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SquareEnix Officially Announces Hitman Absolution
Agent 47 is preparing another hit, in a game that developer IO Interactive says will mark a new chapter in the series. Publisher SquareEnix has just released a teaser trailer, emphasis on the "teaser," which shows little but what we can assume is Agent 47 affixing a silencer to a pistol and a snake curling around a gun. The title of the game, Hitman Absolution, been floating around the Internet for a while, after reports of a trademark filing from SquareEnix surfaced and a teaser image (which appears in the trailer below) was used in a viral marketing campaign.
However, the accompanying press release seems to suggest that this will be a fundamentally different experience than previous games in the series.
Game director Tore Blystad is quoted as saying, “For the first time we are taking Agent 47 on a personal journey which allows us to explore other parts of the Hitman fantasy. This is both a familiar and yet significantly different experience from other Hitman games; something our silent assassins will relish, as will all those new to the Hitman world.”
This is echoed later in the release, which states "Hitman Absolution combines much-loved classic gameplay with completely new features never seen before in the Hitman franchise."
The game is running on IO's proprietary Glacier 2 engine, and will be shown to the public at this year's E3 convention. Hitman Absolution will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Source: Hitman official site
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