#HITMAN PC GAME REVIEW 2017 UPDATE#

Io did an excellent job of making each of the existing locales feel fresh and new for their respective Patient Zero missions (I particularly dug SapienzaвЂ™s nighttime vibe coupled with its creepy music), and the missions themselves proved to be equally engaging. The main draw of HitmanвЂ™s GOTY Edition, which is available as a full $60 experience complete with all previously released content or as a $20 upgrade pack for existing players, is a brand new multi-mission campaign called вЂPatient Zero.вЂ™ The campaign starts off as a seemingly routine (at least for protagonist Agent 47) assassination of two cult leaders in a repurposed version of the gameвЂ™s Bangkok location, but soon mushrooms into a global race to stop the spread of a deadly virus which takes 47 to similarly repurposed versions of the Sapienza, Colorado, and finally Hokkaido locations.

#HITMAN PC GAME REVIEW 2017 UPDATE#

Fortunately, Io managed to weather those storms and has since molded Hitman into one of the most refined and engaging series entries to date, and the recently released Game of the Year Edition update serves as an added layer of hot fudge on top of an already delicious sundae. Then, the future of Hitman as a whole was called into question earlier this year when Square Enix officially severed ties with Io, leaving the studio to fend for itself as a wholly independent developer. Fans were slow to embrace the episodic format, and the fact that each episode on its own wasnвЂ™t very substantial only added fuel to that negativity fire. From the moment it announced its 2016 episodic Hitman title, aptly named Hitman, developer Io Interactive has faced no small number of uphill battles.

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