IO Interactive’s Martin Ansdal has revealed during an interview with PCGamesN that the studio is not done with Hitman: World of Assassination yet, despite the fact its next major project — 007: First Light — is launching next year.
At Summer Game Fest’s live event on Friday evening, IO Interactive revealed a brand new Elusive Target for the game that sees Agent 47 hunting down Jame Bond villain LeChiffre, players by Mads Mikkelsen. However, IO isn’t hanging up its hat for the game just yet, as there are more celebrity cameos in the pipeline, although Ansdal is keeping details close to his chest for now.
I don’t have any plans to downscale my ambitions. I think maybe we’ve had less ambitious ones in the past, but when you have talent of this caliber, it’s Hitman; it requires you to be ambitious, it’s built into the fabric of it.
There’s so many experiences that we haven’t done. I have such a backlog of stuff that I want [to do] , and we’re nine years in since World of Assassination. With other games, I’d imagine you’re about to run out of ideas; for me it’s like ‘One more, I get to do one more, I get to do the casino, I’m super excited!’ As long as there’s an audience there for it, I would rather do that than work on almost any other game.
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Looking ahead, Hitman: World of Assassination is set to receive a new co-op mod featuring the characters of Stone and Knight, two familiar faces from Agent 47’s past.
Hitman: World of Assassination encompasses all the content from the rebooted Hitman trilogy, which began in 2016 as an episodic title with new content rolling out on a regular basis. Originally, IO had partnered with Square Enix for Hitman before moving briefly to Warner Bros. and eventually sent on to self-publish the series. Back in January, IO Interactive confirmed that Hitman: World of Assassination had attracted 75 million players worldwide.
[Source – PCGamesN]