‘Hitman’ News And Updates: New ‘Professional’ Difficulty Level, Physical Disc Release Date
Staff ReporterSkilled players of "Hitman" that find the game too easy to play may be happy to know that the game's next free update will bring a new difficulty level dubbed as "Professional" according to Polygon. Square Enix stated that this update will significantly make the game more challenging and will provide extended replay value.
This new difficulty level brings advanced AI in enemies and security cameras, has limited saves and new set of rewards. It will only become available after players have reached Mastery Level 20 for each location. It will also provide a separate leaderboard to differentiate between play through on Normal difficulty and Professional.
The Professional difficulty level won't be available in Elusive Targets and Escalation Targets, which will only be available in Normal difficulty.
According to Game Spot, the physical edition of "Hitman's" first season will be available in Jan. 31, which coincides with the release of the new downloadable content. This follows 10 months of episodic content released digitally throughout 2016, which will all be included on the disc.
Hannes Seifert, Studio head at Hitman developer IO Interactive stated that the disc will combine everything they have learned, refined and updated of the period of 10 months. He added that it is the result of live input, development and feedback from players.
The disc will be available in retail stores starting Jan. 31 for Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4. The game includes a steel book case and will cost $59.99 for the consoles and $49.99 for the PC.
"Hitman" is an episodic strealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix and also the sixth game for the franchise.
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