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Hitman Trailer (Sequel, PS4 has exclusive DLC, December 8, 2015)

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zakislam

Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yktoernWtw

Gameplay trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_Mx3-ZMGE

The new game is simply called “HITMAN”. We did this because in many ways this is the start of a new journey for Hitman. Don’t think of it as a reboot, though - think of it as a pure Hitman experience and the foundation for future HITMAN games. Agent 47 is the aspirational assassin, he’s at the absolute peak of his power this time around. This is our central promise: a pure assassin fantasy. So we liked the simplicity and the power of calling this game HITMAN. We want him to be powerful and embody the fantasy completely, and he will remain a constant throughout everything we do with the games going forward.

So what is this new game? Well first off HITMAN is still a creative stealth action game, featuring the greatest assassin out there, Agent 47. As an operative of the International Contract Agency, his job is to take out high-profile targets all over the world, supported by his long-time handler Diana Burnwood. Each location in the game is a living sandbox, a place where every NPC has a name and every room matters. We’ve focused on making sure you, the players, have complete freedom of approach over how, where and when you decide to take out your target. Creativity from players is fully expected, you have the power and intelligence of Agent 47 at your fingertips and it is your choice whether to use brute force or orchestrate a genuine masterpiece of assassination.

Locations are more detailed, more populated and much larger than ever before, full of things to experiment with and targets to kill without any checkpoint systems in there. Contracts mode, which we’ll talk more about later in the year, returns and really shines in these big sandboxes. We’ve brought back save games, so you can save your progress anywhere, and we have revamped pretty much every system in our Glacier engine to enable this HITMAN experience. We promised you these things a while back and we’re sticking to them because they are important – and because your feedback is important. In fact, it’s so important we’re taking things a step further.

One of the reasons why we’re calling this a new start for HITMAN is also the idea of releasing a digitally led product. That can mean a lot of different things depending on who you are, but for us it means we’re going to make HITMAN available first via direct download.

We’re embracing what digital can offer a blockbuster game series like HITMAN – it allows us to do things that are both bold and exciting and entirely new to the Hitman experience.

We are building an expanding and evolving world of assassination. The experience will begin on December 8th and we will release new locations, missions and hits over time at regular intervals through 2016, which means we’ll all be able to share in the excitement of a new content drop at the same time. Rather than unboxing a game, playing it and then that’s sort of it, we want to deliver a true community experience - creating an ongoing and evolving game which plays out with a finale that brings the story arc together. Our primary goal is to keep HITMAN players fully engaged, so between bigger drops we will be creating one-off live events and live targets to keep you immersed in the experience.

Imagine a target appearing for every player in the world, for a limited time only… let’s say 48 hours. Where your one shot counts. And when that target is gone, it is gone forever. A shared experience where we imagine the HITMAN community will come together every time a new mission or new location appears. For $60 you’ll get full access to all of this content – everything we release as part of this story.

Another big part of this new approach is that we will develop the game with you, the players, and adjust gameplay and create live content and events based on player activity and feedback - so the game will deepen and evolve as time progresses. The experience begins on December 8th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC and will reach well into 2016.

If you saw HITMAN revealed at the Sony E3 Press Conference, you heard the word “exclusive” a couple of times. We’d just quickly like to run through what that means. PlayStation 4 will be the only console where you can experience the beta and where you can play it first. A PC beta is planned to arrive a week later. The beta is available for pre-orders now. As for the PlayStation 4 exclusive contracts, they are only available to those people who own a PS4 copy of the game.

The journey has just started for us all. We are incredibly excited to share a lot more with you as 2015 unfolds. Tomorrow, on June 16th, we’ll be showing the first gameplay trailer from HITMAN at the Square Enix Press Conference. You probably don’t want to miss that.

We’re very happy to invite you into this world of assassination. It’s a place full of challenges, contracts, hits, targets, opportunities, choices and freedom. We can’t wait to show you more!
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https://hitman.com/news/announcing-hitman
 
Bry0

Bry0

Member
They said something about an "ever expanding world"?
What is that supposed to mean? Exclusive contracts? Digital release!?
Please don't tell me this is some f2p crap, or is missing a proper story.
 
S

Salsa

Member
best trailer on E3 so far

better than mankind divided even. square cg team kills it. great sense of style
 
VE3TRO

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned
Just glad its not exclusive. Thought it may have ended up only on PS4.

Can't wait though. My most favorite series ever and an awesome trailer.
 
DOWN

DOWN

Banned
I don't like CGI trailers but I thought that one was awesome
shanafan said:
I did hear a "Good to have you back Agent 47"

But, it sounded like Diana (I think that was her name) - wasn't she killed off in Absolution?
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She
lived
 
J

justjim89

Member
Expanding universe smells like custom contracts to me. Maybe even custom levels or ingrained mod support. It sounds like a return to form compared to Absolution, though.

Gameplay tomorrow, maybe?
 
F

Foffy

Banned
Interfectum said:
salty?
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Hitman is literally about taking out contracts. Having six exclusive to PS4 is kind of large.

The way the game was explained sounds awfully similar to Hitman Sniper: the game launches, and over time gets more areas and targets. Is this how they're going to turn Hitman into an online "persistent" world that Square wanted to do a few years ago?

Interfectum said:
Lots of games do this and it hardly ruins anything so... get over it?
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It ruins a game solely focused on contract killing. Doubly so when it's being done to a franchise that has consistently led on PC since the franchise started. I wouldn't even mind a timed-exclusive thing; full exclusive shit to one platform can fuck off to eternity.
 
G

GringoSuave89

Banned
shanafan said:
I did hear a "Good to have you back Agent 47"

But, it sounded like Diana (I think that was her name) - wasn't she killed off in Absolution?
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If I remember Absolution correctly
she faked her death

Still confused. Is this game exclusive, or just PS first?
 
Bry0

Bry0

Member
Hopefully some gameplay. I would love something along the lines of Blood Money or Hitman again.
 
shanafan

shanafan

Member
DOWN said:
I don't like CGI trailers but I thought that one was awesome


She
lived
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Dick Justice said:
Did you happen to finish that game?
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Zaverious said:
47 faked her death.
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etta said:
Goddamn really? I must have forgotten, then.
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GringoSuave89 said:
If I remember Absolution correctly
she faked her death

Still confused. Is this game exclusive, or just PS first?
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I never finished it, been meaning to.
 
T

the_sun_king

Member
Visual Works does make lovely pre-rendered movies. Good direction and editing and use of color.

I'm assuming it's a Visual Works product...
 
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