I am enjoying it. Been doing some pretty awesome things to bad guys.

I'm upset that Ubisoft is killing the core gameplay elements that made their franchises.  They did it to Rainbow 6, they did it to Ghost Recon, and now they are doing it to Splinter Cell.  To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the older Splinter Cell games, and I think SC:Conviction looks awesome.  But I can see how a fan of the older Splinter Cell games would hate the direction the series is going.  Same thing happened with the Rainbow 6 and Ghost Recon franchise I loved so much.  The new games are still good and fun, but it's frustrating knowing that Ubisoft will never make another "true" Rainbow 6 or Ghost Recon ever again.

That's great to hear that Conviction is a great game, in its own right. However, please stop derailing my thread and answer if the game has failthfully preserved enough of the original series's gameplay and philosophy.

What?

WoW.....too defensive.

anyways for long time fans of the good ol splinter cell back in the days, they might find the new direction splinter cell is going disappointing.

Ooops sorry boss.

Don't know, never played the other ones.

You post something off topic in my own thread, and you're the one that's upset?

I don't get it.  One moment people are mad about a game not having enough changes, and the next minute they are mad about a game changing.

There's nothing wrong with change.

You completely missed the point of my post didn't you? No, in fact there's no way you could have missed it. I was totally clear:

"Chaos Theory was the third game out of the five in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series by Ubisoft, and was my personal favorite When I take a look back at Chaos Theory, I not only see how it represented the peak of the series, and the following decline, but how Ubisoft has betrayed itself, its game, and its original fans.

-->I am NOT against change. <-- I agree with Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism, in that: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation"

Compare Chaos Theory and the original Splinter Cell. Chaos Theory is much different from the original. Levels were no longer linear, but were multi pathed, and allowed the revisitations of certain parts. Customizable kits, new gadgets. A brand new Co-op mode to add to the new online mode from Pandora Tomorrow.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has taken away, added, and revised parts of its predecessors.

This is improvement, this is change, and this is good. We should be in a system where there is "perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new"."

I'm going to clean up my post and edit it a bit, since I can ultimately only blame myself if you didn't understand it, but c'mon dude...

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Chaos Theory was a tweaking of the original Splinter Cell. Each time they tweaked it, they lost more and more sales. The best thing Ubisoft could do to make sure the franchise survived was to mix it up and take it in a completely different direction. So yeah, it probably isn't going to remind you of Chaos Theory. But do I think it will still feel like Splinter Cell? Absoultely.