History VideoGame / SplinterCellConviction

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Completely averted -- "bosses" (read: interrogation targets) may shoot at you but don't have better perception than the mooks, and they're subdued just as easily.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Patricia Caldwell is transparently an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton. With Creator/MerylStreep's face, no less.

* BalanceBuff: Sam's signature FN Five [=SeveN=] pistol, the very epitome of a LittleUselessGun in the previous games, gets a major upgrade to a PunchPackingPistol to the point that, thanks to its large magazine and its ability to take out four enemies at once with Mark & Execute, it's widely considered to be the best weapon in the game.

''Splinter Cell: Conviction'' (or ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction'') is an action-{{stealth|Based Game}} game in the ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series, released in 2010 on UsefulNotes/Xbox360 and PC.

* AuthorAppeal: The game has this, though unusually for such a trope, the effect is not so much on story or themes so much as on gameplay. The project's ([[DevelopmentHell eventual]]) creative director Maxime Béland thought that the kind of slow-paced, careful observation and timing that were used in games like ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' and the previous ''Splinter Cell'' titles was boring, equating such movement speed to being like that of a "grandma". The "Mark & Execute" feature is something that he carried over from his previous project, ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Vegas'', which [[WordOfGod he admits in interviews]] is simply a gameplay device and has no in-universe justification for why its mechanics work the way they do. The grayscale tones that the world adopts when Sam goes into hiding were inspired by his hobby of black and white photography.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Completely averted -- "bosses" (read: interrogation targets) may shoot at you but don't have better perception than the mooks, and they're subdued just as easily.

* ActionizedSequel: Due to the emphasis of the "Mark & Execute" feature, and the reduction/removal of features used to distract and incapacitate rather than kill.

* PapaWolf: Sam rips through anyone who stands in the way of him reuniting with Sarah. Notably, he's positively ''chilling'' in response to [[WhatAnIdiot Kobin]] [[BullyingADragon calling her a "fucking whore."]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Iraq level is played as a straight-up, ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''-esque shooter where you have no access to suppressed weapons and there are little to no stealth mechanics involved, let alone options for stealth. This is because [[spoiler:you're not playing as Sam, but as another SEAL entirely - Victor Coste]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Prentiss, who is featured prominently in the demo for the game, but is never physically met in the actual game (though it is implied he's the one driving the helicopter that attacks at the end of Michigan Avenue Reservoir).