Hitman: Absolution - Game Preview

[lebronbeastjames6]

Purist Mode is the solution for anyone complaining about seeing through walls and all that stuff.

[Yodio12]

I've never had the chance to play any of the hitman games, but the purist mode really interests me.

[ps3gamer2131]

Hitman is my favorite game

[LOLLIEGEEFMELOLLY]

I don't feel comfortable with those 'instincts' thingys. Give me freedom, a fiberwire, a map and many ways to fix the job!!

[metesables]

Anybody know when this will come out please

[MisterDusterix]

I am hitman.

[TheLastFraudster]

Looks great.

[Eliza12385]

instinct is gay!

[25625118]

@Eliza12385 no it isent

[AgentCell]

Thank you IO for giving us a purest mode AKA the real hitman game mode. That xray stuff is stupid. I've played all of my hitman games in hard mode with no help indicator of map area cues. It was both challenging and fun because you the player had to be creative.

[XilumX1]

Please God give us a release date

[agent333322]

@XilumX1 =/ i wish 

[Ricardo7250]

you though it said "review" and not "preview"

[TheMwarfare]

what for they waited for? 6 years? For next gen. of graphics ? I think not,improvment in graphics is about 20-30 %...........but to wait years just for few new movments lead to-I will definetly buy torrent!

[podmizje]

the guy in the video said that in the older games u had mini map, false u had a great map and i will miss it in hitman absolution

[Ricardo7250]

count the bullets of your gun??? I HAVE TO PLAY IT, SCREW COD

[AoDPhoenix]

Looks like Conviction

[Getduhmoney1]

Omg!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bf3likeaboss]

god i hope their is a mission just like new life or maybe New life 2 haha that was a great hitman mission

[Sillywomanproduction]

@Bf3likeaboss I have about 50 theory's for a new life

[mAnIaCoOkIeS]

Hopefully there will be missions like blood money where you have Heaps of diffrent ways to kill and can explore everywhere. But still if they make it hide behind cover kill him no civilian game ill prob still buy it still has good content

[jackie20ization]

can you play the demo yet? for PS3?

[maximus00able]

CALL OF DUTY IS SHIT

BATTLEFIELD 3 SICK

[maximus00able]

i will by this game

[irishmexican0321]

What!?! He kills Diana? But she brought him back to life.

[MrMachete281]

I am Getting for sure this Year Hitman absolution,Mass effect 3,Street Fighter xTekken

[williamsw13]

R.I.P Diana Gonna miss ya

[bcmarples1]

when is this game released.

[25625118]

ther shoul be a hitman hd collection with hitman 1 2 and 3

[Josh04731]

Looks good but it looks kinda closed, not so open like the other hit man. I hope its not too objective based(go here go there), i miss that improvisational aspect that made hit man so awesome, so that way no mission felt the same every time. You could use your environment to you advantage, sneak, impersonate, guns blazing.

[ignatei]

My father always told me: "any job worth doing, is worth doing well".

Agent 47 takes this motto very seriously.

[MrMachete281]

@ignatei hahahah awesom

[TheCyberAssassin]

I hope they made a mechanic to let you shoot in two different directions. Always hated that he shot both guns at once

[lior1the2best]

when i will can download this game?

[Lapinmiez]

REALISTIC MODE THANK GOD!!! I really feared that all this see trough walls crap will ruin the game but thanks for IO they knew what the real fans wanted ;)

[shedendpussys]

looks nothing compared to the original 47, same as all games these days, really sad.

[LAmotionPics]

oh my gosh this game looks like Batman Arkham Asylum/City ... Crawling through vents, silent takedown, everything about it!

[TheMadWrath]

@LAmotionPics Go away.

[LAmotionPics]

@TheMadWrath ...I'm gonna respond in a Mature way... ok so what did I do that makes you think I should get outta here ... a place for everyone?

[LAmotionPics]

this games looks like Batman Arkham Asylum/City ... just the silent takedown, crawling through vents...it feels dark too (from the looks of it) I think this is Worth it... I may pick it up...

[sheodagana]

I'm all for for the devs wanting to try something new, as doing the same thing every time with every game is a trap a lot of games fall into, but I'm going to miss the expansive sandbox-style maps. They felt incredibly alive.

[SuperBond64]

FLOCKA!!!

[MrSizzleminizzle]

Cant Fuckin wait ... This and max payne .... AND SO MANY FUCKING MOREEEE!!

[elmalhermano]

IGN will rate this game higher than any other hitman game because it will hold your hand, Splinter Cell Conviction was anabsolute trainwreck yet is regarded by IGN as the best in the series because ¨LOL SO CINEMATIC XDDDD WE ARE TACTICOOL NOW!¨

[doneystoney]

I'd like to see Agent 47, Sam Fisher, and Solid Snake go up together in a fight. There would be some interesting results.

[uenragedbro]

The Ezio of today..

[DeadPoet76]

@uenragedbro

ezio is a faggot and ac is the worst and most booring video game series ever , hitman is fucking HARDCORE

[uenragedbro]

@DeadPoet76 calm your shit or I'll kick your ass

[DeadPoet76]

@uenragedbro im calm youre the one talking about ass kicking..from behind a keyboard!!

i tell you what son why dont you go play Hannah Montana or some other 14 years old game , this game is MATURE youre mom will not allow it.

[uenragedbro]

@DeadPoet76 Oh really, I won't be able to play this game? What kind of videogames do you play? Actually, you know what, you're probably a dumbass fanboy, so I don't care. I'm getting this game, and I don't really care what you do.

[davidgwynne1]

the only thing i ask from the devs is that they don't make it too linear. i dont want to start at the front door, move through the house, kill the mark, find the exit.

if anything, they should learn more from the prequels (especially 2 and contracts) and make the gameplay affected by weather conditions (totally unique to each attempt), time of day (eg. waiting outside with binoculars until darkness falls, then making a move) please dont fuck up hitman like splinter cell or fallout NV. (IMHO!!)

[MegaFree98]

@davidgwynne1 you are right ! i have the same opinion

PS SC:CT rocks

[TheNewbie03]

@davidgwynne1 I gotto agree on that one

[maQmbRECORDS]

Kurwa jak ja na to czekam !!!

[FalloutShelt]

I want a map just like Terminal Hospitality, best hitman mission i've ever played.

[MILEYrepUK]

I BETTER GET TO PLAY THIS GAME BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS OR IM GUNNA BE PISSED!!

[nagroMtm]

@BarWillTender I noticed that too

[tafmc2010]

Why would anybody want to be constantly told how to play any game? Doesnt that defeat the entire point of 'play'? Were you shown 'how' to play as a child? If you were i feel sorry for you. get an imagination. RIP computer games.

[MissPinkytheDog]

@crane ...its sied to drop (1/07/13) but like all sied dates it can come out sooner then that

[crane1308]

@MissPinkytheDog where did you read that?, been serching the net trying to find a date for ages. it can't be 2013 even the producers are saying 2012. it better not be 2013 can't wait another year no fucking way.

[uenragedbro]

I'm playing on Purist, only to prove a point that you don't have to be crazy to do it, just insane. On many different levels.

[AgentX7k2]

Why does he kill Diana? :C .. Anyway game looks pretty good, will see how it plays.

[crane1308]

all i want to know is when the fuck is this coming out, just give me a date or something, so i can start couting down the days. i can't wait no more it's been 6 fucking years man!

[Philboh8]

Pause at 1:15 is that a plaster over the barcode?

[bkm7kayen]

@Philboh8

Haha, a little bug right there already ;-)

[Rarachee]

I don't know why people are bitching about Splinter Cell VS Hitman in the comments. Splinter Cell got me started on the whole stealth action genre, and without Splinter Cell I would never have had even a flicker of interest in this amazing looking game.

[DirectedMan]

My default difficulty will not be Normal, but Purist.

[BarWillTender]

On ign it says this game is going to be released Mars the 10th 1990...lol?

[AyCeeAreyy]

i didnt play hitman much, but what i do remember was in hitman 2 the levels where big and open. this doesnt seem that way and kind of turns me off from it.

[alexandruguzzonato]

Fuck yeah, I just wanna beat the shit out of purist mode! DAMN! It's been 6 long fucking years!

[Longywales]

This is PC Gameplay yeah? No way will it look like that on this gen consoles

[BarWillTender]

purist mode!!! no frkn instinct! Aw yeah! Can't wait!! and god i loved when he hid The body in a freezer box, that brings the true Hitman spirit!

[kingkahn10]

When does it come out?

[RedRiverChannel]

Omg. Go and have sex with accessibility. COD idiots shouldnt play this game. They should stick to COD.

[GeoBlack4]

Thats not the hitman i know... All im seing now, is Splinter cell and MGS like gameplay...

[hunterhearsthelmsy]

@GeoBlack4 my friend they look same coz they are stealth action games, splinter cell has no similarity with hitman, and newest splinter cell sucked badly,MGS is my favourite gaming series and definately it is no where similar to hitman, or even this game by looks of it, its better not to judge game right now, wait for just some time.

[TheHephaestus16]

0:29 ass

[stuff4ever]

Purist All The Way!!

[rebelshark1]

Hitman 2 was the greatest game I've ever played, period. I can't wait for Absolution.

[kashivranik]

To all those haters, take a look this

pcgamer(dot)com/2012/01/23/hit­man-absolution-goons-get-2000-­pages-of-dialogue/

they worked so hard making 2000 unique dialogues for goons and absolution will probably have the best A.I. 

[proudmary86]

This realistic mode with counting ammo by ursef? I love it!!!

[J0NDUDE]

Ugh... a Hitman game with linear levels? Da fuck?

[Lollertron]

@J0NDUDE reaks of splintercell

[misterStevePikk]

One question: In the gameplay video where he escapes the police he kills police officers and is spotted holding a hostage. It's been quite some time since I've played Hitman but would you get the Silent Assassin ranking if you did that?

[Hoenirv]

@misterStevePikk never

[cookieraider126]

splinter cell conviction nuff said

[unrectifiable]

Purist all the way.

[curtisps2]

Why does his bar-code look shiny for a moment at 1:13 ???

[Immortality47]

assassins creed hitman and splinter cell.....the best silent assassin killing and hiding games ever!!!!!!!!!

[AntonioRules99]

It's about time this series made a comeback!

[chit271]

wow it looks cool its assassination with real stealth not like assassins creed

[TheSonder]

This game makes me a proud Dane

[NotGangster100]

hey guy whos the voice over in the video thanks fortellin us dianas dead that ruined the game lol

[Htrs10]

awsome

[KoolJayJ]

I still play blood money from time to time

[jwhittle91]

so they have taken away free roam?

[AntonioRules99]

@jwhittle91 Since when was free roam in the Hitman series?

[superzaile]

purist mode?

this games going to be hard to platinum

[TheKITS47]

STOP IT! Is not Splinter Cell... this will be better than Splinter Cell and from all Hitman Games. Okay will not same without Bateson... but this game have much better Gameplay, better Story, Silent Assassin Rating from previous Games and new Difficulty for Hardcores without instinct and more. What is your fucking Problem???

[mindarinas]

@TheKITS47 check poin system

[MrKiron12]

@TheKITS47  AMEN TO THAT!!

[thetocotaco]

@TheKITS47 nice enklits

[Imback1245]

@TheKITS47 The missions shown right now seem to show that it's just sneak-wait-kill, nothing creative or ridiculously funny like... swapping a prop gun for a real one in order to have the actor kill the target accidentally iin Curtains Down (blood money) or bombing a wine casket to drop it down on the target

[loui4125]

@TheKITS47 Are you retarded? It looks dumbed down like Splinter cell conviction.

[PurpleStorm8]

@TheKITS47 Because when dev's are going to make a sequel, they are suppose to ether expand or modify the concept to make the game more smoother.

THIS just removed the concept altogether and removed the very thing of what made the hitman games unique, if they kept the free-roam and found some other way to find enemy's and their path's then that would be good but why bother playing this when I can play Splinter Cell: Conviction, Deus Ex: HR (stealth gameplay) or Assasin's Creed?

[ThatYardSister]

@TheKITS47 what happend to bateson ?

[mchoppy]

the game can be played in any way you want like the previous hitman games. purist is guna be awesome you will have to look and listen and im sure we will all die the first few times but it will make the game better and longer

[25625118]

this is ilick spliter cell convicton

[pedrogallo971]

when did realese this game???  I NEED to play.

[badman2600]

TWO Words: SPLINTER CELL

[Sillywomanproduction]

@badman2600 Two words: Your wrong

[AntonioRules99]

@Sillywomanproduction *you're

[Sillywomanproduction]

@AntonioRules99 Theres diffrent spellings for it

[AntonioRules99]

@Sillywomanproduction Yes and there's a reason why they are spelt differently...

[Sillywomanproduction]

@AntonioRules99 I really cant be bothered to have a spellings arguement

[AntonioRules99]

@Sillywomanproduction Don't you mean grammar?

[Sillywomanproduction]

@AntonioRules99 Oh for fucks sake your like my mates

[ka1991t0]

Ooh this game look like Batman Arkham city.........!

[alex36d]

Going to pre-order it, on the day i have it, i'll start to play on PURIST mode !

A message to ppl who think this isn't Hitman anymore;

In the previous games u could also act like a contract killer (witch isn't agent 47) you need to work during your level to get the SA rating and to be like THE ASSASIN.. It's your experiment that makes you play as a real agen 47.. I'm pretty sure for somone who never played it and he plays it for the first time on rookie, he wont get the SA rating. ;)

[arkhamgamer]

i love the way this hitman is now i do kinda miss the old way its played but i cant wait to get this game in my hands i wanna know when it comes out in the next gameinformer when the game comes out i want it to have 10 so far its a 10 in head

[Puflwiz1]

I'm pretty sure most Hitman fans are going to play only on Purist and Purist alone.

[meatkingsparty]

@Puflwiz1 definately...

[TTGSh4d0wC0nfl1ct]

@Puflwiz1 Hell yeah!

[Phil6590]

@Puflwiz1 I'm pretty sure most Hitman fans aren't going to buy this game at all.

[Puflwiz1]

@Phil6590 Good point.

[IRACORKMAN]

Looking at the new game the style in which we'r gonna have to play as 47 ....I kinda wish he never got up off that table before being cremated

[MasterOfTheCreed]

I will go purist, seems really fun, i'm a big fan of Hitman.

[as12er5]

I want the old hitman back where you can custom weapons add silncer and laser on them have double guns and go rush on a house baaaam 2 minutes the mission is over or be stealthy , kill by kill step by step 2 hours for every mission thats why im still playing hitman blood money and having ps2 next to my bed :D

[veljack]

don't like the instinct mode.

[TnTCrash92]

I always found it funny how there are apparently "noobs" in a single player game or the single player campaign of games. Still going to be playing purist mode from the start. May only play the tutorial without it to see what the controls are like this time around.

[assortedfish]

its been really long since they've made a hitman game so its probably gonna be a bit different. if i get this game, i'd probably try and not use the instinct mode. haha. that makes it more fun.

[DownstairsTunes]

I was going to rant about dumbing down this awesome game... until he mentioned "purist mode"

That's the only mode I'll be playing, thank you noobs.

[MasterOfTheCreed]

@DownstairsTunes How can you be a noob in a singleplayer game? that makes no sense.

[jokemasterslifer]

God, some gamers really need to stop whining. Seriously, did they reboot the entire series? No. Did they turn it into a pure run and gun game? No. And he said CERTAIN stages don't have sandbox areas, not all of them. Besides, Blood Money's tutorial was somewhat of a run and gun linear level so you really can't judge just from the god damned previews. And for those who bitch about instinct and whatnot, he said there's a purist mode. So quit your bitching. I do wish Bateson did the voice though.

[Cam6990]

oh god they have fucked up on another game everything is just so fucking disney and COD now WTF!?! Almost miss the PS2 days where they stories at least made since

[Jay200cob]

don't worry people!! I was also afraid that the new Hitman. Absolution would miss the sandbox levels, but then I heard what he said on 1:45! I makes me calm, and even more exited, so please, don't hate on it because there's only been shown in-action gameplays!!!

[placebo4yo]

okay, so some levels arent sandbox and are linear. But face it fans, when playing hitman you didnt play the level COMPLETELY DIFFERENT every time. You still took the same paths but tweaked it in certain areas. So in a sense, you played in a linear fashion in a sand box map. So just chill out and hold the arguments till the game comes out.

[YoungKoolness17]

i liked it better when he was all fucking international not just in the usa

[ceferistul05]

instinct mode sucks

[AssassinOfYoutub1000]

I was playing Blood Money and i said "Man they should make a new Hitman game for like PS3 and Xbox360 but that will probably be a long while." next day I'm Watchin Ign and this pops up and then my floors were covered in tears of joy. (you probably thought I was gonna say jizz you perv)

[GizmoGetSome]

1.14 empty barcode eh? what happen?

[holypoop88]

@GizmoGetSome In another gameplay he has the bar code, but it seems at some point in the game he places a bandage to cover it up.

[bif0978]

I hate when games loose their originality and it loosed its placement from previous games :( This game looks like a fail to be honest, Long Live Blood Money!

[muny0tuber]

ohh maan ..i hope the game be more like blood money .. this one look more like uncharted .. stright forward missions .. just like the traning level in blood money ...also i think amma only use the pure mode ... the firey lines are just dump ...

[LTBL88]

Getting rid of Bateson as 47 and Jesper Kyd as the composer: the two single most retarded things they could possibly do

[jwepiphone]

Accessible is a dirty word. Splinter cell conviction was accessible and wasmy the best, even though the deniable ops were much better. The purest mode on this should be good and splinter cell 6 is gonna be better too

[jwepiphone]

I'm only playing on the purest mode.

[at75829]

this is not hitman this is splinter cell

[TheOldCatalyst]

as time goes by agent 47 no longer has a barcode but a chipped head..

[TheDesteos]

@TheOldCatalyst um, no? he has to hide it if theres a manhunt out on him and they know him by (bald guy with barcode) i would hide that shit too

[darsephtan19]

WTF! ads!

[zZzCaVeHoBozZz]

Do we get to kill Bieber in this one?

[RadioActive236]

Splinter Cell Conviction anyone?

[lolJoely]

Purist mode yes please

[StupidShitVideo]

They should have called it Hitman: Options.

Fuckk I cannot wait for this to be released!

[KamiKaze5172]

wow



[RedRiverChannel]

I hope this game kill the franchise.

You know, its like with movies, you can go on and on with a really innovative idea, but in the end the next sequel will kill the franchise.

If you want to appeal to the mainstream you have to dumb down the game.

Anyone that doesnt understand this should check his or her head.

[ignatei]

What happened to his barcode at 1:14 ? Other than that the game looks fine, only the new voice pisses me off (Bateson's replacement).

[kashivranik]

@ignatei If you look closely you can see the barcode stickin out on the plaster thingy

[DempseyTheBoss]

@ignatei i think it is so that it is not obvious to other people when they look at him from behind because it looks like a sticker or something that is the same color as his skin.

[Qawazada]

@ignatei He Has Hide The Numbers 

[MultiLittlePsycho]

@ignatei he covers his barcode with a plaster in levels he 'plans' his assasination

[whiteganser]

@ignatei I think he had tape or something over his barcode to hide it maybe? It didn't look like a glitch, more like 47 had put something over it to hide it.

[piano15R]

@ignatei, @whiteganser As part of a new disguise, 47 places a plaster over his barcode to hide it! Obviously the AI will be more 'intelligent' this time. I've always said to myself - "why don't they see his BARCODE!?" So the man does have common sense after all.

[xXxJOSHdaSHEEPxXx]

@ignatei I think its there to try to hide it



[TheDudeMick117]

@ignatei looks like there's a bandage placed on it

by the way "instinct" is bullshit theres no way people can have the instinc