Well. Here’s an interesting situation.
Some weeks back my
brother picked up an old copy of Splinter
Cell: Blacklist, presumably so he and our buddy could stumble through its
co-op between beatdowns in PlayStation
All-Stars or Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s hard to say how far they’ve gotten in
their little campaign, but what I’ve seen thus far has been something like
watching two penguins on banana peels try to save America from terrorists --
hilariously inept to the point of becoming boringly commonplace at times, but a
spectacle all the same. I wouldn’t say
I’d try the co-op for myself, but I’m glad those two had their fun with it.
It should go without
saying, but my jam would be the single-player aspect. And indeed, I was simultaneously interested
in and worried by the prospect of trying Blacklist
solo. Its E3 showings turned me off
for all the obvious reasons, but for the sake of trying to get out of my
comfort zone and giving something with the Tom Clancy brand the benefit of the
doubt, I decided it would be stupid of me to give it the cold shoulder just
because it didn’t have the requisite full use of the color spectrum. So I gave it a try.
And as I was playing
it, a question suddenly popped into my head: who is this game for?