Square Enix may not have had an official booth at Gamescom this week, but there were still some of their games on show thanks to European distributor Koch Media. One such game was the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but some lucky souls also got to learn a little about Hitman Absolution, the long awaited revival of the cult assassination simulation series, dormant since Blood Money in 2006.
Top games blog VG247 managed to get some face time with developer IO Interactive's Tore Blystad, who spilled some tasty beans on the return of Agent 47. As well as revealing that the game will feature Glacier 2, an entirely new game engine designed especially for Hitman, he admitted that the studio has been given free rein to develop the game they dreamed of making.
What will this mean for us players? More gameplay choice, in a nutshell, which will help the game appeal to the hardcore fan as well as newcomers who just want to enjoy the story.
ne of the things that was difficult with the old games was that there was a lot of freedom, but you really had to dig it out, it wasn really presented to you at all Tore confessed. o you could start a level and there was ten doors open to you and was like, ell, where the hell am I supposed to go? I don know, Il just have to try the first door, oh I got killed, now Il try the second one.
Hitman Absolution creeps into action on PS3, PC and Xbox 360 next year.
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