[REVIEW] Splinter Cell:Blacklist

After the bitter farewell to Tom Clancy, the creator of all tom clancy and splinter cell games, did the Splinter Cell: Blacklist reach up to the mark.............Let's find out!

The game is the sixth edition to the series of Splinter Cell.

The game begins with Sam Fisher and his old friend Victor Coste who are about to depart from Andersen AFB in Guam when an unknown enemy force destroys the entire base. Assisted by hacker specialist Charlie Cole, Sam and Vic manage to escape, although Vic is injured after protecting Sam from a grenade. Soon after, a terrorist organization calling itself "The Engineers" assumes responsibility for the attack and announce that it was the first of a deadly countdown of escalating attacks (called "The Blacklist") on United States assets, declaring that they will halt the attacks only after the U.S. government accomplish the demand of calling back all American troops deployed abroad.
In response to this new threat, Patricia Caldwell, the President of the United States who had just shut down the corrupt Third Echelon assigns Sam, Charlie, Isaac Briggs and Anna 'Grim' Grímsdóttir to a newly created special operations and counter-terrorism unit called "Fourth Echelon" and installs Sam as the commander with the task of hunting down The Engineers and stopping their plans. Fourth Echelon's base of operations is a customizable cargo plane, codenamed "Paladin".
Sam and his new team's first course of action is to capture Andriy Kobin from a CIA safe house in Benghazi, Libya and obtain information that leads them to know further about The Engineers' plans. Sam successfully extracts Kobin and arrests him, keeping him aboard the Paladin. Kobin reveals some information about his business associates in Mirawa, Iraq. Infiltrating an insurgent stronghold, Sam learns more about the Blacklist attacks being more serious than originally thought. Sam arrives at a death chamber to find an executed US soldier whose execution was taped. The executor was Majid Sadiq, a radical terrorist and former MI6 agent. In the video, Sadiq directly tells Sam to stop intervening in the Blacklist, or suffer the consequences.
You need to get used to Sam's new digs; everything you do in Blacklist is performed there, from upgrading your gear to initiating multiplayer. Rather than accessing menus, you explore the aircraft and speak to your comrades, making the Paladin as much your interface as it is Sam's. The entire scheme feels unnecessarily convoluted and disjointed at first, and the game doesn't do a very good job of introducing you to its structure, though curiosity (and a bit of trial and error) should get you up to speed. But the player-as-Sam logic soon clicks into place, giving even the stand-alone cooperative missions context within Blacklist's fiction, rather than treating them as distinct and unrelated tasks.
If you played Conviction, you'll know at least some of the drill: as Sam, you slide in and out of cover, sticking to darkness and skillfully taking down opponents in various satisfying ways, or just avoiding them entirely as you make your way toward your high-priority target. The cover system is as rewardingly smooth as it was before, making you feel like a slippery agent of death as you dash into position, often with the press of a single button. In fact, Sam is more acrobatic in this go-around, getting a few chances to climb up cliffs as if he's taken lessons from Assassin's Creed's Altair. Blacklist is as eager to reintroduce older Splinter Cell mechanics as it is to showcase new ones, however. Sam is back to his nonlethal pre-Conviction methods--that is, if you want him to be. You can knock out targets with your fists or a stun gun if you're so inclined, or put them to sleep by tossing a sleep-inducing grenade, though you can't complete Blacklist's campaign without getting your hands a little dirty. You can pick up bodies and dump them elsewhere, too, which might also make you think that Blacklist is a return to the series' roots.
However, Blacklist doesn't feel much like Chaos Theory and its ilk, even when it's giving you the tools to be the silent type. Actually, it often urges you to be silent, instantly failing the mission if you're caught, or pitting you against heavily armored guards that are best dispatched from the shadows or circumvented entirely. But if you aspire to action-hero heights, look no further than the invigorating mark-and-execute feature, which lets you tag enemies and then execute them in a slow-motion flourish with a tap of a button. Now you can pull off such maneuvers on the run, taking down enemies with close-quarters kills (or perhaps dealing a headshot) and firing a bullet into a few other nearby skulls, or even snapping a neck or two if your targets are a hair's width from you.
 The game somehow merges both stealth and adventure.The graphic's of the game are truly exotic which thrusts the game to a whole new level of expectations. Both the stealth and adventure are similar to Assassin's Creed 3, which gives the thrilling taste of Ubisoft's care for the gamers sitting all around the world! Moreover this is supposed to be the last edition of the Splinter Cell series, through which we should be able to speak the words R.I.P for Tom Clancy.

Minimum System Requirements:

Recommended System Requirements:

CPU: 2.53 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E6400 or 2.80 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+ or better			CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel® Core™2 Quad Q8400 or 3.00 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 940 or better
RAM: 2 GB RAM			RAM: 4 GB RAM
VGA: 512 MB DirectX® 10–compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher
DX: 9			DX: 11
OS: Windows® XP (SP3) / Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8			OS: Windows® XP (SP3) / Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8

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HDD: 25 GB HD space		HDD: 25 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 10–compliant DirectX 9.0c–compliant		Sound: DirectX 10–compliant DirectX 9.0c–compliant (5.1 surround sound recommended)
		Network: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended peripheral:	Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, headset, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)

                                   Rating:9.1/10