E3 2018 is now less than three months away, meaning that the rumors are fully flowing about which major new games will be announced at the event. Ubisoft has already confirmed that it will be revealing The Division 2, but what else does the major video game publisher have in store for fans?
However, the listing is not the only reason why fans think that Ubisoft could be about to unveil a brand new Splinter Cell game. The last game in the series was Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which released all the way back in 2013. In comparison, the last Splinter Cell game before that was released in 2010 (Splinter Cell: Conviction), and before that Splinter Cell: Double Agent and Splinter Cell: Essentials were released in 2006. This means that the five-plus year gap between Blacklist and the next Splinter Cell game would be the longest time between two core games in the franchise. As such, fans say that it is about time that Ubisoft releases a new one.
Moreover, Ubisoft teased a new in the franchise around nine months ago. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that Splinter Cell is one of his favorite series and is a franchise that the company talks about “a lot,” with the comments generating rumors that a new game is in development. Around the same time, Guillemot gave another interview where he stated that all of the games in the Tom Clancy series are coming along nicely and that Splinter Cell hasn’t been forgotten.
With The Division 2 now officially confirmed and with Ghost Recon: Wildlands making a new Ghost Recon unlikely (for a while anyway), the question is, just which other Tom Clancy games was Guillemot referring to? A new Splinter Cell game seems like a possibility then, but fans may have to wait until E3 2018 to find out more.
