Splinter Cell Remake’s Original Director Returns to the Project After Leaving in 2022

The archetypal manager of Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell remake, David Grivel, has returned to recommence his relation arsenic manager connected the crippled aft leaving Ubisoft successful 2022.

Grivel confirmed the quality himself successful a station connected LinkedIn (via GamesRadar).

“Today, I americium very, precise blessed to denote that I’m rejoining Ubisoft Toronto arsenic Game Director connected the Splinter Cell Remake!” wrote Grivel, noting the squad and task are precise peculiar to him.

Grivel antecedently worked astatine Ubisoft for conscionable implicit a decade, from 2011 to 2022. Prior to his little archetypal tenure arsenic manager connected the Splinter Cell remake helium contributed arsenic a crippled decorator connected a assortment of projects, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Far Cry Primal, Far Cry 4, and Far Cry 5.

Grivel rejoins Ubisoft aft a stint astatine Ridgeline Games moving connected the run mode for Battlefield 6, until EA abruptly shuttered the workplace successful aboriginal 2024.

The Splinter Cell remake, which was archetypal announced mode backmost successful precocious 2021, has been skulking astir successful the acheronian for galore years now. Little accusation astir the crippled has made its mode into the airy during that time, though we bash cognize the communicative of the 2002 archetypal is acceptable to beryllium updated to beryllium “more authentic and believable” to a modern-day audience.

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