Brutal Torture Scene Removed From Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Splinter Cell: BlacklistWhen Splinter Cell: Blacklist showed up at Microsoft's E3 press conference last year, people were a little surprised to see such vicious and brutal torture on display.
In the opening scene, protagonist Sam Fisher jams a knife into an enemy's throat and twists in a player-controlled segment that caused a great many eyebrows to rise. At the time, writer Tom Bissell came out against the content and said-
"We've arrived in a strange emotional clime when our popular entertainment frequently depicts torture as briskly effective rather than literally the worst thing one human being can do to another - yea verily, worse even than killing. I spent a couple days feeling ashamed of being a gamer, of playing or liking military games, of being interested in any of this disgusting bulls*** at all."
And now, according to Eurogamer, Blacklist producer Andrew Wilson has confirmed that the scene in question has been cut from the game. Wilson said that due to the "nature of E3," there are certain aspects of a game that are easier to demonstrate but in truth, that one segment was optional and not indicative of the stealth-oriented title. However, Ubisoft Toronto has scaled things back, which has involved cutting that torture scene:
"Definitely we are not going to see when the game's coming out that there are torture scenes in it. That scene is not there any more. I've not really heard anyone say they loved it..."
We imagine gamers have plenty to say about this.
Thanks, BikerSaint!
Related Game(s): Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Tags: splinter cell blacklist, splinter cell blacklist torture scene, ubisoft
1/30/2013 8:35:43 PM John Shepard
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Comments (14 posts)
WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 11:19:30 PM
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matt99
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 2:57:50 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 11:27:11 PM
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Nas Is Like
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 11:53:55 PM
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1. Don't buy it
2. It probably wasn't meant for your demographic anyway
3. Grow some balls
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Killa Tequilla
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 12:53:09 AM
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Akuma07
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 7:12:47 AM
I think he was spot on the money.
Screw all the haters.
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daus26
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 1:51:48 AM
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Gamer46
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 3:36:56 AM
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Dancemachine55
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 4:49:25 AM
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If it were a skippable cut-scene, that's a whole different story. But being part of the gameplay that you control....
Yeah, I can see why there'd be concern.
Even for me, after playing Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil, Gears of War, Dead Space, Madworld, GTA, CoD, pretty much any violent game out there, I know where to draw the line, and that torture scene was tip-toeing the line.
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Akuma07
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 7:20:23 AM
You can't call one scene violent, and be ignorant to the everything else, your either against video game violence, or not.
Personally, I say, violent games are fun, but yet, I will never hurt a fly and am a total pacifist. I say bring on the violent!
Isn't it interesting that most of these gun toting nut cases that go shooting up places are all mentally unstable. Doesn't that tell anyone anything?
Keep mentally unstable people away from violent things.... full stop.
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___________
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 7:08:37 AM
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Akuma07
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 7:22:43 AM
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All those politicians who cry their eyes out about violent video games, what do they think about the new gun laws? and guns in general?
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Knightzane
Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 7:36:28 AM
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BikerSaint
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 10:50:29 PM
I say stop with all the $&^&$%^ censorship & give us the game as originally intended.
If you feel you have to do something to tame it down for super-sized sensitively-squeamish, then just add a "skip" button so that they don't have to partake in that little extra twist, just like what was done for COD Modern Warfare 2's airport massacre scene.