Splinter Cell coming to Wii launch

Wii News | Eighth title from Ubisoft.

Via an announcment in collaboration with IGN, Ubisoft has announced it plans to release an eighth launch title for the Wii - Splinter Cell Double Agent. The game will be based on the upcoming GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions and will lack a few missions from the Xbox 360 version. It will however, feature a brand new control scheme (obviously), with one function allowing players to simulate Sam Fisher's lockpick by gently shaking the Wii-mote.

"We're very excited to bring Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent to the Wii this holiday season," Ubisoft Vice President of marketing, Tony Key stated. "The Splinter Cell franchise has always translated very well across multiple platforms and we are confident that the Wii version will continue the tradition of maximising the capabilities of each respective video game console platform."

We currently have a screenshot of the Wii version lurking in the Media Panel to your right.

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8 Comments

Jellyfish

5 years ago

Ooh, that lockpick sounds interesting. A little gimmicky sounding, but I think it'd add immersion, which is always a good thing.

Echo

5 years ago

Would you have to just jiggle the remote, or actually do it in a certain pattern

ZNMS

5 years ago

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The game will be based on the upcoming Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2 versions and will lack a few missions from the Xbox 360 version.

Sounds like it's just another port with the Nintendo Wii remote control scheme. In other words, just another quick dash for cash from Ubisoft.

David

5 years ago

ZNMS wrote

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The game will be based on the upcoming Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2 versions and will lack a few missions from the Xbox 360 version.

Sounds like it's just another port with the Nintendo Wii remote control scheme. In other words, just another quick dash for cash from Ubisoft.

I agree about this game - but it's not really another 'quick dash for cash from Ubisoft' - most of their other Wii games are very well designed for the machine. Rayman 4 on PS2 is actually a crappy port of the Wii version (it will have a cursor on the screen that you move with a stick), for example.

Cerebral

5 years ago

How on earth do they get the time to publish all these games by launch? I call slave labour as a means for this.

I also noticed that for a game that seems to be a 'quick dash for cash', Splinter Cell (unsurprisingly) sports the most impressive graphics on the Wii thus far.

James

5 years ago

Let's just hope it's better than Splinter Cell DS. *shivers*

Joseph

5 years ago

We'll see what the quality of these 8 titles is like. Then will critise Ubisoft for rushing them.

renegadesx

5 years ago

I dont care if it is a quick dash or not, seems to me like its the gamecube version plus Wiimote controls, sounds cool to me, I'm sold

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