Game news Hitman 3: a game mode highly anticipated by fans still postponed! New release date announced
Currently working on a James Bond game, IO Interactive has not forgotten Hitman III, its latest success. After parting ways with Square Enix in 2017, the studio developed, released and maintained Hitman 2 and 3, featuring the iconic Agent 47.
Hitman 3: dense, complete, and always followed!
Hitman 3 was released in January 2021, and, despite some issues around content transfer between the previous titles and the new one, success was there. Hitman 3 has since been entitled to many updates which add content, with events, challenge contracts, outfits, gadgets or even weapons. Finishing the game’s campaign does not take a lot of time, but complete all the opportunities and discover all the secrets each level can take hundreds of hours.
Like the other games of the license, Hitman 3 offers players many levels designed in the manner of a Sandbox. Targets can be reached in many ways, through multiple paths, with many weapons and costumes. Gamers to experiment, to explore, to vary their approach to discover all that the levels have to offer. However, nearly 3 years after the game was released, IO Interactive hasn’t given up the game.
Roguelite mode postponed, but for good reason
He still benefits from regular route sheets, and a specific, long-announced game mode is in development. The developers of Hitman 3 have indeed announced that a mode roguelite would be integrated into the game. It is called Freelancerand was to arrive during the first half of the year.
But in May, the studio announced that “the next evolution” of the license, which offers a particular challenge, needed more time, and that it was postponed to the second half. Unfortunately, players will have to wait some more, because the Freelancer mode has once again been postponed. In a statement, the studio says that ambitions have been revised upwardswith the integration of almost all levels from Hitman (2016), Hitman 2, and Hitman 3:
We have decided to go beyond our initial launch goal and include almost all locations from World of Assassination (which includes the last 3 games, editor’s note) as soon as Freelancer mode is released. We continue to work to make the launch experience as smooth as possible for all players. We will have the opportunity to say more about this in the next articles of “Road to Freelancer”.
No fuzzy output window, since the job is “almost done”, and the release of the game mode has been set to January 26, 2023. The opportunity to celebrate the three years of the game, and to encourage players to come back and have fun on Hitman 3. However, it will be possible to get your hands on this mode, through a technical test which will be launched during the month of November:
We announced this new mode at the start of Year 2 and it’s almost ready. Almost. There are only a few things left to check before launching the mode for good. This is where the closed technical test of HITMAN 3 Freelancer comes in. Early next month, we will selectively invite HITMAN 3 (Steam) players to participate in the Closed Tech Test and put it to the test. From customizing the hideout, to eliminating targets, to unlocking mastery levels, you’ll be able to try out the main elements of the mode – but we’re also keeping some things secret!
All the details about the Freelancer mode technical test will be unveiled on October 26 along with the new roadmap. In the meantime, players will be entitled to patch 3.130which will be deployed on all media this Thursday, October 6.