14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft has offered up yet another release date for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, which has seen quite its share of delays during its long development history. The game is now set to be released on April 13, after previously being set to appear in late 2009, from where it was bumped by the launch of Modern Warfare 2, and then getting a February 23 date that has recently been rescinded by the publisher.
Splinter Cell: Conviction should be launched on the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft and on the PC. The studio has also previously talked about a Nintendo DS version of the Sam Fischer experience but has not mentioned it lately.
Ubisoft made the latest announcement in style by actually mailing rocks engraved with the logo of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction on the front and with the numbers 4.13.10 written on the back, literally aiming to prove that the launch date is set in stone and will not be changed again.
The gaming industry has long thought of Conviction as vaporware, something similar to Duke Nukem Forever, a game destined to never actually come out. Last year's E3 trade conference marked the moment when Ubisoft showed the game again, for the first time after 2007, and offered a new direction for the title.
The story line of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is set two years after Double Agent and picks up with protagonist Sam Fischer actually being on the run from the NSA, the FBI and pretty much every other government agency in the United States.
With Third Echelon now the target of his fury, Fischer goes to Washington in order to uncover a conspiracy, get the heat of his back and find some answers. With no formal rules of engagement holding him back, Sam Fisher is free to deploy a wide variety of methods to lethally take down his enemies.