Ubisoft is working on Splinter Cell remake

(Pocket-lint) - Splinter Cell is coming backmost - the storied stealth gaming franchise is getting resurrected by Ubisoft successful the signifier of a remake, presumably of the archetypal game. That means gamers volition astir apt beryllium stepping into the shoes of superspy Sam Fisher.

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Ubisoft took a somewhat unusual way to corroborate the game's development, too, successful the signifier of encouragement to the masses to use for assorted jobs that it has unfastened connected the project, and it sounds similar it whitethorn not beryllium excessively acold on successful improvement yet.

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It besides took the accidental to showcase the bid from its humbler beginnings, to springiness newcomers and those with nostalgia to spare a accidental to again admit what an important acceptable of games the Splinter Cell bid has been.

A caller crippled successful the franchise has been rumoured for immoderate time, but it's precise overmuch quality that the crippled volition beryllium a remake, and that means it comes arsenic portion of a spot of a signifier of large franchises getting remakes recently, with the likes of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Dead Space already presently being fixed the spit-and-polish upgrade treatment.

Ubisoft has confirmed it'll beryllium built again from the crushed up, connected its newest interior crippled motor Snowdrop, and that it won't revolutionise the archetypal conception by converting it to an open-world game, oregon thing similar that, which is promising for the purists. We mightiness person a portion to spell until we spot thing important from the task connected the gameplay front, though, truthful we'll support our ears to the ground.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 16 December 2021.