IO Interactive and publisher Feral Interactive are sending a classic Hitman game out on a new assignment, this time on Switch and mobile devices. Hitman Blood Money, one of the stealth game series’ popular older entries, is coming back as Hitman Blood Money Reprisal, set for release in winter 2023 on Switch and fall 2023 on iOS and Android.
Blood Money follows Agent 47 in a timeline different from the World of Assassination trilogy. Rival assassins track 47 across the globe, including Paris and New Orleans, but his biggest threat may just be the one person who’s close to him. Blood Money’s plot gets pretty out there and more than a little ridiculous, but then again, it wouldn’t be a Hitman game otherwise.
Reprisal adds several quality-of-life features from the series’ later games, including Instinct Mode, where 47 can suss out his targets and interactable objects more easily, and a minimap that actually stays visible as long as you want it to. IOI and Feral called it a “sparkling” version of the game and promised many more improvements.
It looks like visual improvements might not be among those. The trailer shows a game that looks very much like the 2006 original, so don’t go in expecting the sparkling towers of Dubai or the gloomy grandeur of Dartmoor.
Meanwhile, IO Interactive is still working on their 007 James Bond game and, at the far other end of the spectrum, a fantasy RPG that looks like it’ll be an Xbox exclusive whenever it launches.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF