Considering they said already that the coop would take 5 hours, that means the single player is only about 7-11 hour long. I hope it's worth it.

That's huge!

i guess that means im buying it used to return it the next day after it's done, i certainly agree that 10 hours of good games is considerably better than 100 of shit, but i find neither worth 60 dollars.

Dammit.

Here I was hoping that it was going to be 12-16 hours of SP and six hours of co-op mode. And jim, it's not about determining a game's quality, just that games should stop lasting only five hours these days. I want longer games because are getting shorter by the day.

I've been playing the old SC games and they're all pretty short if you take out all the reloading saves, so I doubt Conviction will be any different. An eight hour campaign with a two hour co-op at best. Not that I mind, of course.

"Game length for story (SP and COOP combined) should run between 4 and 7 hours." "With Spec Ops, it will be interesting to see how much replay value players get out of it!"

Somehow I don't think people will be playing the coop missions for more than 2 weeks tops. 12-16 sounds decent enough though: long enough for a campaign, not too long that you won't want to play it again on a harder setting at a later point (if it's any good). I just hope they don't think the coop missions are 4 hours minimum, making the main game 8 hours for the average player.

It pains me to buy any game that is pretty much just a 10-15 hour campaign brand new. I mean that £40 is like a 1/4ounce of weed, which will last me nearly a week on my new cut-down consumption.

If the game doesn't last as long as the same value of smoke, i will have trouble forking out for it.

SP only or even SP and a little co-op games should really be cheaper than the games that you're going to get hundreds of hours out of.

Limit a major part of the game to purchasers of a new copy only, to discourage the used sales, but most importantly drop the price by 1/4. E.G. Lock the Co-op to the initial purchaser and sell the game for £30 - You WILL see more new sales and less Used sales. Yet people who just want to blaze through the SP can grab a pre-owned copy/rental for that.

I dunno, just an idea.

Uncharted 2 and MW2 both had short campaigns, but MW2 had both Spec Ops and a deep, leveling based multiplayer. And Uncharted had coop and a leveling based multiplayer also. These were deep games, with plenty to keep you interested beyond the story. With only 1v1 multiplayer in Splinter Cell, it just seems kind of not worth a $60 price tag.

@DtoidBadMrK:

Uncharted 2 was NO WHERE NEAR as short as MW2. Uncharted was somewhere around 10+ hrs and MW2 was around 5.

While the length is an arbitrary number, if a person I'm paying $60 for a game, I want to have AT LEAST 7-9 hrs SP campaign.

Ok, to everyone bitching about 10-12 hours being to short, some people (like me) go to university and have lives. Not every games need to be 60 hours long to justify the price.

@shadowkirby So because you have a "life" you want the game to be short so you can do other things? If the game was longer all you would need to do is spend the same amount of time you do gaming and you would still beat the game. It would just take longer.

The game's been delayed? FUCK!

I highly recommend people read the book of the same name, its damn good(probably since it isn't written by Tom Clancy [zing!]) and would at least help bridge the time gap. Especially the noobs worrying that this game won't be as good as previous SC's.

Although, since I recently finished the book, 2/23/2010 seemed so far away but then I hear this and now it sucks I won't get to play all the amazing shit I read in the book 'til April.

Oh and 12-16 hours is fine. Like someone else stated, Uncharted rehashing singleplayer levels is not what Ubisoft is doing, its all unique content.

If its as good as it looks, I don't care. I'd rather have developers invest in quality than quantity.