Excellent news, Sam Fisher followers: Ubisoft has confirmed it nonetheless remembers Splinter Cell exists by including Steam Achievements to 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Whereas our final significant replace concerning the Splinter Cell Remake got here in 2022 when IGN met with Ubisoft Toronto builders to talk about their design philosophy behind the sport, in a single day, the developer quietly up to date the achievement record for the 12-year-old Blacklist on Steam.
Ubisoft said: “Brokers, we’re happy to announce that Steam Achievements are actually obtainable for Splinter Cell: Blacklist!”
The achievements will probably be “retroactively earned for the accomplishments already accomplished in your recreation,” though for that to occur, you want to boot up the sport not less than as soon as. “As soon as synced, the beforehand unlocked Ubisoft Join achievements will probably be routinely unlocked on Steam,” the crew added.
In addition to taking the time to add achievements that may be “retrospectively earned,” the developer selected not to add the extra 19 on-line achievements obtainable on consoles to guarantee folks can nonetheless 100% the sport on Steam.
The stealth-action sequence is ready to sneak again into motion with a remake of the basic first recreation within the franchise, Splinter Cell Remake. We nonetheless do not know very a lot about it apart from the brand new model will probably be constructed from the bottom up utilizing the superior Snowdrop engine.
“20 years later, we are able to look again on the plot, the characters, the general story of the sport [and] make some enhancements — issues that may not have aged notably nicely,” stated artistic director Chris Auty on the time. “However the core of the story, the core of the expertise will stay because it was within the unique recreation.”
Final month, Ubisoft created a subsidiary firm primarily based on its Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six manufacturers, with a €1.16 billion (approx. $1.25 billion) funding from Chinese language megacorp Tencent.
The information got here after Ubisoft introduced Murderer’s Creed Shadows had handed the three million participant mark. Ubisoft suffered a variety of high-profile flops, layoffs, studio closures, and recreation cancellations within the run up to Shadows’ launch, and there may be huge strain on it to succeed after the corporate’s share value hit an historic low.
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