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Hitman 2 will have six locations at launch
- Thread starter Kolx
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To everyone who's wondering why this isn't episodic, that model, while generally well received by fans, was not financially viable for them. It also led to some mediocre reviews.
IO has been experimenting with a bunch of different things, and I hope this time it works out.
IO has been experimenting with a bunch of different things, and I hope this time it works out.
That seems a bit short for $60, doesn't it?
Edit: no it isn't, it's not 2004 anymore. Duh.
Edit: no it isn't, it's not 2004 anymore. Duh.
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Season 1 was for 60$ for the same number of locations and you can spend +100 hours in it easily. Locations are now much bigger than before with updated targets every now and then.
Each location is at least 20 hours of gameplay if you go by Season 1 standards. Hitman is value, these locations are fucking enormous and packed with content.
Edit: also why is this news, isit been knows since the announcement... Reveal a new location already ioi!
If it takes 10 hours 1st time through and its highly replayable, then thats fine for the price.
Curious to see DLC prices.
I had no idea it was like that, I thought we were talking about old "PS2" levels haha. Thank you!
You can easily pack 3-5 Blood Money levels into Sapienza or Paris from Hitman 2016 haha.
Thought this was pretty much confirmed with the official website showing 6 'boxes' on the locations page.
Anyway. Episodic or not, I'm incredibly excited to play new HITMAN content. I put over 600 hours in the first season... Yes.
Anyway. Episodic or not, I'm incredibly excited to play new HITMAN content. I put over 600 hours in the first season... Yes.
This was confirmed on the reveal, has been part of the store page for it since then.
Each one of the locations is a completely different one, the same exact way HITMAN Season One worked. Extra bonus levels for those locations might be a thing.
Not to me. The sheer amount of content in the levels is outstanding, at least in the first game.
I assume you didn't play the previous Hitman (2016)?
As an explanation to people unfamiliar with these games: If you treat each location as a single linear level then yes, you're going to find Hitman 2 and Hitman 2016 to be short games - but they're structured very differently from previous entries in the series. Each location is its own huge open world, with all the features and interconnections that that would imply. Each location has a "mastery meter" that you can fill up by doing challenges in each location (and you don't even need to do half the challenges to fill your mastery to max) that will unlock new gear for you to try out, sometimes exclusive to that location, sometimes not. Challenges can range from finding new ways to assassinate main targets, to finding certain Easter eggs, to finding various disguises... one level in Hitman 2016 gives you a special coin if you can complete a hidden coin-bouncing mini game in a fountain.
Add into this that IOI has added more than just the main missions in locations, such as the missions added by the Bonus Episode or the Patient Zero campaign, each with their own new set of challenges and a remix of their respective locations with different events and times of day going on, the Professional difficulty which throws numerous wrenches into your old strategies (but awards prestigious cosmetic unlocks if you can overcome them), and the user-generated content in Contracts mode, and one location on its own already has more content and replay value in it than all of Absolution. Long story short, I have like 200 hours in Hitman 2016, I just really like this game okay?
They haven't been super specific about it but the rumor is that they'll be releasing two more locations after Hitman 2's launch as DLC. If that's the case, I'm extremely hyped.
Add into this that IOI has added more than just the main missions in locations, such as the missions added by the Bonus Episode or the Patient Zero campaign, each with their own new set of challenges and a remix of their respective locations with different events and times of day going on, the Professional difficulty which throws numerous wrenches into your old strategies (but awards prestigious cosmetic unlocks if you can overcome them), and the user-generated content in Contracts mode, and one location on its own already has more content and replay value in it than all of Absolution. Long story short, I have like 200 hours in Hitman 2016, I just really like this game okay?
They haven't been super specific about it but the rumor is that they'll be releasing two more locations after Hitman 2's launch as DLC. If that's the case, I'm extremely hyped.
Only six locations at launch? That's going to make it hard for everyone in the world to buy a copy.
Do you want to have it released in 2025 for 250$ instead then?
I was hoping we'd be going back to the old format of having between 10-20 levels at launch.
Cause there's a shitload more content in 6 HITMAN 2016 locations than any other game in the series.
Good. With the amount of opporutnities and challeneges, sure ill get more then enough hours
Plus contracts and probably some DLC, this game is looking to be excellent
Plus contracts and probably some DLC, this game is looking to be excellent
oficially, no
unoficially...yes. The base ones at least, not the expansions
RE level size, this is what was put out for the previous game to demonstrate the size of its smallest level vs the largest level of the previous game:
So yes, these levels are big.
So yes, these levels are big.
I'm not complaining, but rather I'm stunned that they are putting out larger levels then the previous game all at launch.
I played the 1st episodic one only after they had released all the levels and as I was playing each level I kept thinking "damn, I wish I would've bought this episodically so I could really focus on each level for a month." So I'm a little disappointed that its not episodic but in the end I'm just happy we're getting more Hitman!
I dunno. Blood Money had 11 full missions (13 with prologue and epilogue) with cool unique settings and scenarios. Id prefer twice as many maps at half the size. Not random bs missions like Absolution, but proper missions. Also, let's not forget that the last game technically had 8 maps, not 6.
I like the unique scenarios more than replaying the same places over and over.
I like the unique scenarios more than replaying the same places over and over.
Well, to be fair to IO the point is to have large locations that allow for a huge amount of variety for the contracts, elusive targets, etc etc. There are vast parts of levels in the 2016 game that aren't even used in their main missions that then get used in genius ways in the alternate takes on those levels. That's harder to achieve in smaller levels. There's something really satisfying about seeing a level you already know well in a whole new light six months after launch thanks to some new piece of live content, I think.
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2 of the 8 were tutorials, and I'd say Hitman new locations are more than double the size of the locations in Blood money.
Maybe I'm just more of a Hitman site-seer than someone who wants to replay missions. Look at it from this perspective:
If you told me I would have to miss out on A New Life, Till Death Do Us Part, and You Better Watch Out so they could make Mardi Gras, the casino, and the cruise ship a lot bigger... Eh, I'd take the former. So much of Hitman for me are the creative settings/scenarios and the dark humor that fills them.
I'll take quantity and quality over replability and quality. I guess that's just me tho.
If you told me I would have to miss out on A New Life, Till Death Do Us Part, and You Better Watch Out so they could make Mardi Gras, the casino, and the cruise ship a lot bigger... Eh, I'd take the former. So much of Hitman for me are the creative settings/scenarios and the dark humor that fills them.
I'll take quantity and quality over replability and quality. I guess that's just me tho.
A perfect amount of levels. I'm a bit bummed it's not episodic anymore, but I guess I'll try and self-impose limitations on caning and rinsing a level before moving on to the next.
I'd rather they made it just like they did prior to it being episodic. I played Hitman for it story and rarely replayed missions to see how else I could go about killing the same target(s).
That's great, can't wait!
Slightly off topic but I am currently going through the first one right now and just arrived at Sapienza, woah, this level is massive. How on earth do you keep track of where all the items in the location are?
Slightly off topic but I am currently going through the first one right now and just arrived at Sapienza, woah, this level is massive. How on earth do you keep track of where all the items in the location are?
By playing that shit over and over because there's so much to do.
Have they talked about whether you can actually play the game offline this time around?
I know you could play the first season offline but you would get absolutely nothing if you did. Not even XP. So it might've as well been an online only game.