It has now been a full twelve years since the latest Splinter Cell was released and despite several rumours no new game has materialised. Now, in a new interview with the developers behind the game Dispatch, where several previously worked at Ubisoft, reveals that the cancelled shooter XDefiant apparently began its life as a Splinter Cell game.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Nick Herman revealed that they worked on the project for a few months, before being disrupted by executives who pushed their own agenda - based on what was popular in the market at the time - GAAS. The team tried to make it work, and a few cool prototypes were made according to Herman. But then Ubisoft began chasing Call of Duty, forcing the small team to turn their Splinter Cell embryo into what finally became XDefiant.
A truly depressing story, to say the least. Not least considering that XDefiant was shut down just over a year after launch and maybe one day we'll find out more details about what could have become the next Splinter Cell title.