Within the context of the various latest big-budget recreation diversifications for the large and small display screen alike, a radio play seems like an odd alternative for what was as soon as one in all Ubisoft’s flagship franchises. However contemplating the video games have been typically at their finest of their slowest and most deliberate stealth moments reasonably than the excessive stakes motion set-pieces of different titles, I’m cautiously optimistic {that a} radio format may really play to the franchise’s strengths?
Accessible worldwide by way of BBC Sounds subsequent Friday
Sadly, Michael Ironside received’t be lending his iconic voice to Sam Fisher this time round. As an alternative, the spy will probably be performed by Andonis Anthony, an actor who’s apparently finest recognized for his work on the long-running (and customarily very twee) British radio cleaning soap The Archers. He’s joined by Daisy Head, Rosalie Craig, Sacha Dhawan, and Nikesh Patel. The collection has been tailored for radio by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Paul Cornell, who appears to be like to be a prolific author of Physician Who TV episodes, novelizations, and radio dramas in response to his Wikipedia page.
“I actually hope followers of the Splinter Cell recreation get pleasure from this. Not solely does it have all of the motion, pressure and pleasure that the sport is legendary for, however it additionally has extra components. There may be plenty of comedy, the drama is expanded, and horizons broadened by the characters and what they stand up to,” Poulter mentioned in a press release.
Splinter Cell: Firewall has been recorded in binaural audio, which suggests it ought to really feel like listening to an immersive encompass sound expertise by way of a typical pair of headphones.
Though the final official Splinter Cell recreation (Splinter Cell: Blacklist) was launched virtually a decade in the past in 2013, there’s life within the outdated stealth franchise but. In December final yr Ubisoft announced it was engaged on a remake of the primary recreation within the collection, and Netflix also has an animated adaptation in development from the creator of the John Wick franchise Derek Kolstad.
All eight episodes of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall will probably be obtainable worldwide within the BBC’s radio and podcasts app BBC Sounds from Friday December 2nd. The present will even broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4 within the UK, beginning December 2nd at 2:15pm.
