I’ve played pretty much all of the Hitman games (including Hitman Go the mobile game: It’s really, really good), the series featuring bald Agent 47 who has a barcode tattooed on the back of his head.
The last Hitman game, Absolution, was pretty good, and there’s a new game coming in the next year called Hitman (just Hitman, it seems), which features a younger looking Agent 47 than the one that appeared in Absolution. I’m not sure whether it’s set in his early days or developer IO Interactive just felt he needed a facelift but the game is said to bring us an Agent 47 when he was at the prime of his assassinating career.
Anyway, SquareEnix (the publisher) has released a new game play trailer from the game’s Showstopper mission, set to the backdrop of a Paris fashion show. It’s alpha footage and looks good to me and is said to give players to assassinate key targets a variety of ways (although I’m always amused with things like a character strolling around with a huge ass sniper rifle hanging across his back. Doesn’t anyone notice that sort of thing?)
What do you think?
I’ve played all the Hitman series except Go (maybe I should check it out). Blood Money was a masterpiece. Absolution was OK except for an atrociously stupid story. If people wanted a ludicrous fantasy story they’d play Far Cry 3 or Saints Row 3/4.
If the first mission of the new Hitman was to assassinate the Absolution story team, I’d almost be excited enough to pre-order it.
Yeah, I have to say that the story was the weakest part of Absolution. Go suits the mobile platform perfectly as each level is just right for when you have a few moments to play.