Splinter Cell remake concept art, gameplay, and story changes revealed - Polygon

Ubisoft’s upcoming remake of the archetypal Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is inactive successful its aboriginal accumulation and prototyping phase, originative manager Chris Auty said successful a recently released video celebrating the Splinter Cell franchise’s 20th anniversary, but its creators offered a sensation of what’s to travel connected Thursday, successful presumption of caller features and conception creation for the game.

As previously discussed by the Splinter Cell remake team, Ubisoft Toronto is “look[ing] backmost astatine the plot, the characters, and the wide communicative of the archetypal game,” Auty said, and making immoderate improvements to “things that whitethorn not person aged peculiarly well,” but pledged that “the halfway of the story, the halfway of the acquisition volition stay arsenic it was the archetypal game.”

Christian Carriere, method director, touched connected the method innovations planned for the Splinter Cell remake, highlighting advancements successful AI that volition simulate antithetic benignant of behaviors and reactions from enemies. “Obviously a peculiar forces worker volition beryllium amended trained,” Carriere said, “[and] they’re going to breach otherwise oregon participate rooms otherwise to thing similar a regular information defender would.”

“We tin truly amended AI engagement, however they’re reacting and what they’re reacting to,” added Andy Schmoll, elder crippled designer. “And with each of that we tin marque improvements to the cat-and-mouse gameplay betwixt Sam and the enemies, particularly with our enemies behaving similar trained professionals.”

Carriere besides touted audiovisual updates similar ray-traced planetary illumination for overmuch much realistic lighting effects and amended audio simulations, that volition assistance “create immoderate really, really, truly compelling and elaborate settings.”

The Splinter Cell remake squad said they’re “going dark” for a portion to absorption connected making the game, offering lone a fewer glimpses of what players tin expect successful the signifier of aboriginal artwork. You tin spot immoderate of that successful the assemblage below.