Splinter Cell joins Ubi Wii list

By Tom Bramwell Published 11 September, 2006

Due out in 'launch window'.

Lazy old Ubisoft has decided to make up for only having seven titles available at the Wii launch by punting out a version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent for Nintendo's new console as well.

"We are very excited to bring Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent to the Wii this holiday season," Ubisoft's Tony Key told IGN. He also reckons it will "continue the tradition of maximising the capabilities of each respective videogame console".

Which is obviously to say that it'll make use of the Wii's unique control system. Apparently it's going to use the remote control and nunchuck attachment, but Ubisoft Montreal is still refining things and so they're not talking about specifics.

What we do know is that it'll apparently be based on both the PS2 and Cube versions, with enhancements to graphics and gameplay, and while it won't include all of the levels in the Xbox 360 version - due out on October 20th - and won't offer online play it will, er, well, might feature some downloadable content. Possibly.

Double Agent for Wii will be out within the console's "launch window" apparently. We should find out exactly what that means at Thursday and Friday's Nintendo conferences, when we're expecting to learn about the company's launch plans.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Blerk #1 6 years ago

    it'll apparently be based on both the PS2 and Cube versions, with enhancements to graphics and gameplay

    Hmm. I suspect Wii owners will have to get used to this kind of thing, sadly.

  • JetSetWilly #2 6 years ago

    Which is it Tom - Chaos Theory or Double Agent? The article can't seem to make its mind up.

  • Wash #3 6 years ago

    Its good to know Wii gamers will be playing Ps2 games for the nxt 4 years.

    ;)

  • space_ace #4 6 years ago

    i suppose it's about double agent, but please make up your mind! :)

  • AcidSnake #5 6 years ago

    Trolling eh?

    In that case:
    It's good to know that ps2 gamers will be playing ps2 games for the next 4 years, until Sony manage to launch the ps3...

    Just kidding guys...

  • Blerk #6 6 years ago

    It's Double Agent, not Chaos Theory. I think.
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/06 @ 12:03

  • Wash #7 6 years ago

    @AcidSnake...

    i was just seeing who would bite :).

    silliness aside, what happens when the ps2/cube goes the way of the dodo (like the original xbox).

    Does wii stop getting ports of high profile games on more powerful systems? (i.e 360, ps3, PC) or do developers... develop such drastically different versions of their games?

  • Carrybagma #8 6 years ago

    Aww. Can't it do the XBOX version?? :o)

    Dear Wii-fans, please don't suggest that this is something more than a lazy port. If the Wiimote somehow does make this game more interesting to play than before, then Nintendo should be credited for that - not Ubisoft for lazy porting.

    I do hope the Wii isn't swamped with last-gen crap, as publishers think Wiifans will buy anything to wave their Wiimotes at.

  • smelly #9 6 years ago

    Does wii stop getting ports of high profile games on more powerful systems?

    Depends how popular it becomes. The ps2 was rediculously low powered, but it sold shed loads - so games companies made games for that, and then improved gfx for the other two platforms.


    Hmm. I suspect Wii owners will have to get used to this kind of thing, sadly.

    Erm I think people are forgetting that the 360 has had a lot of xbox games with JUST visual enhancements (and nothing else).

    King Kong, Tomb Raider, Far cry, Gun, Burnout Revenge, Fifa 06, etc

    (and that's just the ones i can think of, off the top of my head)

    No-one seemed to moan about that?
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/06 @ 12:33

  • Chtulie #10 6 years ago

    Can there ever be a game that's actually worse the Splinter Cell on the DS?
    One can't fault ubisoft for lack of continued efforts at such a thing. They're bringing back the early DS days all over again.

  • Skooch #11 6 years ago

    "Hmm. I suspect Wii owners will have to get used to this kind of thing, sadly.

    Erm I think people are forgetting that the 360 has had a lot of xbox games with JUST visual enhancements (and nothing else).

    King Kong, Tomb Raider, Far cry, Gun, Burnout Revenge, Fifa 06, etc

    (and that's just the ones i can think of, off the top of my head)

    No-one seemed to moan about that?"

    No - because if you had a brain you didn't buy those games (unless you didn't own a last-gen console you could play them on). Wii owners, however, aren't going to be able to make this choice - it is an underpowered console. Period.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #12 6 years ago

    it is an underpowered console.

    No it isn't. It's exactly as powerful as Nintendo said it was.

    That's like calling beer, weak vodka.

  • bionutz #13 6 years ago

    as <a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/user_profile.php?user_id=11941>smelly</a> said, it all a question of popularity. If Wii will prove much more popular than xbox360, games will be developed for it and improved visually for xbox360. In case Wii is popular enough, the dark prophecy of <a href= http://www.eurogamer.net/user_profile.php?user_id=25> Blerk</a> will not come true (honestly I don't think it will come true even in case it's not that popular - because there is a constant need for new games).

  • Blerk #14 6 years ago

    No-one seemed to moan about that?

    I did! But I moan about everything. :-)

  • smelly #15 6 years ago

    No it isn't. It's exactly as powerful as Nintendo said it was.

    Actually, afaik, nintendo have never commented on it's power. And in most cases people are judging its power based on movies/screenshots from e3 where the games were still running on gamecubes.


    No - because if you had a brain you didn't buy those games (unless you didn't own a last-gen console you could play them on).


    And what's the difference with that and the wii?

    The 360 had current gen games with souped up graphics, and so is the wii - but also with new control method (and in this case gameplay changes).

    If you already have them, as you said, you dont buy them. If you dont, then as you said, you get the best version.

    I fail to see the problem? It didnt do the 360 any harm, and i doubt it'd do the wii any harm.

    If playing old games on a new system is a problem, then xbla wouldnt be so popular would it?



    Wii owners, however, aren't going to be able to make this choice - it is an underpowered console.


    We STILL dont know the official specs, so we STILL dont know how "underpowered" it is.

    But apparently according to rumours it has double both the cpu and gpu capabilities of the cube. Which is still quite powerful. (snip - i'll edit that rant as it'll only cause the fangirls to jump in here and take this off topic).

    So i'll bring it back on point. Even if it is "underpowered" (and I'd bet money we'd see more 60fps games on it than we'll see on the other two - so if that's "underpowered" bring it on) - how does that effect me being able to play good games on it which arent xbox ports?

  • smelly #16 6 years ago

    Blerk : I did! But I moan about everything. :-)

    I did too! But then i was called a fanboy troll for doing that. Now the shoe's on the other foot it's apparently okay :-)

  • smelly #17 6 years ago

    Then again, with the poor backwards compat of the 360, you dont really have much choice to play last gen games other than buying ports.

    At least the wii has the option of buying the cube version on the cheap and plugging it in (if yer not bothered about the new graphics/gameplay).

    I always thought Splinter cell was overrated myself though.

  • Wash #18 6 years ago

    @Smelly.

    "I always thought Splinter cell was overrated myself though."

    :o, burn him!!!! in all seriousness tho they are vry vry pretty games, but i'd agree the transition thru the numerous sequels has always been minor. I'd of liked to have seen alot more open areas, with mulitple avenues of approach... alot bigger than whats been on offer, theres so much room for ideas. evolution not revolution i guess.

    Wii isnt very powerful, alot rests on this revolutionary controller. For me alot mroe rests on it success for games that require prolonged use

  • Tayl #19 6 years ago

    smelly's definition of "new gameplay", from IGN:

    "Double Agent will make use of both the Wii-mote and nunchuck attachment. Ubisoft Montreal is still play-testing the controls in order to further refine everything and therefore was unwilling to describe in detail the exact control methods in place. However, it did cite one example, which is that players will be able to shake the Wii-mote to and from in order to make Sam Fisher pick locks in the game."

    Didn't we have a mechanism to do pretty much that exact same thing in Splinter Cell 1, all of four years ago? What were they called again..umm yeah, ANALOGUE STICKS?! Anyone who buys into the Wii expecting even a fuckin scintilla of "new" gameplay, rather than ye olde gameplay butchered & shoehorned to fit with Nintendo's ridiculous Wiinovation, is an idiot. No qualifications, no justifications, no obfuscations- just simply, an idiot.
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/06 @ 13:45

  • smelly #20 6 years ago

    @Tayl : I would respond. But I think you've done a good enoguh job of making yourself look like a tit who's totally missed the point as it is.

    So I wont bother.

  • AcidSnake #21 6 years ago

    @tayl
    Calm down son...it's only games you know...

  • smelly #22 6 years ago

    I like the way it's now "smelly's definition of new gameplay"

    All i was doing was quoting article.

  • Tonka #23 6 years ago

    It's Lylat not Lyat

  • Tayl #24 6 years ago

    My username has nothing to do with Star Fox, but thanks for the failed ownage attempt all the same. 'Preciate it.

  • Tonka #25 6 years ago

    I never thought anyone would spot it to be honest. Well done.
    /pat on head

  • AOFanboi #26 6 years ago

    <em>It's good to know that ps2 gamers will be playing ps2 games for the next 4 years,</em>

    ... because Sony, unlike Microsoft, don't try to force their customers to buy the next generation by killing their current generation.

  • PS3lol #27 6 years ago

    No Sony just make you buy a Blu-ray player you don't want for £425.

  • Bates #28 6 years ago

    Make you in what sense? At least new games will continue being released for the current console, giving people some choice in the matter, rather than just saying 'fuck you' to your userbase by forcing them to buy the newest console if they want to keep playing new games.

    Anyway, trolls aside, more Wii games = more awesome.

    Wait, Splinter Cell? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww >:/

  • oerhoert #29 6 years ago

    <em>Can there ever be a game that's actually worse the Splinter Cell on the DS?</em>

    Actually, the game was OK. In a not-very-good sort of way, granted, but still able to deliver some hours of entertainment if you kept with it. I gave it 5/10 here, and although that may have been a bit generous of me, the game isn't close to being a disaster.

  • AcidSnake #30 6 years ago

    @AOFanboi
    You've conveniently not quoted after the comma...

    Anyway it was just a joke on my part
    Hence the "Just kidding guys..." bit...

  • Psi #31 6 years ago

    Tayl in 'anyone who buys a nintendo is an idiot' out of arguments shocker!

    Just now I've revisited my DS collection and realised that they are all the same as anything on the psp and that i should shoot myself!

    i used to work at a supermarket pushing 'trollys' around :D

  • smelly #32 6 years ago

    Well the screenshots look nice..