 ==Story according to Informer== This was small bit from the informer article was removed from the main article, maybe it was too much information. I don't know.  Conviction takes place two years after Double Agent, Sam Fisher has seperated from Third Eschalon and has moved to a remote area of the country, removing himself from rest of society. When he hears that his friend - recurring Splinter Cell character Anna Grimsdottir - is in trouble, he decides to get involved with his old agency and help track her down. But Sam returns to find a very different Third Echelon - a Third Echelon that has become poligical to the point of dysfuntion. The agency is so chained down by red tape its operatives are unable to complete their tasks. Sam Fisher... is not one who likes what he sees with the beauracracy that he has been confronted with. Very quickly it becomes clear to Sam thatif he is going to be of any use, he is going to have to break out on his own, act as an independent agent, and rebel against his own government. He becomes an enemy of the state, fighting for what he believes. He's alone, his resources are limited, and he's on the run, but he's not defenseless. Sam knows Third Echelon. He knows how they work. He knows their strengths and weaknesses. Even though they are actively hunting him some of them are his friends and he might be reluctant to fight them...Sam Fisher is a man of conviction. And it's this conviction - not his renegade status - that gives Splinter Cell its name. He's not a victim. He's not a fugitive. He's not hiding. That's why its called Conviction, because it's really about Sam's conviction that he has to do what he has to do because he feels it is for the greater good. And he's going out on his and doing that, but he's not necessarily happy about doing that.  -Game Informer, June 2007.   In anycase some details it talks about seem to differ from some of the stuff claimed in the current story section of the article. People can try to clean it up a bit and paraphrase the info if they like. 