Splinter Cell just blown me away as the game with the best furtive gameplay I ever seen. While conviction may end up being a top game this year, I don't like the route of it.

I'm just right sitting and thinking about a Splinter Cell located in very ancient times (egyptian, mayan or even older cultures) were we could use nothing else then little rocks to make noise, primitive bows to shoot (crafted by ourselves with knife and upgraded as new and better trees appear in the map), the light from torches, simple ropes and a very furtive gameplay with a character wearing some mammoth skin or something. You could even control birds (to serve as cameras or high aerial view to get your bearings) through some xaman mind powers.

Placed in some dry big open box huge ass desert-city. You gotta cross it without being spotted because of some epic storyline alla Gladiator.

You even have to cross a big river at moonlight in a primitive boat, paddling carefully not to make much noise and drink water being aware of crocodiles...

I just wanted to share this. Good night.

No love for my idea?


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Try the Thief games. There are 3 games. All three are available on PC (number 3 is on Steam) and Thief 3 is also available on the XBox.

Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but it takes place in medieval times. Your main "weapon" is a blackjack that you use to club guards unconscious and you have a variety of arrows like water arrows to put out torches/lights, and noise makers to distract guards.