The new character model looks terrible, and he's the leader of Fourth Echelon so it's set after Conviction, so he's now older so why did they get an knackering young American guy to voice act him?
It certainly looks like a step back in the right direction. I just wish they would have used a new protagonist. It just feels so...weird hearing Sam with his new voice actor. Would have been easier to just start a new story in the same universe.
On the front page to get into this trailer, it looks like Sam Fisher's face is a mask and the rest is mocapped. They didn't mocap the face I don't believe, but that's beside the point.
@ Matty_gamer, this is a video game, if you start thinking about the realism of it, your head will explode. I have thought about that though. But then again, in real life one man couldn't take out a small army and come out unscathed. That's why we play video games, to act out our fantasies.
Knowing me and others we will probably end up buying the game but can't help that when I hear that voice I will end up closing the game.
Nothing against the man who did the voice for this game but sorry it would be the the same as making a Deus Ex sequel and getting the voice actor for Homer Simpson to do a womans voice.
Huh, interesting but...I have yet to see Sam in any of the marketing for this game? Are they saving his reveal for later or something? Sam where aaare you?
Ubisoft citing the reason why Ironside isn't the voice in Blacklist is due to the character of Fisher needing an actor to perform motion capture. Never heard of a more ridiculous reason as to why a voice in a video game was replaced because they were required to perform physically as well. Stunt man for motion capture, Ironside's iconic voice = problem solved. What's the real reason Ubisoft?
@Hendy_33 There has to be a valid reason why MI isn't doing the voice. The excuse issued is pure nonsense. I would have respected them more if Ubisoft would say 'we can't divulge that information right now', more. It could be that ubi ran into some logistical problems or just wanted to work with new technology instead.
It's PR. Ironside has stated he despised the way they were perverting the character of Sam in Conviction. He probably refused to play him in Blacklist because it was no longer the Sam he had tried so hard to create; this excuse Ubi is spinning is just to avoid the bad publicity
And it has been proved both with Halo and Hitman that Ubisofts excuse is just complete and total nonsense but heh it is Ubisoft after all I wouldn't expect anything less.
@DanteDylan I don't know if you are being serious or not but I'm guessing you are. I actually think it is a sequal to Conviction. Sam saved the day in Conviction and is now back with NSA, but the new branch Fourth Echelon (Third Echelon in the other games). But now he is the main man, the boss, mr bigshot who answers only to the president (the women that was in Conviction as well). Yeah, they changed his looks and made him look younger, but I can't see what's the big deal with that. James Bond went from semi-young to old, back down to semi-young again, looking like a douchebag, over to a series of normal Bond again and now a roid-money with no toys, and it worked for that series.
@DanteDylan@aetius_ Doesn't matter. I'd rather watch Sam in Splinter Cell for decades appearing in new forms then have to get his as old as he would have to be dead. Then we would either get a new operative which would be worse then new actor, or stop the SC series and I would'n like that either. Like this we can have Sam for 10 more year and play SC franchise.