NEW SPLINTER CELL
It’s infuriating to see how poorly Ubisoft has managed the Splinter Cell series over the last decade. Splinter Cell Blacklist sadly didn’t perform as well as it should have, after which the series went on a seemingly never-ending hiatus- which, it seems, might be ending soon. A recent report by VGC claims that a new mainline Splinter Cell game’s development has been greenlit, and that the project is in early development outside of Ubisoft’s “traditional Montreal base”- though whether that means it’s an external team remains to be seen. Given Ubisoft’s insistence on turning every game it makes into either a massive open world title or a free-to-play multiplayer experience, there is some healthy skepticism about what this new Splinter Cell will even be- but if it ends up being the stealth-focus narrative-driven game fans have been hoping for for years, there’ll be plenty of reasons to look forward to it.
