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HITMAN gameplay videos leak
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Revolutionary
Member
Looking really good. I hope I get in the damn alpha, I've been replying to their surveys and shit. 
Hot Coldman
Banned
Looks good. Surprised they haven't made a new Hitman sooner, Blood Money was almost 10 years ago.
Dick Justice
Banned
Garotte wire is still invisible when strangling people? Is it a technical thing?
Alcoholikaust
Member
Looks fantastic. I see the level design is great (my friend Pete is helping on it-he did level design work for TLoU before moving to IO)
It's a "enough people won't complain about this, don't bother taking the time to make it look right" thing. Would be nice, though.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Was Hitman ever that popular here?
I think Abomination might have burnt more than a few people permanently.
MrRudiMentary
Member
Yep I'm replaying Blood Money. You'd think Blood Money had enough problems that it would be easy to know what to improve in a sequel, but Absolution failed at that spectacularly. This looks to be the game I actually wanted.
Looks very promising, hopefully we'll be able to turn off the hints and the minimap.
I liked when, after triggering an alarm, the guards evacuate the building and start sweeping every room (though they should notice a conspicuous sheikh running around)
I liked when, after triggering an alarm, the guards evacuate the building and start sweeping every room (though they should notice a conspicuous sheikh running around)
Agreed, unfortunately it seems that after Assassin's Creed every videogame protagonist has to be as agile as Altair
Miles Quaritch
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TheMoon
Member
scroll down, find this:
Not as popular as other series, certainly, but I've seen my fair share of negative talk about Absolution so I'd just think gameplay leaks of the new game showing promising things would garner more excitement overall. Or maybe it's just because it's a Sunday and America is still asleep/eating breakfast.
You wouldn't believe how much ledge climbing bothers me. It is completely ridiculous from a physical ability perspective in almost any instance. Nevermind the whole gravity thing. I always have to go crazy on the suspension of disbelief when my character bounces around on fingernail-width corners on walls.
VibratingDonkey
Member
Hitman fans are trained in social stealth.
Alcoholikaust
Member
it's the weekend. U.S. peeps just waking up
John Kowalski
Banned
None so oppressive and inescapable as the one in Absolution at least.
djplaeskool
Member
That's some Hitman-ass Hitman right there.
I'm okay with this.
I'm okay with this.
Mr. Nice_Guy
Member
Happy to hear everyone saying it looks like an old Hitman game. I never played the old ones, just Absolution, but I've heard a lot of good things about them and they sound more what I was hoping Absolution would be but wasn't.
GreyOcelot
Member
I assume we'll get actual non leaked footage of this soon? You'd think they want public support from the hitman fanbase asap with the game coming out in 5 months
More_Badass
Member
1) Looks way better and more professional than crouching awkwardly near a desk or sofa or something. You know, for those suit-only attempts or waiting for a guard so you can take his outfit
If there's one thing Absolution did right, it was make 47 move and act like a highly trained assassin. Cover rather than awkward crouching, effective CQC rather than punch, punch, headbutt
2) Useful for the players who want to go the action route
That would be dumb if it did. Especially since they seem to have taken the criticism to heart and are delivering a true Hitman experience.
Then again people are pretty dumb
TheMoon
Member
gamescom and PAX are coming up ...
I fully expect them to do hands-on demos at at least one of those to win the fans back over.
dapperbandit
Banned
Trying to watch that dailymotion vid and keep getting audio from ads I can't see blaring over it. Annoying...
That looks great.
I don't understand the complaints of story. To me Hitman follows the James Bond story in that we know the basic idea of who he is and the actual story at hand is just whatever mission he happens to be on.
The only thing that worries me about the game is this idea of selling it early and gradually releasing the content for free. I think that can be a cool model but you need to have enough content early on to get people interested and have good word of mouth. Blood Money had 12 levels and I felt like that game was well worth it. Hopefully they have a similar amount of content out of the gate here and the rest is just a bonus.
I don't understand the complaints of story. To me Hitman follows the James Bond story in that we know the basic idea of who he is and the actual story at hand is just whatever mission he happens to be on.
The only thing that worries me about the game is this idea of selling it early and gradually releasing the content for free. I think that can be a cool model but you need to have enough content early on to get people interested and have good word of mouth. Blood Money had 12 levels and I felt like that game was well worth it. Hopefully they have a similar amount of content out of the gate here and the rest is just a bonus.
This looks like it solves one of my major issues with Absolution: enemies randomly spotting you from across the map. The stealth looks a lot more forgiving and it looks like the game is actually playable without instinct mode and even without a HUD. I still need to see some crowd gameplay but the part where he climbed up a ledge to all of those people and wasn't gunned down instantly looked promising.
many places
Member
jesus christ...
TheMoon
Member
None of us know how old this footage even is. Don't assume what you've seen was recorded from the latest build they have.
I updated the OP with Dailymotion and Youtube links.
It looks thankfully like the arresting mechanic has returned from Absolution. Getting shot on sight in the older games was always such an immersion killer. Hopefully they take it a step further and actually take 47 to some kinda cell in a secure area, that could be a good trick for infiltration.
It looks thankfully like the arresting mechanic has returned from Absolution. Getting shot on sight in the older games was always such an immersion killer. Hopefully they take it a step further and actually take 47 to some kinda cell in a secure area, that could be a good trick for infiltration.
Dick Justice
Banned
I wouldn't exactly call people dumb for being burned by Absolution and being more sceptical for this game. Remember, the marketing for that game turned out to be misleading as fuck (the gameplay trailers focused on King of Chinatown and Streets of Hope, two of the very few Hitman-like levels in the game).
Interfectum
Member
I put 8 hours into the alpha. Graphics are fine (were tuned to medium settings) and the game played great. There's bugs to iron out for sure but this is closed alpha.
SentryDown
Member
I'll be fine with at least five levels of this one size at launch then something like 3 more & other cool stuff during 2016. If they manage of right, they can do a lot of various missions and challenges within this kind of smallish open world, just like Sly Cooper series.
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Deleted member 80556
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Looks damn great. The Hitman I used to know.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Everything looks great. Hopefully the lady telling you how much access each disguise has isn't something that always happens as figuring it out with logic is the best.
8 is a little small, Blood Money had 13 missions. I expect at least 5 in December with 1 added monthly or something.
Chance Hale
Member
Alpha had graphics settings, this person isn't on high or max.
Shouldn't worry about graphics in a true alpha anyway.
Shouldn't worry about graphics in a true alpha anyway.
8 is perfectly fine if all levels are of this size.
SentryDown
Member
But this map is so huge it can't really be compared to a Blood Money level !
And you forget than mission 1 & 13 are small linear levels (tutorial & post-credits), and some of them where really small. From this video, we can safely assume each levels contains much much more areas, challenges and opportunities than before
TheMoon
Member
the level shown here basically looked like a bigger version of the hotel from 47 and Contracts.