Police stops Splinter Cell PR stunt in New Zealand

When you start pointing fake plastic guns at civilians like you’re Sam Fisher, it’s not going to end well.

Police in New Zealand had to be called in after a man ran about the district of Viaduct Basin in Auckland pointing a weapon at people, who had to take cover as he was covering the area and aiming the weapon.

Conviction started out much different than final product, says producer

Splinter Cell: Conviction’s creative director Maxime Beland has revealed that the original idea of the game was lot different than it turned out.Speaking with GamePro, Beland said that originally, the team wanted to make an “anti” Splinter Cell game.

Ubisoft drew inspiration from Uncharted, Max Payne for Conviction

Splinter Cell: Conviction’s game director, Patrick Redding, has revealed the development team’s inspiration for the game to OXM, citing games like Max Payne and Uncharted.Chatting about gameplay elements and invisibility, Redding said looking at other popular games gave the team an idea of what the player spent their time doing.

Ubisoft CV points at SC: Conviction for PS3

Splinter Cell: Conviction is coming to PlayStation 3. At least, that’s according to a CV from someone working at Ubisoft.Before the information was removed, a lead software engineer at Ubi Montreal, Marc Demers, had the game listed for “360, PS3, PC”.