But when a new terrorist plot known as " The Blacklist" puts America's fate hanging in the balance, Patricia Caldwell, the US President, responds by forming Fourth Echelon, a new special operations & counter-terrorism unit with former Third Echelon agent Sam Fisher as the commander of the unit alongside his ally Anna Grímsdóttir as the unit's tech-ops control officer and second-in command.
It's been two years after the events of Conviction, Third Echelon has been terminated after a failed assassination attempt on the President's life.
2.2.7 Special Missions HQ: Tehran, Iran (Time to next attack: 2 Days 17 Hours).2.2.6 Abandoned Mill: London, UK (Time to next attack: 4 Days 12 Hours).2.2.5 Private Estate: Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay (Time to next attack: 5 Days 9 Hours).2.2.4 American Consumption: Chicago, USA (Day 7) (Time to next attack: 0 Days 3 Hours).2.2.3 Insurgent Stronghold: Mirawa, Iraq (Time to next attack: 1 Days 10 Hours).2.2.2 Safehouse: Benghazi, Libya (Time to next attack: 4 Days 10 Hours).2.2.1 Blacklist Zero point Fifty Five and a Half: Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
The game will be released on 28 March 2013.
mercs" competitive mode from the prior games of the series would be making a return. The game's designer Maxime Béland confirmed that the "spy vs. As well, there will be voice integration with Xbox’s Kinect peripheral, which will allow gamers to say things to distract enemies and then attack. While Fourth Echelon conducts their primary mission of shutting down all Third Echelon activities, a group of twelve rogue terrorists initiate a terror ultimatum called "The Blacklist" - a deadly countdown of escalating terrorist attacks on United States assets.įisher and his team must now track and hunt these terrorists down, by any means necessary, and stop the Blacklist countdown before it reaches zero.Īlong with President Caldwell, Blacklist sees the return of Anna 'Grim' Grímsdóttir, and will include the addition of new characters named Isaac Briggs and Charlie Cole.īlacklist introduces a new gameplay mechanic called killing in motion, allowing the player to highlight targets and take them out in quick succession, with a new fluidity while on the run. Sam Fisher is formally appointed acting commander of the agency. President Caldwell chooses to replace the corrupt agency with the newly-formed "Fourth Echelon" - an elite team of operatives, drawn from different agencies, that operate in a mobile environment and travel the globe performing individual missions assigned by the President. Following the events of Splinter Cell: Conviction, the President of the United States, Patricia Caldwell, officially terminates Third Echelon and orders all their current operations grounded immediately.