• IOI Interactive announces Hitman: Blood Money HD (and Absolution too)
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i would rather have HD re releases of first two games those havent aged very well and they do weird shit on modern systems
HD Silent Assassin and Contracts would be great. Hitman: Codename 47 was never a good game. It didn't know what it wanted to be, and Contracts is a quasi remake anyway.
Sorry? It was good shit when it came out, especially if you played it as a more fast and loose shooter than the social stealth the series later became. It's only because of tech faults that it seems poorer than it was on release nowadays. Playing it at the originally intended 30fps makes it work way better.
Codename 47 will always have a special place in my heart because that's the only Hitman where you fought a Tony Montana-expy in the jungle complete with cartels and tribes, a great soundtrack and theme, and some memorable setpieces. Plus one of the coolest cutscenes in the series https://youtu.be/W2cU53Vla3s?t=647 10:47
The game goes between wanting you to be a stealthy assassin and a rampaging madman on a whim and it isn't particularly well equipped for either. For the time it came out it was fine, not really anything special. Though the real problem was the levels of just "Walk across this giant map with nothing in it". Hitman: Codename 47 would need a full on remake to make the shooting mechanics good and get rid of the pointless missions where nothing happens.
full remake could be better for Codename 47 probably
It also has newspapers.
guess theyll have to chop the game in half and sell it as two different ones like they did in 2
With the exception of a few levels the majority of targets in the whole series are generic bad guys though. Besides, the 2016 + 2018 dialogue is great. There's some serious attention to detail to the worldbuilding that takes place between the levels, in that regard the games have the best writing in the series.
You won't be able to.use your existing save because according to IO's website, this is just for PS4 and Xbone
You are giving way more credence to Blood Money's writing than it could possibly deserve. It's a phenomenal game but don't even fucking pretend that the plot of that game... or ANY of them really has mattered.
The plot for Blood Money (and Contracts) was just a framing device for why 47 is going on hits all over the world.
I'm getting this just for updated controld on Blood Money. Seriously, the original controls were very frustrating at times. I want to grab that walkie-talkie, not climb that pipe damnit.
In Blood Money and earlier games you can hold down the button to bring up a list of all the things you can interact with and select the one you want.
I agree to an extent but Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (god I hate rebooted numbers) has a good story, it's the only one to deliver a full character arc for 47. His ending speech is a testament to David Bateson's work: https://youtu.be/lMo0waR_Jio?t=60 The rest are at least as compelling as they need to be to keep you interested between one hit and the next. Even Contracts and Blood Money are pretty good at what they do, but the series shines best when it comes down to the stories taking place in each level, and that's what the new games nail.
I still think its funny that the only two games in the series with the same name are Hitman 2 and Hitman 2.
Technically not, since it's called Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin
did everyone miss that this is just a next gen console port the improvements aren't even coming to PC, presumably because there's nothing to bring just like with the PS3/Xbox HD trilogy
Well the current PC version will only go up to 1920x1080 while this one does 4k
I don't know anything about the hitman franchise or io other than having and liking hitman 2016, but I am always nervous around hd remasters, alot of the time they just steamroll all the old art and music because it's aged, and replace classic art with bad art that happens to have better rendering tech behind it.
In reality they are probably doing this because it's an easy way for IOI to make some money after Hitman 2's reportedly poor sales. I hope it works, I'm pretty worried about Hitman/IOI's future atm
It's out! Time to buy it, enjoy one of my favourite games in 4K and support a great develo- https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/6afc884b-ed25-459e-9c11-2940d9ea4a47/Screenshot_20190112-155128~3.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/4f609000-63fa-43bf-89d7-3cbbc64d607c/Screenshot_20190112-155128~2.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/2c3764db-5c20-4e35-894b-2c69222c40f5/download.jpeg
Ya, no, no way is it worth $79.99 CAD, it's not a new title This should've been $40 (25 Euros) tops
Yeah Resi 2 which is a total remake is $60, some higher resolution textures isn't worth $60
YES! Blood Money is easily one of my favorite games, couldn't care less about absolute shit though, even if it was old enough to remaster
Silent Assassin and Blood Money are the top dogs of Hitman games
Hohohohoh ohhohohoh oh fuck me, that price. You can get Blood Money's PC copy for like a fiver in most games stores, cheaper used, and even then you can get it on Steam for what, a tenner at most? Fuck me.
Blood Money is €10 on steam currently, Contracts is €9, and Silent Assassin is €9. The Hitman Collection, which gets you Codename 47, Silent Assassin, Contracts, Blood Money, and Absolution costs €36.35
This isn't the first time we've seen something like this, Hitman HD Trilogy was only on Xbox 360/PS3 and was just upscale SA, BM and Contracts, and nothing happened on PC except contracts coming back to digital because the music rights that got it taken off were renewed
The PC version will run at whatever resolution you set in the ini https://i.imgur.com/waCFgki.jpg
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