Name: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Brand: Xbox
Price: 5.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deal overview

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist is currently 70% off on Xbox — down to $5.99 from $19.99.

A 70% cut is a strong deal for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist; steeper drops appear only during the largest Xbox sales.

That works out to $14.00 off the Xbox list price of $19.99.

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About this game

Sam Fisher doesn’t get to sit on the sidelines in Blacklist. After the events of Conviction left Third Echelon disbanded, this entry puts him in charge of a new unit and sends him chasing a terrorist countdown that’s already ticking when the game starts. It’s the point in the series where Ubisoft tried to fold the older, patient stealth games into something faster and more reactive, and for the most part that fusion works.

How it plays

The mission structure rewards you for picking a lane and sticking with it. Go full Ghost and you’re rewarded for never being seen, slipping past patrols with gadgets like the Snake Cam and the Micro-trirotor Drone instead of fighting your way through. Go Panther and you’re working in close, taking people out quietly and quickly with tools like the Sticky Shocker or the curved Karambit knife. Go Assault and the game just lets you shoot, no real penalty for being loud about it. The nice part is the scoring and mission design actually track which of those you’re doing, so your playstyle isn’t just flavor, it changes how a level feels to run. Killing in Motion lets you tag a few targets and chain them into one quick, practiced-looking takedown, which becomes the signature move once you’ve got some gadgets unlocked. Between missions you’re based on the Paladin, a converted stealth aircraft that works as your hub for gearing up and managing your Echelon team. One thing to know going in: the multiplayer and co-op modes that were part of the original pitch are no longer functional, since the online services behind them have been shut down. What’s left is a single-player campaign.

Who it’s for

If you grew up on the earlier Splinter Cell games and have been lukewarm on where the series went, Blacklist is probably the one that wins you back, since it leans harder into tactical stealth than Conviction did while still feeling modern. It’s also a good fit for anyone who likes systemic action games where the “correct” approach is whatever you’re in the mood for that day, rather than a single scripted solution per level. People who specifically bought in for the multiplayer or the co-op Spies vs. Mercs stuff should know that part of the experience is gone now, so skip it if that was the draw. And if stealth mechanics generally bore you, no amount of playstyle flexibility is going to change that here.

Is it worth it?

For a single-player campaign with this much replay value built into how you approach each mission, it holds up well against plenty of newer action games asking for more. The lost online modes are a real downgrade from the original package, so go in treating this purely as a solo stealth-action game, and judge the value on that basis. If you’re the kind of player who actually enjoys replaying a mission with a different approach just to see how it plays out, this is exactly the sort of game worth picking up when it’s discounted rather than paying full attention to it at full price.