Rumors: Creative Director of Splinter Cell will return to Ubisoft and help the company find a new course

Maxime Béland, former creative director of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Far Cry, will return to Ubisoft about a year after leaving. Resource reported. Video Games Chronicle.

Beland joined Ubisoft Montreal in junior positions (including webmaster) in 1999. In the mid-XNUMXs, he was involved in the creation of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas as a lead game designer and creative director, and also served as design director on the original Assassin's Creed. He was later named creative director of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Far Cry: Beland led development Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal и Far Cry 5. In February 2019, he left Ubisoft and joined Epic Games where he worked for eight months.

On your page in LinkedIn Beland did not indicate his current place of work. Ubisoft itself also did not comment on the information about his return.

According to the Video Games Chronicle, Beland will lead an editorial team that will oversee the production of all of the company's games along with producers and designers. The number of this team is estimated at one hundred people. The fact that Ubisoft decided to change the composition of the creative team, the same resource сообщил last week. Apparently, it has remained the same over the years, causing the games to become too similar to each other. Serge Hascoët will remain Team Leader, but each series will now be run by one of the seven Vice Presidents.

Against the backdrop of failure Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and low sales Tom Clancy's The Division 2 the company has postponed the release of several major games (including Watch Dogs: Legion), and also, according to rumors, abolished big budget project from Ubisoft Montreal. The management has taken a course on diversity: all games in development are redesigned in such a way that they are not similar to others, and ideas for future projects are more rigorously screened.

The news about the return of Beland should not be regarded as confirmation of the development of a new Splinter Cell, but the series can really be resumed. Rumors about work on the next part went around the Web for several years, but, as repeatedly hinted CEO Yves Guillemot, while the developers are only experimenting. Development will begin only when "fresh solutions" are found - the new part should be unusual.

In the second half of the year, Ubisoft is going to release Watch Dogs: Legion and colorful adventure Gods & Monsters. Also in development are Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine, the new The Settlers, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and pirate action Skull & Bones.

Source: 3dnews.ru