Agent 47 is returning for his “most dangerous” contract yet, but we don’t really know much more than that.
It’s been a while since we first heard rumors that there was a new Hitman in the works. It’s been less of a while since we first learned that the game could be called Hitman: Absolution. Hopefully, it will be even less of a while before we learn more about the game beyond a cryptic teaser trailer and some marketing fluff.
I really hesitate to call the video here to the right a “trailer,” because there’s very little actual content. In it, everyone’s favorite bald-headed professional murderer calmly affixes a silencer to a pistol, and then the scene changes to a snake coiled around a gun. That’s it.
Unless publisher Square-Enix and developer IO Interactive are hinting that there will be a gun in the game that shoots snakes as ammunition, there’s nothing else there.
There’s a bit more in Square’s marketing fluff: Agent 47 will be accepting his “most dangerous contract to date,” having been betrayed by friends and sought by lawmen for years – maybe he could try changing his hairstyle, just a thought. 47 will be caught in the middle of a conspiracy, which must be a bummer when all you want to do is to get paid to kill dudes.
“For the first time we are taking Agent 47 on a personal journey which allows us to explore other parts of the Hitman fantasy,” said IO game director Tore Blystad. “This is both a familiar and yet significantly different experience from other Hitman games; something our silent assassins will relish, as will all those new to the Hitman world.”
The game will be revealed at E3 and is scheduled to hit shelves in 2012. For the record, if there is a gun in the game that shoots snakes as ammunition, then I totally called it.
(Via VG247)
