OG Splinter Cell Goes Free As Ubisoft Shares Remake Concept Art - Kotaku

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell turns 20 this month, and successful designation of the anniversary, Ubisoft has uploaded a 20-minute-long YouTube video with assorted developers talking astir their acquisition down the multi-vision goggles of stealthy assassin Sam Fisher. Additionally, the Toronto workplace presently helming the remake announced past twelvemonth has shared a fistful of high-def “early conception art” images created for the game. Ubisoft is besides giving distant the archetypal 2002 crippled for escaped connected PC until November 30.

Endorsed by subject techno-thriller novelist Tom Clancy, Splinter Cell is simply a bid of stealth-action games developed by aggregate Ubisoft studios. You play arsenic Sam Fisher, a bodysuit-wearing NSA cause primitively voiced by histrion Michael Ironside who’s tasked with sneakily assassinating targets successful an effort to halt copious wars from breaking out. All successful all, 7 Splinter Cell games were produced, with the astir caller being 2013's Blacklist. However, aft astir a decennary of soundlessness connected whether oregon not Sam Fisher would ever suit up again to choke retired immoderate atrocious guys, Ubisoft yet quenched fans’ thirst, announcing successful December 2021 that its Toronto squad would beryllium spearheading a remake (not a remaster) of the OG game.

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Ubisoft has mostly gone quiescent since this announcement was made—until now. In a caller blog post published connected November 17, Ubisoft shared immoderate aboriginal conception creation for the remake, arsenic good arsenic a video featuring devs moving connected the game. Ubisoft’s manager of editorial communications, Youssef Maguid, stated that this remake volition “modernize” the archetypal game’s themes and “rebuild them from the crushed up.” At the extremity of the 20-minute video, the squad outlined their imaginativeness for the remake, explaining conscionable however it volition “set the instauration for the franchise going forward.”

“We privation to springiness the subordinate a fewer much opportunities to deescalate immoderate of the [in-game] situations,” elder crippled decorator Andy Schmoll said. “Obviously, stealth is an highly important pillar for us, and we purpose to incorporated modern plan philosophies, improving the minute-to-minute stealth gameplay that was truthful peculiar successful the original.”

Alongside sharing immoderate aboriginal conception artwork of the Splinter Cell remake, Ubisoft is besides offering the archetypal game, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell from 2002, for escaped connected PC. You person to pick the crippled up from the Ubisoft store, but hey! Free is free, right? You person until November 30 to assertion it for zero dollars.

Ubisoft made it wide that the remake is inactive aboriginal successful development, and nary merchandise day oregon motorboat platforms person been indicated yet. For now, each we tin bash is look astatine the conception creation beneath and speculate astir what’s to come: