Apparently, Ubisoft was very close to reviving Splinter Cell, but the project ultimately ended up being shelved and transformed into the ill-fated XDefiant — an arcade shooter that was shut down less than a year after its 2024 launch .

This information isn’t some baseless rumor either, as it was shared by Nick Herman, a developer who worked on the game before leaving Ubisoft and co-founding the studio behind the episodic game Dispatch.

XDefiant Was Born from a Cancelled Splinter Cell Game

Speaking to Bloomberg , Herman said, “I was so excited to be a part of this and help revitalize it, because it’s been dormant for a while, and we thought we could tell a great story and do something the fans would love.”

According to Bloomberg, the game was in production for a few months, during w

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