@crusnchill They changed that in Chaos Theory. You could get spotted more than three times and still play the mission, but it crippled your mission rating severely.

Anyway, I CANNOT wait for this game to come out. I've waited too long. xD

This might be a long post. I love Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell highly and just woke up so I might go on more deeply about this than I should.

The thing with the Splinter Cell series detractors that I usually hear is hating the trail and error of getting spotted and then memorizing it to get back the next time.
Uh, you're playing it wrong.

If you blaze through and then remember it the second time through, of course you won't enjoy it.
Splinter Cell has never been a run and gun. It's actually more of a puzzle game with human enemies as the pieces more than a shooter.
As any big fan of the series realized, if you play it like the stealth engine it was designed for, you won't even have to fire a shot (at least in the past, that seems impossible with the new game from what is shown).
But Splinter Cell had a unique gameplay compared to other games. If you want to run and gun, go play a game of that type, there's plenty to choose.
My only worry is, as I hold the Splinter series up there as one of my favorite series because I like the patient slow pace of it's structure, is they will make it too much of an action based game where it becomes....just another action title.

Heck, you want a more action heavy and dumbed down and forgiving version of stealth, go play Assassins Creed or Uncharted. But why turn Splinter Cell into a gun version of Assassins Creed instead of letting each title have it's own slight distinction in feel made for a slightly different audience?
Splinter Cell was never meant for the mainstream in the way of a Halo was. It was the hardcore stealth title, like Ninja Gaiden is the hardcore action title.

Speaking of which, it's kind of like if Ninja Gaiden is too hard for an action fan, go play Wet, which is easier for more people to enjoy (and there's nothing wrong with that). But you don't dumb down Gaiden in response!
When you follow those rules, obviously most times the motivation being to up sales despite having a series already selling well, you would end up with so many games aping each other so often that every game is the same with only different graphics.
And in many titles, we're already getting there.
So far, I have faith and a reserve on this new Splinter Cell and give them the benefit of the doubt given their history with the series that they know what they're doing, no matter how dangerously close this is appearing to be a third person viewed Rainbow 6 (Which again, if I wanted a Rainbow 6 type experience, I'll go play Rainbow 6).

But I also keep having Resident Evil 5 pop up in my head. I mean, I really enjoy that game, but it's not Resident Evil in gameplay. It's more Gears Of War with some Resident Evil movements left over.
Great game on it's own...yet the more adventuring styles of old had more distinction to other games out there. Though God no, don't ever go back to the camera of old.

Here's my plead if someone from the developers reads here:
Pleeeeaaase, Ubi, as someone who has bought, not rented but bought, the whole series on day one....change is good for the sake of evolving, just please don't make this into Sam Fisher: Arkham Asylum. I already have a Batman I can go play.
What makes the series great is that it plays different from other titles. That's a positive mark, not a negative. Don't read too much online posts to think that's what everyone wants. Keep the perspective that, purely off my gut, I'd bet most posters either rent or buy old 90 percent of the time.
Don't ditch your cash cow. I buy.

As another day-one-entire-Splinter Cell-buyer-and-lover, I think this is a great move for the series...It was starting to get a little stale.

P.P.S.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Metal Gear back in 1988 didn't have that mechanic.

I like this, but I wish people stop saying it's too easy. I bet you £50 there's going to be achievements or a score where you have to play the game without killing people (just like Chaos Theory and Double Agent). They're showing all the action to get a new audience interested, but I'm sure there's plenty of stealth approaches that we haven't seen yet. Anyway, I'm glad it's moving on with the gameplay. I just wish more of Splinter Cell's fans would do the same.

Faaaaaaaaaaap.

Just confirming that I'm still excited for this game :). I loved Double Agent.

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