Hitman Now a Fully Episodic AAA Game

Io-Interactive today released further details for Hitman, which launches on March 11th for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

A change to the release structure sees Hitman become an episodic AAA game experience with a major live component where players will perform contract hits on high-profile targets in exotic locations around the world, starting with a Prologue Mission and a Paris location on March 11th, followed by the next location, set in Italy and releasing in April, and then Morocco releasing in May. From there Hitman will deliver regular monthly content updates, including three additional locations; Thailand, the US and Japan until the season concludes later in 2016, with weekly live events and additional planned content in between the monthly updates.

A new Intro Pack now contains the Prologue and Paris levels and will release at the new price of $15 USD. Each subsequent location will be priced at $10 USD as an add-on item to the Intro Pack. Alternatively, players can buy the Full Experience up front for $60 USD. This includes all of this year’s content as it’s released, and guarantees them not to miss any live or bonus content. The disc version of Hitman will ship at the end of 2016.

PlayStation 4 users will also gain exclusive access to The Sarajevo Six: 6 bonus contracts, one of which will be released with each location and sees Agent 47 travel the world in pursuit of six former members of a paramilitary unit called CICADA in this self-contained side-story.

For players wanting to get into the game early, the Hitman beta starts on February 12th on PlayStation 4 and February 19th on PC. Players can guarantee access to the beta by pre-ordering the Full Experience or the new Intro Pack.