The story takes place a few years after the end of Splinter Cell: Double Agent. . Sam’s daughter was killed, he murdered his best friend Lambert, and he split from Third Echelon, the government agency he’d called home for years. With new evidence leading to his daughter’s killer, a tormented and semi-retired Sam Fisher is called back into action. Turns out the people responsible for his daughter’s fate are planning a major terrorist attack on Washington D.C.
Mark and execute is fun and easy to use, and doesn’t ruin the Splinter Cell experience in any way, but it has to be said that once the later levels begin to open up, it never quite feels natural to go out of your way to melee kill someone to simply earn the right to use the Mark and execute feature at a later stage. Normally, you rely on silenced weapons and various grenade types, Fisher’s deadly enough without the need for the feature.
Later in the game you will encounter missions that will force to be sneak through without being seen this is realistic but too often it feels as though your punishment for being spotted is that Splinter Cell Conviction becomes a far worse game. By the end of the short 5 hour single-player campaign, the heavy emphasis on unavoidable shoot-outs ensures that its best moments were experienced in the first few hours.
Ubisoft has chosen to simplify the stealth elements introduced into previous games by making it more action oriented (Think Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer).The pacing of the game remises that of the action TV series `24′ and also `The Bourne Conspiracy’ for gruesome close quarter combat and general action elements.