In many areas you're forced into direct confrontation. It is these two styles, either singularly or a combination of the two that most players will end up sticking with. Panther is a mix between old-school Splinter Cell and Conviction. Ghosting will require multiple plays of areas as you work out the most optimal route. There is incentive to stick to one style, as ‘mastering' one gets you more points, all of which can be converted into cash and can be used to buy new equipment and gadgets, or you can even unpgrade the Paladin, your aircraft, which provides new functions such as a on-screen radar during missions. Assault tosses any sneaking out the window and let's you charge in, throwing grenades without a care.Įach mission's scored across the three categories.

This tactic brings back the 'mark and execute' technique, as you select a trio and press a button to watch Sam take them out. Panther emphasises the importance of stealth, but you can stab or shoot enemies with headshots, and as long as it's with a silencer. Ghost is, on paper, the hardest as you knock enemies out with non-lethal means or better still, sneak past without being seen or heard. Ubisoft have made a big deal out of Blacklist covering three distinct play styles: Ghost, Panther and Assault. So Sam and his team have to go through a series of missions across the globe before the attacks are completed. Their operations have names like 'American Consumption' and 'American Fuel', and together constitute what they call 'the Blacklist', which sounds like someone decided on the game's title before the plot and had to find some way to link everything together. air base in the biggest attack on U.S military installations since Pearl Harbour, and they also intend to ravage the country each week until the United States withdraws its troops from abroad. They're on the trail of terrorist group The Engineers, to stop them before they finish their planned attacks on American soil.

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