Jade Raymond, who was the (executive) producer for the first two Assassin’s Creed games, talked about her Ubisoft-history.

She was interviewed by GameReactor at the Fan & Serious Festival 2019 in Bilbao. She revealed some details about Splinter Cell (as she was also the executive producer for 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, as well as 2014’s Watch Dogs): „The last Splinter Cell (Blacklist, released in 2013) is the last one that shipped, so… 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.” There were plans for a sequel, but Raymond’s move to Electronic Arts (where she was the founder of Motive Studios, but she has left since… and she also led Visceral until its closure) has flopped everything.

Raymond also talked about Assassin’s Creed turn towards action-RPG in the past few years: „Assassin’s Creed became way bigger than anyone on the original team thought it would ever be. We thought there would be three games and now there have been twenty or more. Regarding the evolution, of course, it’s become a lot more RPG focused. I think success is all about engagement when you have a story that has a beginning, a middle and an end. When it’s over, engagement is hard to continue, but I think the solution to that is RPG systems. That’s where you get the long-term engagement and the more ways to interact with the world. So Assassin’s Creed has become a lot more RPG-like, and that’s very interesting to me because when we first made it, it was an action game. It was much more of a pure open world action game. That’s been interesting. And I think it’s also become a lot more about the user choice and systemic stuff and those are good things that are in line with players expressing themselves.”

So Ubisoft might be using the 2013 concept for Splinter Cell if they work on a new game, and we have been waiting for several years for Sam Fisher to return at this point… maybe he is planning a return.

Source: WCCFTech