While it was once one of the publisher’s biggest franchises, Ubisoft had seemingly all-but-forgotten about Sam Fisher and co. for the best part of a decade – up until 2021 when the long-rumoured Splinter Cell Remake was finally officially announced. While we have gotten very little in the way of new information since then, insiders have now come out to offer some early details on the project.

Taking to Twitter, known Ubisoft leaker RogueTX shared a variety of details regarding Ubisoft’s long-awaited Splinter Cell Remake. From gameplay mechanics to under-the-hood specifics, we now ‘know’ the following:

• Is based on DX12 and will make use of the Snowdrop Engine (Star Wars Outlaws, The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)
• Will expand the variety of non-lethal choices
• Includes a light and darkness meter alongside the ability to shoot out lights
• Features destructible environments
• Equipment includes sticky camera and gas grenades
• Enhanced movement with pipe slides and zip lines will be present

As mentioned, we’ve heard very little officially regarding the Splinter Cell remake, with the primary bits of news being the fact that the project lost its director twice since its announcement – with the most recent reports being that lead studio Ubisoft Toronto was hit with lay-offs earlier this year.

Splinter Cell as a series always felt ahead of its time, and so the notion of remaking the first game with today’s technology and hardware is enticing. That said, given the tumultuous nature of its development, who knows what will become of the remake.

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Ubisoft leaker Rogue has shared updated information about two highly anticipated games, the Splinter Cell remake and Far Cry 7. According to Rogue, Ubisoft is still trying to ship a linear, mission-based stealth remake built in Snowdrop, with a strong emphasis on non-lethal play, visibility systems, destructible environments, and classic Splinter Cell-style traversal and gadgets like sticky cameras, gas grenades, pipe sliding, and ziplines. That all sounds very promising to fans of the original, and indeed, it looks like Ubisoft is trying to preserve the series' identity rather than turn it into an open world reboot. The project appears to […]

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Ubisoft Toronto, the studio in charge of the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake, has been hit with layoffs – although the publisher insists that the remake remains unaffected. 

Today, Ubisoft confirmed a new round of cost-cutting efforts, this time impacting its studio location in Toronto, Canada. Ubisoft is letting go of around 8% of its staff there, equalling around 40 employees.

In an internal email (via VGC), Ubisoft stated that despite the cuts, the Toronto studio will remain “a key contributor” to several co-development efforts, on top of its continued work on the Splinter Cell Remake, which unlike the Prince of Persia remake, has not been cancelled… for now at least.

Ubisoft Toronto is best known for its work on Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs: Legion, Splinter Cell Blacklist and the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake. The studio has also worked as a support studio on Star Wars Outlaws, Far Cry 5, Rainbow Six Siege and other projects.

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KitGuru Says: Chances are if these layoffs are happening, the Splinter Cell Remake is still some ways away from going into full-scale production.