Splinter Cell: Blacklist had an E3 trailer that showed a rather shocking interrogation scene. That element of the has since been retooled for the final release. Ubisoft's director Maxime Beland has explained how that reaction lead the team to rethink how the title should be handled.

"I don't want to [use] shock value just to shock. And I guarantee you that we have scenes that we've toned down because they were that. The strength of our medium is that people are in control and that it's -- to quote Spider-Man -- "With great power comes great responsibility." It's a lot different from seeing an interrogation scene in Zero Dark Thirty than it is when you're actually doing it yourself. So we looked at them and we make the modifications, because I think as a team we felt that we weren't doing something that was meaningful enough to justify the emotions that we were creating."

Check out the full interview here