IO Interactive should also know that while Hitman: Absolution has its fans and that attitudes to it may have softened since its release in 2012 it is still the most hated game amongst the majority of Hitman fans. IO Interactive know that their audience is relatively small compared to the granddaddy of stealth action: Metal Gear Solid. At the time of writing this remastered duology hasn’t even gotten a trailer which is fair enough. Hell it’s rare that a new Hitman game attracts new fans.
It’s rare that they attract a huge number of new fans. Still these kinds of remasters are often geared towards fans of the originals that didn’t have the foresight to hold onto their dusty relics of the early 2000s. These kinds of decisions make sense especially as gaming history can often be functionally lost to us with every new console generation.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money were given the HD treatment on PlayStation 3 and XBox 360. In fact it’s Blood Money’s second time getting a fresh coat of paint. This isn’t the first time these games have been remastered either. Both feature unusual, uneasy locations – a rehab centre for mobsters, a Catholic orphanage, the White House – as well as sharing the same pitch black sense of humour the Hitman series has had since its inception. It makes sense then to remaster Hitman: Blood Money – the ostensible peak of the series – just as it makes little sense to remaster Hitman: Absolution.ĭespite their obvious and glaring differences in gameplay Blood Money and Absolution are quite similar in terms of their tone. The bald head, bar-code and sharp suit are the defining features of the famed killer-for-hire just as stealth, grimy locations and unforgiving controls are the backbone of the early games. The Silent Assassin has been a figure in the stealth action sub-genre for the past nineteen years. If Agent 47 of the Hitman series had a mantra this would probably be it.
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