I beat the single player of Splinter Cell: Conviction today and have mixed feelings about the campaign.
The story is pulled off rather well. That's all I'll say regarding this...definitely one of the better storylines in recent memory and it has a few twists a long the way, with great locales for the campaign.
The game itself is a mixed bag. There are a few levels that I really enjoyed (Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and Michigan Ave. Reservoir) because they either took a step in a different direction or nodded to imo what really made the past games good. I don't like the Iraq level because it is for all intents and purposes a third person shooter, and the Third Echelon level I thought was a retread of everything about the past games that I tolerated then, but can't stand now (avoiding lasers got old a long time ago). Mark and execute is a feature that I love, but why do I feel that, because it exists, Ubisoft decided to load the game with about twice as many enemies as you'd ever find in past games?
All in all though, it has been well worth the wait, and I'd give it about a 9 as well.
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