During PAX Prime 2015, I.O Interactive and Square Enix premiered Hitman to the world for the first time. They also announced it would be releasing in December 2015, before ultimately delaying it to 2016. Upon announcing the delay, Square Enix displayed the roll out for Hitman and it will be pretty interesting. Now we get a new look at Hitman, we see various ways of taking out the targets and more.
The sunny town of Sapienza on the Italian coast is a beautiful location with lots of interesting places to explore. From the luxurious mansion to the medieval church situated by the beach and the cramped alleys littered with stores; Sapienza is a dense location full of challenges and packed with opportunities, stories that unfold, and plenty of secrets waiting to be revealed. The Io-Interactive team went to painstaking trouble to make it feel as real as possible. Drawing on their own travel experiences of Italy, diving into lots of research and finding tons of visual references to make sure it captured a laid back Mediterranean vibe with an undercurrent of dark secrecy.