HITMAN Release Details Revealed

Square Enix and Hitman creators Io Interactive have today announced how fans will be able to experience the all new Hitman when it releases on March 11 next year.

“We’ve had a lot of feedback since we announced HITMAN that has helped us shape these next steps,” said Hannes Seifert, studio head at Io-Interactive. “It’s important that we listen to fans and that we’re open with what we’re doing. So today we’re sharing details on our release plan and we’re announcing something the community has asked for: a new price to enter the game at launch.”

Initial launch content on March 11, 2016 will include:

• Three huge sandbox locations: Paris, Sapienza and Marrakesh
• Six campaign missions with 40 unique ways to take out your main targets
• Contracts mode for all locations with around 800 potential targets

Post launch content will include:

• One new sandbox location per month in April, May and June
• Thailand in April, USA in May and Japan in June
• Each location will come with additional missions, signature kills and more Contracts targets
• New locations will open up new weapons, tools and disguises for all locations
• Contracts mode for all locations

Live content begins on 11 March, 2016 and will include: 

• Weekly live events – including targets which will appear one-time-only for limited time only
• Weekly Io-Interactive developer team created Contracts
• Monthly promoted best community created Contracts
• New items such as weapons and disguises

It is important to note that Contracts mode is an asynchronous multi-player mode in HITMAN. Play to create your own contract hits, choose your target, weapons, time limit and game rules. Then share it with friends to try and complete your contract with your rules