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The next ‘Hitman’ game will be fully episodic
If you do not have the attention span to play an entire Hitman game from start to finish, then Square Enix has the solution for you. The game publisher has announced that the next game in the Hitman series will be entirely episodic.
Players will still be able to buy the entire game for the usual AAA price of $60, but this will only buy the “first season” of content. Players could also elect to pay $15 for the first episode and $10 for each subsequent episode, which means that first season of Hitman will need to release at least five episodes to make the full experience price cheaper than the per episode price.
“We decided to take the full leap and publish Hitman as a truly episodic game experience,” Hannes Seifert, Head of Studio at Hitman developer Io-Interactive, said in a statement. “Part of that decision is for that little bit of extra time to ensure every location we release is at the quality level fitting for a Hitman game. But the main driving reason is that this will allow us to create a living game that will expand and evolve over time and establish a foundation for the future – this is the first game in a storyline which will continue and expand with future Hitman games.”
“We fully acknowledge that the decision may frustrate some players”
Io-Interactive admitted that the move to an episodic release format might not be popular with everyone.
“It’s not a decision we’ve taken lightly and we fully acknowledge that the decision may frustrate some players,” Io wrote in a blog post. ” But it is a shift that we believe will ensure the best possible foundation for this game and the future of Hitman.”
Io explained that the new episodic format will allow the developer to release the game on time while still providing “the quality level you have come to expect from a Hitman game.” It will also allow the studio to continue selling small chunks of Hitman content for as long as fans will keep paying for it.
The first episode of the new Hitman will still release on the game’s original launch date, March 11.
Image courtesy of Square Enix Holdings Co Ltd
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