This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Ubisoft Montreal’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. Enjoy!

Funny stuff, enjoy!

Montreal-based audio production studio Wave Generation provided recording and engineering services for all dialogue in Ubisoft Montreal’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, and cast characters across multiple languages including Russian and Arabic, the company has announced.

While publisher Ubisoft apparently handled casting for many of the game’s character roles, Wave Generation was contracted to cast a number of others. For the foreign-language parts, the company says it sought Russian and Arabic speakers who were capable both of delivering English lines in authentic accents as well as delivering lines in the original Russian or Arabic.

The company was first employed specifically for the Russian roles; it says it conducted casting in Toronto and Montreal and chose a selection of actors including both native Russian speakers and those who spoke Russian as a second language.

Ubisoft then tapped Wave Generation to handle vocal casting for Arabic characters. The studio says that, because of a similar recent job for another game, it was able to cast from its existing "local network of Arabic speaking actors."

Wave Generation says in addition to the services it provided for full casting of foreign-language characters, it also handled recording studio and engineering duties for all of Conviction’s dialogue.

From GameTrailers:

Sam develops a nasty vigilante streak after his daughter Sarah’s death — here’s your entry to the conspiracy.

You can also find some new screenshots on Joystiq from Microsoft’s X10 event.

Video after the break:

[…] the publisher is shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 — and that means it plans to launch a third Assassin’s Creed game in its next fiscal year.
Ubisoft’s fiscal 2010 begins in April and ends in March 2011, and in a statement today alongside its reduced quarterly and annual forecast, the company said the fiscal year to come "will see a greater number of franchise releases than fiscal year 2009-10."

This includes the mentioned Assassin’s Creed release — which the company confirmed to Gamasutra refers specifically to an entirely new game and not the planned DLC content associated with AC2. It also includes delayed Splinter Cell: Conviction, which was moved from February 23, 2010 to April, but a new Ghost Recon series game and the recently-announced Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Other titles the publisher lists for its fiscal 2010-11 include Raving Rabbids 4 and Driver.

The fiscal year 2010-11 line-up will be more focused on the Xbox 360 and Playstation, the consoles which are expected to experience sustained sales growth in games for gamers in calendar 2010," says Ubisoft. "Other new franchises and innovations will also be announced throughout the year." […]

Read the rest at Gamasutra.

From GameSpot:

Giancarlo and Brian give you a look at Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction!

 

Here is the video, after the break:

Ubisoft has a new teaser for Splinter Cell: Conviction online. It seems that our guy Sam Fisher is in some trouble.

At the game’s main site, there’s nothing save a "Third Echelon" emblem and the message, "Site Currently Under Investigation." Below that, "If you have any information on Sam Fisher, please report it here." The link connects to Splinter Cell’s official forums.

Check it out for yourself here. Maybe you can figure out what "vomacoifinnocnt" means.