It's a fine last hurrah to the franchise.
Gameplay is great and voice acting (while at first I didn't like the Sam voice change it grew on me but it'll never surpass Michael Ironside).
Level wise it's insanely great and varied.
Story has a few weird things going but it's minor stuff.
Cast wise everyone is great, Kobin is just eating every scene and to think I used to hate the guy back in Conviction for being a little bitch.
Grim roasting people left and right as she should cuz she a girlboss.
Charlie and Briggs are fine. And Sam is still just the Sam we all know and love.

This was a bit too late to fit in with the last wave of quintessential dumb and disinterested games. The entire story is military blah blah and informs its mostly uninteresting scenes. It really comes down to its gameplay, which does work well, but also contains big question marks about modern stealth gameplay.

The urge of offering the player multiple gameplay styles results in the rather obvious distinction between stealth and 'kill everything as loudly as possible because that's why you play Splinter Cell I guess'. While the levels start out well, they get worse with fewer opportunities to flank while dumping more and more enemies on you. What I do appreciate is the one break in its narrative structure, transforming a previously safe location. But in the meantime, you could play any other stealth game.

I really liked the first three mainline Splinter Cell games (plus the original Xbox version of Double Agent) and had fun with Conviction for what it was, but this one never clicked with me. Merging the playstyles of Chaos Theory (referred to here as "Ghost") and Conviction (dubbed "Panther") sounded awesome on paper, but trying to stealth through levels non-lethally made it feel like I was continuously fighting with the mechanics. The rail shooting and FPS sections felt tacked on, and the storytelling and characterization (even by Tom Clancy video game standards) ranged from boring to obnoxious.

The funny thing is that I did enjoy Grímsdóttir's stealth-focused side-missions. If the whole game had been like the Billionaire's Yacht DLC level, I probably would regard it as highly as most people do.

"My life is as stable as the Backloggd servers"
- Enterprise

One of Ubisoft's best games.

7/10

I thought Splinter Cell: Blacklist was damn good. While it felt weird hearing somebody else besides Michael Ironside voicing Sam Fisher, I thought Eric Johnson did fine. What I appreciate most about this installment in the franchise was the ability to tackle the missions (or most of them) the way you wanted to. If the series ever makes a return, I do hope that they keep going in that direction. Story was good and the characters served their purpose by helping push the story along. Don't look for any deep character development here but was is here is enjoyable.

In terms of difficulty, the game lets you carry about 12 gadgets that will each take down a minimum of one enemy - these gadgets refill up to full at every checkpoint where you will have had to face approximately between zero and five enemies (you can also kill enemies by shooting them or stabbing them for free).
There are multiple great multiplayer modes and some other online integrations woven throughout that have been completely disabled by Ubisoft after release - it COULD all work fine without their servers, but they didn't want it to, so the game no longer works as it should.

The way Ubisoft has treated this series over the years has made be never want another Splinter Cell game to be made again as much as I love the franchise (mainly the first game and Chaos Theory). You can guarantee they'd make an open world like MGSV but with the usual Ubisoft formula cancer.

For the past few releases they turned the game from a stealth shooter to a horrible cover shooter. This game is an attempt to make a bit of a hybrid while trying to get that old Splinter Cell feeling back. It does not work. The missions and stealth design in those missions are worse than the 2002 game.

Over 10 years and in the end they've regressed. It's a sad end to what could've been a fantastic stealth franchise, but I very much doubt that they'll ever be able to capture the feeling of games like Chaos Theory, especially the state Ubisoft is in right now.

oyunun yaklaşık ilk 5 saatinde oyun günümüz için çok güzel bir büyü yaratıyor. oyunu o 5 saat içinde oynarken bölüm bölüm ilerliyorsunuz mekanikleri öğreniyorsunuz gizliliğe kafar yoruyor gadget'larınızı kullanıyorsunuz. ama işte o yaklaşık 5 saat süren oyunun büyüsü bittiğinde eğer oyunun hikayesine dahil olursanız oyunun içine kendinizi kaptırırsanız oyun muhtemelen hala çok zevkli bir şekilde akar. ama işte ben görev seçme ekranında (dünya mapi üzereinde noktalar var herbir nokta bir görev noktası) ana görevlerin hangisi olduğunu anlamadığım için full yan görev ilerlemiştim. ana görevlerin ne olduğunu anlayınca hikayeyi ilerletmeye başladım ama bu sefer de hikaye esnasında yaşanan bütün combat benim öncesinde deneyimlediğim combat'la aynı olduğu için acayip tekara düşme durumu yaşadım. ana hikayeden birkaç görev yapmaya kendimi zorladım ama işte muhtemel zevkli olacak hikayenin daha bi derinleşicek ilerleyecek kısımlarına gelemeden daha fazla dayanamayıp saldım. tabi hikaye hiçbir zaman güzelleşmiyor olabilir veya bölüm dizaynı ortam felan değişip oynanışı çeşitlenmiyor da olabilir ama bunlardan biri en azından yaşanıyordur diye tahmin ediyorum. ama işte ben bu değişimi göremeden oyunu terk ettim. bir de oyunun zorluğu normalin bir üstünde oynadım + full stealth hiç fark edilmeden bitirmeye çalıştım bu nedenden dolayı aynı bölümleri tekrar tekrar oynamak durumunda kaldımki yan görevlerin çoğunda save sistemi de yok direk bölümün başında birtek checkpoint oluyor. kısacası ben oyun zevkimi bozarak oyunu kendim için sıkıcı hale getirmiş oldum.