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Sam Fisher Makes Liberal Use of the Fifth Freedom in This Latest Splinter Cell: Blacklist Trailer

I'm told that if you invoke the fifth freedom today, you'll get the sixth freedom at half price. The sixth freedom is nachos.

Sep. 26 2012

Posted by: Alex

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Edited By Morrow

Is it just me or do the graphics look kinda... outdated? Dunno, but especially the facial animations look kinda stiff.

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sam so sleepy

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"I am Sam Fisher."

No, you're not.

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You're not Sam Fisher! This man is a lie.

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Maybe Ubisoft is just pulling our leg and Ironside's voice will be in the final game....

I'll get the game, but the voice still throws me off for how young Sam sounds in it.

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@SASnake said:

@JackOhara said:

@SASnake said:

@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

You actually go to different countries and fight different enemies..but ignorance is bliss I guess.

Wow, that sounds totally revolutionary. Anyways, the setting is the least of this game's worries. RIP Splinter Cell.

I never said anything about it being revolutionary?...oh wait your one of THOSE guys..I get it..carry on.

let's put it this way: you seriously looking forward to this game?!

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Edited By Sackmanjones

They pretty much just cut up that E3 trailer and threw in a couple other scenes. Think it looks pretty good, doubt its gonna run at that 60fps though.

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@JackOhara said:

@SASnake said:

@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

You actually go to different countries and fight different enemies..but ignorance is bliss I guess.

Wow, that sounds totally revolutionary. Anyways, the setting is the least of this game's worries. RIP Splinter Cell.

I never said anything about it being revolutionary?...oh wait your one of THOSE guys..I get it..carry on.

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Edited By WrenchNinja

I remember when this series was a stealth series. Chaos Theory, oh how I miss thee.

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Edited By MeatSim

Like I said before they should have just made this new Sam Fisher a new character and have Micheal Ironside Fisher be your new Lambert.

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@Xpgamer7: It doesn't really need much explanation as it's pretty self evident, although I think it's usually used to describe terrorist or sleeper cells as in a "Splinter" away from the "Cell" which then becomes a "Splinter Cell"

edit: I realise that you were probably weren't serious, just trying to save your future self a trip to the bin to find games :-p

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Wow, no Michael Ironsides!? No sale!

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Yeah! Sam Fisher's back!!

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horrible

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Edited By SleepyDoughnut

It's like Black Ops, except with night vision goggles.

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Edited By TheGorilla

30 seconds in and I had to stop watching this trailer. If it's Sam-god-damn-Fisher it needs Sam-god-damn-Fisher's voice.

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Wait wait...they're going to explain the meaning behind the term Splinter Cell? Hmm. I might have to pick this game up from a bargain bin in a few years.

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@SASnake said:

@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

You actually go to different countries and fight different enemies..but ignorance is bliss I guess.

Wow, that sounds totally revolutionary. Anyways, the setting is the least of this game's worries. RIP Splinter Cell.

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I am Sam Fischer...and I've got a younger voice.

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Edited By mewarmo990

Still can't get past the new voice. It's not that the acting sounds bad... but Sam is old now. The games and books span many years, and suddenly having a guy come in who sounds like he's in his 30s really messes with the image they had built up of the character, IMO.

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Edited By white

That monologue was terrible.

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Do the facial animations seem a bit off? Look like wax figures come to life.

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@ShatterShock said:

@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

Well then you have little to worry about then, as the "brown people" almost always get shoved aside after a couple of missions to focus on the Russians, the evil private military company, and/or the rogue American general that's gone too far. You know, white people.

Oh that's totally fine then, those are highly original ideas.

I just don't care about modern military/covert ops settings at all anymore. It's trying way too hard to be edgy without having shit to say in terms of substance.

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Edited By solidejake

That was Fisher talking the whole time...

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Edited By Roger778

That was a pretty cool trailer.

As much as I miss Michael Ironside as the voice of Sam Fisher, I have to admit this new guy sounds pretty good. I'm looking forward to this game next year.

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@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

Well then you have little to worry about then, as the "brown people" almost always get shoved aside after a couple of missions to focus on the Russians, the evil private military company, and/or the rogue American general that's gone too far. You know, white people.

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Edited By Agent47

Normally I wouldn't be the one to knock on a game for being overly generic,but holy shit,I'm sorry but I agree with everyone 100%. I'm a hardcore fan of the series and Conviction was a nice change of pace,but honestly it's the same story,same stealth mechanics and the same enemies. Honestly if you kept the HUD the same from Conviction and called it a DLC what would be the fucking difference? Just left sleeping dogs lie Ubisoft,Splinter Cell series had it's fun let it rest.

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@SASnake said:

@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

You actually go to different countries and fight different enemies..but ignorance is bliss I guess.

Whatever man, it's still generally the same overdone war-on-terror theme, and aesthetically this looks very generic and flat. I'm not passing judgement on the game as I obviously haven't played it, just the art direction. Big step down from the other Splinter Cell games. Though I understand how people that really love the genre can't get enough of it. Not for me though.

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Best way to defend americuh? STOP fucking with other countries ... so simple

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Edited By neckface

Man this just looks awful in pretty much every regard

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@BBQBram said:

@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

You actually go to different countries and fight different enemies..but ignorance is bliss I guess.

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Edited By bkbroiler

NIGHT VISION GOGGLES CONFIRMED

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Because, y'know... stealth

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I'm very not sure about this game, but that was a decent trailer. I just don't know what I want (if anything) from another Splinter Cell game.

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@JackOhara said:

could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

Yup, same here. I feel no need to SAVE MURRICA FROM THE TURBAN'ED PEOPLE for the umpteenth time.

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Looks good. I enjoyed Conviction.

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Wow, Alex has upped his game. That joke was actually amusing.

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Edited By tablefloor

There needs to be more nuns in this game... It's a PR move that's worked for other successful franchises!

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This series used to be good when all you had was night vision, thermal vision and shadows.

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I actually think it looks kinda rad. Haven't played a SC game in a while. And voice acting sounded pretty good to me. No, it's not Ironside, but he seems like a good actor.

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Michael Ironside, where art thou? :-(

Having said that, this game might actually be ok. Will wait and see how it pans out.

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Oh, good, I always wanted to know what it would be like if George Bush was Splinter Cell.

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Fun Fact: Sam Fisher's voice sounds different because his head is so far up his own ass.

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@Weakandtired said:

New voice is bad. I even liked conviction, but this series will never be at the peak it was last gen.

Stealth games are evolving as a genre. Were finally moving away from skulking in shadows in crouch taking out every lightbulb in every room. I wasn't a huge fan of Conviction but that was mainly because I associated Splinter Cell with cool gadgets and espionage - walking around with a broken car mirror seemed silly to me.

Blacklist looks like it's at least coming back to those gadget roots. At least he has the suit and goggles. Hopefully we get all that stuff from the outset this time around. I'll wait and see before I judge how "bad" the stealth is, but at least everything else looks pretty solid.

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Edited By begilerath

If this was a movie I would watch it, the whole Splinter Cell - Fifth Freedom angle is really cool and they have not really focused on it that much in the games. I also really liked Conviction and don't have a problem with the new voice, still I don't know if I'm going to play it or not.

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could not possibly be any less interested in a third-person-shooter-where-the-targets-are-brown-people-conspiracy-TANGODOWN-OSCARMIKE game

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I really HATE mark & execute, they keep ruining what was the best game on Xbox... yes you don't have to use it but the game is built around that piece of crap, just watch their so-called "stealth" version of the game == pathetic!!!

ok back to Mark of the Ninja...

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voice is whatever. game looks awesome.

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(Insert witty joke about new Sam's voice, involving time travel) right guys?

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Edited By firecracker22

Man...Sam now sounds so generic. I kinda like how the looks their playing around with Sam, combed down hair when with Fourth Echelon, and the classic spiky hair look when on the mission.

Just the constant reminder of Ironside being retired, from the character that was pretty much all him, everything Sam speaks is still bugging me.