News - Eidos announces Hitman: Blood Money
Posted by
Josh Freund
at 02:57:34 PM EST on 11.4.2004.
Eidos has announced the next installment in the
Hitman fanchise. Titled
Hitman: Blood Money, it will be released in spring 2005 for Playstation 2, Xbox, and PC. Io-Interactive will be developing the title, and Eidos will handle the publishing duties.
In
Blood Money, the player once again takes on the role of mysterious Agent 47, the world's top assassin. The storyline goes like this: Agents from ICA (Agent 47's contract agency) are being systematically taken out, and Agent 47's job is to find out who's behind the killings and stop them. However, things get dicey after Agent 47 loses contact with ICA and senses that he may be targeted next. Agent 47's mission takes him to America, where it seems most of the game takes place.
One new feature in
Blood Money is the cash system. Each time you make a kill, you'll be paid in cash (hence the title "Blood Money"), and depending on how you use that money, where you're able to go in the game, weapons available to you, etc. will change. This will hopefully add some replayability to the game and ensure that everyone playing through it has a unique experience.
Hitman: Blood Money is powered by a new version of Io's Glacier engine. Janos Flösser, managing director of Io-Interactive says, "Considerable time and effort has been spent developing a new version of the Glacier engine that enables us to implement many new and exciting features. The quality of the graphics and A.I. surpasses even our own expectations and this combined with a gripping narrative and the introduction of some really inventive characters makes us confident that Blood Money will be the greatest Hitman title to date."
Here's the first screen and the
Blood Money logo (click to enlarge):
Source:
Gamefront
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