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Agent 47 has lost his innate clumsiness in Absolution – the developers repeatedly refer to him as “a weapon” – and his attacks are graceful and QTE-like. He swings the axe towards the chest of his first victim, the game immediately popping into a slow-motion mode. Both begin with the dead nun.Īs six-year-old kids and people who kill people for a living know, the only way to stop violence is with more violence: 47 grabs a fire axe from the wall and wades into plain sight. We're not scripting things so you have to play through in a linear fashion.” The mission I saw reinforced this statement, with the man at Hitman's helm showing two very different ways to approach the same section of game. Everything is designed with choice in mind. Blystad is at pains to tell us not to worry: “The Hitman games have always been about choice, and very much so with Absolution.

That change is enough to get Blood Money fans across the world nervously clutching their Silverballers. But Blood Money's joy was in freedom – the ability to go anywhere, and to inject a horrible poisonous mixture into any neck you chose. “We want a very cinematic experience,” says game director Tore Blystad. Where Absolution's predecessor dropped Agent 47 into a wide open space that necessitated backtracking and planning, the new game's library and orphanage come in bite sized chunks, each made up of spacious strips to be overcome before moving on to the next area. The two missions that developers IO have shown so far from the game feature wide corridors strung together. As well as bleaker, it also seems narrower.

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