Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of action-adventure games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels that were endorsed by Tom Clancy. The series follows Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon", as he overcomes his adversaries. The games emphasize light and darkness as gameplay elements. There have been six main games in the series: Splinter Cell (2002), Pandora Tomorrow (2004), Chaos Theory (2005), Double Agent (2006), Conviction (2010) and Blacklist (2013). Additionally, Essentials, a PlayStation Portable exclusive, was released in 2006 and Classic Trilogy HD, a remastered compilation of the first three games, was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2011. A remake of the first game is in development. Nine tie-in novels have been released. An eight-episode audio drama, Splinter Cell: Firewall, debuted in December 2022 and an animated series, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, premiered on Netflix in October 2025. The series has been positively received, and was once considered to be one of Ubisoft's flagship franchises. The series had sold 19 million units by 2008 and 32 million by 2016.