splntier clel has been getting worse for years, like watching a favorite pet die slowly.
choas thoery was awesome, it was one of the last good stealth games. you could get through most of the levels without touching any bad guys at all. if you wanted to sneaky kill them that was cool too, they gave you a knife for the first time. but if you got in a firefight you were fucking dead, like two bullets. so basically whether you were violent or not you had to sneak.
not in conviction. here’s a note to future game developers: if the primary mechanic you’re adding to a stealth game is combat-oriented, you are an idiot, please leave
what happened to stealth games actually being about sneaking? all you do in conviction is sneak around just long enough to break a neck, then you just point the cursor at up to like 5 enemies and press a button and sam shoots them all for you, no skill or anything. thats not stealth. and if you do get caught its easy enough to just shoot everyone normally with the wide variety of assault rifles, submachine guns, and shotguns available to you in this Stealth Game.
i don’t get it. why is the best stealth operative in the world suddenly totally neglecting everything he knows in favor of snapping necks and cashing checks. there was some plot to explain stuff but who cares, the point is this isn’t a stealth game, this is gears of war except you have less health, the combat is less interesting, and enemies can see through walls. they actually can. i am not being ironic. enemies can see through walls in this Stealth Game.
if you do get caught and a firefight breaks out and you win (happens a lot), there’s no penalty. in the old splniter cellls, there were alarm levels, so after getting like one alarm the guards would put on helmets and you couldn’t do one-shot-kills anymore. this was a cool mechanic because it encouraged you to be sneaky and not just shoot everyone (or at LEAST be sneaky about how you shoot everyone so they don’t put on helmets). in this game, after a firefight, sam just gives you a terrible one-liner. if you weren’t sneaky it’ll be more negative. but that’s not gameplay… that’s just aesthetic feedback. fuck you ubisoft montreal
let’s look at some other games ubisoft montreal has made lately:
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Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage
James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Naruto: The Broken Bond
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haha what a shitty company. what a terrible game this is. don’t buy conviction DON’T.
