Hitman is fully episodic, here are all the details

Since it was intially announced, we’ve known that Hitman wasn’t going to be released as a full game. Square Enix and Io Interactive early last year announced that the game would, at first, be split into two parts with about half of the game in each as well as feature multiple live events for the community. That has all changed today with the release that the game has gone completely episodic. In a statement from Io Interactive today, studio head Hannes Seifert said that

“We decided to take the full leap and publish HITMAN as a truly episodic game experience. Part of that decision is for that little bit of extra time to ensure every location we release is at the quality level fitting for a HITMAN game. But the main driving reason is that this will allow us to create a living game that will expand and evolve over time and establish a foundation for the future – this is the first game in a storyline which will continue and expand with future Hitman games.”

The new breakdown will be as follows:

Intro pack $15

This will include two missions, the Prologue and Paris missions. Each missions will have its own target and side activities

Add on packs $10

The first will be Italy in April, then Morocco in May. This will follow with Thailand, US and Japan to complete the packs for a total of 5 or $50

Full Experience pack $60

This will include the intro pack and all add on packs for a saving of $5. If you do choose to only buy the Intro pack at first, you can then buy all the content with the upgrade pack for $50, but this will cost an additional $5 from buying everything at once.

PlayStation users will also gain access to The Sarajevo Six. 6 Bonus Contracts, one of which will be released with each location and sees Agent 47 travel the world in pursuit of six former members of a paramilitary unit called CICADA in this self-contained side-story exclusive for PlayStation 4 users. For players wanting to get into the game early, the HITMAN beta starts on February 12^th on PlayStation 4 and February 19^th on PC. Players can guarantee access to the beta by pre-ordering the Full Experience or the new Intro Pack.

Hitman releases initially on March 11th