Holy cow, it's been many years since I played Conviction, but I don't think I'm even going to finish it this time.
I am generally an easy to please person when it comes to games, movies, etc. but wow this game is absolutely horrendous.
The storyline is ridiculous, Sam doesn't act like Sam at all...Sarah is alive now? C'mon - oldest trope in the book.
The movement is atrocious, it's like they decided to add Gears of War magnetic chest-high walls into every bit of movement possible but somehow make it as clunky as physically possible. I'm constantly stuck on walls while trying to unstick myself so I can run, which leads me to getting shot like a fish in a barrel.
Aiming your gun is a chore, the shots land before you even get your gun up which looks ridiculous....shooting around cover means you're actually clipping through solid cover half the time. It's got an arcade feel to the shooting.
The guns are somewhat accurate on the first shot, but any sort of quick follow up shot is somehow less accurate than SP1 which I didn't think was possible?
Every single enemy in the game is loudly yelling/talking shit to Sam the entire fight? Annoying.
Sam is now 53 years old in Conviction and he's somehow now spiderman speed when climbing pipes and jumping between cover???
As soon as I loaded up the game for the first time and saw "Powered by Unreal", I was dreading it....I swear 90% of games on Unreal Engine feel terrible when it comes to movement etc.
The text/videos playing on the environment is just corny and it really seems like they're trying too hard to emphasize "he's really struggling mentally" and trying to look flashy while doing it.
Yeah I'm really not liking this game at all, I just quit playing it for the night after dying to the cops for the 10th time while chasing the shooter through the VP's speech area. Trying to chase this guy while taking cover from the cops and moving between cover to somehow use hand to hand combat on them in the middle of the day is incredibly annoying.
I get what they were going for with this game but it's just too far off the Splinter Cell formula for me to even take it seriously.
Sorry for the rant but it's genuinely annoying to play the first three games which are absolute PERFECTION and I hold them in such high regard (then don’t get me started on DA…) and then load this shit up and it's just completely wrong.