Although speculation has run rampant for months, Ubisoft has finally made its next game in the Splinter Cell series official. Carrying a spring 2006 target release date, “Splinter Cell: Double Agent� seeks to bring all the Splinter Cell goodness back to current gen consoles as well as being the first Splinter Cell to debut on a next-gen system, the Xbox 360.
Ubisoft revealed that each system will carry its own multiplayer aspects and has been confirmed that there will be online play, however details are very sketchy at this point and no specifics were spoken of in the press release. The most interesting aspect of the game is that instead of just one studio working on the game, Ubisoft Montreal has been responsible for two of the three games so far, three different Ubisoft studios are collaborating on this title. Montreal, Shanghai, and Annecy, France are all working to make this newest Splinter Cell the best one in the series so far.
The gameplay plot details include that Sam Fisher will be infiltrating a high security prison and will have to work as a double agent within. He will have to answer to both the NSA as well as terrorist organizations and he will have to run a fine line between trying to not do too much evil while on the same hand trying to discover crucial information without giving away his true identity and therefore risking his own neck.
Stay tuned for more Splinter Cell: Double Agent details in the near future including whether or not this game will indeed be making a Playstation 3 debut as has been rumored.