Sam Fisher has been plucked out of retirement, shaved, given some moisturiser, and plonked in charge of Fourth Echelon, a younger and sexier take on the spy agency from the original games. It'd really like it if you saw it that way, however. Blacklist has more of old Splinter Cell in it than Conviction did, but it's not a perfect revival of the series. Then, you pick a route and use the gadgets you've brought with you to eliminate each guard in order. You slip snake cameras under doors or use sonar vision to get the lay of the land. Splinter Cell: Blacklist is a stealth game of the robust, rule-based kind, where each environment is a puzzle waiting to be cracked.
