Over the past half decade or more, Hitman’s excellent World of Assassination trilogy has been one of the most supported series in the industry. Whether it’s large-scale expansions, special assignments, time-limited targets or additional lineups and challenge packs, the game has grown immensely.
However, Danish developer IO Interactive has been surprisingly quiet about his post-launch plans for Hitman 3, and we are beginning to think he may have none. Fortunately, that is not the case – he just hasn’t decided what he will look like yet. Speaking as part of an interview with The Gamer, executive producer Forest Swartout Large said the team is “continuously working on Hitman”.
“We are definitely going to do some DLC, but we haven’t defined what it is,” he said. “I don’t think we’re looking at new maps like the Bank and Haven Island for now. We are looking more to use existing locations and reimagine them, twisting them. And this time, we can use the whole trilogy. We can look back on the Hitman 2016 maps, Hitman 2 maps – we have all the locations. “
IO Interactive has created missions in the past that use the same general areas, but change the time of day and their targets. It also completely reinvented some scenes, like the movie set in Sapienza or the Halloween Escalation in Hawke’s Bay. We would definitely like to see more of that kind of thing and we thought it would be fun to bring back all the Elusive Targets permanently, too.
What kind of post-launch content would you like to see in Hitman 3? As Large says, there is absolutely a lot that the developer can do, so while we appreciate that he is mainly focused on Project 007 now, we hope it will add to the already huge World of Assassination trilogy for a little longer.