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Splinter Cell: Blacklist delayed to August 20

Release date pushed from spring for action-packed Sam Fisher outing

Words: on January 16, 2013
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Oooh, a new Splinter Cell: Blacklist trailer! Aw, but we have to listen to that young guy who isn't Michael Ironside talk through Sam Fisher's mouth. And, wait a minute, what's that bit with the words at the end? Oh, it's been delayed until August.

While we didn't have a firm date before, the Ubisoft line since Blacklist was revealed at E3 last year was a spring 2013 release. Now it looks like we'll have to wait until August 20 to get blacklisted on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Sneaky so-and-sos.

Pre-orders offering the Upper Echelon pack of improved gear and an extra co-op mission, on the other hand, are available now.

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Tom Clancy, Ubisoft

5 comments

  • Fenghoang - January 19, 2013 8:17 a.m.

    I hope this game fails. Game ain't even Splinter Cell anymore.

  • winner2 - January 17, 2013 12:12 p.m.

    Nobody gives a shit because it is shit

  • MetroidPrimeRib - January 16, 2013 3:25 p.m.

    It's gonna take way longer then that to unshit this game

  • moknives - January 16, 2013 1 p.m.

    I miss Ironside as Sam almost as much as I miss the days of Chaos Theory.

  • zelta38 - January 16, 2013 12:01 p.m.

    Most attempts at extending major franchises past the initial trilogy/games on a past console have failed, look at what happened with Prince of Persia (POP team went into Assassin's Creed), Crash Bandicoot (different devs), Jak and Daxter (Jak 4 became Uncharted), Spyro (ups and downs in quality) and Splinter Cell (double agent had a great ps2/xbox1 version but not so great next gen, then the other titles just don't catch the right feel). As can be seen from this list, new IP is the way to go, wrap up the franchises properly and stop trying to overextend it and mess up the reputation of the series with entries that don't quite work out and feel forced anyway. Maybe this Splinter Cell will be good, Conviction was not bad, but none of the current gen SC games catch the magic that made Splinter Cell so good to begin with, too removed from the source material and pacing in an attempt to shake things up and add too much action thinking the audience can't take pure stealth anymore (Deus Ex HR and Dishonored would like a word with you Ubi if that's the line of reasoning). Why not just make a spin off in the same universe instead of calling it SC?

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