Latest Splinter Cell: Conviction Details from OXM

OXM have confirmed 4 player co-op and some other cool features for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Co-op will feature a series of standalone challenges set within the same four stages from the co-op story mode, plus two additional maps.

Here's more info from the January's issue of OXM:

• Archer and Kestrel are the new Co-Op characters.
  
• Takes place about 2 months before Conviction.
  
• Roughly 6 hours.
  
• Cover similar to Gears of War.
  
• If you’re wounded, you can either play dead or use your pistol until your partner heals you or you bleed out.
  
• Deniable Ops (4 co-op): Series of standalone challenges set within the same four stages from the co-op story mode, plus two additional maps:
  
• Hunter: Where players have to kill off all enemy NPCs on the map.
  
• Infiltration: Same concept as Hunter mode, but detection by enemies automatically results in failure.
  
• Last Stand: Protect an EMP warhead from waves of attacking foes.
  
• Face Off: The sole adversarial mode, with two players going head-to-head with a costumizable number of A.I. Opponents populating the map.
  
• You earn points through out the SP and MP.
  
• Change your look online and the look of Sam Fisher.
  
• Upgrade Weapons / Gadgets / Appearance.
  
• 6 Maps (four for the story co-op and two only for Deniable Ops).