"[44] International Business Times gave the game a 5/10 saying "An unremarkable, derivative clone of a game that's barely a shadow of what Hitman used to be. 47 heads to Chinatown and kills the men searching for Birdie, only to discover Birdie has already been captured, and immediately heads to the orphanage; Birdie then betrays 47 by revealing Victoria's location to Wade so that his life may be spared. Meanwhile, Detective Cosmo Faulkner of the Chicago PD, who had been tracking 47 since the Terminus Hotel fire, was having trouble discovering 47's identity until Birdie offered to help him for a price. The code would be supplied by retailers upon pre-order of the game, and could be collected from retailers before release as a download code before the game's release. This was later replaced with the WB Games logo in a patch. Hitman: Absolution release date announced November swells. Stars: Massimo Agostinelli, Anilla Akbar, Usman Akbar, David Bateson. "[41] GameTrailers gave it 6.9/10 saying "It's clear that a good deal of effort was put into crafting Hitman: Absolution's world. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the remastered versions of Absolution and its predecessor, Hitman: Blood Money, were released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as part of the Hitman HD Enhanced Collection. Hitman: Absolution for PC game reviews & Metacritic score: Wear the suit of the ultimate assassin, you have the ability to blend into plain sight, kill with your bare hands and fashion a weapon from almost anything. [13], The game introduces an online option to the series, 'Contracts', where players can create their own missions for other players to complete. [21] It has been reported the game will be a "familiar and yet significantly different experience from other Hitman games. Hitman Absolution Game-Play supports Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, XBOX 360, XBOX One, and OS X. Diana sent a message to 47, welcoming him back to the ICA and thanking him for his help. [2] It is the fifth installment in the Hitman series. After cutting the barcode tattoo out of his head and giving his Silverballers to Birdie, 47 was informed by Birdie about a man named Blake Dexter, head of Dexter Industries, a home defense system company, who was staying at the top floor of the Terminus Hotel and was trying to get his hands on Victoria after knowing about her somehow. November 20, 2012 November 20, 2012 November 20, 2012 January 24, 2013 January 11, 2019 (HD Enhanced Collection) Game Mode(s): IO-Interactive Hitman: Absolution Square Enix ... Release date 2/26/2013 . If 47 is caught trespassing or doing some other suspicious activity by guards, the rest of the NPCs won't be alerted immediately like in older games. With 47's location confirmed, Travis decided to send his men after 47. After eliminating Jade and Travis's elite bodyguards, 47 confronts Travis himself after injuring him in an explosion. He took her away from the mansion and cut off his connection to Travis, who, after knowing that he had escaped along with Victoria, became extremely angry and branded him a traitor. There are also environmental ways to kill or distract individuals; players can use poison to spike coffee, pull switches to make a disco ball fall and break, cause a massive explosion at a gas station, pull a switch to cause scaffolding to fall down, cause fires, or set off fireworks. [15] "Contracts" was shut down in May 2018 due to IO Interactive not owning or controlling the online servers but needing to comply with GDPR legislation.[16]. Hitman: Absolution's release date is sneaking up on us, piano wire in hand, and the latest trailer tells us why you will never be as good as Agent 47. by Kyle Hilliard on Nov 10, 2012 at 08:09 AM.