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Hitman. Remember, 2016’s
Hitman was released in episodes. So after the first episode, Showstopper, we had to wait for this follow-up. I was concerned. Would IOI be able to pull off a level as good as Paris? Turns out, it could.
Sapienza is a gorgeous map, filled to the brim with secrets and hidden details. Setting a map in a quiet coastal Italian village is a marvelous choice. It makes it so easy to spend hours and hours walking around the world, taking in the sights. Sapienza features some great kills, including an option that lets 47 seduce one of his targets as a golf instructor. This level is soooo good-looking, so cool to explore, and filled with so many great moments that I can overlook the fact that its two main targets are kinda boring. Doesn’t matter. You can kill someone with an exploding golf ball dressed as a priest.
Ah, murder: Truly, a game of kings. And few play it better than the
Hitman franchise’s Agent 47, at least if, by “better,” you mean often doing extremely goofy coin tricks in an attempt to lure his targets into his latest Roadrunner-esque run at highly convoluted killing.
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And because nothing adds even more goofiness to an already goofy game like
Hitman 3 so much as doing all this contract killing while waving your hands around, sitting in your living room with a helmet strapped to your head, and trying to find
just the right strangulation posture, today
Hitman 3 s PlayStation-exclusive VR mode. IO Interactive made a lot of odd compromises in their efforts to make the World Of Assassination trilogy work in virtual reality, but there’s still something weirdly exciting about tossing people off balconies in VR, or electrocuting them in VR, or bonking them on the head in VR, or…Well, you get the idea. Really, the only limits are our imagination! And our
Hitman novice, had no clue it was gonna be this good. Lisa Marie and Zack, how much prior experience do you have with
Hitman and why did neither of you tell me how fun it is?
Zack Zwiezen: I’m a bit of a
Hitman hipster. I’ve been playing it before everyone loved it.
Blood Money was the first game I truly got into, but I played earlier entries too. I would always tell people these games are magical boxes of fun and puzzles, but nobody listened.
Lisa Marie Segarra: I played
Hitman 2 fairly recently actually. Then I started
Rahul Chettiyar | Published on 07 Feb 2021
IO Interactive has stated that it will be adding new, free, weekly post-launch content to Hitman 3, for the entire month of February. This includes all-new outfits, creative contracts, fun objectives, and introduces the first set of Elusive Targets to the final chapter of the World of Assassination trilogy.
The Baskerville Barney Escalation - 4 February
This month looks busy as hell for the company, as the tightly-packed roadmap reveals the first Escalation Contract to take effect starting 4 February. Set within the confines of the Thornbridge Manor, “The Baskerville Barney” mission tasks assassins around the world to exterminate the entire Carlisle family, only through a series of “accidents”. There are no saves in this mission. So, you better be on your toes for any unwanted mishaps.