Report Provides Update on Ubisoft's Elusive PS5 Splinter Cell Remake

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by Khayl Adam 8am

Announced at the end of 2021, Ubisoft has maintained admirable radio silence on the status of the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake, so much so that rumours of its cancellation even began to crop up. Well, we have an update, with a report from Insider Gaming confirming Sam Fisher's return is still in development, known by the codename "North."

According to the outlet, Ubisoft Toronto is using the Snowdrop engine the publisher has previously employed in games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws, but the project is still a long way off. Insiders' sources said we will probably be waiting until 2026 for a release date because, in classic video game fashion, the franchise-rebooting Splinter Cell game was still in the "very earliest stages of development" when first revealed.

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Are you looking forward to the return of Splinter Cell at some point, hopefully in the not-too-distant future? Is the world ready for the return of true stealth action? Clamber on down into the comments section below.

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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Good to hear it’s not cancelled. Just do it right.

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ThorsHammer
8:22am

I'll take any Splinter Cell tbh, glad it's still in the works.

I'm still a little concerned that this might get cancelled due to Ubi's recent troubles,

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zhoont
8:38am

This game would have benefitted from some radio silence. Why tell us in 2021 you're working on a game for 2026 that may get cancelled before we even see it?

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Retron
8:46am

Don't get your hopes up. There might not be an Ubisoft in a year's time the way they're going.

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torquex
8:57am

This game should have been out ages ago with the amount of people ubisoft employ, my guess is they have a very small team working on the remake. It reminds me of the Rainbow Six Lockdown which was called by some as Rainbow Six Letdown, and what a letdown it was.

The first Splinter Cell great
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow great
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory great
Ghost Recon with expansions great
Rainbow Six great
Rainbow Six Raven Shield plus expansions great

Red Storm Entertainment created some great games back then and those Tom Clancy games were great tactical titles and Ubisoft was just the publisher.

Then after those games mentioned it all went down hill, fast.

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Oram77
9:10am

I'm still waiting for Beyond good and evil 2......

So the one who handle this remake is Ubisoft Toronto, the team who made Blacklist?

I'm personally skeptical if this remake will end up good, especially with how messed up the situation with current Ubisoft. But i guess there's some hope so we'll see...

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Boucho11
9:50am

This could really help Ubisoft right now. This and Rayman would be a sure hit

This is the type of thing Ubisoft need - focus on really remastering/remaking a beloved franchise, do it right and it might redeem the company for the last few installments of games, which are just copy and paste. Do something right Ubi!

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Korgon
10:17am

To be fair the announcement for this one was more of a recruitment ad than an announcement for the fans so I'm not surprised it's still a ways off.

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NaughtyBoy
58m ago

There was a rumour going about that they were also doing a remaster of Blacklist. I would absolutely take that!

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Its_meee
14m ago

Ohh I loved that game up to chaos theory. Then it went downhill. But I am looking forward to this. I just hope they do a proper remake and won't bring in to many of their own ideas it would mess it up. But it's definitely a pre order for me (for now). I'm hyped!! Please for once don't disappoint me ubisoft!!

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