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Hitman: Absolution

Developer	IO Interactive
Publisher	Eidos Entertainment Square Enix Europe
Release date	November 20, 2012
Genre	Third Person Shooter with "stealth" elements
Platforms	PC PS3 Xbox 360
Game modes	Campaign Multiplayer
Ratings	ESRB: Mature (M)
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Hitman: Absolution is the upcoming fifth title in the Hitman series by producer, IO Interactive. It will be published by Square Enix and co-published by Eidos. The game will be available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. Hitman: Absolution will run on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier 2 game engine, combining classic Hitman game mechanics with new casualized mechanics.^[1]

The game's story will further delve into the mysterious life of Agent 47, the series' protagonist. Hitman: Absolution was unveiled at the E3 2011 in Los Angeles.

1 Storyline
2 Development
3 New Features
4 Cover arts
5 Gallery
6 Trailers
7 References
8 External links

StorylineEdit

Hitman: Blood Money ended with Diana helping 47 to fake his death, in order for him to escape The Franchise. 47 killed their leader, former FBI director Alexander Leland Cayne, though he was part of a larger secret society called Alpha Zerox. Diana and the rest of ICA do not know 47's whereabouts, nor does the player for certain - though the last scene shows 47 entering an Asian establishment, asking suspiciously what they have to offer, "preferably in the back".

The first in-depth trailer for the game shows Agent 47 storming a safehouse, and confronting Diana while she is showering. 47 is "betrayed by those he once trusted and now hunted by the police, he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world, in his search for the truth". At least one portion of the game will be set in Chicago, but it has been confirmed that the rest of the game will take place within the US. In the new trailer it seems 47 has removed his infamous barcode.

Its confirmed that Agent 47 will assassinate his former International Contract Agency handler Diana Burnwood early in the game.^[2]

The new trailer released at the 2011 Spike VGAs shows that Diana is killed by 47.^[3]

DevelopmentEdit

Though plans to continue the Hitman franchise were first announced in 2007^[4], it was not until May 2009 that Eidos confirmed the game was in development.^[5] Certain plot details for the game were rumored in 2009, stating that the game's story would lead Agent 47 to a low point from which he would have to rebuild himself.^[6]

On April 20, 2011 Square Enix filed the trademark for the name Hitman: Absolution in Europe, leading sites to speculate that it would be the name of the fifth Hitman game.^[7]

On May 10, 2011 a teaser trailer was released, confirming the title: Hitman Absolution. The short, 27 second trailer, briefly showed Agent 47 attaching a silencer and a rattle snake coiled around his Silverballer pistol. It has been reported the game will be "familiar and yet [a] significantly different experience from other Hitman Games." ^[8]

Keith Carradine has been hired to play the main villain, Blake Dexter. Marsha Thomason will voice Diana. 47's traditional voice actor, David Bateson, was unofficially dropped by IO Interactive and will likely be replaced. Jesper Kyd will not return to compose the musics.

On May 10, 2012 a blog has been updated at Barcode Society, introducing "Sniper Challenge" as pre-order bonus and a release date: November 20, 2012.

New FeaturesEdit

A 16-minute preview of the game, Run For Your Life, and the "The Art of the Kill" trailer shows that some new features of the game are:

Map has been replaced with an Instinct Mode that shows the locations of NPCs and the routes they will take with a kind of x-ray vision similar to Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed and Detective mode from Batman: Arkham City.
Mini-map is added to HUD, showing the positions of guards.
Purist Mode, where Instinct and HUD will be disabled ^[9]
Saves are replaced by checkpoints now.
47 can take cover and peek around corners similar to most third person shooters.
There will be cinematic sequences during the missions.
47 can do close-quarter kills in more ways than in Hitman: Blood Money, including with firearms and objects within the mission such as busts and bongs. He can apparently also do so with a head-on attack and without sneaking up behind his opponents.
Point shooting, which will allows 47 to place strategic shootings in slow motion to kill multiple enemies quickly, similar to the 'Dead Eye' mechanic in Red Dead Redemption or Mark And Execute from Splinter Cell Conviction.
47 can now hide multiple bodies in the same container.
47 can use shadows as another way to hide.
47 can navigate through vents, allowing him to travel undetected while also scanning the environment for enemies.
47 can break peoples' necks without using the Fiber Wire.
Not only can 47 disarm and knock opponents out, he can also melee kill them now.
47 can now pretend to surrender, useful for deceiving opponents.
47 now drags bodies faster.
47 now disables fuse boxes much faster than in Hitman: Blood Money.

Cover artsEdit

Experimental cover art 1
Experimental cover art 2
Experimental cover art 3
The official Hitman: Absolution cover arts for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC (left to right).

On May 14, 2011, three cover arts have surfaced, and they are all for the PlayStation 3.

On March 7, 2012, a new cover art were shown at Barcode Society. It resembles the second pre-release cover art, though there are some differences, such as 47's face is now shown instead of blackened.