Tom Clancy 39;s Splinter Cell Conviction Deluxe Edition
Marthe Bernskoetter
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is the fifth console game in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series of games, and seventh game overall. It was first released on April 13, 2010 for the Microsoft Xbox 360 in North America. In this installment, Sam Fisher has left Third Echelon and is investigating a rumor that his daughter's death wasn't an accident.
In a drastic change from the previous games, Sam is perceived to be much quicker, stronger and far more brutal in his quest for truth. The game features several new gameplay elements and mechanics including "Mark and Execute", which allows the player to target multiple enemies and instantly kill them when the player has a clear shot.
Conviction brought a new feature into gameplay called Persistent Elite Creation (P.E.C.). This system was first seen in Rainbow Six: Lockdown, however, it has been slightly changed for this title. Players are able to complete certain challenges while playing any game mode to build P.E.C. points. These point can in turn be used to purchase weapon upgrades, armor upgrades and armor camouflage. The challenges are divided into three different categories (Mark and Execute Challenges, Vanish Challenges and Splinter Cell Challenges). After completing all of the challenges available, players can obtain a total of 38,000 P.E.C. points.
Beginning with Conviction, players able to "Mark" enemies and environmental objects to quickly and efficiently "Execute" marked enemies within range in quick succession via head shots with the push of a button. Each weapon also comes with a certain amount of Marks, and some weapons can also be upgraded to have an additional Mark with a Red Dot Sight Upgrade.
Ten days prior to the apprehension of Sam Fisher, Third Echelon agent Archer and Voron agent Kestrel are deployed to the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia to halt rogue elements of the Russian military from selling advanced warheads on the black market. Intelligence from Third Echelon asset Andriy Kobin has pointed Archer and Kestrel to drug and human trafficker Valentin Lesovsky as the broker for the sale. Archer and Kestrel are to terminate Lesovsky and his associate, Boris Sychev, as well as gaining Lesovsky's contact list.
Archer and Kestrel are later deployed to the Russian embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan to gather intelligence on an arms deal conducted by former Russian GRU colonel Leonid Bykhov. Archer and Kestrel observe the arms deal and learn that Bykhov betrays Tagizade and orders his men to kill him. Archer and Kestrel prevent the destruction of the weapons crates, learning that the weapons Bykhov was intending to sell were Block II JDAM missile guidance kits. Archer and Kestrel make their way to the banquet area to interrogate Bykhov. Archer and Kestrel learn that Bykhov was working with Major General Kerzakov, and that Kerzakov was in the Yastreb Complex, an underground fortress situated underneath Moscow's Red Square.
Archer and Kestrel infiltrate the complex to avert the sale of the JDAM kits to the Iranians and learn the location of the EMPs. They render the JDAM kits inoperable by using their portable EMP devices, download data from multiple servers to trace the EMP devices to the Mozdok Proving Grounds, and kill Kerzakov in the process.
Sneaking aboard a supply truck, Archer and Kestrel infiltrate the Mozdok Proving Grounds in North Ossetia. They manage to secure the EMP devices with the help of Kobin. However, during the middle of extraction, Tom Reed contacts Archer on his earpiece and orders him to kill Kestrel. Kestrel however learns of the order from reading Archer's OPSAT device, forcing him to act in self-defense. Archer or Kestrel manage to kill one another (canonically Kestrel kills Archer), only for the guilt-ridden survivor to be executed by Kobin.
Taking place three years after the events of Double Agent in 2011, former Navy SEAL Victor Coste is held in a Black Arrow facility interrogation room as he is interviewed by an unidentified group of men, recalling recent events in the past tense.
After having left Third Echelon and disappeared, Sam Fisher is remotely contacted by former Third Echelon colleague Anna "Grim" Grmsdttir in a marketplace situated in Valletta, Malta. He is warned that a group of armed men have entered the marketplace and are looking for him. Sam dispatches them and interrogates the leader Dmitri Gramkos, learning that local drug runner Andriy Kobin was responsible for the death of his daughter, Sarah. Sam learns that Kobin is present in his mansion, a re-purposed museum in the city on King George Street. Upon infiltrating the mansion, Sam interrogates Kobin and learns that the situation was "bigger than his daughter," prior to being tranquilized and captured by Splinter Cells.
Sam is relocated to Price Airfield in Virginia, where Grim reveals that she is working with President Patricia Caldwell as a mole inside Third Echelon, and that she needs his help with investigating a PMC named Black Arrow. A reluctant Sam refuses to help her, but relents after being told that Sarah is alive and that she would prove it to him during the course of the investigation. Grim facilitates Sam's escape from the airfield by providing him with a gun and access to her car. At Grim's request, Sam slaps her to make it appear that he escaped by force and prevent Grim's cover from being blown. After escaping the base, Sam calls in his former teammate Victor Coste for assistance in the investigation, in part of Coste having rescued him from a hostage situation while on a mission during the Gulf War. Sam meets with Coste at a county fair near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., receives some equipment and learns that White Box Technologies, an R&D (Research and Development) company specializing in EMP technology, hired Black Arrow for corporate security, which is considered to be out of character as Black Arrow does not usually provide those services.
Sam heads to White Box Technologies and witnesses multiple scientists murdered by Third Echelon director Tom Reed and Black Arrow operatives. Fisher saves one of the scientists and learns that Lucius Galliard hired Black Arrow to provide security, and that Major Shawn Robertson has been collecting and disposing of experimental data with EMP countermeasures. Sam reaches Robertson's office and downloads the data for Grim's analysts to study. He later triggers an EMP to prevent Black Arrow's tracing of the download in order to maintain Grmsdttir's cover, killing Robertson in the process.
Sam is later directed to the Lincoln Memorial under orders from both President Caldwell and Grim, infiltrating the area to record a conversation between Reed and Galliard. Sam later interrogates Galliard, only for the latter to get assassinated by a gunman. Sam pursues the gunman, only for the gunman to get killed by a car bomb. Sam is later drawn into a confrontation with Third Echelon agents until he is extracted by the Secret Service.
Sam infiltrates Third Echelon Headquarters to recover equipment (such as Ultra High Frequency Sonar Goggles from a Third Echelon employee named Charlie Fryman) and retrieve information from Reed's office. Instead of finding Reed, Sam re-encounters Kobin and interrogates him again. He learns that Reed was working with Megiddo to smuggle EMP technology into the United States and use that technology to facilitate Caldwell's assassination and have Vice President Calvin Samson take over the position since he was "in Megiddo's pocket." As a result of facilitating the assassination, Reed would then be promoted within the higher ranks of the government and be considered a hero. Kobin later reveals that he never knew anything about Sarah and only provided a false body to stage her death, urging him to ask Grim as she knew the whole story. Sam confronts Grim (via telepresence call) with the information he learned, and is urged to listen to an audio recording former Director Irving Lambert made shortly before his death in New York three years before. Sam learns that Lambert staged Sarah's death as a car accident out of necessity, having learned that a mole within Third Echelon would use her as leverage against Sam. Lambert later concludes that he wasn't able to locate the mole and that his efforts may have been in vain.
Grim later tells an enraged Sam to stop one of three EMP attacks at Michigan Avenue, stating that Sarah's designated apartment is within Michigan Avenue's blast radius; while Victor recovers Sarah and later helps Sam with halting the attack, Grim would accompany Reed to the White House in order to halt the assassination. Sam is extracted by Victor via a helicopter and has a brief reunion with Sarah before the two EMP attacks commence. Shortly after being hit by a missile fired by a Black Arrow trooper and a helicopter crashing, Sam infiltrates the White House while confronting Black Arrow, Splinter Cells and Third Echelon's assault units in the process. Sam regroups with Grim, who shoots Sam in the shoulder so that he can get close to Reed, appearing to have been taken prisoner.
Upon entering the Oval Office where Reed, the president and a number of Splinter Cells were waiting, Reed prepares to execute Sam and the president. It is revealed that Caldwell was going to shut down Third Echelon and leave "America vulnerable to future attacks" and to prevent this, Reed planned to frame Sam for assassinating the president, as supposed proof to the country that Third Echelon was necessary. As Reed gets close to Sam, Sam disarms Reed and he and Grim kill Reed's Third Echelon escorts. Sam interrogates Reed while U.S. Army soldiers extract President Caldwell. Sam realizes that Reed was the mole Lambert was looking for. Depending on the player's choice, either Sam or Grim executes Reed. If Grim executes Reed, Grim confides in Sam that he is the only person that she can trust, but Sam comments on how she ironically used the word "trust". He flat out tells her goodbye and leaves. If Sam executes Reed, the player has a choice of how to go about doing it. If Reed is shot with all three prompts the gunshot wounds form the iconic three-dot icon of the series.
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