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Hitman 3 Freelancer Closed Test Impressions

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Hitman 3 Freelancer Closed Test Impressions Click the image to see the video. So, the Closed Test of the Freelancer mode is over, IOI is getting feedback, and the steam community board for the Test is, rather chock full of similar sentiments. And I'm one of those that got to play it. I'm currently uploading a video of it to YouTube, so if you want to see One Whole Hour of me wandering around the safehouse and some gameplay, click the image above, or here . It took a while to upload it! Overall, I rather liked it. It's all basically very much the same Hitman 3 we know in terms of game mechanics, for both good and bad. Bad being things like 47's strangely slow running speed, some button prompts for certain actions being a bit too close to other items (even vanishing if you got too close to an exit for example), the gunplay being far too restrictive and some odd choices to make sure he stays in a crouch after vaulting over things rather than going back to his previous st...

Hitman 3 - Year Announced, What Might We Expect?

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 Hitman 3 - Year Announced, What Might We Expect? IOI have not been one to rest on their laurels with the current Hitman trilogy, with an announcement made earlier this month that briefly highlighted some of their plans for the second year of everyone's favourite bald hired killer latest adventures. Not that this gave too much away of what was to come, but this announcement was perhaps to be expected as IOI made it clear that Hitman 3 is a platform, allowing you to continue playing levels from the first two games in this trilogy with all progress saved, must like you could do with Hitman 1 levels when Hitman 2 came out. The platform idea makes even more sense when you consider that Hitman 1 was sometimes referred to as Hitman Season 1. However, the release of Hitman 3 did cause some concern once the release date got closer as IOI backpedalled somewhat on this as far as the PC version, now an Epic Games store exclusive, was not going to allow PC players who had bought the first two...