We’re using more of a common sense approach to the AI with how the game reacts to what you are doing as a player. If you can take him down quickly, then you can contain the situation and not have any hassles in the world. If he gets away, he’ll tell his friends and then you’ll have a big problem. If you’re dressed up in any disguise and someone sees through your disguise, only that guy has the knowledge about you infiltrating them. One thing we’ve been focusing on is taking a far more believable progression with the AI, kind of a hive-mind sense. Everybody just comes out and you’d be murdered within seconds. In the previous Hitman games, we had this very binary reaction: either the AI knew you or they didn’t. Do they just want to go in and shoot the target in the face and see if they can get away with it or do they want to make an elaborate plan and see how it unfolds? The big, big challenge is it’s not that common in games that you have this freedom of choice. Tore Blystad, Game Director at IO InteractiveIt’s completely up to the player, but it gives a lot of responsibility to the player because they actively have to discover for themselves which tools are available and how to use them.

We planted a sniper rifle in the level, the target has a car you can blow up if you find the explosives in the level and get him into the car, you can poison his food, dress up as his drug dealer and beat him up and give him some poisoned drugs. It’s one scene with a goal in the middle of the area and it’s up to you how you want to go about it. As we’ve shown on the floor in the Chinatown area, it’s kind of a small level in the game.

Tore Blystad: The feeling of accomplishing something by yourself and getting away with it, that’s the perfect feeling in a Hitman game.

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