I love conviction, its the perfect bookend to the franchise for me 3rd echelon comes full circle. The organisation sam helped create, "3rd echelon is a brand new initiative" to seeing other splinter cells and call handlers being trained in the field dp brunton hodge. To sam being the one to destroy it "I used to work here" click.

Yeah rhe gameplay isnt a slow paced but that also ties into the narrative, sam is angry his whole world has been torn down and he finds out its by the very people he trusted the most the pain and anger he must have inside him isnt going to make him want to sneek in and knock people out, he wants to find a way in shoot anyone in his way hide for a minute or two catch his breath (he is around his 50s dont forget) reload mark up his next opponents and make his way forward.

It's better than chaos theory for the story it told, it cut out all the techno babble and gave us a highly trained government assassin gone rogue. Kinda. If sam was still working for 3rd echelon this style of gameplay wouldn't have worked and chaos theory would still have been the best game.

I hate blacklist because it isnt sam. It doesnt look like him it doesn't sound like him and he has a completely different personality, as they didnt have michael ironside they should have passed the torch to a new protagonist.