Splinter Cell: Conviction Player Calculates How Many People Sam Fisher Killed
The Splinter Cell series is often regarded as one of the best stealth video game franchises. As fans of the Ubisoft series look for any hint at the return of Splinter Cell, someone did some research about just how deadly Sam Fisher, the series' protagonist, has been throughout his games.
Reddit user u/TK-576 created a post that calculated the kill count for Sam Fisher across the Splinter Cell games. To get an accurate count, the user played through each game and only counted the kills of Sam Fisher that were a part of a cinematic or kills that were 100% unavoidable. Between the first four games in the series, Splinter Cell (2002) and Double Agent (2006), Sam Fisher only kills 21 enemies combined. However, Splinter Cell: Conviction ups the ante by about 3,900%.
In Splinter Cell: Conviction, the gameplay shifted away from the total stealth approach. Sam Fisher kills 418 people in 2010's Conviction, a massive spike compared to the other games in the series. Gone are the avoidable kills. Gone are the total stealth approaches to gameplay. Instead, Conviction forces Fisher to kill, and kill a lot.
The creativity and player agency in the Splinter Cell games are part of the reason people enjoy them. Many prefer Splinter Cell over Metal Gear Solid, but for the most part, both allow the player to approach situations with the style they prefer. With Conviction, this wasn't the case. Although the game was enjoyable, many were turned off by the lack of true stealth, as the game focused on action. Thankfully, with Splinter Cell: Blacklist, sneaky gameplay returned and the game can be beaten without killing a single soul.
Without Conviction, Fisher would not be much of a killer compared to action-adventures like Uncharted. Even in the Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon crossovers, Sam Fisher only is forced to kill a few enemies. It seems as if Ubisoft has understood that players want options with how they approach attacking and avoiding with Fisher in his games.
Whether Splinter Cell is rebooted with the next-gen, or whether the series is continued, it is likely that the games will continue to focus on stealth. Conviction could go down as the only time Sam Fisher went haywire and killed hundreds, as over 95% of his career kills have come from that single game.
Splinter Cell: Conviction is available for Xbox 360, PC, and mobile devices.
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