Sam Fisher comes to Rainbow Six Siege. The star of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series will appear as a playable operator in a fellow Tom Clancy series as part of their upcoming Operation Shadow Legacy update.
Details on how he will function in Siege – each operator has their own distinctive gadgets that make them unique – are yet to be revealed. The teaser trailer below may have hints about what to expect; we see night vision coming in at one point, even though Fisher himself is not wearing his signature glasses. An accompanying piece of key art, however, shows those trademarks green dots on his forehead, with light passing through three holes in the floor. That will likely tie in with everything he brings to the table in the game. After the end of the teaser trailer, we see that his operator name may be “Siege” in Siege.
A full reveal for Shadow Legacy is scheduled for this Sunday, August 16, during Siege’s North American Mini Major Finals. These will be streamed on the Rainbow Six Twitch account. If Ubisoft catches up with its usual rollout, then Fisher will be one of the two new operators introduced in this update.
While certainly exciting, the addition of Fisher may come as something bittersweet for fans of Splinter Cell. The series has been dormant for years, with the latest core game being the 2013 Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Fisher has since emerged, most notably in mobile game Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad and as part of an update in yet another Tom Clancy game, Ghost Recon Breakpoint (after his appearance in Ghost Recon Wildlands). Ubisoft has suggested that the Splinter Cell series is not dead, but it has not announced firm plans for a new entry.
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