{"id":20960,"date":"2013-04-23T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20960"},"modified":"2013-04-23T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:00:40","slug":"splinter-cell-is-held-back-by-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/23\/splinter-cell-is-held-back-by-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Splinter Cell is held back by complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"20960\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/splinter-cell-blacklist.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/splinter-cell-blacklist.jpg\" alt=\"splinter-cell-blacklist\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20961\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jade Raymond, Managing Director of Ubisoft Toronto, spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2013-04-23-raymond-splinter-cell-popularity-held-back-by-its-complexity\">Eurogamer<\/a> about the Splinter Cell series and why it&#8217;s not more of a sales hit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the things that held it back is despite all of the changes that have happened over the years, it&#8217;s still one of the more complex and difficult games to play,&#8221; Raymond told Eurogamer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though we do have core fans who are like, &#8216;Oh, I want to have more of this experience,&#8217; when you play any other game that has stealth elements, they&#8217;re all a lot more forgiving than Splinter Cell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Splinter Cell: Blacklist, is scheduled to launch in August on PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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