It's been six years since the last entry in Ubisoft's acclaimed stealth franchise, Splinter Cells, and - as you might imagine - fans are starting to get impatient. We heard 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:rumours last year of a ne൩w sequel in the works, but that came and went without an announcement, while several Easter eggs in the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Division 2 appear t🐲o b꧃e nothing more than cheeky winks to the wider Ubiverse. 

Now, in an , Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has finally offered some clarity on what's going on with the Tom Clancy IP and its lead character Sam Fischer, who was last seen 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:bemoaning the death of the Meꦍtal Gear franchise in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ghost Recon: Wildlands in 2017. 

“When you create a game, you have to make sure you will come with something that will be different enough from what you did before,” Guillemot told IGN, explaining that the "last time we did a Splinter Cell, we had lots of pressure from all the fans saying, ‘Don’t change ꦺit; don’t do this; don’t do that.’ So some of the teams were more anxious to work on the brand.”

Guillemot is, of course, referring to 2013's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which divided fans over its action-oriented direction and cinematic style compared to the stripped back stealth focus of its predecessors. Despite expressing caution at returning to the franchise so hastily following that backlash however, Guillemot promises that Ubisoౠft hasn't forgotten Sam Fischer outright. 

“Now there are some things and some people that are now looking at the brand; taking care of the brand." teased the CEO. "At one point you will see something but I can’t say more than that." Could a new Splinter Cell be one of the unannounced 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:E3 2019 games about to debut this summer? It's unlikely, given that both the rumoured Watch Dogs 3 and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Beyond Good & Evil 2 are both on Ubisoft's plate right now, but don't count out the return෴ of Mr. Sam Fischer just yet...

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