Sweet I've been loooking forward to the next hitman game for a while, the new dues ex shows how good they are at games like this. I'm wondering what new features that they'll add improving on the new elements from blood money the weapon modding and accidental kills along with the reputaion system all seem like an easy thing to due. Can't wait another game to go through and figure how to get SA on every mission and then attempting to shoot my way through a level.
Hitman: Absolution Teaser Is Precisely That
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OH MY GOD.
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Will there be awesome missions?! Will he go back to America? (WE LOVE YA 47, COME BACK TO AMERICA!) Are there hand-to-hand combat!? Ninjas/ Will we see that prostiute 47 saved from Contracts? How about Agent smith? Diana is friend or foe.
Please keep on giving out info as it's arrive.
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Will there be awesome missions?! Will he go back to America? (WE LOVE YA 47, COME BACK TO AMERICA!) Are there hand-to-hand combat!? Ninjas/ Will we see that prostiute 47 saved from Contracts? How about Agent smith? Diana is friend or foe.
Please keep on giving out info as it's arrive.
Blood Money is incredibly good. Anyone who hasn't played it should give it a try.
That said, IO has created an incredibly finicky character to write for. He's not a hero, he's not really a villain and he was made to be cold and emotionless. Not exactly the best material to work with. I do think there is a few ways to do it right, but there's an incredible amount of ways to do it wrong. If we assume they won't use any of the stuff from the Hitman movie then we've weeded out at least one set of terrible ideas. I don't think they're up to the task honestly, but they're welcome to try.
Personally I was never concerned with the story. It's fairly minimalistic and didn't distract from the missions even when the missions were plot related. I for one welcome an attempt at writing a stronger story, but I won't do more than shrug if it turns out awful. I'll be too busy feeding poisoned sausages to yappy dogs, setting up grill-related accidents and stealing people's clothes to notice.
That said, IO has created an incredibly finicky character to write for. He's not a hero, he's not really a villain and he was made to be cold and emotionless. Not exactly the best material to work with. I do think there is a few ways to do it right, but there's an incredible amount of ways to do it wrong. If we assume they won't use any of the stuff from the Hitman movie then we've weeded out at least one set of terrible ideas. I don't think they're up to the task honestly, but they're welcome to try.
Personally I was never concerned with the story. It's fairly minimalistic and didn't distract from the missions even when the missions were plot related. I for one welcome an attempt at writing a stronger story, but I won't do more than shrug if it turns out awful. I'll be too busy feeding poisoned sausages to yappy dogs, setting up grill-related accidents and stealing people's clothes to notice.
You guys! Come on! A snake coiled around a gun? A SNAKE!? Clearly this means Agent 47 will be hunting down solid snake- the most dangerous target of all!
Seriously though, it could happen. He was in Smash Brothers, after all.
(And no, I'm not actually serious about this. Well, mostly.)
Seriously though, it could happen. He was in Smash Brothers, after all.
(And no, I'm not actually serious about this. Well, mostly.)
It's still called "Hitman." (This is a good thing!)Dr. wonderful said:
First I've heard about this game, it's been way too long since Blood Money. I still play that game quite often and occasionally even find new ways of completing missions, can't wait until the new one.
Also, anyone else notice that the model quality of 47's hand is a lot lower than the quality of the snake? An in-game model perhaps? If that's the model we get to play with I'll be very pleased (I know I just said it was low but it was an extreme close-up on his fingers; quality won't be perfect and games often use a higher quality hand/weapon model for first person mode).
Out of curiosity, could you perhaps elaborate on why it wasn't your thing? What was it you went into the game looking for?Onyx Oblivion said:
As a fan of the series since I first fired up the demo for the original entry in the franchise, I can tell you that the first game was great but rough around the edges (with some levels that were clearly not as inspired as others), the sequel was bloody phenomenal and an improvement on the original in every way, Contracts was every bit as mechanically sound as Silent Assassin but suffered a bit from how it was basically just a series of unrelated (albeit interesting) flashbacks (some of which were re-interpretations of missions from the first game, which while well done were also not going to win points for originality), and Blood Money is freaking fantastic and the best game in the series by a fair margin.
So I can pretty much guarantee that you're going to hate Absolution if it's anything like what the series is supposed to be like (i.e., Blood Money), which brings me back to my question: What was it about the game that put you off?
Welcome back, Agent 47. We've missed you.
Seriously though, Despite iO's last outing with K&L, I have high hopes for this game, even if it's just my blind nostalgia from all of the previous games. I'm just hoping they keep to the main core concept of the original games - taking out a target or targets without drawing attention to yourself and doing it as secretively as possible- and not make it into a standard 3rd-person shooter. I would also be nice to see other elements such as (vastly) improved AI, and maybe various NPC character builds so not EVERYONE's clothing fits 47 perfectly.
Also, for anyone who needs a little bit more into Agent 47's psyche, I strongly suggest playing both Hitman 2 and also reading the novel (yes, there is a novel), Hitman: Enemy Within. Good stuff, both.
Seriously though, Despite iO's last outing with K&L, I have high hopes for this game, even if it's just my blind nostalgia from all of the previous games. I'm just hoping they keep to the main core concept of the original games - taking out a target or targets without drawing attention to yourself and doing it as secretively as possible- and not make it into a standard 3rd-person shooter. I would also be nice to see other elements such as (vastly) improved AI, and maybe various NPC character builds so not EVERYONE's clothing fits 47 perfectly.
Also, for anyone who needs a little bit more into Agent 47's psyche, I strongly suggest playing both Hitman 2 and also reading the novel (yes, there is a novel), Hitman: Enemy Within. Good stuff, both.
Pretty crap teaser, but at least we know it's coming.
And now I start my day angry. Time to punch something.
You know what they haven't fucking made? Freedom Fighters 2.Irridium said:
And now I start my day angry. Time to punch something.
Man, teaser trailers are getting more and more cryptic.
47 being caught in a conspiracy? Nah, that never happens. Except in Hitman 1-4.
I used to be a colossal fan of this series, but these days I have almost no faith in IO Interactive. Kane & Lynch (both of them) were such giant piles of crap that any studio responsible for developing them doesn't deserve the least bit of respect.
On top of that, the last Hitman game, Blood Money, had a game-breaking bug that IO never patched, which really pissed me off along with a lot of other people on the IO forums.
Also, when I bought Blood Money, I unwittingly bought a bootlegged version.
Being the nice guy that I am, I reported it to IO and helped them take down the guy who sold it.
Didn't get so much as a Thank You in return.
humbug
47 being caught in a conspiracy? Nah, that never happens. Except in Hitman 1-4.
I used to be a colossal fan of this series, but these days I have almost no faith in IO Interactive. Kane & Lynch (both of them) were such giant piles of crap that any studio responsible for developing them doesn't deserve the least bit of respect.
On top of that, the last Hitman game, Blood Money, had a game-breaking bug that IO never patched, which really pissed me off along with a lot of other people on the IO forums.
Also, when I bought Blood Money, I unwittingly bought a bootlegged version.
Being the nice guy that I am, I reported it to IO and helped them take down the guy who sold it.
Didn't get so much as a Thank You in return.
humbug
Ah, that sucks. =(beema said:
I guess that must be PC only? I never encountered anything like that on the ps2 or 360.