Just as we were starting to hate him just a little less, there's a chance "emo" Sam Fisher, star of the coming-someday Splinter Cell: Conviction, could be on his way out. A report by Videogaming247 indicates that the game, previously pushed into 2009, is undergoing some cosmetic changes. As in losing the man-mascara?
The site quotes an Ubisoft community development manager as saying that the game is "certainly not canned," but that "the gameplay has evolved a lot" and "the visual direction is simply much better." Given the game's absence from this year's E3, we figured a considerable amount of re-tooling was in progress. The source says that when we see Conviction again, "it'll be worth the wait." It'd better be – our beards and hair are starting to look scragglier than Sam's up there.
The site quotes an Ubisoft community development manager as saying that the game is "certainly not canned," but that "the gameplay has evolved a lot" and "the visual direction is simply much better." Given the game's absence from this year's E3, we figured a considerable amount of re-tooling was in progress. The source says that when we see Conviction again, "it'll be worth the wait." It'd better be – our beards and hair are starting to look scragglier than Sam's up there.
