Many pundits state that Microsoft 'won' E3 (if you can win such an event). Project Natal, with all its jumping around like a fool malarkey, and a slightly scary Milo, a small boy talking and interacting in real time to a human being a couple of the highlights.

Of course, they announced the exclusives as well. One of which stood out just because it had been off the radar for so long...

Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Thanks to the innovations made by titles such as Assassin's Creed, the team behind SC: Conviction took the bold step to scrap the work already done and start afresh. To enlighten you to the amount of work that has gone into the rebuild, behold the first part of the development diary below, in which the team explain what changes have occurred, and what we can expect from Fisher come launch time...