Hitman delivers its latest update in Freelancer

IO Interactive have released a new update for Hitman 3, which will soon be called something else. This new update adds a new game mode called Freelancer, check out the trailer for it below.

The basic gist of this new mode is that if the main game is a 5 star service game, with all intel and gear provided, this is a 1 star, you start with nothing except the name of your target. It’s much more of an independent experience, where a lot of the surrounding work of being an assassin is put into the hands of the player.

Players will have to build and maintain an arsenal of gear, but also decide on what to bring to missions, weigh up the pros and cons of having a limited gear capacity and the risk of losing valuable and hard to come by equipment.

Another way that Hitman Freelancer gives more freedom to the player is by giving them the choice of which Syndicates to go up against – all based on the players’ preferred gameplay style, favorite locations, and maybe even the personal dislikes of certain types of crime of the player. The opportunities for success against these syndicates will very much rely on the tools a player has available when commencing a mission.

Without a handler, players can also delve into the important role of carrying our their own recon and investigation work, by identifying targets in Showdown missions.

Everything is an opportunity that can be planned for, and exploited, by a player who is good at creatively combining information in the Safehouse and improvising when something unexpected happens on a mission.

The game mode gives the player all available information, but there’s no guarantee that an objective, for instance, is possible when on the mission. To succeed, it is up to the player to ensure that a payout objective is possible, by bringing the right gear, or choosing the right combination of location, brought gear and objectives.