Despite strong evidence (including two separate listings on Amazon), the highly-anticipated Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist sequel wasn't announced during Ubisoft's annual media briefing at this year's E3. In a post-show interview, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked why Splinter Cell didn’t make the show and said: "We love the brand. We really want it to come back but I can’t say much today."
Half a year later, Ubisoft still hasn't revealed anything officially regarding the rumored next step in the Splinter Cell evolution. Interestingly enough, Ubisoft announced in 2015 Clint Hocking's return to the company (this time joining the team at Toronto), igniting the fandom's hope that Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's Creative Director is indeed working on a new game with Sam Fisher.
While we don't even know what Hocking has been developing at Ubi Toronto that whole time (and it most definitely wasn't the studio's second major video game, October's Starlink: Battle for Atlas), it looks like the creators of 2013's Splinter Cell: Blacklist had some ideas for a potential next-gen sequel.
In an interview with GameReactor, Jade Raymond, the Founder of Ubisoft Toronto and EA Motive, said “The last Splinter Cell [Blacklist] is the last one that shipped, so…” she explained. “You know what? There is a design that we actually had and worked on and would have wanted to make, but since I am not at Ubisoft anymore I can’t talk about it and I don’t know who wants to share that concept.”
Considering that Michael Ironside, who voiced Sam Fisher in five Splinter Cell games and basically shaped the iconic spy, has successfully managed to beat prostate and bowel cancer that stopped him from voicing Sam in Blacklist and played Fisher in a special Splinter Cell-themed Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ DLC (that was released a few months ago), Splinter Cell may return sooner than later.
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