Square-Enix Has Assembled Three Old Hitman Games Into an HD Collection

I really love the effort put into the cover, it's not the typical "let's scale down the covers from the games in the collection and fit them together" cover. Awesome stuff.

@simkas said:

@WireTom: Did you even watch it? Blood Money footage pretty much ends at around 30 seconds in and the whole trailer is 1:44 long.

Did you watch it? I saw MAYBE 20 seconds of the second and 3rd games, then back to Blood Money. I was pretty dumbfounded...

@cowgod said:

I fail to see the "HD" here. And even if they are HD, no amount if graphical polish can save the gameplay of the first Hitman game.

I believe they're not including the first game because it was only on PC. That and I think Contracts is pretty much a re-make of most of the levels from it too.

I think I'll bite. I've always wanted to get into the Hitman series

I fail to see the "HD" here. And even if they are HD, no amount if graphical polish can save the gameplay of the first Hitman game.

When I read Alex description for this video I hear Dusty Rhodes voice lol.

@WireTom: Did you even watch it? Blood Money footage pretty much ends at around 30 seconds in and the whole trailer is 1:44 long.

"Hey, lets make a trailer for our new HD Hitman Trilogy game!"

"Yeah, and we'll make it so 80% of the trailer is made up of Bloody Money footage!"

"HIGH FIVE!"

I imagine this is how it went.

It doesn't look improved. I finished off Blood Money a few months ago. Turn on 16x anisotropic filtering and morphological AA, and it looks the same as this trailer. Maybe it actually looks better when you play, but this trailer did not.

@Microshock said:

@DeathbyYeti said:

"HD collections" are kind of awful and as someone who loves Hitman I dont care at all for this

What's awful about them? Multiple old games in one place, with improved frame rates/textures.

because neither of those things are usually improved, aside from the resolution bump

The Hitman theme is so triumphant for a guy that kills people for a living.

I've always found it odd that the Hitman Collection on Steam was the first, second, and fourth games. Now this HD collection is the second, third, and fourth games. It's nice that Contracts is legally available again though.

I got a fresh idea, lets remake all that old stuff but in hd! No one suspects the spanish inquisitio... errr I mean the HD remake.

@DeathbyYeti said:

"HD collections" are kind of awful and as someone who loves Hitman I dont care at all for this

What's awful about them? Multiple old games in one place, with improved frame rates/textures.

@sissylion said:

Do one of these games have the sauna thing where you can shoot out the bottom and the people will get sucked through it? Because if not, no sale.

Yes blood money

Totally ready to play this. I want to see what they did to Blood Money, if anything.

@Innovacious said:

Supposedly its been gone for so long because the license on a song used in one of the bars ran out, and rather than remove the song they just stopped selling the game.

Yeah I've heard that too. I am really interested to find out what they changed the song to. Yeah, I am sad.

"HD collections" are kind of awful and as someone who loves Hitman I dont care at all for this

Ah... remember back when you could actually use the disguise system effectively? Those were the days.

Trifecta

Triptych

Ternion

Troika

I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY, BITCHES

All 3 of them are solid games.

Do one of these games have the sauna thing where you can shoot out the bottom and the people will get sucked through it? Because if not, no sale.

So, finally an opportunity to get contracts on PC again? Its been a long time since i played it on the PS2. Supposedly its been gone for so long because the license on a song used in one of the bars ran out, and rather than remove the song they just stopped selling the game.

edit: wait, trailer only shows boxart for consoles, no PC release then? I guess all the games are already "HD" on PCs, doesn't look like they have increased the texture quality, but would have been nice to get contracts again.

Well, I should hope these games are in an HD collection for the first time.

Be rather redundant to put out two identical HD collections, don't you think?

It's actually 2 (Silent Assassin),3 (Contracts) and 4 (Blood Money, which already came out in HD) so it's not actually the first 3 games.

But then again the 1st one was kinda crummy, so it doesn't really matter.

HITMAN CONTRACTS FUCK YEA

Blood Money: Still one of the best games ever made.

Love hearing that Kyd score in the trailer. So good.

That's a thing!

well, that explains the steam sale then.

YEAH HITMAN

Man titty

HITMANNING ALL DAY SON