[tapoxi]

If you haven't played this series, it's pretty fascinating. Hitman is essentially a "social stealth" puzzle game set in large sandbox levels with clockwork behavior. Want to carry a knife? That's suspicious, unless you disguise yourself as a chef. It's a game designed around multiple approaches to the target instead of just run and gun.

The most recent trilogy of Hitman games all use a common engine. This announcement means you'll be able to play all of them with a single purchase, inside a single executable.

(You could do this before, but the purchase process was very confusing.)

[ninth_ant]

My favourite aspect of it is how the stories in each level are always more deeper than they appear on the surface. You play it once and do an "easy" assassination, but then -- often with prompting from the game's interface -- you go back in with a different objective that uncovers more about what the various characters are up to.

This method of exploring a story by replaying it from varying angles is very unique and compelling storytelling device, and I hope someone will use this in the future for more than just murdering people.

[whatshisface]

Want to do anything? That's suspicious, unless you wear an orange vest.