![]() ![]() It does, however, offer a taste of some of the incremental improvements that have been made to the gameplay. It offers a pretty gentle intro as it takes place in a very flashy beach-house but lacks the trademark intricacy of the game’s proper levels. Hitman 2 pitches you into a prologue level (so there’s no real need to reacquaint yourself with the replicated tutorial). This being a Hitman game, storyline is completely incidental but the story does generate some agreeably snappy dialogue between Agent 47 and Burnwood, along with a typically eccentric cast of villains and targets. Story-wise, Hitman 2 picks up where Hitman left off, with Agent 47, guided by handler Diana Burnwood, embarking on another round of globe-trotting assassinations, in which he must take out various members of a newly-discovered shadow organisation that has infiltrated world governments all in a bid to reconstruct his early life which has been erased from his brain. Apart from the fact that its six missions are delivered at launch, rather than episodically (presumably the episodic format was favoured by Square Enix rather than IO), Hitman 2 opts to build on the blueprint laid down by the 2016 game, rather than fixing something that wasn’t broken. Not that you will find much evidence of changing circumstances in the first fruits of IO’s new-found freedom. Previously owned by publisher Square Enix, it underwent a management buyout to once again become an independent studio (Square Enix generously let it keep the Hitman intellectual property) and found a new publisher in Warner Bros. Since the 2016 reboot of Hitman – the venerable stealth assassination simulator – developer IO Interactive has been through a period of massive upheaval. Hitman 2 (PS4) – Agent 47 is back and he’s exactly as you remember himĪgent 47 continues the 2016 reboot’s good work, but by bringing judicious tweaks rather than any radical reinvention.ĭead Space remake hands-on preview & interview – ‘We've thought about cranking things up' ![]()
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