In this respect, Double Agent marks some shocking revelations for fans: Sam Fisher without his trademark goggles for much of the adventure daylight maps: a new visibility bar replacement swimming sequences a radical Halo/ Call of Duty-style health system no HUD. The developers cite Resident Evil 4 as an inspiration of how to refresh a franchise, keep the hardcore fans and introduce a raft of new players. 'If you don't renew, you'll go the way of Tomb Raider, where you do the same thing over seven or more games.' Shocked! Hie challenge was, 'OK we have enormous responsibility, but we have to make the new Splinter Cell super-interesting for us, then hopefully it'll be exciting for everybody else',' explains Gerighty. 'Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory were critically-acclaimed games.
The number four is extremely unlucky in China (it sounds like the Cantonese word for death), but this doesn't concern the team working on the next important game in the series. I'm here in the People's Republic of China for an exclusive look at the fourth Splinter Cell game Double Agent, which is currently being coded by a friendly cosmopolitan crew of over 130 people at Ubisoft's Shanghai studios.
