Splintercell Blacklist: A Professional review

Welcome to Fourth Echelon. Sam Fisher is back. Sam Fisher is at his best. And he's ready to hurt something, preferably a bad guy.

Splintercell Blacklist looks absolutely beautiful. It has some of the cinematic elements of Conviction while maintaining a new feel.

Visuals: 

Great, sadly locked around 30 fps. Anna Grimsdottir's hair is a bit weird in the cutscenes but aside from that the characters look great. The maps, the enemies, and everything else has a clean look to it. The 5-7 however looks different from most others and includes a suppressor in the barrel so¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Basic Hub: 

Paladin gives the option to walk around a smaller cargo plane.  Paladin is the Hub world for you while playing the game. You can talk to any of your three comrades, your prisoner, and Sarah, your daughter. 
Talking to Grim gives you the opportunity to upgrade the Plane for a bonus multiplier in score for receiving money at the end of missions as well as adding many more different bonuses in the field.

The SMI also gives you access to campaign and multiplayer modes.

Charlie: Who gives you missions that are solo/co-op which task you with defending an area and holding out for a certain amount of waves. He also allows you to customize gear which you can do from the SMI or by walking to the armory.
Briggs: Gives you co-op only missions.
Grim: who gives you solo/co-op missions which rely on never getting detected.
Kobin: solo/co-op which give you the Hunter missions from deniable ops in conviction.


Story:
Pretty dang good.


Soundtrack: ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS



Multiplayer: Fairly stable with the occasional hacker. no quit button however

The classes are great with a new feel to any form of multiplayer. Not many people play now but it's still fun to play a good round of spies versus mercs.
Along with the preset classes for both teams, there's also an extra three custom loadout slots. 

Basic run-through: Spies stay hidden and hack  the terminals, mercs have firepower to take them down.
The Intel scout is a support spy, get an eye on the enemy and make sure your teammates know where he is. 
Saboteur: Disable those pesky traps mercs left for you and any things they might send at you.
Predator: super stealthy, only countered by one kind of merc goggle ability

Disruptor: make sure nothing that those spies can use works.
Hunter: send up a uav to find those spies
Peacemaker: Fast Tank

Corridor Digital actually made a video somewhat demonstrating the multiplayer action. view the video here

PEEVES: Helmeted enemies require multiple headshots to take off their helmet or a mark and execute. 
Enemies can whack you. if you try to take down an enemy and they notice you they will knock you back and you can't take them down. AND IT STINKS

Overall: I recommend it


don't forget about the community discord https://discord.gg/ZDxVvqy
and the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQupBOBu6otXWzunZO4XWQ expect more videos soon!