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Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends [Update]
Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. Update: Square Enix apologises.
Get A Load Of This Goofy Hitman: Absolution Ice Cream Truck Easter Egg
Hitman: Absolution begins with 47 driving an ice cream truck, so it’s not that much of a stretch that one of the weirdest Easter eggs in the game features the vehicle’s deadly return.
When Your Job Involves “Painting Exposed Buttocks To Look Covered By Latex”
The video game industry isn’t all fast cars and trips to Japan. For every studio head basking in the glow of media attention there are 100 developers lower down the food chain whose job can be a little more mundane.
Making An Open-Ended Game For A Linear Audience
The Hitman series has long been about choice — bald-headed 47 was set loose inside a semi-sandbox with a target or two and players could come up with any of a number of ways to do away with them. That style of play is becoming increasingly uncommon, at least in mainstream AAA console games, at least in part because it can be a challenge to communicate that kind of freedom to modern players. But lo, that’s what Hitman: Absolution makers IO Interactive are going to attempt.
Hitman: Absolution’s Five Difficulty Levels Should Make Everyone Worry Less
The new Hitman game probably has the right difficulty level for you. After all, it’s got five of them… one for the person who likes to shoot first and sneak sometimes, one for the person who doesn’t want to bend one blade of grass en route to murdering his virtual prey, and three for the rest of the world.
Even Hitman: Absolution’s Characters Think Killer Fetish Nuns Are Inappropriate
Hitman: Absolution‘s E3 2012 trailer depicting Agent 47 brutally dispatching a group of killers dressed as sexy nuns caused quite a stir. People called it exploitatitive. People called it misogynistic. In the latest in a series of ICA Profile videos for the game, an unseen bureaucrat agrees with these assessments.
Hitman Devs Sorry About Stupid Hitman Trailer
Hitman’s E3 trailer, which showed a squad of sexy ladies dressed as nuns being slowly and methodically beaten to a pulp, created a bit of stir.
Before He Fought Dominatrix Nuns, Agent 47 Took On Mardi Gras
Purposefully vulgar marketing isn’t the only thing controversial about the new Hitman game Hitman: Absolution; plenty of folks are worried that the game itself will be a big departure from the slow-paced, careful gameplay of the first games. The Splinter Cell: Conviction to Blood Money‘s Chaos Theory, if you will.
Hitman Series Might Be Getting A HD Makeover
The Italian retail site 16Games has listed a PS3 HD collection for the Hitman series. The Hitman Triple Pack will reportedly include Silent Assassin, Contracts and Blood Money.
