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It's Hitman's 20th anniversary, so here are 20 facts about the silly stealth simNov 19, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Hitman: Codename 47 was released 20 years ago today. In all that time, IO Interactive have crafted an entertaining seven-game series (not including spin-offs), with the eighth aiming for the heart in January 2021. The subject matter might be grim, but from the very first game, IO Interactive were always happy to fold information and easter eggs into their immersive sim (don’t @ me) to a ridiculous degree. The games all have murderdeathkills, but they also have hauntings, mythical creatures, and real-world actors as targets. I’ve had a blast digging up some forgotten facts and 47’s more bizarre moments (this does mean this list contains some spoilers, so beware). There are so many that this could have been 200 facts for 20 years, but I stuck with 20. It seemed right. Enjoy! (more…) HITMAN in the Steam Winter SaleDec 21, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33519178/b5ae21cfcfd7ed79b8afa20e543e7ff9cf02d191.jpg The Steam Winter Sale has arrived and brings some fantastic savings on HITMAN games - plus HITMAN 2 has been nominated for Game of the Year in the Steam Awards! Vote for HITMAN 2 now! https://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards/2018/ Save up to 30% on HITMAN 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/203140/Hitman_Absolution/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6860/Hitman_Blood_Money/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/247430/Hitman_Contracts/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6850/Hitman_2_Silent_Assassin/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6900/Hitman_Codename_47/ Agent 47 can dress up as a sinister scarecrow in Hitman's free Hallowe'en DLC packOct 19, 2018 - EurogamerIO Interactive has announced that it's releasing a special Hallowe'en-themed DLC pack for Hitman on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 - and it's completely free. Hitman's free Hallowe'en DLC offering should already be available to download on all platforms, and brings with it a selection of somewhat seasonal tricks and treats. The game's Colorado location is unlocked for everyone, for a limited time, and there are ten new Featured Contracts that IO calls "spooky, creepy or otherwise frightening." Some, it says, are focussed on disguises (including the sinister scarecrow seen in the trailer below) while others "tell spooky stories through the briefing" and others "are plain mayhem". Read more… IO Interactive Publisher SaleOct 19, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33519178/e98a9c78a9e08e5df56084f67362202b75ad99de.png Welcome to our first ever Publisher Sale! This year marks IO Interactive's 20th year of making games, and we're incredibly grateful for all the love and support we've been receiving from our community over all these years. This weekend, you can save up to 75% on all previous Hitman titles, so please have a look around to see if there's one you'd like to revisit or add to your collection. The offer ends Monday 22 October 2018, at 10am Pacific Time. Franchise Page Publisher Page Sean Bean will be killed off again, this time as Hitman 2's first elusive targetOct 17, 2018 - EurogamerEveryone knows Sean Bean dies in (almost) every film he's in. But now you'll get to kill him yourself - as the first Elusive Target in Hitman 2. Better known as Boromir, Sharpe or poor old Ned Stark, Sean Bean will appear in Hitman 2 as a former MI5 agent - in a very knowing nod to his classic role as 006 in GoldenEye. "I even managed to make them think I'd been blown up," Trevelyn - sorry, Bean - says in the trailer below: Elusive Targets are live missions within Hitman only available for a limited amount of time. You can only take on each mission once, ever. If you fail, that's it. No pressure. Read more… Hands on with Ghost Mode, Hitman 2's new 1v1 online multiplayerOct 12, 2018 - EurogamerHitman 2 will release with a brand new 1v1 competitive online multiplayer mode called Ghost Mode. This is the first time that stealthy slaphead Agent 47 has indulged in any kind of competitive multiplayer, although the recent Sniper Assassin mini-game did offer a taste to series fans. Ghost Mode pits two players against each other in a race to be the first to take out five targets undetected. Whilst players are given the same targets and are able to see each other in-game, they actually exist in separate instances. This means their actions will not affect the other player's world. Read more… Hitman 2's latest trailer sheds more light on Columbian jungle levelSep 25, 2018 - EurogamerNot so long ago, IO Interactive unveiled a new location for Hitman 2 in the form of the lush jungles of Colombia. Now, the developer has showcased the area, and the possibilities it affords for stealthy slaughter, in more detail. According to previous chatter from IO, Hitman 2 will launch will six distinct locations, and the Colombian jungle level, which features the village of Santa Fortuna as its focal point, is only the second to be revealed so far. As you might imagine, it's in sharp contrast to the tires and tarmac of the Miami racing circuit debuted earlier this year - and its dense foliage and shadowy pathways offer an entirely different range of possibilities compared to Miami's urban sprawl. Santa Fortuna, according to the trailer, is ruled by an "iron-fisted Delgado cartel", and you'll need to penetrate the area's tight security in order to confront the three cartel leaders convening within the village for presumably nefarious purposes. And you can do it while sporting one of the most fetching plastic ponchos ever to grace a video game. Read more… Hitman 2's latest trailer sheds more light on Colombian jungle levelSep 25, 2018 - EurogamerNot so long ago, IO Interactive unveiled a new location for Hitman 2 in the form of the of the lush Colombian jungle. Now, the developer has showcased the area, and the possibilities it affords for stealthy slaughter, in more detail. According to previous chatter from IO, Hitman 2 will launch will six distinct locations, and the South American rainforest, which features the village of Santa Fortuna as its focal point, is only the second to be revealed so far. As you might imagine, it's in sharp contrast to the tires and tarmac of the Miami racing circuit debuted earlier this year - and its dense foliage and shadowy pathways offer an entirely different range of possibilities compared to Miami's urban sprawl. Santa Fortuna, according to the trailer, is ruled by an "iron-fisted Delgado cartel", and you'll need to penetrate the area's tight security in order to confront the three cartel leaders convening within the village for presumably nefarious purposes. And you can do it while sporting one of the most fetching plastic ponchos ever to grace a video game. Read more… The Chilli Immolation Challenge shows off Hitman 2's inventive kills in the best way possibleAug 29, 2018 - EurogamerDespite polarising its fanbase with a episodic release structure, Hitman 2016 was a huge favourite of mine. I loved the intricate detail of the environments and the freedom this gave you to experiment with your surroundings. That coupled with the unpredictable nature of the gameplay meant that pulling off elaborate hits was always heart-pounding stuff, especially when your well laid plans crumbled before your very eyes! Most of all though I loved the elaborate challenges you could take on in order to dispatch your primary targets in weird and wonderful ways. To that end, I decided to attempt something rather special during my hands-on time with Hitman 2 at this years Gamescom. The Chilli Immolation Challenge is a unique kill that (as far as I'm aware) has never before been captured on video and you can watch me attempt it in the player below. Read more… IO Interactive unveils Hitman 2, out in NovemberJun 7, 2018 - EurogamerIO Interactive has formally unveiled Hitman 2, and it's heading to Xbox One, PS4, and PC on November 13th. Hitman 2 is a a direct sequel to the developer's 2016 Hitman game, and its story picks up directly where its predecessor left off, closing in on the mysterious Shadow Client. IO notes that Hitman 2 will launch as a complete story, ditching the episodic structure seen in 2016, but will also offer "tonnes and tons of post-launch content" - including the likes of new Escalation Contracts and Elusive Targets. As is now tradition, Agent 47's latest adventure will take him all across the world (from "sun-drenched streets to dark and dangerous rainforests", says IO), with the developer showcasing a brand-new location as part of its announcement video. Hitman 2 includes a contract set across glorious sun-bleached Miami, which unfurls on the final day of the Global Innovation Race, with thousand of fans gathered to enjoy the show. Read more… Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is free for the weekendNov 26, 2015 - PC GamerSquare Enix has a pretty massive sale on its online store at the moment. In keeping with the spirit of Black Friday, the publisher has discounted a tonne of its back catalogue, but more importantly, you can get discounts on preorders too. More important than either of those, though, is that you can download Hitman 2: Silent Assassin for zero dollars. Just head over to the website, make an account, 'purchase' Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and then use the code FreeSilentAssassin when you check out. While you're there you can get 10% discounts on preorders for Just Cause 3 and the new Hitman, among other titles. The game is available until Sunday, November 29. Hitman: Agent 47 is a bad movie about a bad hitmanSep 4, 2015 - PC GamerThe first couple minutes of Hitman: Agent 47 are pretty much a video game cutscene, with grainy video and voiceover talking about secret and bad human research. The segment s purpose is to explain, Hey, this is a video game movie, and it s about genetically modified hitmen, and you re just going to have to deal with that. It s cool if you re late to the movie, though, because they explain all this in the clearest terms possible again about halfway through. But who cares about the story? I watched Hitman: Agent 47 to judge whether or not Agent 47 is a good hitman. A good hitman, at least in the Hitman games, is one who succeeds at killing his targets with as few witnesses as possible, ideally without killing anyone but the targets. Sure, you can go nuts if you want, but stealth is encouraged, so that s the standard I m holding the movie version of Agent 47 to. With that in mind, I've graded his performance in the film's major action scenes. He did badly, as you'll see. Obviously, reading about every action scene in a movie is going to lead to some spoilers, if you care. Nighttime fight As the movie starts, Agent 47 is out to get some bad guys, and you better believe he s gonna get them. First off, why can no one in the film industry design a UI that anyone would actually use? Agent 47 literally presses a button that says upload virus at one point. Then he tracks the bad guy cars with the Watch Dogs companion app while they all fumble with their infected, also stupid interfaces. Pretty quickly, it s clear that our friend 47 is doing a bad job. He kills so many dudes he doesn't have to. He even shoots two guys sitting at bad-UI computer terminals and then props them up as if they re still working just so the other bad guys will get mad at them for not responding, discover that they re dead, and then see him emerge from the shadows. That s just rude as hell, and not very sneaky at all. F. "Hm, looks good, looks good, can we get thirty more red squares though?" Subway fight This showdown is set up when the camera pans through the ground, letting the audience know that subways are underground, as Agent 47 chases Zachary Quinto. So, Agent 47 and Zachary Quinto (who I ve decided is a character in the film for simplicity s sake) are fighting in a subway station, on the tracks, and the camera is shaking big time. We know martial arts, they yell into each other s faces at the same time, but they don t really. They just know how to work with direction that obscures the details of a bad fight. There is a cool bit where Agent 47 almost, but doesn t, get killed by an oncoming train—remember that, from The Matrix?—but as a hitman he does very badly. Everyone in the subway station sees him. He shoots bullets into all kinds of crowds. There s no way he isn t being chased by law enforcement. F. Mass panic doesn't typically indicate a stealthy approach. Military fight Next there s a part where Agent 47 walks...Midweek Madness - Hitman: Absolution™, 75% OffSep 24, 2013 - AnnouncementSave 75% on Hitman: Absolution™ during this week's Midweek Madness*! Hitman: Absolution follows the Original Assassin undertaking his most personal contract to date. Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world. *Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time Square Enix Publisher Weekend - Day OneMar 22, 2012 - AnnouncementThe Square Enix Publisher Weekend begins today with 50% off the entire Square Enix Catalog! Additionally, each day will bring a new Daily Deal with even deeper discounts! Today only, take 75% off the entire Hitman franchise! You can also pick up the Square Enix Hit Collection to add all of your favorite titles to your Steam library for one low price! Be sure to check back each day, now through Sunday, for more great deals! Midweek Madness - Kane & Lynch/Hitman Bundle 75% off!Sep 6, 2011 - AnnouncementPick up the Hitman and Kane & Lynch titles in one awesome pack for 75% off during the Midweek Madness Sale! Individual titles are also available at 66% off. Offer Ends Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time. Hitman: Absolution box art leaked in marketing surveyMay 16, 2011 - PC Gamer Some prototype box arthas been spotted by Kotaku in a marketing survey, showing three possible covers for Hitman: Absolution. Amusingly, the game's listed in the mock-ups as Hitman: Subtitle. It's likely they were created before the Absolution subtitle was decided. You'll find the three pics below. Which would you choose? Hitman Absolution first details reveal new engine and plot infoMay 11, 2011 - PC Gamer IO have followed up on yesterday's Hitman Absolution teaser trailer with news of the sequel's brand new engine, and a few hints about Absolution's dark, conspiracy-laden story. Absolution has been built "from the ground up" in the new Glacier 2 engine, created by IO Interactive, and will have Agent 47 running from the law "on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world" that will be "both a familiar and yet significantly different experience to any of the other Hitman games." Agent 47 has been betrayed by his most trusted allies (again), and must take on a new and dangerous contract to uncover the truth behind the conspiracy that surrounds him. IO say that Absolution will be "something our silent assassins will relish as well as those who are new to the Hitman world.” Keep an eye on the new Hitman Absolution website for more information in future. Hitman Absolution is slated for release next year.Square Enix Week Sale - Day 5Feb 18, 2011 - AnnouncementToday's deal is The Hitman franchise consisting of Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, and Hitman: Blood Money -- all at a hefty 75% off. Offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time. As always, you can go 'all in' with Square Enix Complete Pack that includes everything Square Enix has to offer on Steam today at an even higher discount rate! Complete Pack deal will be available through Feb. 20th, 2011. SQUARE ENIX, Eidos Interactive Publisher Week - Day 1Mar 8, 2010 - AnnouncementSQUARE ENIX and Edios Interactive are having a publisher week all week long with a set of different deep discounted games each day! Monday has the following deals available: 50% off the following games: Hitman: Codename 47 Hitman: Blood Money Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition Deus Ex: Invisible War 60% off the following bundles: Deus Ex Collection Hitman Collection 66% off all the above games: Deus Ex & Hitman Bundle
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