Splinter Cell Blacklist builds on the stealth roots of the franchise, while exploring new directions to embrace the realms of action and adventure. cities as he races against the clock to find out who’s behind this devastating threat. Granted the freedom to do whatever it takes to stop the Blacklist, Sam flies from exotic locales to U.S. Sam is back in his tactical suit and goggles, and he’s more lethal and agile than ever. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist – a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough.