Ubisoft Just Dropped An Image of Splinter Cell Star Sam Fisher With No Context — What Does it Mean?

Ubisoft's heading into the play dropping a large tease astir Splinter Cell.

As for what it's teasing, who knows? The Splinter Cell bid has been sadly dormant for years now, the past crippled being 2013's Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Since then, we've heard precise small until Ubisoft remembered Splinter Cell existed by adding Steam achievements to a 12-year-old crippled conscionable a mates of weeks ago.

If we're honest, today's tease doesn't supply overmuch much accusation — we've got a close-up of Sam Fisher's look and a hashtag, Splinter Cell — but interestingly, the alt statement is simply a small much revealing.

"Close-up of Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, showing a stern look with focused eyes, abbreviated acheronian hair, and a rugged beard, acceptable against a blurred high-tech background," the statement explains. "He's locked in."

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It's besides absorbing that Ubisoft specifies this screenshot is from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and not from the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake, truthful marque of that what you will.

The Splinter Cell bid is acceptable to sneak backmost into enactment with a remake of the classical archetypal crippled successful the franchise, Splinter Cell Remake. We inactive don't cognize precise overmuch astir it different than the caller mentation volition beryllium built from the crushed up utilizing the precocious Snowdrop engine. Our past meaningful update came successful 2022 erstwhile IGN met with Ubisoft Toronto developers to sermon their plan doctrine down the game.

“20 years later, we tin look backmost astatine the plot, the characters, the wide communicative of the crippled [and] marque immoderate improvements — things that mightiness not person aged peculiarly well,” said originative manager Chris Auty astatine the time. “But the halfway of the story, the halfway of the acquisition volition stay arsenic it was successful the archetypal game.”

Perhaps Ubisoft is priming fans for a Summer Game Fest announcement, but without confirmation, it's hard to cognize for sure. On the positive side, we don't person excessively agelong to hold — Summer Game Fest and IGN Live are close astir the corner. The Last of US Season 2 volition beryllium astatine IGN Live, arsenic good arsenic Sonic Team, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu nary Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2, Norse: Oath of Blood, and more.

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