Splinter Cell delayed for "polish" News

"The game looks brilliant, but we want it to be awesome,"

somebody needs a thesaurus.

maybe I will pick it up then, releasing it now would have meant a no sale with all the other stuff coming out.

Why does it need more polish? Is it set in Poland then?

I thought all the poles were over here taking our jobs

How much polish can this game need? must have loads of problems if it's been delayed this much!

Maybe the story is set in Scotland and they meant to say "police"?
As in "Sham Fisher, thish ish the polish! Shtand down or shuffer the conshequenshes!"

Good bit of "refocusing", Ubi ;o)

bullshit! it's being delayed on purpose. to increase sales of this game and a certain other game.

You can't please some people.

"I hate it when games are released with issues" then when they delay games to fix issues "I hate it when games get delayed to be finished properly".

The frame rate in some of the videos was less than stellar, if they are fixing that then good on them.

Blood and violence! User-friendly stealth action! No Spies versus Mercs! And we're going to delay it yet again!

No, really, I don't care anymore.

In my book, brilliant is better than awesome.

Well, they don't want to be Russian it to market after all.

Maybe the story is set in Scotland and they meant to say "police"?
As in "Sham Fisher, thish ish the polish! Shtand down or shuffer the conshequenshes!"

:oD

For gods sake!!!!!!!!!!!

This will have more to do with their financial year than anything else.

Maybe the story is set in Scotland and they meant to say "police"?
As in "Sham Fisher, thish ish the polish! Shtand down or shuffer the conshequenshes!"

I for one would love to play Shplinter Shell: Convicshon.

Yep, some extra time for polish really helped Haze stand out :)

As sad as I am about it being delayed... I really cannot wait for this, so go forth and release it at it's most awesomenessest!

In an age where games are shipping with more issues than ever before I would welcome any decision to delay a game to get it working over releasing it despite issues. I must however question the truth of the Ubisoft statement, this particular delay comes too close to the original release date to be a purely "extra polish needed" decision, either Ubi want to release in quieter spot on the calendar and avoid this quarters massive lineup or something in the game is terribly broken, enough to give it a chance at failing the MS QA checks and bar its release.

Hopefully the delay won't be too long for the guys who were looking forward to this and the build quality will prove the extra time well spent.

Why do people automatically think the game needs more work when it gets delayed? As a designer i can see why people would like more time to add more 'shine' to something. Honestly a couple of month's difference isn't going to give them enough time to change anything major and it's not like they're trying to get a title working well on all platforms as it's 360 only!

Extra polish can only be a good thing but yes delays are annoying. Especially when it's quite late to the party compared to when it was originally scheduled to be out.

Is Fisher now a guest driver in GT5?

fair enough, the framrate looked a little off in the last multiplayer video I seen, hopefully the get it sorted because other than that the game looks amazing

*face palm*

Not again :(

It 's not looking good - seems like a rash decision to delay this just six weeks before the supposed launch! It's not like Ubisoft just found out yesterday of the competition that it'dl be facing in February/March...

So, I dunno what to make of it - but it's gone from a must-buy to a wait-and-see for me...

And I wouldn't expect it in April, either. I'd say a September/October release is on the cards...

TBH, if it's released later I'm more likely to buy it - no way I'm getting anything in between the releases of Mass Effect and Crackdown (not even BioShock! Too many games, not enough time/money!).

But my whole "financial year" theory has been blown out of the water. Hopefully this isn't an attempt to polish a turd - the game looked spiffing (he said, trying to avoid the words "brilliant" or "awesome").

Did they finally realize that the "stealth" part should be in a "Splinter Cell" instead of allowing the brain-deads to go in guns blazing this time?

This game is becoming one of the most delayed games of the last 5 years. But I do hope they fix up the framerate because it looked godawful in the recent co-op trailer.

Fuck sake

its just so they can show growth in all financial quarters, bit gay if you ask me i was looking forward to playing this after exams.

maybe microsoft havent got anything else to go up against GT5? I just ordered the collectors edition in anticipation of feb release dammit :(

"Splinter Cell Forever"!

"maybe microsoft havent got anything else to go up against GT5? I just ordered the collectors edition in anticipation of feb release dammit :( "

No car games no but they've got loads this year in terms of exclusives.

From some of what I've seen of this game it looks more like Rainbow Six Vegas than a stealth game.

My first reaction was "for fuck sake" but I think it was originally scheduled to come out the same day as Heavy Rain which probably means I wouldn't have played it straight away anyway...

Looking forward to it when it eventually releases

Enough games to fill the gap. No worries.

They should add a decent multiplayer, maybe S v M, otherwise this will end up on the trade shelf.
And release the demo already Ubi.

Considering the amount of whining that goes on these days about games not having split screen co-op, I'm guessing this might be one of the features that might need polishing.

As long as the game is outstanding, it's worth the wait. There are so many potentially brilliant titles coming out this year that we're spoilt anyway!

They must be running low on polish the times this one has had to be delayed for extra polish.

It certainly is going to be immensely shinny if it ever does get released.

Sam cut himself shaving again then....

And so the second release date exodus begins!

they're letting Sam Fisher age so they can add more jokes about it.

I like Ubisoft but this is suspicous, I think the problem might be smething like unplayable screen tear. all the videos tear like a sob

They were doing this 'polishing' bit for over a year now, and they shower us with previews and videos, only to announce a delay this close to the release? I'm starting to despise Ubisoft more than I already do, and that is a pretty deep hole.

Sounds weird the game was looking done in the recent videos ive seen.

Seeing how this is apparently not a stealth game anymore, I can't really give a toss when it'll get released.

Good on them, how many games have been released with bugs, frame rate problems etc. If giving the dev more time makes conviction a better game, then so be it.

I don't much mind. This whole "waiting for a game" thing is a careation of our imaginations really. There is ALWAYS something else to do or play whilst we wait for a game to be released, and if the release date had been previously set for August none of us would be batting an eyelid.