8 Video Games Where You Played As The Wrong Character
5. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist - Isaac Briggs/A New Agent
2013's Splinter Cell: Blacklist marked the first and only title to the core series that did not feature veteran actor Michael Ironside as the iconic Sam Fisher.
Feeling he could not bring anything new to the role and with Ubisoft wanting to make use of rapidly developing motion capture techn, Ironside passed the torch to Eric Johnson, known for his starring turn in 2007's Flash Gordon TV series.
Johnson's performance was criticised by a lot of outlets who felt he failed to replicate the charm that Ironside had previously brought to the role, and Blacklist suffered because of it.
A better idea would have been to focus the game more on Isaac Briggs, Fisher's CIA colleague who accompanies him on many missions in the game, and is the second player character in multiplayer missions.
With Johnson stepping in and the character of Sam Fisher now being in his mid-fifties, there was no better time for Briggs to become the focus, and the new series protagonist. It really was a no-brainer.
It could be argued that not allowing for a new protagonist is one of the factors behind Splinter Cell stalling so bluntly - leaving the once-popular IP languishing in development hell to this day.