Hitman could also be IO Interactive’s most well-known collection, nevertheless it has a corker in its historical past that by no means actually discovered the success (and sequels) that it deserved: Freedom Fighters. The third-person shooter noticed you resist a Soviet invasion of the US. It was a distinct pace to the Hitman games, supplying you with management over a big squad of AI teammates and sending you out into occupied New York to take again bases from the Ruskies.
Well, it’s no sequel, however Freedom Fighters has discovered new life in Hitman 2. During his current playthrough of Hitman 2’s Columbia level – which sees you making an attempt to take down the chief of a drug cartel – our editor, Ben, stopped off in a bar for a fast drink… and to knock out a tattoo artist and assume his identification to get nearer to the goal. In the nook of the bar you possibly can see an arcade cupboard for Freedom Fighters.
Now, we don’t know if the cupboard is playable, Ben didn’t attempt it on the time – don’t fear, we’ve already chastised him for the lapse in his journalistic obligation. We’ve reached out to writer Warner Bros. PR to see if they’ll inform us.
EA revealed Freedom Fighters, so it would seem to be extra Freedom Fighters, or perhaps a playable arcade cupboard, is an not possible dream. However, whereas IO doesn’t have the rights for previous games like Kane & Lynch and Mini Ninjas, it has retained the rights for Freedom Fighters.
Here’s that cupboard in all its glory:
Glorious.
And in movement:
This isn’t the primary time a developer’s previous games have been noticed as arcade machines of their newer releases. Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios (which was largely made up of Free Radical employees) hid a playable model of Timesplitters 2 in an arcade cupboard. And, in that case, Dambuster didn’t even have the rights to the collection, Crytek did.
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