Two new Clancy games already in dev

By Robert Purchese Published 28 April, 2010

Ubisoft brand man opens gob.

Ubisoft has apparently already begun working on a further two Tom Clancy games.

That's what brand boss Michel Verheijdt told Dutch site Control Online. "At this moment I'm working on two Tom Clancy games which have just gone in development," he said (translated by Eurogamer Benelux).

"I can't say anything about it, or I'll have to send Sam Fisher after you."

With Splinter Cell: Conviction just out of the door and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier penned for this autumn, that limits Ubisoft's options.

'Two new Clancy games already in dev' Screenshot clancy

Don't be fooled by his plain features: Clancy is a killer and spans multiple genres.

Available IP includes long-running franchise Rainbow Six or newcomers EndWar and HAWX. Ubisoft could, however, create something entirely new. What about Tom Clancy's Secret Diary?

We'll pester the publisher for comment.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • SMOM #1 2 years ago

    New Rainbow?

  • cianchristopher #2 2 years ago

    What about Clancy Wiggum's S.W.A.T. Rescue Mission???

  • bad09 #3 2 years ago

    In the New Clancy game a top operative risks his life in a dangerous mission of intrigue and technological terrorism as he actually tries to play an Ubisoft game without consumer kicking DRM.

    The ending shows the hero fail in his mission so he sods off to pay for other publishers games.

  • jag10 #4 2 years ago

    how about concentrating on just one game, so it ends up being awesome and full of quality.

  • ChaK #5 2 years ago

    please please dumb it down like everyother clancy's game so my grandma can play it coop with me.

    I'd like a "rainbow six - cute bears in wonderland", involving shooting flowers at people and moving at the same time by just pressing one button. Then 2 hours of 1 button QTE and we'd win.

    Ubi I just so much hate you for what you did to ghost recon ,rainbow 6 and SC I'm starting to get bad

  • LazyNinjaUk #6 2 years ago

    Well I hope it is a new Rainbow Six game, but pray it isn't set in Vegas AGAIN. I did enjoy R6V2 but it just got boring too quickly and felt more like an Add-on than sequel.

    Hopefully the new one (if they are making one) will have a new setting, graphics engine and new plot, and get rid of those crafty 'spawn behind you' enemies in Terrorist Hunt, I hate those guys!
    Edited by 1 at 28/04/10 @ 16:37

  • ISmoke #7 2 years ago

    If there is new Rainbow 6 game i will cry tears of unmatched happiness!

  • tachometer #8 2 years ago

    Tom Clancy's Rainbow with Rod Jane and Freddy?

  • lordofthedunce #9 2 years ago

    I read one of his books a while back – it gave off a rather repugnant waft of anus.

    The Vegas games are great but having his name attached to them has put me off a bit.

  • ParanoidZombie #10 2 years ago

    Tom Clancy's Just Dance 2, probably. It will take place in Mexico, and you will be able to give basic orders to a squad of dancers.

  • wizlon #11 2 years ago

    New Vegas please, but set it in a different city.

    Rainbow 6: Tokyo?
    Rainbow 6: London?
    Rainbow 6: Boston Spa!

  • drxym #12 2 years ago

    Tom Clancy = hack. Once upon a time he used to write stories. Some of them were even readable. These days it seems like he whores his name to any piece of ghost written crap. Usually said crap involves special ops teams fighting (cyber) terrorists or rogue states. Odds are that any book published in the last 15 years that says Tom Clancy on it was written by somebody else.

    The only author I hold in lower regard for selling out is Thomas Harris.

  • Thedni #13 2 years ago

    I quite enjoyed HAWX, wouldn't mind seeing another one of those. Stupid name though...

  • Der_tolle_Emil #14 2 years ago

    Never played Vegas 2 because I just didn't feel like it although I enjoyed the first one. I'd still like to see a new Rainbow 6 game, as long as it's not set in Vegas again.

  • booner #15 2 years ago

    IMAGINE: Tom Clancy range

  • sfp_noodle #16 2 years ago

    Splinter Cell: Bailout
    Edited by 1 at 28/04/10 @ 19:13

  • X3Entente #17 2 years ago

    make it more like rouge spear, ie no cover sytem, no regenerating health, one shot kill mentailty, having more than 2 squad members that arent painfully cliched and dont have names like johnny patriot and randy "hazard" detroit

  • Murton #18 2 years ago

    I wouldn't mind a sequel to HAWX, very underrated game.

    Will likely be a quick Splinter Cell follow up using as much of the code and assets from Conviction as possible and a new Rainbow Six, that's just how Ubi does things these days.

  • TomSwift #19 2 years ago

    Tom Clancy: Groin Recon

  • Paperghost #20 2 years ago

    another vote for hawx - loved it, probably the only flight "sim" i've got into in recent years. great fun.

  • PearOfAnguish #21 2 years ago

    "just whoring out the tom clancy name"

    No worries there, the parade of ghost writers using Clancy's name did that years ago. Not that his books were anything more than expensive toilet paper when he was doing them.

  • jambo74 #22 2 years ago

    Sack Clancy and get Forsyth. Guaranteed a good game, good game.

  • sir_tripod #23 2 years ago

    When you say get Forsyth and "good game, good game", does that also imply "it's nice to see you, to see you nice!"

  • jambo74 #24 2 years ago

    Indeed, but don't buy two as you" get nothing for two in a bed"

  • EvilMonkey70 #25 2 years ago

    I agree with LazyNinjaUK on all points. Terrorist Hunt was the best except for the spawning.

  • metalangel #26 2 years ago

    Meh. There was a time when Clancy stuff meant a fascinating mix of political intrigue and cutting edge military hardware.

    After all, his name (in print, film and games, but I'm on about the games here) was built on some seriously hardcore shit.

    Rainbow Six, after all, with its in-depth pre-mission planning stages, bullet penetration and quick death. Or Ghost Recon, with commanding soldiers as opposed to just being one with a few AI buddies. Hell, the ancient Red Storm Rising game is still highly regarded as one of the best nuclear sub sims - that it also told a compelling tale of WW3 taking place all around your was a bonus.

    Now we have it all going too far into silly fantasy territory - and away from stuff that (at least seemed to be) plausible and grounded. They're also becoming a bit too dumbed-down for my liking. Whereas before they sat just on the accessible side of hardcore, the goodness is being diluted by the ongoing perception that everything has to appeal to obnoxious 12 year olds.

  • kongzi #27 2 years ago

    My bet is at least one of them is a rather cheap Splinter Cell cashin to make up for the 6 year development on what is, after all the mainstream streamlining, a niche-title. The other is probably a Rainbow Six that this time around tries to get some of that Modern Warfare/Bad Company/Medal Of Honour action going for Ubi.

    Those're my bets anyway. Fuck you

  • AtomicMelon #28 2 years ago

    I reckon it will be Rainbow Six, but with a new theme as they have pretty much done all they can with the Vegas setting.

  • geeza2020 #29 2 years ago

    Rainbow Six: Milton Keynes??

  • DAN.E.B #30 2 years ago

    Looking at whats been churned out at Ubisoft for the past few years im not expecting much which is a shame as I loved there games.