Welcome to leak week, these pre-E3 days extra leaky than a colander of leek soup. This time, it’s Warner Brothers. They’ve solely by accident left a emblem for Hitman 2 sitting round within the innards of their web site, the large sillies. It’s gone now however was there lengthy sufficient to be noticed by Twitter individuals RobotBrush and Wario64. Hitman builders IO Interactive had been teasing an announcement on June 7 and it appears like that is it. We already knew the bald assassin was happening one other set of homicidal holidays when IO confirmed they were working on a new entry final 12 months. But now we all know Warner Bros is formally concerned too.
IO Interactive had been beforehand owned by Square Enix, however they had been cut off from the publisher’s teat final 12 months. However, they obtained to maintain Agent 47 once they went unbiased. It appears Warner Bros has stepped in and provided a publishing deal to get the unemployed contract killer again on his ft. In April WB stated they had been publishing a Definitive Edition of Hitman (for consoles solely, on actual cabinets in actual outlets) which now looks as if a precursor to this broader sequel-publishing deal.
Anyway, we’ll most likely see a trailer or one thing on Thursday. Perhaps some pictures of undercover skulking of our hairless hero? A poker-faced 47 fishing together with his goal at a Florida resort. A sorrowful 47 in a waiter’s apron listening to his goal’s exhausting childhood over a mug of scorching chocolate. A tearful 47 breaking down on the doorstep of his goal, as he involves phrases together with his personal brutal previous and vows by no means to hurt one other human once more, however solely to be devoted and caring to this pleasant, tender man, his final goal, his old flame. Hitman 2: The Married Life.
As unintentional reveals go, it’s pretty tame. Unlike the Ubisoft error from earlier in leak week, wherein the Greece-bound Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was revealed because of a promotional keyring.
