007 First Light sounds like it'll be getting Hitman-style post-launch missions, but with more "actiony things"

Also, it astir apt won't person truly luxuriously rendered loos.

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The bald antheral ever hungers for much folks to drown successful toilet water, truthful IO Interactive person kept feeding their Hitman a dependable watercourse of post-launch targets with each introduction successful the World of Assassination trilogy. It sounds the devs'll beryllium taking a akin attack with 007: First Light, albeit with immoderate Bondy twists.

The question is, would specified regular updates scratch the itch of folks who're successful it for the agelong haul arsenic efficaciously arsenic the elusive targets Agent 47's been taking retired connected a regular basis?

IO brag Hakan Abrak teased this being 1 of the "learnings from World of Assassination" that the workplace whitethorn beryllium applying to Bond successful a chat with The Game Business.

"We evidently person tons of acquisition present from World of Assassination, and tons of acquisition connected however to widen a single-player acquisition by giving desirable escaped contented to players," Abrak said erstwhile asked whether First Light volition travel the post-launch program the past 3 Hitman games person ridden to semipermanent success.

He was keen not to get into excessively overmuch detail, emphasising that IO are focused connected nailing what the crippled has to connection astatine motorboat first, but did spell connected to accidental the following:

With Bond, we person truly upped our stealth, we person truly evolved the enactment aspects of our exertion and features. Seamless combat, coming successful and retired of scope and melee… For Hitman, it was interlocked animations, present it is freeform. We person [players] driving antithetic exotic cars. That gives america much challenges to play with. In Hitman, you person these unrecorded challenges. And too the things that we are capable to bash successful Hitman, we tin bash much actiony things and much kinetic challenges successful Bond.

While a batch of that is conscionable Abrak oulining the differences betwixt however Bond and Hitman volition play that IO person been chatting astir since the crippled was revealed, it's the past spot that's got my attention. Hitman's elusive targets are each mostly somewhat antithetic twists connected the 'go somewhere, prep to termination someone, termination someone, get out' look that the games person refined into a lethal art, with twists similar nary redeeming oregon restarting to spice up the challenge.

With Bond looking similar it's overmuch little intensely focused connected conscionable eliminating definite people, I'll beryllium keen to spot however expansive the other challenges it offers are. I tin spot the likes of car chases oregon much straight-up shootouts being portion of the equation, overmuch similar they are successful the basal game. Will we get longer missions that concatenation a fig of these elements unneurotic arsenic post-launch extras, volition IO opt to conscionable adhd them arsenic idiosyncratic challenges truthful it tin driblet caller worldly much often, oregon a premix of both?

I'd similar the former, but it mightiness not beryllium arsenic businesslike development-wise arsenic the elusive targets person proven to beryllium - thing Abrak notes IO are truthful keen connected that they've stopped making arsenic galore caller toilets successful their games. Plus, we'll person to spot if the Bond formula, with its glitzy Hollywood sheen successful opposition to Hitman's darkly hilarious execution experimentation, lends itself arsenic good to keeping a crippled feeling caller erstwhile that archetypal surge of involvement runs its course.