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(RUMOR) New Splinter Cell in development, Michael Ironside returning as Sam Fisher

Blueliner

Banned
This is great news if true. As much as I loved SCCT, I hope they take some elements from Blacklist and apply it to this new game, loved the combat system, thought it was great.

PS: Bring back Amon Tobin.
 

Lima

Member
If Ironsides is coming back this is going to be a major change in character and I would assume gameplay compared to Conviction and Blacklist. Remember Ironside left because he didn't like the killing machine Rambo they were going for with Conviction. Maybe they will indeed go back to the old style.

Or they just dumped a truckload of money on him and Ironside is a man without principles.
 

bati

Member
Am I the only one who liked the new guy? I thought he was a great Fisher, wouldn't mind hearing more of him.

I sincerely hope they keep the gameplay from Blacklist though, it was ace.
 

mortal

Gold Member
It'd be really amazing to see this series return to pure stealth gameplay. The one thing the older SC games had over MGS were mechanics.
 

Big_Al

Unconfirmed Member
I'm guessing this is what Clint Hocking is working on?

I was hoping he'd make another Far Cry or a new-IP merc sim.


Hocking said he wasn't working on the new Splinter Cell as he felt Chaos Theory was the best SC game he could ever make.
 

Caja 117

Member
yeesssss Ironside is back is all I needed to hear to get me on board.

I wonder if we are alao going to see a Splinter Cell Remaster collection as well.
 

Pachimari

Member
Hopefully it's not like 'Splinter Cell GO' or something.
Oh damn, this needs to happen. Why haven't I thought about this before. It actually makes perfect sense. Give me Splinter Cell GO on my iPad while we wait for the next mainline game!

Double agent is really good, so I tend to agree.

I have double agent and chaos theory on steam... I should get around to playing them both again.

Although the Steam version of Double Agent is not the same as the good Xbox version.
 

mholden

Neo Member
Finally. I've been wanting a new Splinter Cell for years. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds in the current gaming landscape. I imagine it will be open world, similar to MGS V?
 

iNvid02

Member
nice, would have been gutted if sc went the way of PoP, especially after how great blacklist was. i'll take some more of that co-op
 

Lima

Member
This is so not happening.

Splinter Cell design has made its time, Ubisoft moved on and so did the audience.

Eh the audience is still there I'd say.

Ubisoft just launched Blacklist at the worst time possible for PS3/360. A couple months before PS4/Xbox One came out. People had largely stopped buying games for the old systems at that point. It was a bizarre decision really.
 

spookyfish

Member
I know Ironside is back. He was in the studio, I said Hi to him and his daughter. He was shooting a movie with Amy Jo Johnson, and I know someone who worked on that set and Ironside confirmed to him he was doing the new Splinter Cell.

Put me down for one, if true.
 
Meh

I feel like this series is played out. Unless Ubisoft fundamentally changes the gameplay mechanics behind the game, I don't see the point in reviving it.
 

SentryDown

Member
Why do you act like you know these things?

The franchise is basically dead, Ubisoft hardly mentions it when they keep mentionning BGE or Rayman. They also said not so long ago (too lazy to find a link sorry) that no SC was in plans. Ubisoft Toronto has released Far Cry Primal a few months ago (even though nobody remember this game). And Ubisoft said they would focus on open world/online games like The Division.

Don't get me wrong, I'll sell my soul for a Chaos Theory spiritual successor but as a long time fan of the franchise, I've followed enough rumors to know the comeback of Sam Fisher isn't happening. Or worse, it might happen in a very different way, like a connected open world for instance.


Eh the audience is still there I'd say.

Ubisoft just launched Blacklist at the worst time possible for PS3/360. A couple months before PS4/Xbox One came out. People had largely stopped buying games for the old systems at that point. It was a bizarre decision really.


Splinter Cell Blacklist has been a commercial failure, 3 weeks later GTA V proved to everybody it had nothing to do with the end of the generation. I'm not too sure it's the problem, the audience is IMO, video games cost too much to talk to hardcore fans only.
 

Lima

Member
Splinter Cell Blacklist has been a commercial failure, 3 weeks later GTA V proved to everybody it had nothing to do with the end of the generation. I'm not too sure it's the problem, the audience is IMO, video games cost too much to talk to hardcore fans only.

That is GTA dude. Compare it to some other games that were coming out end of generation.
 
I'd be very excited. I think im the only one who watched the 'extra's that were part of the first Splinter Cell on Xbox. the interviews n etc. hehe
 
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