Very bad performace :(
Sharp drops in FPS in some areas or when there are too many enemies on screen.

Multiplayer was by far the most fun part of this game, and it's gone now.

This is an okay action game. This is not a good Splinter Cell game though, I don't even think it's necessarily a good game in its current state either. I don't really like saying that a game is a "good game, but not a good (insert series here) game" either because that allows for a bit of leniency on games studios with completely altering an IP to be something it shouldn't be.

Stealth in this game is a bastardized version of it's former games counterparts. Similar to Double Agent, there is no real light meter anymore. I didn't like that in Double Agent, I don't like it here either. Now instead of having a light telling you whether you're lit up or not, your vision goes gray-scale whenever you're in shadow. Given the games stealth-based history, one would naturally be inclined to stick to shadows as much as possible. What this means is that the game is the UGLIEST in the series by a long shot since it had less color variety than Mirrors Edge 99% of the time. And the rest of the time, colors could be so muted that I didn't even fully notice I wasn't even in shadow anymore which lead to more than one instance of me being shot by someone I didn't even notice could see me. Not fun.

It's not helpful that you can still see perfectly well in the dark too. You don't even get access to goggles until you're like 65% of the way through the game at least for that exact reason. And even then, it's not night vision OR thermal vision. They opted instead for "sonar" goggles which allow you to see enemies through walls. It gets blurry as you move around and felt like the biggest, worst change they could have made to this game. A splinter cell game without night vision is like a Halo game without covenant or flood.

Even when there is color, there isn't a scene in this game that is anywhere as memorable as in prior entries. Nothing like storming the CIA in the first game, wandering through the Indonesian jungles in Pandora Tomorrow, nothing like sneaking into the mansion in Chaos Theory, nothing like sneaking through a Shanghai sky scraper in Double Agent, it's just... blah. You can't really sneak through areas anymore either. You are going to get into combat, you are going to be seen, and you're going to have to kill everyone. Non lethal is not an option in this game and that to me is a giant "♥♥♥♥ you" to the entire premise of Splinter Cell. It's replaced with a dumb-ass Mark and Execute system that makes the game play itself basically.

Humorously, for this very reason, my favorite mission in the game is actually the mission where you play as Vic in Iraq. The darkness based stealth is gone and replaced with more cover-to-cover combat with no silenced weapons to speak of, and just loud military rifles instead. I feel like this gameplay style suits this sort of setting and gameplay better than it does the whole rest of the damn game. In fact, I sometimes wonder if it would have been smarter for Ubisoft to just have made a new Tom Clancy IP with Vic as the main character and with Sam as a prominent side character. It could have had this more default style army gunplay showing Sam and Vic's military past and building deeper characters for both while preserving this style of gameplay with the same characters WITHOUT insulting the entire stealth genre with whatever this game was - allowing a return to this series to have been more to-form with the rest of the former entries (leaning more towards the first three games personally as I, again, didn't care much for Double Agent). It would have been better for a Mark-and-Execute style of gameplay as well.

This game just isn't really worth it. The gunplay is basically the same as in blacklist except it feels more refined in Blacklist to me - and Blacklist is a lot more faithful to older splinter cell games than this was. Blacklist in general feels like what this game should have been minus Michael Ironside. The ONLY reason you should get this game is if you're invested deeply for whatever reason into Splinter Cell lore - which you really shouldn't be. Older game stories were goofy War on Terror, 2000's spy movie inspired cheesefests - which is but another reason why this game and it's revenge story arc is so jarring.

I had fun playing it at times, most of it was in the multiplayer which, again, is dead now. It's a shame then that the main story of this game had, for me, its most memorable moments set RIGHT at the beginning. Specifically the first two missions set in Malta. Not because it was any better or worse than the rest of the game, but because over the years I have decided multiple times to give conviction "another try" and each time I do that, I beat those same two missions before deciding the gameplay and game itself is too boring and bland to even want to continue playing it. I've done that about five or six times now over the years, each time I put the game down right after I get kicked in the face by Kobin at his Malta mansion. That's a BAD reason for any part of a game to be considered memorable.

I really like this game. I have a lot of fun with it. There is just a few problems tho. 1st, It took a little bit to troubleshoot the game so it could work. 2, The game is more of a tactical action game than a stealth game. Other then those flaws the game is perfect.