Hitman

Fame?

So technically like the Hitman game, but more open world?

But I like Solid Snake better than I like Hitman.

I don't like the Hitman guy.

You got Solid Snake.

I forgot what part five, I think.

But

that game was super open world.

But he was just like...

Don't show him Hitman.

Don't show him Hitman at the minute.

Or perhaps do,

because you get to Guild.

see it? Yeah, I did get a chance to take a look, and honestly, it is the closest I've seen a major publisher slash, I guess, a studio that has this storied history of developing games as a service actually having their finger on the pulse of something that I think was in the zeitgeist.

This Mass Effect universe, granted, we don't actually know what it is, but there's a lot of rumors and speculation that this was something akin to like a Hitman 2016, like World of Assassination-style Hitman, and or something like James Bond.

When I saw that trailer, I saw the IOI's James Bond game and the DNA of that game in this trailer.

And I was like, this is exactly what Mass Effect needs.

Yeah,

Hitman.

It all comes full circle.

Hitman, you could do that.

Like a halo ring of some kind.

The halo ring.

The aesthetics of spy whatever will never mix with an open world game.

And I started thinking about it, and I'm like, Hitman...

Is that what he's talking about?

Hitman's not open world.

It's

not.

So I think Rockstar may be right on this one.

Like I really think we'll probably never see like an open world, go anywhere you want, spy, stealthy game.

One of my all-time absolute favorite games.

I would probably say Hitman World of Assassinations, which is Hitman 1, 2, and 3 altogether.

And Hitman, I'm sure you're not familiar with Hitman.

So Hitman is a, you are a Hitman, but it is like a puzzle game to kill people.

It's fantastic.

I can see how you could adapt that to real life, Ryan.

I've seen the game, and it looks like a really bad GTA knockoff.

Also, I adore, I... something I just adore about this, uh, about this game specifically, so this trailer, is that it ended with the tease that Hitman was gonna... like, like Agent 47 was gonna be in the game at some point because it was...

this was published by I, uh, IOI or IO Interactive.

It was the IO, uh, IO, um, IO...

Mine ties it out now.

You probably get it for like four bucks.

Anyways, uh, next up is some- it's another thing that they kind of announced, uh, with it is the Hitman World, World of Assassination c- uh, and James Bond crossover with Les Chiffre from Casino Royale and with, uh, Matt Mickelson reprising his role.

Cool, cool.

Uh, I didn't have any inclination to play it for longer than, um, than, I suppose, yeah, it was the intro mission and then that first main mission, and I was like, "I've kind of seen everything I need to from it now, and I know that this game isn't for me, so I'm gonna put it down." Um- It's, yeah, it's kind of, I guess, IO Interactive's take, uh, on ...

They've sort of tried to take their whole Hitman sandbox, where Hitman is a very quiet, considered character.

He kind of isn't really a character, he's just some dude with a barcode on the back of his head, and you just- Mm-hmm ... you play him and you kill people, right? And, and the sandbox and, and the missions are the characters, and you're trying to- Mm-hmm ...

like unpick them.

whereas James Bond is kind of firstly feels a bit like some suits have kind of gone into the boardroom, and they're like, "We need to make more money, lads." Mm.

And then someone's like, "Yeah, okay.

We need to kinda turn Hitman, take this Hitman engine, this template, um, and create a triple A game." Um, and that's exactly how it feels.

Yeah.