According to a new leak, Ubisoft is in the early stages of development on a FPS that will combine three Tom Clancy series: Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and The Division. The game is called The Division BattleCat and is apparently a competitive FPS with unique class abilities and multiple modes.

Images of "The Division BattleCat" were captured on June 6 by Zer0_Bytes, a known leaker with a solid track record of acquiring early assets for other Ubisoft games like "Rainbow Six Siege" and "Rainbow Six Extraction" Shared. The tweet was eventually deleted due to a DMCA claim (presumably from Ubisoft), but Zer0Bytes directed curious readers to an alternative source for the assets (note that the link is to an anonymous file-sharing site). confirmed, and that BattleCat will not be on display at the June 12 Ubisoft Forward event.

Most of the images appear to come from marketing materials that break down the game's main factions: the Echelon (Splinter Cell), Wolves (Ghost Recon), Cleaners (Division), and Outcasts (also Division). Each faction has its own class capabilities. For example, the stealthy Echelon is invisible on the minimap and can make its allies see the enemy, while the Cleaners use a large flamethrower.

The images also describe several modes, including an escort mission to protect a four-legged transport robot and a "ring leader" mission to collect rings from fallen enemies and not drop them all dead Sonic the Hedgehog-style.

From the images and the fact that ZeroBytes calls the game "The Division" BattleCat, it seems clear that it is built on The Division's engine. The UI elements seen in one of the images look almost identical to The Division, and a quick look at the gadgets and environments share the art style of those games; it is still unclear which team at Ubisoft is working on this game, but it is likely that Ubisoft It will be interesting to see how they adapt the third-person cover shooter framework to an FPS.

Borrowing frameworks from existing games to create spin-offs is becoming a habit for Ubisoft. The company recently unveiled The Division Heartland, a free-to-play adaptation of The Division's traditional third-person gameplay; Ubi also announced Rainbow Six, a co-op FPS that uses Siege's existing weapons and operators and makes it a standalone game in a different genre; and Rainbow Six Extraction was finally re-released, made by a completely different development team from Siege and presumably similar in approach to BattleCat."