I Wish Sam Fisher Was Dead
Sam is back! What’s that you ask? Is there a new Splinter Cell? Of course not silly! He’s just a glorified microtransaction now.
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Sigh, remember Splinter Cell? Wasn’t it fun? There was just something wonderful about stalking enemies as a master of espionage with a cool pair of night-vision goggles and the grumbly, gravelly voice of Michael Ironside. Necks were snapped, files were stolen, and the world was just a better place when Sam Fisher was lurking in the shadows.
But don’t worry, Sam is back! What’s that you ask? Is there a new Splinter Cell? Of course not silly! No, our old grumpy spy is now available for all of the Tom Clancy franchises. Need him for a mobile title? He’ll be there! Need him to show up in Rainbow Six Siege? Sure, he’s not doing anything else! Who needs Splinter Cell when Sam Fisher can be anywhere and everywhere, right? RIGHT?!
Yeah, I wish Sam was dead.
Let The Poor Man Rest
For some unknown reason, Ubisoft has decided that Splinter Cell isn’t worth its time anymore. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Sam Fisher needs to be kept on the sidelines. Oh no, Ubi views Sam as a marketable property. Not marketable enough to justify the budget for a new Splinter Cell title, but marketable enough to make him a selling point for whatever tripe it’s trying to foist upon the game-playing public. He’s a recognizable face, so Ubisoft has to shove him into every game with even the most minute association with ol’ Tom Clancy.
We’re now trapped in a vicious cycle. Every time Ubisoft holds one of its Ubisoft Forward showcases, there’s a hope that maybe they’ll finally reveal a new game in the series. Yves Guillemot will tease us with the idea that there’s going to be some sort of huge announcement regarding Sam’s future. Then, we see the three green lights, we hear the sound of the night-vision goggles turning on, and we all get excited. Just when it looks like our prayers are finally answered, we see the words Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad appear on the screen and what’s left of our souls dies a little bit more.
It seems like Ubisoft takes a sadistic delight in parading the shell of Sam Fisher around in anything that isn’t a Splinter Cell game. He’s like an actor whose show got canceled and now he makes ends meet by guest-starring in any production that will hire him. The man should still be out there running covert operations. Instead, he appears as DLC in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. A fate worse than death.
With the way things are, I can only wonder if his dignity would have been preserved if Blacklist had been Sam’s last game. And yes, as of right now, it is technically his last game. But what if Sam had somehow died in Blacklist? A heroic final sacrifice for his country so he could have gone out in a blaze of glory. Then maybe some lamer, younger agent could have usurped the Splinter Cell franchise. Some white-meat babyfaced loser who would be more than happy to show up wherever Ubisoft wanted him to. Someone we could all ignore because they suck. It might not be the honorable ending that Sam deserves, but at least then we wouldn’t have to see his weathered mug pop up as an operator in Siege. He’s Sam freaking Fisher. He shouldn’t be on the same level as Nomad, Pulse, or Buck.
Death would be a far kinder fate than the one he and Splinter Cell fans everywhere are faced with today. We all don’t want Sam slumming it in a lackluster phone game. We don’t want him chumming around with the other Rainbow Six Siege operators. We just want more Splinter Cell, and if we can’t have that, then Sam should be allowed to rest.
Unfortunately, this is Ubisoft that we’re talking about. Even if he had died in Blacklist, I bet it still would have reanimated his corpse for more cameo appearances in other games. And that’s a damn shame.
We Still Hear Those Night-Vision Goggles In Our Dreams
Sam isn’t dead, but he might as well be. His series is gathering dust beside Prince Of Persia and Rayman in Ubisoft’s attic and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change anytime soon. Much like an aging Star Trek cast member being forced to attend conventions so they can pay the bills, Sam will pop up whenever Ubisoft wants to milk more money out of a Tom Clancy project. It doesn’t matter if it’s Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, The Division, Elite Squad, or maybe even flying a jet in HAWX. If Ubisoft wants to put Sam Fisher in the game, he’ll be there.
I love Sam, but I’ve stopped wishing for the return of Splinter Cell. It will always hurt when I see Sam forced to dance about as a glorified microtransaction in other games. In fact, don’t be surprised if he shows up in a Just Dance title sometime in the distant future, because Ubisoft is filled with cruel, stealth-hating bastards.
But hey, at least we’ll always have Chaos Theory. We’ll always have Chaos Theory.
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