Originally, their mission being to retrieve the intel source that Voron was using they discovered instead a medical facility with a lone individual in a comatose state. Eventually, the operation led them to an abandoned city in Koltsovo Naukograd, Russia. that took place in 2011, 4th Echelon field operatives Sam Fisher and Isaac Briggs investigated a lead involving Voron attempting to steal a nuclear weapon from India. Canonically, Archer is killed by Kestrel as explained in the events of Splinter Cell: Blacklist.ĭuring the Blacklist attacks two years after the EMP attack on D.C. The victor sadly crouched over the body of his partner and exchanged a few last words, only to be shot by Andriy Kobin and put into a coma. The two briefly fought in the hold of the plane (as an in-game event forces both players to fight each other one-on-one). After successfully extracting the EMP device with Archer and Kobin via transport plane, Kestrel became aware of Archer's orders to kill him as Archer left his OPSAT next to Kestrel. Two days prior to the events of the Third Echelon conspiracy, Kestrel teamed up with Third Echelon agent Archer. 2011: Pre-Washington EMP Event and Presumed Death From that day on he was known as KESTREL. After reading his report on the incident, an SVR officer named Viktor Kovalev approached Loskov to discuss a new, special operations group dedicated to high-risk infiltration and information gathering.
He endured three days of unspeakable torture before the Spetsnaz came to his rescue. Unlike many conscripts, Loskov thrived in the brutal atmosphere of Russian army life, and was quickly transferred to a special counterinsurgency unit charged with tracking down and neutralizing Chechen guerrillas and Wahhabist fighters in the Chechen capital of Grozny.Īfter an incident where his entire unit was ambushed and subsequently captured, Loskov was forced to witness the systemic executions of his friends. After numerous run-ins with the local police, Loskov was arrested at age 18 and turned over to the army for his period of conscription. Petersburg for more than four harrowing years. Loskov's parents were killed in a terrorist attack when he was six he had a tempestuous and violent relationship with his foster father and at the age of 14, he ran away from home to live on the streets of St. What is known is that he is no stranger to death, misery, and misfortune. Most of Mikhail's military dossier is classified.
So we're building the game with those three archetypes in mind." And then in the middle, we have what we call the panther. We've got our action/tank/killer player on the other end of the spectrum, that just wants to throw frag grenades, blind fire, shoot people in the head. "We have the ghost player, that doesn't want to kill or get detected. "We have these three player profiles, player archetypes in our heads," he said.
So Conviction is very sweet and sour for me."īéland believes Conviction was a "stepping stone" for the current title, with Ubisoft Toronto making a more expansive game that will cater to three different types of Splinter Cell players. We changed the direction and kind of shipped the game in two years. "I'm not going to go into the whole story, but Conviction was kind of a rescue job for me," Béland told Joystiq. In fact, Béland called Conviction a "rescue job" with Ubisoft calling him and another producer in to ship the title. In an interview with Joystiq, Splinter Cell: Blacklist creative director Maxime Béland promised that the game would be more impressive than the previous iteration, Conviction.