Splinter Cell’s dedicated fans have noticed that the new Netflix animated series, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, has been featuring callbacks to the death of Douglas Shetland, a character from the Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory games. Now, Ubisoft has confirmed that Deathwatch is canonical to the world of the video games, with some minor exceptions.
“[Deathwatch] follows the timeline and characters set by the mainline games,” an Ubisoft spokesperson told IGN. “While Deathwatch respects the source material, some creative liberties were taken with certain events for television.”
Essentially, this means that there have been some retroactive changes that can’t be spoiled yet, but the events of the series largely line up with what happened in the games.