Agent 47’s going roguelike on January 26th
The long-awaitedFreelancermode forHitman 3goes live later this month, tasking the world’s blandest professional killer with taking down nefarious organisations one target at a time. To prepare for Freelancer’s launch on January 26th, devs IO Interactive have shared a new trailer that’s essentially just the mission briefing your Agent 47 will see when he begins his bloodthirsty roguelike quest. You can watch the mission briefing below, if you’re feeling suitably assassinatey.
It’s been one day shy of a year since IO InteractiverevealedFreelancer mode would be coming to Hitman 3 among the game’s Year 2 updates. The mode is meant to expand player freedom by letting you strategise how you’ll take on evil syndicates, rather than having that taken care of by your handler. Freelancer chucks randomisation and persistent progression into the game like a homing briefcase, tasking murder-lad Ian Hitman with bumping off targets to work up the ranks of dodgy global organisations until he eventually gets to their big boss. You can read more about how Freelancer differs from the main gamehere.
IOI is folding all the missions from the two earlier games into Hitman 3 on PC from January 26th too, as Grahampointed outjust a few days into the new year. This is partly to accommodate the imminent arrival of Freelancer mode, which IOI explained when the World Of Assassination changes were announced. It also means that if you own Hitman 3 then you’ll get all the mission gubbins from the Hitman 1 and 2 base games for free. Nice.
