Hitman 3, the preview
Announced for PS5 during the event organized by Sony for the presentation of the console, the game will arrive in stores with an exit set for January 2021 and will maintain its multi-platform vocation, obviously taking advantage of the technical capabilities of the next-gen systems to make a further qualitative leap and deliver even more detailed settings, full of interactive elements capable of influencing the course of the missions.
History The history of Hitman 3 obviously takes place after the events of the previous episodes, with the i nfallible Agent 47 who returns to the scene to conclude the most demanding series of tasks in his career as an assassin. Once again she will be able to count on the support of Diana Burnwood, as well as the collaboration of her childhood friend Lucas Gray, the mysterious Shadow Client who seemed to play the role of antagonist in Hitman 2.
The two will join forces to destroy Providence, the powerful secret organization that over the years has moved the threads of various international conflicts and coups. A decidedly complex objective, which we will have the task of completing in the context of six different missions that aim to eliminate the leaders of the group within as many locations scattered around the world. The first, revealed in the game's debut trailer, is the fascinating city of Dubai.
Locations The developers of Hitman 3 present the locations of the game in the coming weeks, but the first one was already revealed in the trailer shown during the event dedicated to PlayStation 5 : this is Dubai, one of the most famous capital of the United Arab Emirates. Characterized by an unmistakable profile, dominated by the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world with its 828 meters, this location we will be busy inside the modern architectures and a great visual impact, with a vertical development, unpublished.
In the course of the mission, which will be presented with a demo of gameplay in short, we will often contemplate incredible views, nestled among the clouds, and will have to accept the risks that this entails walking along the edges of structures to dizzying heights, a combined crawl and climb on the outer walls and thereby gaining access to the rooms on that count. Camouflaged as it is the tradition in the middle of crowded events, we will locate our target and delete it in the most silent and effective as possible.
Hitman as a platform to return to the discussion introduced with the second episode, also Hitman 3 is considered a real platform , allowing users to import the missions of the two previous seasons in the new package and play them in a remastered version, with a series of graphical improvements but also new structural able to shuffle the cards on the front of the gameplay, and offer, therefore, new situations, made possible in particular by the transportability of the objects.
This feature is particularly interesting because of the advent of the PS5 and Xbox Series X , which, with their technical characteristics will allow for the boost graph is not indifferent, going to increase the resolution and/or frame rate compared to that seen in Hitman and Hitman 2. To understand exactly how to work the import, however, we'll have to wait a bit.
preliminary Impressions The first project, self-produced, IO Interactive and it is not wrong to aim Hitman 3, and the two videos presented in the course of the reveal of PS5 provide ample guarantees in this sense. The game has no need to revolutionize anything on the front of the mechanical and of the structure, acting as the conclusion to a trilogy that implies a certain degree of continuity, but which, however, already in the passage from the first to the second season, introduced some interesting innovations.
The Glacier Engine created by the Danish team has demonstrated the ability to manage with ease large room settings, but especially full of details, characters, and interactive elements, all with a visual quality excellent. For this new chapter we expect, therefore, a further step in this direction, but, above all, the ability to enrich the graphics, thanks to the 4K real-time frame rate up to 60 fps with quiet and the use of an effects advanced. The ray-tracing , maybe?
Hitman 3 has the objective to conclude the new trilogy dedicated to Agent 47, with six of the missions of a broad set inside of the larger scenarios, detailed and ambitious of the franchise, IO Interactive has ever seen. The necessary continuity with the previous two seasons in terms of gameplay and structure puts on the table only need to enrich the experience with a few innovations and a technical sector of excellence, able to take advantage of the characteristics of the new console generation. With all likelihood it will be a new centre for the deadly assassin.
CERTAINTIES Environments promising Technically indisputable Implant strong... CONCERNS ...that will not be revolutionized Five scenarios that are still shrouded in mystery, How will it work backwards-compatibility?
