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The controversial torture scene depicted in the E3 reveal of Ubisoft Toronto's Splinter Cell Blacklist has been cut from the game, following negative reaction to the more brutal direction the series had taken.
Shown at the front-end of Microsoft's conference at last year's show in June, Splinter Cell Blacklist was fronted by a savage take on Sam Fisher who within the opening minutes plunges a knife into an enemy's throat, twisting it around in a player-controlled scene in order to extract intelligence.
"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," said writer Tom Bissell in the immediate aftermath. "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."
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Shown at the front-end of Microsoft's conference at last year's show in June, Splinter Cell Blacklist was fronted by a savage take on Sam Fisher who within the opening minutes plunges a knife into an enemy's throat, twisting it around in a player-controlled scene in order to extract intelligence.
"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," said writer Tom Bissell in the immediate aftermath. "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."
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