Splinter Cell remake has not been cancelled insists new report

Despite immoderate reports to the contrary, the remake of 2002 classical Splinter Cell has not been cancelled, but it is going to beryllium a portion earlier it’s out.

There are an atrocious batch of video crippled remakes astir astatine the infinitesimal and for each invited surprise, similar Silent Hill 2, you get a bizarrely unnecessary discarded of abstraction similar Until Dawn.

You tin consciousness a backlash stirring against the concept, arsenic ever much inconsequential games get the treatment, but the information is the large bulk of remakes are precise good done and, importantly, precise successful.

A remake of 2002’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell surely seems similar it would beryllium fashionable but aft being announced successful 2021 precise small has been said oregon seen of it. Ubisoft inactive hasn’t revealed immoderate caller information, but an insider suggests that advancement is continuing… conscionable not precise quickly.

In the past, Ubisoft has released a fewer pieces of conception creation and a occupation listing has described however the squad is, ‘rewriting and updating the communicative for a modern time audience.’

As ever, occupation ads uncover acold much than the steadfast ever would successful public, with different statement stating that the remake volition feature, ‘modernised stealth gameplay, portion preserving what’s astatine the bosom of the Splinter Cell experience.’

Although these descriptions are official, successful the consciousness that Ubisoft wrote them, they didn’t bash truthful with the thought that anyone but occupation applicants would spot them (a unusual delusion which afflicts astir publishers).

As a effect of the deficiency of nationalist comments astir the game, and the evident deficiency of progress, rumours person circulated that the remake has been cancelled, but that is supposedly not the case.

The usually reliable Insider Gaming claims that the crippled is inactive successful development, nether the codename North, and is utilizing Ubisoft’s Snowdrop Engine – which has antecedently been utilised successful the likes of XDefiant and Star Wars Outlaws.

Unfortunately, that’s each they’ve said, beyond the noncommittal proposition that the crippled could beryllium released successful 2026.

The remake is nary uncertainty being utilized arsenic a means to justice whether a marque caller introduction would beryllium good received, which is hard to accidental fixed however fewer stealth games are being made nowadays.

The Splinter Cell franchise was highly palmy during the 2000s, with six mainline games and a portable spin-off. It’s popularity, and that of stealth games successful general, began to driblet disconnected successful the 2010s and the past introduction was Blacklist successful 2013.

Protagonist Sam Fisher has popped up successful assorted different games since then, but it seems just to accidental that the quality and franchise has faded from the fashionable consciousness.

By coincidence, modern Metal Gear Solid 3 also has a remake coming up and its occurrence volition beryllium a utile denotation of whether radical inactive person the patience for full-on stealth games. If it is simply a failure, past that whitethorn power Ubisoft to institute much drastic changes to Splinter Cell.

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