

"There are a lot of vets here, so we're going to have a really good mix of people who have worked on previous Splinter Cell games, and new team members who are joining and bringing fresh energy and fresh ideas," he said.īut it looks like this remake could just be the start of Ubisoft's revised efforts on Splinter Cell. It's unclear if anyone from the original Splinter Cell team is working on this remake, but technical producer Peter Handrinos says that series veterans are part of the new team. "The gameplay experience we are targeting is directly tied to what we want players to feel, to capture the essence back when we were all playing the original games," said West.

"Ideally, they end up coming out on the other side with no one having realized you were even there. "It’s important for us to preserve the sense of mastery by supporting players who observe the situations, make their plan, use their gadgets, and outsmart the enemy creatively to deal with the challenges they are presented with," he explained. "And we're very, very aware of what makes classic Splinter Cell what it is." "It’s safe to say a lot of us on the team are stealth purists, and we're behind that level of seriousness when it comes to those kinds of mechanics, and those sorts of things that we want to see in this game," says Chris Auty, Splinter Cell's new creative director. As for the gameplay that happens within those linear levels, the emphasis is once again on stealth, not action. Part of keeping that remake true to the series identity is that it will be a linear game, and not open world akin to many other Ubisoft games. Although we're still in the very earliest stages of development, what we're trying to do is make sure the spirit of the early games remains intact, in all of the ways that gave early Splinter Cell its identity." In an interview posted to the Ubisoft website, producer Matt West said, "I think it kind of has to be a remake as opposed to a remaster.
