Splinter Cell remake director leaves Ubisoft – Games – News

The director of the Splinter Cell remake has left Ubisoft Toronto. In the announcement he does not give a reason for his departure. He has been working on the game since the early stages of development.

David Griel he says in his LinkedIn post only it’s ‘time to go on a new adventure’. He has spent 11 years in various Ubisoft subsidiaries and the last few years with the one in Toronto. Griel worked in this studio on Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 5 and Far Cry 6.

According to his profile, Griel had been the director of the Splinter Cell remake since November 2021. The announcement of this game followed the following month. At the time, Ubisoft said the game was “in the early development phase”. A release date for the game has not yet been set, but the game is not expected in the near future.

The remake was developed with the Snowdrop engine, which was developed by Massive Entertainment and is used in its games The Division, The Division 2 and the upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game. The company also talks about dynamic lighting and shadows in the game announcement. The remake also gets gameplay improvements to make the game more modern. The study reports that the development team wants to maintain a balance between “the spirit of the old and the comfort of the new”.

Splinter Cell is a series of stealth games that first came out in 2002. Above all, the previous games had a slow pace and encouraged players to carry out missions carefully and invisibly. Splinter Cell’s newest game, Blacklist, is from 2013.