IO Interactive are selling the complete first season of HITMAN (2016) for a cheap price of only $14.99 for a PC Steam code. Although the page mentions that this deal is only for US but using a VPN you can easily bypass that.
HITMAN’s full experience on steam due to the Autumn Sale is 50% off at $30 but the GameStop version is only $14.99 which is a whopping 75% off.
IO interactive is also planning a second season for HITMAN which will be well integrated with the first season. Creative Director of IO Interactive Christian Elverdam said
Looking at where we are right now, we’re getting a lot of praise from people saying how much depth there is in the level. That is actually one of the fundamental questions we wanted to solve when we did the game like this in the first place. We had this conundrum that we built levels that were super filled with details, but we still had people saying “I beat the level in an hour, I just went in and killed the target, I don’t really get what this is about, how is this cool?”
And we are like, I mean, imagine some of the people who spend hours and hours and hours building all these elegant and elaborate ways of killing a target, even substories and mini story arcs. The episodic format in a way makes people play it and appreciate it for a longer time, because if Paris is out for a month or Sapienza is out for a month and so forth then that’s what you talk about. The community starts talking about way more in depth and they start finding all the easter eggs and all the different things to do, and then their appreciation goes “Wow, the sandbox is actually substantially bigger than just running and shooting people”. This really helps us, because that’s the game we’re building in the end.
Having people coming back from skepticism in the beginning, saying, you know, “What are you doing? What is this?” and now saying “Wow, this is the perfect way for HITMAN to come out” was really nice for us. Even though it’s been hard to make all the episodes happen, because a big part of the skepticism was not only whether the episodic format fits but also whether the episodes would be delayed. I think it’s pretty important for our season that it feels like a whole, you know, that it fits tight in the content schedule. If months passed since something happened, that would have been a disaster.
I think that’s also part of why people are coming back now, that seems to be working.
HITMAN (2016) is an action-stealth game released by IO interactive which features AGENT 47 released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
