Hitman: Absolution's first appearance at last year's E3 was an undisputed success. IO Interactive's reborn Agent 47 immediately became one of the show's major talking points, and by the end of the week Square Enix's booth was adorned with dozens of nomination placards. And yet despite this warm reception, many fans of the series were left dismayed: it seemed as if IO had quietly snuffed out the open-ended design that had previously defined the franchise, leaving in its place a streamlined action shooter.
VideoGamer.com, with the help of game director Tor Blystad, compare Hitman Absolution to its predecessors.
Hitman developer IO Interactive was approached by several IP holders, but eventually settled with the James Bond IP.
Interested in seeing how these turn out. An updated Goldeneye style game would be nice if they could take everything good about it but modernise it and expand/make better, without taking away that particular feel it had.
“with their version of Bond being closer to Daniel Craig’s than Roger Moore’s”
This is disappointing to hear, I liked the Craig films but they made Craig more like a tank, Bourne style, I was hoping for someone who looks like what Flemming envisioned for Bond with his sketch, it’s a video game they could literally do the most accurate Bond ever.
Someone who you’d underestimate, relies on gadgets, his environment and his quick thinking to get out of situations, Craig didn’t really have that.
Now, when for years talking with IOI meant talking Hitman, this time around their two other, still under wraps projects were getting closer by the day. And Project Fantasy specifically, which had been linked to Xbox as early as in 2021, saw earlier this summer how the Activision acquisition all but confirmed, or leaked, its future publishing under the Xbox Games Studio logo.
It's been about 20 years since a good James Bond game. Not sure if its the nostalgia but the og Xbox just had banger after banger for the Bond games
I hope Project Fantasy is exclusive to Xbox and more games become exclusive to Xbox in the next few years as it might get Sony to become a 3rd party publisher and release all their 1st party games on Future Xbox consoles.
I’m not excited at all because you’re not going to be able to play it off line and they’re gonna come out with a bunch of different packages that makes the entire game a mess!
Been a very long time since we got a good 007 game, and I don't count the recent barebones ports of Goldeneye either, I hope it's good.
I really hope they design Bond to look like the classic sketch Flemming did of him
Also I really hope this gets a vocal theme song for the game.
Developer IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman has announced that it has opened a new studio in Brighton, United Kingdom.
I would love a story-driven 007 game with a focus on gadgets and, this is very important, an actually definitive ending to the story and not more 'drag on for five movies/games' thing we've been getting.
*facepalm* ut just sounds so noob friendly its insulting...
What game isn't these days. I miss the days when a game made you frustrated and you needed to actually figure out the challenge by thinking.
*Sigh* They have lost a sale from me. I'll just pick up the MGS HD collection to fill that massive 'stealth genre' hole in me. IO you are the worst kind of sellouts, the ones that still pretend to do it for the original fans, when you arent
The worst part for me are the Splinter Cell linear-style levels. The massive levels in the last Hitman really made the game and I was excited to see how big the levels were going to get in the new installment. I hope whoever is responsible is promptly fired and ran out of town.
We can only hope that certain features will be optional.
Needs to be a game that punishes you. A game that makes you have to try and try again, to find different ways to kill a man with a lesser of a cost than the last time you tried. It should make you act like a mechanic. Shouldn't have to constantly use a bullet to eliminate your target.
I don't want to have my hand held. I want my ass to be booted when I slip up.