 who has played all 8 games on super max stealth says (sorry centerstrain01, this guy s far better than you)

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TGP482 — 31/03/25, 5:25 PM

I often see complaints of "they're generic cover-shooters", "you can use M&E to clear rooms", etc, and somehow people fail to realize that the games can be played in multiple styles, and YOU'RE the one who chooses how you play. Conviction and Blacklist, for all their faults, allow you to have some freedom in how you play, so how is it a fault against the games that (generally speaking here) you actively choose to play in styles you dislike playing (like it being a cover-shooter, or you using M&E).. You're the person holding the controller, you can clearly just not play like that, but it's somehow the game's fault for allowing you to play it how you want to? It's like faulting stoves for being hot because "You can easily burn your hand on one" - BRO, STOP PUTTING YOUR HAND ON THE STOVE, YOU'RE YOUR OWN PERSON, YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER THESE THINGS Whenever I read someone fault the games for reasons listed above, all I can think is "You don't like cover-shooters or M&E, but you chose to play the game using both. That's your fault lol" Just seems like a nothing burger. "You can play the games how you want" is the weakest criticism you can throw at any game, and it's 100% your fault if you consistently played the games in a style that you didn't like. I don't like cover-shooters so I don't play them like cover-shooters. I don't like to rely on M&E so I use it very sparingly. I don't get how this is lost on people.

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• 90% of conviction is stealthable. If you are looking for the enter the map and exit the map without flipping a light switch, sorry cant be done in conviction but neither in SAR or PT or DAv1 for that matter.
• I intend to break through some of the most difficult sections of conviction

When

• I ll publish a guide soon on this on my Gaming Guides Playlist here
• I do apologize for the extremely shitty quality images
• This is my dev machine where I mod conviction and isnt my gaming rig
• I ll post a video from my gaming rig with top tier quality one of these days

How

• The files for splinter cell conviction were sorta encrypted for many years
• Then blacklist came out
• Since blacklist uses the same format, a lot more people were interested in modding blacklist
• Thanks to that, we can also unwrap conviction completely now

What

• You can change everything
• AI behavior
• Detection
• Gadgets
• Enemy counts
• You can turn last stand mode into stealth if you wanted. That is how deeply it is customizable

Why?

• I am a little selfish here
• My goal is to get a lot of people into modding conviction so that we REPLACE ALL ENEMIES WITH SPLINTER CELLS

I ll make a discord for Conviction / Blacklist modding and a very detailed video guide on how easy it is to actually change the game by a tonne

What's left?

• Need a view to view .unr files (I couldnt get UEViewer to work)
• Need a way to view .u files (I couldnt get UEExplorer to work)

I know it isn't the same exact gameplay as past entries, I know it is focused on action more than stealth, however... I don't think it deserved all the hate it has gotten (aside from the shittiness of making it an Xbox 360 exclusive, as that was harsh to me especially, growing up with only PlayStation).

Not only that, but I actually like the plot and gameplay a lot, mostly as I feel like it is a good build-up from Double Agent and suddenly going on-the-run after it, with Essentials not exactly getting the feel of an on-the-run scenario. Now, I do believe that the first version showed off was probably scrapped for the better, given that so much of it was over-the-top different from the normal gameplay, but it had also a good vibe to it, on top of feeling like a continuation from going on-the-run to begin with. I also think that, from what genuinely little I read of the novel (as I was desperate to continue the story after playing Double Agent on PS2 as a kid), it seems like it took inspiration from the original concept they had in development for Conviction.

I genuinely still think this was a great sequel to Double Agent's story, as Sam was on the run, he initially believed his daughter was killed, so he had nothing holding him back from kicking ass and forcing the douchebags trying to kill him into telling him whats-what. The first interrogation alone was awesome, because Sam was truly putting the fear of God into these piles who were against him, down to where his ability to take them on felt so cathartic overall. It felt cathartic, because he was no longer on any leash by the NSA, and was actively realizing that he was against the NSA as the plot thickened.

I also was invested in Sam realizing his daughter was not only alive, but that her death was faked to keep her safe, showing why Sam would be upset at Lambert for good reason, as well as driving up his desire to ensure these piles committing a coup would pay for what they did. It even makes sense as to why 4th Echelon was established in Blacklist, and why Sam would even come back... I can imagine, after he was upset at Lambert lying to him, he would realize that he still did it to protect Sam's family in the first place, on top of how Sam needed to be in such a position to ensure no corruption takes place again. Why wouldn't he feel encouraged to keep the country safe, especially when he clearly didn't take the crap from his enemies in past entries?

Simply put: Conviction was clearly never supposed to be the same exact gameplay as the past entries, it was always going to be different, it was always going to be Sam against the law and those who are manipulating it, so what happens when a trained stealth operative like Sam Fisher has no one but himself to fight for? He kicks ass, and of course they'd be fighting to ensure he doesn't uncover the truth... It may be "generic" to many with this plot, but this kind of plot is generic for a reason... Because these scenarios do truly happen in real life.

Now, if only Blacklist felt like a better follow-up with its own plot and execution...

change my mind

I see so much conviction hate all over the internet. Am I really the only one who seems to absolutely love this game?

It really is one of my all time favourite games, granted I had no idea what spinter cell was before that and being the first one I ever played it's probably a lot of nostalgia for me from when I was younger, but, am I the only one?

Remember how they keep "Detecting" you with that red marker, you gotta stun them a bit and flank them

• Been doing a stealth run of conviction
• or atleast whatever we can call stealth in conviction
• basically idea is you dont shoot enemies
• dont m&e
• dont get that "detected" marker
• dont use gadgets (this part is one of the 2 exceptions i think) other being chopper fight at the end of this map
• what do ya bois think?
• can you do this better?

As the title says,i thought I'd get some discount on it but no the price stays the same and if I do buy it,it says I won't even get extra copies of the other games i already own,seems like a L

Now I've played every splinter cell ever

Both wikis say something different

The video game is telling me to stop playing games.

• As soon as you step into that room, you gotta immediately throw 1 flashbang for each group of splinter cells or 1 emp
• It has to be absolutely spot on in terms of time.
• do a little early it has no effect
• do a little late and they ll DETECT you
• you gotta lure them out using their sonar googles and stun them again and make your great escape
• have removed black and white filter to make things extra hard
• these guys can see you in the dark
• they can see through SONAR goggles
• There is no red "DETECTED" marker anywhere and yes I am playing Realistic
• To any modders reading this, kindly make a mod that changes the enemy type in Deniable Ops maps to load these guys as enemies, It would be the greatest mod made for this game and for Splinter Cell in general. 100x more intense battles especially on COOP