Hitman 3: Year 2 brings new modes, VR

The video clip game term of the year, which is usually used in English Game of the Year (Got), refers to the finest video game released for a year. Numerous games can bring the title the exact same year. Some games have reissues, one year after the initial launch, called modifying game of the year with all the consisted of LCS.

Besides, Hitman 3 will soon appear on Steam and the entire trilogy comes in the Game Pass.

IO Interactive has spent a lot of details about the Year 2 from Hitman 3. The Danes have a lot with their laugh playing in 2022 and already the 20th of January should fan thick red in the calendar. On that day, the Year 2 officially begins, among other things with the release of the Elusive Target Arcade. This is a new mode that misses the Elusive Target a new rotation. If you have always been limited in time for limited content, which you can only play once for a single time, you will be in the Arcade to a permanent addition to Hitman 3.

To start there are three Arcade Contracts. Each of them, in turn, includes three Elusive Targets, which tries to turn off in fixed order. If you fail with a mission, the whole strand is closed for twelve hours, and then you have to start from scratch. However, the Arcade Contracts will not come back from the game sometime, so you can tackle it again and again.

On January 20, the release of Hitman VR is also for the PC. So far, the PlayStation exclusive is. In the near future, anyone who has Hitman 3, a virtual reality glasses and a potent computer has the contents of the entire trilogy experienced as it is never before. As a small taste of it, the following gameplay video is used:

Also, on January 20, Hitman 3 appears on Steam. Still, the PC version is exclusively available in the Epic Games Store. On top of that, IO Interactive publishes the Hitman Trilogy on the same day contains all three parts that have been released since 2016, for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X / S and Xbox One. She will also land in the Game Pass, both on the consoles and the PC.

For the spring of 2022, Io Interactive has announced a new great mode for Hitman 3, which sounds extremely exciting: Freelancer reminds a little at games like Escape from Markov and Hunt: Showdown. Here you can use the Safe house from Agent 47 as the basis. There you can try not only your weapons on a shooting range, you also gradually switched on new areas as well as customization options. For this purpose, your various campaigns that consist of several missions at different locations. You choose which campaign you want to play and there is no fixed order in which you have to complete their orders.

IMPORTANT: All the equipment you take to a job, you would have to return to the Safe house again, otherwise it is lost. But now scared, if you do not have anything anymore: On the maps, there are traders selling weapons and co. In general, the Freelancer mode offers some special features. For example, you can find safes and hidden items. But there are also NPCs that put their superiors in alertness, they put them out of you, and even other assassins that could come to the cross.

Whether the Freelancer mode for Hitman 3 will be a free supplement or a DLC for whom you have to pay is not yet known, as well as a specific release date. The same applies to the new map with the code name Rocky, which will appear later this year. More information about this has not revealed Io yet.

Also, for the later course of the year technical improvements are announced. PC players with a modern graphics card will be enjoyed sometime 2022 to experience Hitman 3 with ray tracing. Furthermore, Io implements the LESS technology from Intel, which helps with Machine Learning for better performance while still creating very good image quality. Last but not least, HITMAN 3 will continue to support VRS (variable rate shading) in the future, which also benefits the performance. Thus, for example, only the pixels with full accuracy and all shades are calculated, which are in the center of the image to save capacities and thereby achieve a higher frame rate.