Saturday, September 09, 2006

Splinter Cell hits the Wii launch list

Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that the very anticipated Splinter Cell: Double Agent, would be releasing with Nintendo's Wii. With seven Ubi titles already launching with the Wii, this is another nice addition. Some of the content will be missing according to Ubi. Some misson's present in the Xbox 360 version, and the online gameplay are going to excluding from the Wii version. The Wii version, be based on the PS2 and GCN versions; however, it will indeed utilize the unqiue Wiimote. The following was posted on IGN:

"Double Agent will make use of both the Wii-mote and nunchuck attachment. Ubisoft Montreal is still play-testing the controls in order to further refine everything and therefore was unwilling to describe in detail the exact control methods in place. However, it did cite one example, which is that players will be able to shake the Wii-mote to and from in order to make Sam Fisher pick locks in the game."

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