If you haven't played this series, it's pretty fascinating. Hitman is essentially a "social stealth" puzzle game set in large sandbox levels with clockwork behavior. Want to carry a knife? That's suspicious, unless you disguise yourself as a chef. It's a game designed around multiple approaches to the target instead of just run and gun.<p>The most recent trilogy of Hitman games all use a common engine. This announcement means you'll be able to play all of them with a single purchase, inside a single executable.<p>(You could do this before, but the purchase process was very confusing.)
I'm interested in why this is an HN post. I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be, but I'm curious what other people find interesting about it since I don't see anything here besides an ordinary update from a game studio about their product plans.
After years of remaining steadfast in my boycott, I was quite eager to make my purchase when they announced they'd be on GOG. But it was not to be, as it was not DRM-free and had to be pulled after considerable controversy.[1]<p>I've not played this new Hitman 2016 reboot, and probably will never be playing it, as it doesn't appear IO Interactive is going to be changing their stance on DRM anytime soon. I've watched some Let's players play it on YouTube and that's reasonably satiated my desire for this new Hitman.<p>As a fan of Codename 47 through to Blood Money, it's a shame that fans like myself are being tossed to the wayside.<p>[1] <a href="https://kotaku.com/hitman-goty-edition-removed-from-gog-over-online-drm-1847833140" rel="nofollow">https://kotaku.com/hitman-goty-edition-removed-from-gog-over...</a>
If you think you know permutations and combinations. Then try out the best way to buy Hitman 1,2,3 with all the access pass and levels when there is a sale because it's a nightmare. I love Hitman to death but how eidos has (purposefully?) made the pricing so damn confusing is a damn shame to me.