Over the course of the past half-decade, Hitman’s excellent World of Assassination trilogy has been one of the best-supported series in the industry. Whether it’s full expansions, special assignments, time-limited goals or additional escalations and challenge packs, the game has grown enormously.
However, Danish developer IO Interactive was surprisingly quiet about its plans for Hitman 3 post-release, and we started to think it might not have one. Fortunately, that’s not the case – it just hasn’t decided what it will look like yet. During an interview with The Gamer, executive producer Forest Swartout Large said the team is “continuously working on Hitman.”
“We’re definitely going to do some DLC, but we haven’t defined what that is,” he said. ‘I don’t think we’re looking at new maps for the time being, such as the Bank and Haveneiland. We are looking more at using existing locations and redesigning them, twisting them. And this time we can use the whole trilogy. We can look back at 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 your goals. It also completely reinvented some scenes, such as the movie in Sapienza or the Halloween Escalation in Hawke’s Bay. We’d definitely love to see more stuff like this, and we think it would be nice to get all Elusive Targets back permanently too.
What post-release content would you like to see from Hitman 3? As Large says, there is definitely a lot the developer could do, so while we appreciate that it is primarily focused on Project 007 at the moment, we hope it adds to the already massive World of Assassination- trilogy.