This upsets me a lot.

I am a big Splinter Cell fan and crazy about its character Sam Fisher , and what they’ve done to Sam in Conviction makes me mad.

Why did they had to put hair on his head? Why? Did you see him?

The Sam we know, is a Sam with no hair and mean look and he should be like that in all series.

OK, I realize that it fits the theme of Conviction, but i want to see the old Sam back.

I just hope I’ll have the option to shave his hair when I’ll be playing the game.

Anyway…. you can see a high definition trailer of Splinter Cell Conviction on GameTrailers.com .

It looks very good and i just can’t wait to play it.

Update - Sunday July 27th 2008

Some help/resources links  about the xbox live chat issue:

Microsoft: Connection tests: NAT
TeamXbox Forum: Can’t Play With Friends on Xbox Live

Update - Sunday July 20th 2008

  On June 20th, exactly a month back, i wrote an e-mail to Microsoft Live Support team asking for help on this issue.

 So many of you have gone through this and seeing my incoming stats to this entry is just very worrying.

After explaining the problem with as many details as possible, giving them the link to this entry and pointing out to your comments, i kind of expected them to send me a nice answer that would help us fix this issue.

Instead, i got this:

  Dear Customer,

Thank you for your email. In order to respond effectively to your email we need to investigate further. Therefore please contact the Xbox Customer Support team .

Kind Regards,

<Lily

Xbox Support

www.xbox.com/support/contact/

  Ummm…pardon me,miss Lily, but didn’t i just contacted the support team? Aren’t you supposed to assign this to someone in your team and have an answer sent to me about the issue’s status?

  See, i do service desk and i wouldn’t dare sending this  confusing e-mail to my customers.

Are you looking into my issue or why are you asking me to contact the Support team when i just did it?

Thanks anyway dear. I will contact you again if that’s how things work.

  Recap: My e-mail to Microsoft Xbox support was unsuccessful even though i gave them the best possible reason to look into this: It’s paying customers.

Maybe if i try again it’ll work.

   If any of you have contacted the Support for this matter, please let us know what their answer was? Is there any fix for the connection besides the fix i posted below last year?

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As you probably know from the previous entry, I sent my Xbox 360 to Microsoft to be fixed.

On March 9 I got a “new” one back and for 2 days I played very little.

On March 12, in the evening, I started up and I got the 4 red lights of death…twice.

I was really in panic, because not only is a new one but I also have it for only few days.

So yesterday I had to call back Microsoft and tell them that I really had enough of this. The tech support guy was really sweet and helpful but because it was more than 1 machines that I had problems with, he had to move my call to some other person (higher) to handle my problem.

The other guy was friendly and understanding as well and next thing I knew, my anger was off. He said he’ll take care of my problem so now I am waiting to get my fix.

Although my Xbox is working now, there is no way in the world that I will keep this one and stay there until I get the red lights again or other problem and then call back for help. No!

Call it back luck …

Update - Sunday 22 April 2007

Since this post is up, i have so many incoming searches to it. So many people are having the same problem - To play this disk, put it into a Xbox 360.

The truth is, that this can only be fixed by Microsoft ….( or by someone who has experience in replacing players or other components on 360).

You can keep pushing that game in and out for a while, but eventually, you’ll have enough of it and the player won’t play your disks at all.

There’s nothing you can do about your xbox; there’s no fix for that, except sending it to Microsoft and have the player of your 360 replaced.

>>>>>>>

Update :

I tried absolutely everything to make my Xbox 360 work, but no result. Only pushing the game in and out for about 30 times could make it go, but that’s not what i want for the money i paid.

The only ones that can fix it, are the people from Microsoft and yesterday the UPS came and picked up my Xbox 360.

I tracked it down and it is already in Germany but it can take up to two weeks till i will have it back.

Grrrr!

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Now here is something I had no idea I could do in Splinter Cell Double Agent second mission.

See here the video Prison Break on Gametrailers.com

Apparently you can find Jamie and help each other out. You can even get a pistol and adrenaline shots.

With that said, I am going to play that mission again.

But… can someone tell me if there’s a gameplay difference between SplinterCell on PC and on Xbox 360?