Io Interactive as some rather ambitious plans of making Hitman: Absolution more accessible to a wider audience than previous games while still remaining true to the core and holding onto the existing fan base. Never an easy thing to do.
Speaking with DigitalTrends, Absoultion director Tore Blystad said the learning curve of previous games was off putting for newcomers so the studio is looking to make it less intimidating.
“The Hitman games of the past have been very hardcore,” said Blystad. “Even though the fantasy of the Hitman universe has a very universal appeal, the games have been so difficult to play, that it’s been more of an acquired taste.
“The biggest challenge that we had with this game was to make it much broader in every sense, so that it was easier to play and more accessible, but still retain a very strong, hardcore side as well. We don’t want to alienate any of our fans who have been extremely loyal for so many years.”
Blystad went on to discuss the benefits the game will receive from the studios new Glacier 2 engine, specifically the game’s AI and characters which will “act as believable as possible,” and even said it was “the most central part of the game.”
“If you attack an enemy from any angle, than we’re able to have them fight back, or continue on in a normal state if you ignore them,” he said. “There are similar things in games like GTA or these bigger sandbox games, but it’s on a much less granular level because we have a very strong focus on the abilities of the characters.”
What this sounds like, honestly, is dumbing the game down for a wider, i.e. stupider audience. Now I certainly don’t consider myself to be a high intellectual but part of what made Hitman game’s so damn good was the intelligence and the thinking later missions required for perfect execution.
Hitman: Absolution will be out next year on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 so we should be seeing some of it at E3 in a few days time.
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