Sam Fisher will shortly make his return to the videogame world in the shape of Splinter Cell: Conviction. This latest instalment differs from what we’ve seen from the series before, as you playing as Sam are now a fugitive on the run.

As well as being on the run in Splinter Cell: Conviction, you are working alone and for yourself this time around as you seek evidence which will clear your name in relation to events that occured in the previous game Double Agent, and also attempt to track down the killer of your daughter – and of course inflict your own kind of justice upon them.

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The sudden change in plot and storyline that Splinter Cell: Conviction is based upon gives the game a completely new feeling from the outset, and introduces a whole new approach to the series – or at least you will have to adapt to a new approach if you want to prove successful - playing by the old rules will get you caught in no time.

Gone is the high-tech suit with every gadget under the sun, and in-come some street jeans and a hoody and given the shift in circumstances, it’s these bare essentials that will prove your saviour time and time again. Splinter Cell: Conviction takes a leaf from Assassins Creed and encourages you to utilise crowds of people as cover – in more ways than one. Stealth is very much still at the forefront of the game experience in Splinter Cell: Conviction, only you’ll be taking care in broad daylight for the best part of the game this time around without the cover of night-fall.

Splinter Cell: Conviction is released for the PC, XBox 360 and Nintendo DS on February 23rd 2010. Here at Cheat Masters we’ll bring you a full review when the game arrives!