splinter cell blacklist
Splinter Cell Blacklist is the quintessential video game blockbuster. It stuffs in militaristic fetish across a globe-trotting solo campaign, taking in Iran, London, Cuba and the good old US of A . There’s co-op aplenty with survival modes and terrorist hunts. Moral choices: will you kill this man or will you not kill this man? Class-based asymmetric multiplayer. RPG-style upgrades. QTEs. Score challenges on global leaderboards that constantly tell you your friends are much better than you so get to it soldier . It wants to be every thing to every man and stuffs in so much video game that it spills onto two DVDs. It’s slick, violent, bombastic and a lot of fun. But, in trying to please everyone, it’s also a little toothless. This is most indicative in its protagonist. When Splinter Cell first arrived in 2002, Sam Fisher --a highly-trained black-ops infiltrator-- was a brilliant character. A wizened ghost the wrong side of 40: cynical, deadly and frighten...