Last week, my friend and colleague Matt Cabral wrote up an excellent preview of Hitman Absolution for Kotaku. I was given the same demonstration as he by IO Interactive and Square Enix this week at CES and couldn’t agree with him more – the game is going to be absolutely bloody fantastic.
A new Hitman game will begin development next year in Montreal, according to the game’s publisher, Square-Enix Eidos. The game will be made by a new studio opening in 2012 called Square-Enix Montreal, a sister to Square-Enix Eidos, makers of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Evidently circulated before IO Interactive settled on Hitman: Absolution for the title of the latest sequel, a marketing survey asked respondents how they felt about three potential cover designs for the game. All featured the wonderfully ironic Hitman: Subtitle, the naming convention for the game since Hitman: Codename 47 in 2000.
The latest game in the Hitman series, Absolution, is taking the series in a slightly different direction than longtime fans may be used to, as publishers Square Enix seek to tie the games in with the upcoming movie.
Betrayed by the only people he trusts and hunted by the police, the beautifully bald and barcoded Agent 47 navigates a vast conspiracy in Hitman: Absolution, the latest adventure for IO Interactive’s killer-for-hire.
Just so you know, IO Interactive was doin’ alternate-reality games before doing alternate-reality games was cool, giving up a look at what’s believed to be Hitman’s next entry. A trademark filing by Square Enix now indicates it will be titled “Hitman: Absolution.”
It’s been years since the last Hitman title was released, but some viral images leaking on the Hitman forums suggest that a new Hitman game is currently in the works, with signs pointing to an E3 reveal.