Justified actor Michael Ironside explains why he went mobile in the new Game Insight video game, Tank Domination, in this exclusive interview from GDC 2014.
A reliable source has revealed some interesting information about an upcoming Splinter cell game. The game is allegedly quite far in development, with Michael Ironside said to be returning as the voice of Sam Fischer.
Blacklist really blew me away despite my initial skepticism. I've been itching for a new one ever since. Bringing Ironside back would fix my only criticism of the game. It's not that the new VO was bad, he just wasn't Fisher.
This would be great. Haven't played good espionage/stealth game since splinter cell Pandora.
Hell yeah! Awesome news if true. Splinter Cell is one of my favorite franchises of all time.
Awesome news, Blacklist was a step in the right direction but it was weird not having Ironside.
Oh so now he can apparently do the motion capture...huh Ubisoft. Thought he was "too old"
Hopefully it will be a return to form.
I'd prefer they keep the dude who performed Blacklist's motion capture. He was actually trained in that field of combat.
Agreed. I actually liked the guy. I thought his performance on Blacklist was really god.
@-Foxtrot,
The article doesn't say that Ironside is doing the Mocap. It says that Toronto has the Mocap for it. I personally think performance Mocap is overrated. I would have been fine with actors performing Mocap in Blacklist and Ironside adding the voice. His V/O work would have more than made up for any supposed shortcoming.
Agreed. Let him do the voice acting but not the motion capturing. I'm still impressed by the motion capturing takedowns and character movement in Blacklist.
Too old my @rse
If Benedict Cumberbatch can perfectly voice and perform Smaug and Andy Serkis can perform Smeagol / Gollum then Ironside at 66 can do this.
It's all down the actor and Michael is one hell of an actor.
I don't necessarily agree with that because those actors were doing motion-capture for fictional characters in terms of fantasy , where Ironside is essentially doing the movements of somebody that is trained militaristicly.
I'd actually rather have a real life military person just do the movements I also want Sam Fisher's character to have aged realistically as I can't take this whole bizarre time travel crap they're doing with this man's age lol
LOL you won the internet! Its like they completely forget that Sam Frisher is 50 years old! Why does he look so young?
Don't you know? In movies, books, music, TV, video games, pepsi...youth is better, right? Personally I find ageism disgusting and quite idiotic when I see a video game and some 19 year old is in charge of protecting the President. What is this, Logan's Run? There is fantasy and then there is delusion. I remember one dev interview for Chaos Theory and they were talking how Sam now had all black hair and was younger because that was better. No Ubi, no. Another monumental mistake.
Originally Sam was going to have white hair and a white beard but they scrubbed it because of the stealth aspect - never mind he has lights on him. Personally I prefer the old curmudgeon aspect where these young kids can't keep up with an aged warrior. Look at Billy Waugh. He was just over 70 and he was hunting Bin Laden in Afghanistan, traipsing around in the mountains. I would prefer they bring that Sam back.
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Replies(2)Bringing back Ironside is a good start, but can we please have the old fun gameplay back too? There are enough games out there offering a badass action hero power fantasy. I just want a slow, tense stealth game with hacking and ridiculously dark shadows and copious amounts of the colour green.
I thought Splinter Cell: Blacklist was a HUGE step in the right direction. The stealth was once again well executed and really good.
The fact you could pick up the body again was a big inprovement over Conviction. But the movements were too much conviction not enough original trilogy.
Splinter Cell Blacklist was the best game in the series, in my opinion. I've been a huge fan since the first game and I've played through every game in the series more than once. Chaos Theory was absolutely amazing for its time and it's my second favorite game in the series, but Blacklist improved in quite a few areas and is overall the best, imo. I just missed Michael Ironside's voice (even though the new actor actually did pretty well) so that would be cool if they bring him back for the next game.
The first was my most memorable. I am a big fan of the series in general. The first was less forgiving and forced you to think. Limited amo and 3 strikes your out was a nice challenge
As awesome as Blacklist was, I respectfully disagree. I think Pandora tomorrow has to be the top contender of them all in my opinion! The crazy number of unique environments, story and more were just on a whole other level for me back in the PS2 days!
I personally love Double Agent's SP more. But goddamn, that BL's multiplayer is god-like. Had so much fun with it. The dynamic between the spies and mercs is phenomenon.
Reviews would disagree.
At least you could pick up a body in it. Don't understand how they thought taking that feature out was a good idea in Conviction.
But nothing beats the original trilogy, and hopefully we get a game in line with those games as opposed to the way the last 2 played. Ubisoft isn't dumb and they can see the reviews and sales and should be able to see the writing on the wall for what people want.
What do you mean blacklist is the second best game in the series after chaos theory. Obviously they are heading back in the right direction. I have faith the next game will be great. Please keep the 2v2 mp.
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PC Gamer: Sam Fisher of Splinter Cell fame is one of the more interesting videogame protagonists to turn up over the past decade or so. He's appropriately dangerous, but not a relentless, unstoppable killing machine; he's actually at his best when he gets the job done quietly. Some credit for that aspect of his character goes to Michael Ironside, who voiced Fisher through the first five games in the series, and who said in an AMA yesterday that he actually backed out of the job at first because it was too "bloody and violent."
Letting Ironside go is a huge mistake.
Blacklist is the most uninspiring story I have ever seen in a game. The gameplay was good but the story and the character made me cringe.
Ubisoft have ruined Splinter Cell.
The problem is that Ubisoft want every game to be "mainstream" and marketed to the masses, making most games not true to how they were back in the days.
Saying that, Ubisoft have created some damn good franchises.
It's like they tried to make Blacklist like COD mixed with 24, but totally failed.
Replies(1)I know Ubisoft wanted someone who could do the voice and motion capture but i think it would have been better if they used a different character instead, Ironside is Sam Fisher so it would have been nice if Sam was just a side character teaching his apprentice (new guy) or something. That being said i wouldn't say they ruined the SC, the gameplay/level design in Black List was great and gives you tons of options to play differently.
They made it work with Conviction there's no reason why they couldn't have made it work with Blackist.
"This week marks the middle point of the year.
So, to celebrate the occasion, we're going to take a look at Pocket Gamer's top-rated games (the ones that got Platinum and Gold awards at review) of 2014… so far."
Couldn't the title just be shortened to 21 best iOS games of 2014 so far?
Big fan of VVVVV. Hearthstone is also great on mobile as well as I can play away from my PC now.
Don't see 2048 but another really good addicting game to pass the time.
Sam Fisher has aged.