Instead, if Blacklist was indicative of anything – it was that players still enjoy the brand of stealth-action experience that Splinter Cell offers. It was definitely not a failure by any stretch of the imagination – much less scare Ubisoft into going back to the drawing board with the series. A competent stealth-action game that attempted to steer the ship back to its roots after Conviction’s action-heavy approach to the gameplay, Blacklist did okay-ish commercially and received generally favourable reviews. The last time we saw Sam Fisher in his own franchise was Splinter Cell: Blacklist in 2013. Fans have been starved of some good ol’ stealth spy-action for the better of the past decade – and everyone’s noticed it.Īlso Read: Battlefield: 2042 Price in India Slashed By Rs 500 Even Before its October 22 Launch What’s happening with Splinter Cell? Blacklist, 2013 Yet, like clockwork, Sam Fisher will show up perhaps in another game (Ghost Recon: Wildlands/Breakpoint) or simply as an animated version of himself for Netflix. Every time Ubisoft announces an event that will showcase their future projects – every message board, subreddit and comments section gets populated by a ton of “Splinter Cell” requests. Yet, for some odd reason, perhaps one of their most critically acclaimed franchises was on ice this past console generation – and has been absent from the gaming scene since 2013 – Splinter Cell. For the better part of this decade, Ubisoft have thrived on sequels, reboots, spin-offs of all kinds of some of their most successful franchises and IP such as Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs. In the age of the modern AAA, video game franchise like Splinter Cell have been pervasive – but purely on the back of their well-earned goodwill from the entries in the series’ past.

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