After several years of making fans suffer (starts in brand new tab), Ubisoft finally announced in December 2021 that Splinter Cell is, really as well as for genuine, finding its way back in a complete remake (starts in brand new tab) it promised will accommodate the “refined palate” of contemporary gamers. Due to a Ubisoft Toronto work listing (starts in brand new tab) spotted by PlayStation Universe (starts in brand new tab), we have now got a somewhat better concept of just what which means.
Rather than the usual straight-up remaster associated with initial Splinter Cell, producer Matt western stated once the remake had been established that designers are “[re]building it from ground up” while wanting to make certain that “the character associated with very early games continues to be intact.” A artistic overhaul is actually into the cards—sorry to share with you this but Splinter Cell is two decades old—and some design elements are being redone “to fit player convenience and objectives.”
“We’re likely to be straddling the line involving the character associated with old together with convenience associated with brand new, in order that we are able to excite and shock brand new players but additionally be sure that whenever our coming back players get the controller, they’ve that sigh of relief, saying, ‘Ahhh, they first got it’,” western stated during the time.
But along side updates to technology and accessibility, the work listing for Splinter Cell scriptwriter shows your tale normally likely to be extensively rejiggered.
“utilizing the very first Splinter Cell game as our foundation we’re rewriting and upgrading the tale for modern-day market,” it states. “you want to keep carefully the character and themes associated with initial game while checking out our figures together with globe to ensure they are more authentic and believable. Being a Scriptwriter at Ubisoft Toronto, you’ll join the Narrative group which help develop a cohesive and compelling narrative experience for brand new market of Splinter Cell fans.”
It’s been quite a while since I have played Splinter Cell therefore I cannot state we remember any facet of the game that leaps out to be in instant need of modification. However the globe it self changed within the last handful of years, and Splinter Cell’s complicated mixture of ex-Soviet strongmen and Chinese renegades (together with inherent jingoism of Tom Clancy’s worldview as a whole) wouldn’t look at having broad market of gamers now and it did in 2002. Nor, for example, wouldn’t it produce a hell of the large amount of feeling: Georgia, the united states within center of Splinter Cell, had been a completely independent country in 2002 but is under partial Russian career since a 2008 intrusion.
An updated tale is okay by me personally. I do not look at the initial Splinter Cell narrative become this type of classic of storytelling it must be preserved in amber for many eternity. The things I have always been significantly hung through to could be the possibility (chance?) of the brand new sound star the lead character. Michael Ironside embodied Sam Fisher perfectly in my own ears, and I also’m simply not certain I am able to accept other people into the part. (And yes, we brought this up once the remake had been established, too. I will be extremely seriously interested in it.)
But that is a far-off concern for the time being. There is nevertheless no indicator of the launch date, of course Ubisoft remains undergoing nailing down the tale, we anticipate it will likely be a long time yet before we hear such a thing solid.
