The Tom Clancy Brand Has Lost Its Way

Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "The early 2000s were a golden age for the Tom Clancy brand of games, with titles like Rainbow Six 3, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and anything with the Splinter Cell name earned critical acclaim. It was a good time for fans of the series, largely because of how reliable these games were."

[Orchard]

I’d have to agree, they basically slap the Tom Clancy branding on any old garbage nowadays.

The modern games don’t even remotely come close to the original Splinter Cell, R6 and Ghost Recon games.

[blvdnights1414]

This reminds me of that EA BIG nonsense. Just a bunch of money grubbing executives sucking an IP as dry as they can.

[PhillyDillyDee]

I dunno man… NBA Street was incredible.

[BlaqMagiq1]

But the EA BIG games were great. Those were critically acclaimed. Ubisoft are just slapping names under something without having the soul of those franchises.

[Profchaos]

Tom Clancy's seal of approval meant something years ago. Typically he was approving the project then Ubisoft brought it before his death and they have abused it since.

[ikarodemon]

Totally agree!

[CrimsonWing69]

Ubisoft, more like it. The brand is the brand, I can’t for the life of me understand why Ubisoft won’t make another Splinter Cell game. They know the demand is there and they tease stupid cameos in mobile games. I feel like Ubisoft is the one who lost their way.

[lodossrage]

I agree with you

But Ubisoft is both greedy and lazy.

With that said, Splinter Cell being a mainly single player game means not much chance for constant monetizing. And being a mainly single player game means they would have to put more effort in compared to a multiplayer game where they can just slap rehashed ideas and skins on to make a quick buck.

Basically, making a new splinter cell means they'd have to forego some of their greed and lazy ways. Good luck with that lol

[-Foxtrot]

Because they don't know how to make Splinter Cell an open world / multiplayer live service game

Assassins Creed Infinite will be Live Service

Far Cry 7 is rumoured to be live service

Beyond Good and Evil 2 apparently has to be played connected to the internet

Ghost Recon...open world / co-op

Watch Dogs...focuses on online / co-op

The Crew...Rainbow Six...so on and on

There's a reason Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia and 3D Rayman games have had nothing over the years because they don't know how to make them open world or co-op / multiplayer focused.

[Bathyj]

This

[TheColbertinator]

They want to slap Tom Clancy's name on everything now

Tom Clancy's Trackmania
Tom Clancy's Watchdogs

[TriniOutsider]

I blame Ubisoft. They seem to want to make every Tom Clancy branded game into something they aren't. They keep pushing the games into "Games as a service". Which is much ruining them all at the same time.

[Blank]

My uncle is very high up in UBISoft. Here is a legit leak! The next game in the franchise is Tom Clancy: Tactical Bowl Movement. Sounds believable? Well that’s how far the franchise has fallen off.

[Magog]

The only Tom Clancy game that I've actually liked was the first Division and even it had a bad plot and forgettable characters.

[Chocoburger]

More like Ubisoft has lost their way, which occurred well before most people even realized it, or were willing to admit it.

Generic games, grind games, filler games, micro-trash-action packed games. Wanting to make a profit is fine, but its the methods of how you choose to make a profit is what separates the good publishers and the bad. I used to pay attention to Ubisoft games, during the PS2 and PS3 era of gaming, started to lose a lot of interest during the PS4 era, and now I don't give a crap about them. I don't even watch their press conferences anymore, because just like their games, its not worth my time.

[SKshooter2]

I wish they would do a remake of the original ghost recon it was one of the best games ever made or at least consider it

[ZeekQuattro]

All I want is a new Splinter Cell. Ubisoft can have Sam make all the cameos they want but at least put out new Splinter Cell game from time to time. The last entry Blacklist was 2 gens ago at this point.

[phoenixwing]

I have nothing but contempt for ubisoft after what they pulled with assassins creed vallhalla. They said they wouldn't add xp boosters and made a point to say it and there was an article about it. So what happens a couple weeks after the game has launched? XP BOOSTERS. after that I've vowed to never buy a assassins creed game now. I'm stuck with vallhalla but i'll get them back by not buying in to whatever they make next.

also tom clancy games used to be usually single player tactical planning games that took a little bit of thought or at least had a fun actiony story. Now they're just junk.

[shamon85]

i agree they just need to go back to the basics and remake the original splinter cell games along with a new one that has all the core game play as the original 3 . also changing ghost recon back to how it used to be would be a good idea .that series just became too open world and has a little too much i prefer the older and simple xbox 360 versions from back in the days . They lost there way a bit even i just wish they would give us what we want .

[BlaqMagiq1]

I used to be a big fan of Ubi several years back until they started treating all of their franchises like shit.

Haven't cared about Assassin's Creed since Syndicate. Watch Dogs Legion was the worst in the series. Far Cry has become meh. Their shooters have become garbage. Splinter Cell is dead. Rayman is dead. Beyond Good and Evil 2 is in dev hell. The only thing left for me to care about from them is Prince of Persia Remake. I seriously hope they get that right.