Splinter Cell Remake's Story Is Being Rewritten and Updated for a Modern-Day Audience

Pretty sure any remake/ reboot where "the story for a modern-day audience" has been changed never turns out well.

Never got to play any of these but only heard positive things over the years. Let’s hope Ubi pulls out all the stops to ensure this remake does justice to the original.

What are my hopes and dreams for the project? That it actually comes out...

Looking at you Sands of time....

@Worlock_ed

Saints Row is a recent example

Modern audieces.. Does that mean Sam Fisher will spend most of his time on TikTok and riddled with neurosis?

Splinter cell remake does sound good.word up son

Let me guess, America is the bad guy and the terrorists are just misunderstood victims of Western aggression?

what was splinter cell story about? Was it that Sam went on a murder quest because somebody stole his Jean jacket in Atlanta, Georgia or something I can’t remember, played through the game about a dozen times, nothing🤔

"Story rewritten for a modern audience" is probably a massive reason to not bother playing this. The constant changing of existing stories to appease a pervasive ideology has set a dangerous precedent.

At this point, all we can do is hope the story isn't completely butchered.

It's a pity whilst we wait they didn't re-release the classic series via the Playstation Classics PS Plus Deluxe/Premium program!

From what I remember story wasn't very important to the original game anyway so they have a lot of room to experiment with it if they want. Though the "for a modern audience" part does make me a little nervous.

Sam would have to abuse the word "literally". Plus words like "cannon."

@Sqush-Pare Half of that is true, and already been done in a Splinter Cell game.

@Worlock_ed splinter cell never had a story to write home about besides a post 9/11 angst hodgepodge.
The stealth gameplay was fantastic however.

By modern day audience I assume they mean the perpetually offended

How'd that work out for Volition, lol. Hopefully it's just modern tech being incorporated. It will probably be for 'modern audiences' by releasing in an awful state, peppered eith MTXs and Sam(antha) running around in a Fortnite skin =) I kid. I hope I kid anyways

Is this a rewrite because a modern day story where there's a Cold War and Russians are the bad guys led by a Bond villain doesn't fit the modern world view?

Or is this a rewrite because Saint's Row is what's up and Grimsdottir didn't complain about her student loans enough and Sam Fisher doesn't have enough vulnerability?

Or is it a rewrite because there just weren't enough MTX hooks before?

How to kill interest in your game before showing anything to the public.

Or maybe the fan-baiting that has been so prevalent with recent movies and TV shows is slowly moving over to the world of video games

I heard there’s a PlayStation exclusive mission where you play as a young Sam Fisher on campus taking out people who commit hate speech.

or maybe just do a new game with a new story.

I don't even remember the story of Blacklist or Convection, so whatever, just focus on gameplay

"For modern day audiences" Sounds like pink hair in the writers room. Remember everyone, this is Ubisoft.

So let's make different (bad) game, but under famous name so it sells somehow...

Major red flags are going off for me.

Poor Tom Clancy, look what they've done to my boy!

@Would_you_kindly Judging from the comments, “the perpetually offended” seem to be people who’ve been triggered by a job posting to update a video game script.

@Amnesiac I don't think people expressing an opinion on a public comment section can be described as being 'triggered' maybe if they were talking about boycotting the game over it

I'm guessing its less focus on the Middle Eastern terrorism that it once was all about. More of a focus on domestic terrorism? Russian terrorism? Maybe make it up? Who knows

@Amnesiac 'for modern audiences' translates to Samantha Fisher for a lot of people, or maybe sam has a boyfriend now ,or maybe Samantha Fisher is actually sam ,he's changed gender and its the big twist at the end.

I’m in two minds about this.

On one hand I want to trust the team behind the game to make positive changes that improve the game.

On the other hand I want there to be a purity with these remakes that preserves the original game and respects the fans that loved/funded/supported the game.

Unfortunately, we live in an era where everything now has politics added to it to the point where we are having agendas and opinions rammed down our throats. So this is not exactly filling me with confidence.

@Would_you_kindly I’m being a bit facetious, but it’s annoying that the rabble has been roused by their own imaginings about how a game’s story may be modernized for a remake. Films are remade and updated all the time and the results vary depending on the quality of the material. Games do it too, fixing errors, improving quality of life, and sometimes heading in new directions entirely as with FF7. When did this become such a problem?

@tallythwack You know, I would play a reboot with Samantha Fisher. But I’m one of those people that only played the first one because the night vision goggles looked cool on the cover.

@Amnesiac I think it’s a natural reaction.

It doesn’t matter what the politics are, don’t force feed it to people because their natural reaction is to vomit it back up.

That’s basically what this is all about. The vast majority of people are decent people that don’t want to be preached to at every moment, especially in entertainment.

Politics have always been a part of creative works, but the best minds would be thoughtful, intelligent, witty and above all subtle in their delivery of their views through their creative works.

Now politics is slathered onto things in unhealthy amounts. So any little mention of it makes some people gag.

@amnesiac i guess with remakes, people want nostalgia, remind them of younger days. why do stories have to be rewrote? why not a simple disclaimer, saying times have changed etc. the game is aimed at people who played it 20yrs ago, who know what has changed.

a new story can be a new game with a Samantha new enemies etc.

@Kienda "we live in an era where everything now has politics added to it"

Art is political by nature. Especially art that is based on the works of Tom Clancy.

@Amnesiac I think it's just skepticism but with ubisoft I feel that's warranted

@Richnj yeah, I guess I was meaning that today everything has “certain politics” being added to them and anything that goes against that viewpoint is viewed as problematic and must be changed/adapted to conform to that narrative.

People seem to think we are all too stupid to be good people without being preached to.

@Kienda I've never understood why people use the phrase "force fed" when it comes to entertainment. You could go through your whole life and only engage with apolitical media if you chose to. That is, unless that red cap Mario wears has more meaning to it than I thought...

@stvevan This is a good point. If I was really invested in the original and just wanted a remaster, I'd be annoyed at any changes. For those folks, the best option is probably the SC HD collection released a while back. But to me, a remake opens the door to more changes. Also, I'm not big on disclaimers. They tend to age worse than the media they're trying to warn people about. Let things stand on their own two legs and be judged for what they are.
The discussion on remakes has me thinking of old movies because there are so many great examples. His Girl Friday is an absolute classic, but also a remake of an earlier, middling film called The Front Page. It got a rewrite where one of the leads was switched from a man to a woman. Somehow, nobody got bent out of shape over the changes, but then maybe we were more enlightened in the 1940's.

I thought it got cancelled

Haha, I like how most of the reactions are worrying instead of exciting about updates for a modern day audience
I assume you have a good reason (from experience) to think that way.

I would love to see a comedy version game of the game (like a funny movie from another one). Imagine the main character walks with his smartphone, looking for the target on Google Maps, and the “bad” guys are clueless about him…
“Is he a threat?”
And the other guy just says: “Relax, he is a civil person… Don't you see, he has a phone in hands and barely look up? “

@silverspeed I thought that was called "Watch_Dogs"?

@BartoxAbrasiveness I thought that was called "Far Cry 5"?

But is Michael Ironside back? That is the important question.

@RogerRoger I agree with everything you said, though I think you can safely replace 'if' with 'definitely' in your last sentence, considering Tencent became Ubi's biggest shareholder quite recently.

@NEStalgia is that what farcry 5 was about I bought it but didn't get far found it boring lol

Splinter incel rainbow (without six)
Main characters name now samir fihser

@Amnesiac I just liked the noise they made

@Amnesiac I guess it’s just semantics.

Personally, I would argue that attempts to impose political viewpoints upon people through every available form of media is ‘force feeding’. If people have to actively work to avoid politics, and not just any politics but specific narratives, then that is being pushed upon people forcefully rather than something occurring naturally.

So we could say that few of us are literally ‘force fed’ politics. But some people are attempting to ‘force feed’ their politics on others against their will. That make sense?

@Amnesiac the best option would straight up be the original games on a Series S or X. That HD Collection was pants.

Usually this kind of stuff is enough to get me to tune out but outside of Watch Dogs 2, which took the series from a much more interesting dark and gritty tone to the beyond annoying hipster vibe, I've been a big fan of Ubisoft's games going all the way back to when SC debuted on the original Xbox. I'll give the benefit of the doubt based off that because I've been waiting too long for the series to return, don't want to write it off without seeing a trailer and getting an idea for what the story changes will be. If it ends up being bad, I can simply not buy it.

@Kienda What we once called "politics" and "religion" have merged. "Politics" implies debate. Religion is doctrine defining absolute truth. Modern society eschewed religion, declared it progress, and then reinvented politics as a replacement religion in which to continue unwavering faith in a doctrine of absolute truth, and a mission to spread its gospel, and purge the heretics. And like all the old religions, one's own doctrine is truth, and all others are evil, and of no merit. That's where the force feeding comes in. Whichever faction has the microphone will use it to evangelize its doctrine and demand submission to its truth.

@Dpishere Oh how I wish. It's just not Sam without Ironside.

@Would_you_kindly I have no idea why you would find a game set in Montana to be boring.

@RogerRoger
Alot of people on the internet sure love jumping to conclusions. So much of the original games plot geopolitically speaking has aged very poorly and I am pretty sure they are just updating references and technology. Alot has changed and I doubt a game with a plot point as ridiculous as Chinese suitcase nukes will resonate these days.

I’ll just be honest here… the story in Splinter Cell was never…. Something to celebrate. It was always about the gameplay for me. It always felt like a series of unconnected events/levels. Not a bad thing at all! Maybe this time they can create a real spy thriller twist and bring the story up to par with the great gameplay.

Hi there fellow gamers.
Didn´t even remember they announced this, so thanks for the reminder.
As for the Remake itself, all I want is better controls, stealth as the main path (with Ghost, Panther and assault as different ways to play the game), a compeling spy narrative and last, but not least, Michael Ironside to interpret is role once again.
Just like David Hayter is THE voice of Solid Snake,
Michael Ironside is THE voice of Sam Fisher.
Hopefully they make a really good Splinter Cell game.
Cheers, stay safe everyone and all the best

"we are rewriting and updating the story for a modern-day audience" They will have to rename it 'Woke Cell' then

@Carl-G maybe sam fisher can take out the snow flakes behind the sinister "woke cell" thats intent on cancelling out history and censoring everything thats deemed a bit edgey today..i'm hoping it maintains the originals atmosphere and cold war era theme as i'm old enough to remember when the world was balancing on a knifes edge even more so than today..not really interested after the series went all 24 and just lost it...

@Robocod surprised that they haven't done this. Every other ubisoft game seems to be on there..

welcome to the 2020s 😒

@RogerRoger
Spy fiction by it's very nature ages very very poorly. I imagine this updated version will be akin to something like the Mission Impossible movies compared to the original TV show. Which version is better can be argued for eternity but the movies did update the series to a modern setting while keeping much of the originals spirit.

@Would_you_kindly Yep, the word triggered is very overused now.

@Worlock_ed I'm guessing Sam-antha Fisher now identifies as gender-neutral, and is probably in a wheelchair.

@Steve30000 Ubisoft UK twitter was celebrating Rayman's initial release...another prime candidate for the classics range...if Sony actually committed to adding a decent range of ps1 & ps2 games to the so called Deluxe/Premium tier!

TyJamuel Fisher confirmed as new main character

The writing equivalent of replacing guns with walkie talkies. Anything "updated" for modern audience turns bad.

@Dpishere Agreed. The person who played Sam in Blacklist sounded way too young

@pyrrhic_victory Very true, it's a shame, the gameplay was great but every time Sam spoke it just felt off.

So Ubisoft is officially trying to kill off this franchise for Good

@Dpishere I know - whenever he spoke to his daughter on the phone, it sounded like he was talking to his wife, girlfriend, sister, etc

Wouldn't that make it a reboot, if story is changed?