New Splinter Cell Leaks: open-world, 'more stealthy' Assassin's Creed

A few new Splinter Prison cell leaks accept appeared that propose a wildly different take on the franchise, but still a choice that may be familiar and even predictable to fans of Ubisoft'southward games — or fifty-fifty other major stealth franchises. It's been over 8 years since the concluding game in the series, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, but these leaks make the new "early on in development" title sound similar a Splinter Jail cell open-earth game.

What are the new Splinter Cell leaks?

New Splinter Cell Leaks

The side by side Splinter Cell is rumored to be an open-globe game, which makes it sound like the title volition be coming in line with many of Ubisoft's other backdrop. This is according to leaker and journalist Tom Henderson, who recently reported that Battlefield 2042 started out every bit a boxing royale game and that GTA 6 wouldn't release until at least 2025.

GameRevolution got in bear on with Tom Henderson, who confirmed that his sources for this information included the same person who revealed the information on Skull & Bones to him before this year and a QA tester working on Ghost Recon: Frontline and XDefiant — which contains Splinter Jail cell-themed characters. These sources depict the new Splinter Cell game equally "a more stealthy version of Assassin's Creed" and "similar to how Halo Infinite has done its open-world" — non a Ubisoft game, of course, only similarly a franchise that has just but gone open-world.

Ubisoft'due south Splinter Cell game that is in early development is currently scoped as a… You guessed information technology… Open World of sorts.

"A more stealthy version of Assassin'south Creed"

"Similar to how Halo Infinite has washed its Open World" pic.twitter.com/eqSzRplhu5

— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) December 8, 2021

While there is nothing wrong with the idea of an open-globe stealth game, as Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Hurting successfully proved — and it'south the characteristic many previously desire to see most in a new Splinter Prison cell — this rumor has upset a fair number of fans, who either believe that the series doesn't need to be open-world or worry it volition feel too much like every other Ubisoft game.

This sounds… not at all similar splinter prison cell at the very to the lowest degree. Every game doesn't need to exist open earth. Why tin can't we simply have tight, stealth based gameplay in a linear way like we did before? https://t.co/VOgwluMvEr

— Just Saiyan (@imjustsaiyan84) December viii, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheEski64/status/1468561581298565123

While at that place isn't a release date announced for the new Splinter Cell, The Game Awards 2021 is tomorrow night so the game might possibly get appear then.