Splinter Cell: Blacklist reminds me that it is OK to kill people

I always find it amazing when a video game makes you start questioning your own morals in life. Let me explain, there is a game franchise which has been out for a while now called Splinter Cell. I always dismissed Splinter Cell as a Metal Gear Solid rip off, I guess it was because they are both espionage games and I played Metal Gear first, whatever, I was a stupid kid. I happened to pick up Splinter Cell: Conviction last Christmas during the steam Christmas sale, we have all been there, I have 77 games on my steam account, 46 have been played and I would hazard a guess that 10 have been played to completion. I'm getting off topic here, Splinter Cell: Conviction, I recently had a weekend spare with no plans and not much money, so I decided to give the game a whirl and was pleasantly surprised. I would go as far to say Splinter Cell: Conviction is one of the better games I have played in a long time (I can only vouch for the single player). I guess you can call me a fan because I am now really looking forward to future Splinter Cell games.

Imagine my delight when I discovered that a new Splinter Cell game is coming out, Splinter Cell: Blacklist! This time Sam is the man in charge and he only answers to the president. I am genuinely excited about this game, it looks fantastic. Ubisoft Toronto seems to be doing a fantastic job, adding loads of new features to the game play and even adding new AI types! Here check out this video to see what i am talking about.

Wow, look at all those new features. Shiny, I know. The game looks amazing and i really can't wait to get my hands on a copy.

Now lets get to the questioning of morals I mentioned up at the very top of this post. Throughout the demo video you see Mr Fisher killing a vast amount of men in a variety of ways, he uses knifes , he uses guns, He uses some kind of electric shock device and hell, he even uses a UAV air strike just to make sure everyone is good and dead! Only once during the killing spree did I feel bad for the death of a living creature, if you watched the video then you can probably guess what i am going to say next, That's right, the new AI type, attack dogs. The only death in the entire video which bothered me was the dogs death. I know the dog was trained to attack you so you didn't really have a choice but that's the point, the dog was trained to do it, he didn't know if what he was doing was right or wrong. He was just doing what he was trained to do.

I know a real dog wasn't hurt or killed, it is all just pixels and code but that's not the point, the point is I valued the life of the dog more than I valued the life's of the humans. Surely I should value all life equally or at least show some loyalty to my own species. Then I remembered that this happened...

Oh Humanity, why you so stooopid?