The editorial staff of Epic Videogames Guide has been granted the opportunity to experience what the final chapter of the HITMAN saga has to offer which, this year, sees the curtain fall on the events of Agent 47 once and for all. Prepare the silencer in your pistol, carefully study the mission briefing because the time has come to find out if three is really the perfect number with our preview of Hitman 3.
My name is 47, Agent 47.
The first scenario we were able to experience in the new Hitman 3 is located in Dubai, more specifically in the upper floors of the Burj Khalifa, a high-impact stage set that istarts a prologue that winks at 007 and Mission Impossible. Moreover, it is now known that IO Interactive will deal with a dedicated James Bond title and playing in the early hours of Hitman 3 you experience small moments that transmit positivity and trust towards the developers who will be able to recreate (crossing their fingers) the best videogame transposition of James Bond since the time of GoldenEye for Nintendo 64.
In fact, the departure of the Dubai mission does not take place directly inside the Burj Khalifa but on the outside. After launching from an aircraft, Agent 47 will land in the vicinity of a ventilation entrance, where once again the scenic impacts that the HITMAN series has been able to offer players over the past few years are outlined.
What is most striking, at least in the PC version we tested with all the details to the maximum, is the quality of the reflections present on the screen that made us doubt the presence or absence of Ray Tracing. IO Interactive has managed to extract every single resource available from its graphics engine which, we would like to emphasize, it does not distort the technical sector compared to the previous two chapters of the saga but, it manages to give excellent views and reflections at the limit of Ray Tracing which impressed us positively. Fewer, however, the faces of the characters who remain somewhat flat and devoid of particular details.
In addition to Dubai we had the opportunity to explore and above all investigate (if you want) the rooms and surroundings of Thornbridge Manor. We cannot reveal too much, but in this second mission Hitman III struck us for its distortion of the cards on the table, offering us the possibility of putting aside cumbersome tricks to get closer and eliminate our target, but, we will be offered the chance to solve a case as real investigators.
As one of the most classic detective stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle it will be up to us (if we want to) to interact with the various members of the family present in Thornbridge Manor, discover their alibis and understand the motive for this mysterious murder. Once again exploration is the main key to the title and in this second act it is highly recommended to take all the time necessary to ponder the correct result to our investigation and although we do not want and cannot tell you more, it is necessary to praise the idea of the developers to pose a dualism between how to commit a murder and how to solve it in order to commit another one.
The end justifies the means
For this latest adventure, Agent 47 will be equipped with a small but essential tool: a smartphone. This tool increases the dose on the amount of actions and uses that are granted to the player in order to complete the mission successfully. One of the most classic examples (and that the game will not take long to show you in the first few minutes) lies in the ability to hack digital locks to open windows or doorsin addition to this, being a smartphone you can indulge yourself with the camera and take photographs of the most interesting moments or why not, of your victim after having “talked” with you.
As well as the previous chapters, too Hitman 3 enhances its sandbox nature by allowing you to perform various tasks with any conduct. It will be your free choice to thoroughly explore the scenarios to discover details that are sometimes small but fundamental to eliminate a target from a distance or choose, as always, to infiltrate the shoes of the right person at the right time. to be alone with your prey. A game system that works, likes and stimulates replayability even more than in previous episodes thanks to the settings tested in this preview, even more cinematic, scrupulous in details and creator of infinite gameplay combinations.
While waiting to try the remaining scenarios and discover the conclusion of the agent 47 trilogy, we were pleasantly surprised by the technical and gameplay improvements included in this latest iteration of Hitman that allowed us to perceive the willingness of the development team to give to the players a worthy conclusion capable of respecting the canons undertaken with this trilogy while daring to something new with non-trivial mechanics and settings made very well. Stay on these pages because we will return to talk about Hitman 3 with the full verdict in view of the release scheduled for January 20.
► Hitman 3 is a Stealth-type game developed and published by IO Interactive for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Google Stadia, the game was released on 20/01/2021 The version for Nintendo Switch is scheduled in the 2021.
