Fans have been asking for a new main seriesSplinter Cellgame for years. TheSplinter Cellfranchise has been dormant for quite some time, but it seems that the wait for a new game is nearing its end. Ubisoft has officially announced the development of aSplinter Cellremake from Ubisoft Toronto, rebuilding Sam Fisher’s original adventure using the Snowdrop engine that’s being used to power games likeAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraand the company’s in-developmentStar Warsgame.
According to Ubisoft, theSplinter Cellremake will ensure that the game retains the identity of Sam Fisher’s original adventure, but with some changes. There will be big graphical updates, quality of life improvements, and things of that nature, but the game will still be a linear stealth game. Almost all new Ubisoft games nowadays are open world in some capacity, but theSplinter Cellremake will not be open world as previously rumored.
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Ubisoft Toronto is hiring developers to work on theSplinter Cellremake, so the project is still in the earliest stages of development. Right now the team consists of people who worked on previousSplinter Cellgames as well as newcomers. There’s no word on if any actors will be returning to reprise their roles in the game, so it’s unclear at this time ifMichael Ironside will be back to provide the voice of Sam Fisheror not.
While some fans may have hoped for a completely originalSplinter Cellgame instead of a remake, there is some obvious value to going back to the original game. After all, it’s been eight years since the release of the lastmain seriesSplinter Cellgame, and so this way the developers can lay the foundation for potential futureSplinter Cellgames to build on. In fact, Ubisoft has said that this remake will allow it to “[build] a solid base for the future ofSplinter Cell,” indicating that brand new games may very well be in the cards.
Splinter Cell’s use of light and shadows was groundbreaking at the time of its release, taking these elements further than any other stealth game had done up to that point. It was a graphical marvel on the sixth generation gaming hardware it released on, and so one can only imagine what the developers will be able to do with theSnowdrop Engineand consoles as powerful as the PS5 and Xbox Series X. It may be a long time before fans get their first real look at theSplinter Cellremake, but it will definitely be interesting to see how it turns out.
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