A new Hitman title is being worked on

PC Aficionado: "The Hitman Game of the Year Edition is now live, including four new missions, more weapons, suits, and challenges, and the reactivation of Elusive Targets. The asking price is $60 if you haven’t bought the game already, and only $20 if you own the complete first season. Along with this launch, Io Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak posted a message confirming a new Hitman title is on the way."

[BenjaMan64]

Awesome.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Nice

[P_Bomb]

Can’t wait for season 2.

The $27cdn patient zero add-on to season 1 though (for what iirc are just 4 re-skinned maps) is way too pricy this late in the game. I’ll just wait til season 2.

[-Foxtrot]

Season 2?

They better not do Season 2, I want them to move away from that and create a brand new full on game. The awful episode thing didn't work...they have Hitman back, they should do it right.

[P_Bomb]

Nah, gotta disagree. Episodes format worked great imo once they ironed out the delays, patches and early bugs.

At the heart of it, Hitman at its best is what episodes cater to: standalone sandbox maps with lotsa opportunities and replayability. Had a better experience w season 1 than Hitman: Absolution, and I got 100% trophies on both. Looked forward to level 20 mastery of each new map before moving on to the next. Not every game works episodic, but maps are maps.

[Chumdiddy]

This may sound crazy but I wish they'd scrap the current character/plot/model for a more realistic one or keep 47 but reboot the franchise in a more realistic tone.

To play a game that allows you to be a real contract killer in a GTA style open world would be amazing. Here's a target that is a constant NPC, has a job, maybe a family and consistent schedule. Watch your mark and them out by a certain date, maybe with parameters added in (no collateral casualties, time of day, make it look like an accident, etc). Doesn't seem that far out of possibility to me. GTA is way worse and it's great.

If you're called Hitman, let us be a Hitman. I've grown bored with the film set feel, Agent 47 stuff.

[arkard]

That would be cool, I just don't see IO having the time or money to take on something that big and costly. Maybe there is a dev somewhere along to give that a try.

[Chumdiddy]

Yeah, that's clearly not an easy thing to pull off but I'd like to see a studio try. My first idea of it (years ago) involved saving RAM by making the visuals about on par with PS2 GTA:SA. A population of mostly quick rendered, meaningless NPCs ala GTA and a handful of permanent ones, your "mark" when that job arose.

Wouldn't be easy but would be fun.

[telekineticmantis]

Don't put any Women in it, word of advice.

[bluefox755]

Hopefully they go back to the standard format. Wasn't a fan of the "episodes".

[andrewsquall]

Hopefully its a real game and none of this 6 slowly released levels crap. And maybe don't announce your game at an E3 event as a conventional game in your series to completely change it 5 months later with a delay and then only 2 levels releasing 4 months later.

How was that "full game" in any state to be announced at E3 2015 and "released by the end of the year" again? And they got the most exposure putting it in Playstation's Press conference too (although maybe that back fired because it got so drowned out by that unbelievable presser).