Co-op 'never felt right' for Hitman
While casually murdering people with your chums is a right old laugh and no mistake, Hitman dev IO has decided that assassination is best enjoyed alone. IO discussed the idea of co-op for several games in the series, but found it "never felt right."
While casually murdering people with your chums is a right old laugh and no mistake, Hitman developer IO Interactive has decided that assassination is best enjoyed alone. IO tossed around the idea of co-op for several games in the sass 'em up series, but found it "never felt right," Hitman: Absolution game director Tore Blystad has said.
"Of course we have been discussing co-op for many Hitman games but it never felt right," Blystad told OXM. "Agent 47 is a loner and we have never found a way to give him a partner, because to be honest, he doesn't need one."
If you want co-op in an IO Interactive game, for now your best bet is the under-appreciated Kane & Lynch 2, though the middle-aged murderermen have distinctly less finesse than Agent 47.
Hitman: Absolution is slated to launch for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this year, one of our Jeff's most anticipated games of 2012. Another Hitman game will also come from Square Enix's new Montreal studio, which opens this year.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Co-op 'never felt right' for Hitman.
While casually murdering people with your chums is a right old laugh and no mistake, Hitman dev IO has decided that assassination is best enjoyed alone. IO discussed the idea of co-op for several games in the series, but found it "never felt right."-
seems liek they're missing out on a good opportunity to get people to play the game who normally wouldnt. instant buy if it had splitscreen co-op. they could just make a separate co-op campaign like in Slplinter cell series. hell they could do a shit load with just using the other player to distract targets etc.
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I'd rather not have them shoehorn multiplayer into a game that didn't need it like a lot of other developers.
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Hasn't done well? Blood Money was probably the best in the series.
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but it didnt sell nowhere near as well as say Hitman 2
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=hitman-
Whenever referring to VGChartz, do bear in mind that their numbers are estimates: http://www.vgchartz.com/methodology.php
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Why does everything have to appeal to everyone?
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"We have been discussing co-op for many Hitman games," he said.
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"Hey, wanna add co-op?"
"Nah."
"Kay."
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his evil twin brother
http://www.whale.to/b/images/satanists/lavey1.jpg
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In what way? They trademarked a name, which may or may not be for the Hitman game we know will coming from Square Enix Montreal.
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With a "be" in there too, I suppose.
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Is the name exciting in itself?
That's not necessarily the name of Square Enix Montreal's game, anyway. Hitman: Profession could be an iPhone game or goodness knows what.
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Good decision.
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As much as I love multiplayer and coop, this is probably the right choice for Hitman. Splinter Cell is much more suited for coop stealth killers, and DAMN YOU Unbisoft for screwing it up since Chaos Theory! Now maybe IO could put an adversarial mode in Hitman where you're both hired to hit the same target (not each other) but that would be tough to pull off.
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i like the cut of your gibs
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