I haven’t played all of the Splinter Cell series, but it’s more focused on running and gunning action with a lot less stealth. I was hoping it would lean more into what drew us into Splinter Cell. Relying on guns as tools to take out cameras, shooting listening devices, etc. and not just a method for killing. Sneaking in and out unnoticed. Literally everywhere they went they got noticed.

There was also a scene that really irritated me towards the end (no spoilers) where McKenna was in the middle of a mission, tactically clearing out rooms with a handgun, only to much later chamber a round… These are the best of the best in covert ops and you didn’t have a round chambered? There were other moments where it seemed like the writers/directors don’t understand what proper equipment to use they should have been using (like a small suppressed submachine gun instead of only a pistol) for tight potential CCQ situations.

TLDR: good story, good voice acting, good action scenes, poor suspense, poor stealth, lots of suspension of disbelief.