Splinter Cell: Conviction finally drops tomorrow! Of course, stealth kills in video games have been around for decades—Sam Fisher is just the latest, and one of the most polished, to do it. Back in the day, enemy AI was so "derp" that we couldn't tell if that idiot Barbarian in the NES Ninja Gaiden even knew we were in the room. He was probably running back and forth swinging his axe before we even got there. Was it a "stealth kill" if it involved killing an enemy who was too stupid to react differently whether we were in front of or behind him?
Nowadays though, the stealth game is a genre of its own. Enemy AI has graduated from fetus-level intelligence to at LEAST kindergarten-level deductive reasoning—so of course our protagonists have had to evolve as well. Let us tip our cap, quietly, to the men and women who always make us think twice before we loiter under a giant stone gargoyle...
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