


Novikov, despite being a philanthropist in the public eye, is actually one of the key figures in an international spy ring called IAGO. In the new Hitman trailer, viewers see Agent 47 prepare to assassinate a character called Viktor Novikov. While that initial reveal was incredibly exciting, it didn't give fans much to go on and so in Square Enix's E3 press conference today, the developer and publisher has shed a little more light on what Hitman will offer later this year. So with the fanbase and critics fractured over whether Absolution was good or not, it was clear that IO would have to try a lot harder next time to win everybody over.įans got their first taste of the franchise's future yesterday, when a brand new Hitman game was revealed during the Sony E3 2015 press conference. It was also revealed that the game had failed to meet its sales targets. While some enjoyed Absolution's various levels and the way that it let players come up with the perfect killing strategy, others weren't convinced that the game had improved from Hitman: Blood Money, with some even suggesting that developer IO Interactive had forgotten what made Hitman great in the first place. However, this longstanding legacy couldn't protect the last game, Hitman: Absolution, from divisive reviews. This gameplay has proved to be massively popular, having spawned two feature films and several spin-off games, such as Hitman Go, Hitman Sniper Challenge, and Hitman: Sniper, the latter of which was released on mobile devices earlier this month. Playing as trained assassin Agent 47, Hitman fans have killed marks in a variety of ways including poisoning them with bad fish, shoving them out of windows, and killing them with a good old fashioned bullet from a sniper rifle. The Hitman games have been entertaining people for almost 15 years.
