David Grivel, the director of the upcoming Splinter Cell remake, has left Ubisoft after 11 years, he has announced.
In a post on Linkedin he said that it was “time for (him) to go on a new adventure”.
Grivel worked on Ghost Recon Future Soldier atUbisoft Parisbefore moving toUbisoft Torontoto work onSplinter Cell Blacklist,Assassin’s CreedUnity,Far Cry4, 5 and 6 and most recently the upcomingSplinter Cellremake.
Ubisoftofficially confirmed last December that it wasworking on a remake of Splinter Cell, the stealth action game which was first released in 2002 as anXboxexclusive.
It said the game was being rebuilt with the Snowdrop engine—which also powersThe Divisionand is being used to buildAvatar: Frontiers of PandoraandUbisoft’s upcoming Star Wars game—”to deliver new-generation visuals and gameplay, and the dynamic lighting and shadows the series is known for”.
It was discoveredearlier this yearthat Ubisoft Toronto is currently looking torecruita scriptwriter to update the original game’s story “for a modern-day audience”.
Splinter Cell’s story centres around protagonist Sam Fisher, a black ops agent of the US National Security Agency’s secret arm, Third Echelon.
VGC revealed last Octoberthat Ubisoft had greenlit what will be its first mainline Splinter Cell game in a decade.
Development sources told us that the title had been put into production as a means of winning back fans frustrated by recent efforts to revive the franchise in themobileandVRspaces.
Following VGC’s report, it was claimed that Ubisoftcould take inspiration from IO Interactive‘s Hitman franchisefor its next Splinter Cell game.
