Kotaku
The first half of the Ubisoft talk was about Spinter Cell: Double Agent.
The Frag Dolls showed off the multiplayer mode for the new Splinter Cell game. Each team consisted of one Frag Doll and two audience members.
The point of the game is for teams to extract files. First, they explained, you have to download a file and get it to an extraction point. You have to do that twice to win a round.
The game has been reimagined by the developers. It's much more cat-and-mouse now.
On the screen are concentric circles; it's called a proximity sensor. If it is blinking it means that someone is within 10 meters of you.
Mercs have guns, grenades, flashlights, and electromagnetic vision. You can hook over a rail and repel or zip line down.
There is a persistent motion detection system. If they are close to you and running the spies will be automatically outlined in white.
Merc have three lives, spies have four.
Spies can run around downloading a bit at a time for the different files, you don't have to finish one to move the next.
The spy HUD shows how much of each file you have downloaded in the top right corner. The closer a spy is the faster they can hack a file.
Spies can also hack a merc's vision. You can mess with their flashlights, play with their detection devices.
Spies can break just about any light in the game and hack doors.
The spies can only carry one gadget at a time, when you start you choose. If you want to change gadgets you just need to go back to your starting point.
The four the Frag Dolls knew of wer a jammer, that fakes mercs out into thinking your somewhere you are not; smoke grenades; health needles and flashbangs.
The game has a cool kill cam to show you exactly where the person was when they killed you. It's like a frozen 3D shot of your last moment that you can move around in. Very cool.
The three versus three, obviously, is a new thing, but you can also turn on mercenary bots. The AI in the current build are incredibly hard, apparently.
The game is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC. They couldn't say how maps the game has, but the Frag Dolls have played on at least five of them so far.
They couldn't say a lot about the single player mode. They did say Sam Fisher goes into deep cover to infiltrate John Brown's Army.
A lot of the missions are much more outdoors. One of the levels is in Africa during the civil war and there are a lot of people running around, but they are mostly fighting each other.
