Hitman 2 had some seriously strong post-release support. For around £32.99/$39.99 – or as part of the premium priced Gold Edition – the Expansion Pass granted you two full sandbox maps (New York and Haven Island) which continued the plot of the main game, as well as a couple of Sniper Assassin locations (Hantu Port and Siberia), two costumes, a bunch of items, and four Special Assignment missions. Good stuff, right?
Hitman 3’s Deluxe Pack, by comparison, is looking like a total rip-off. It’s not that the contents are bad, it’s just that the price doesn’t really work out based on the above: IO Interactive is charging £28.99/$34.99 for six Escalations, three suits and items, a Digital Soundtrack, and a Digital Artbook. You do also get the Director’s Commentary which is cool, but it’s hardly comparable with the Danish developer’s efforts for Hitman 2.
Obviously, you can save some money by outright buying the Hitman 3: Deluxe Edition, but even then we’re not sure how the developer’s justifying the price here. There’ll be discounts in the future, of course, but this doesn’t look like good value for money at all right now.
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I got the first hitman complete on psplus, can I put hitman 1 content on hitman 3? And if my psplus expired will hitman 1 content on my hitman 3 stay?
@wiiware Yes and yes.
@get2sammyb Nice, thanks for the answer
There are increasingly few franchises that I'll blindly stump up megabucks for, but Hitman is one of them. The soundtracks alone have enough value for me, personally.
But it's different for everybody, I suppose.
Yes its no where as good value.
But you gotto remember that IoI have now gone completly independent and dont have the same level of funding as before.
Its far cheaper to make some escalations than developing whole new maps (arguably escalation are worth no more that a freebie DLC in my eyes)
My advice is to ignore the Deluxe pack unless you want to support IoI as an independent studio......which you should.
Ironically they given away something somthing marginally superior "Patient Zero Campagn" for free where as before it was a bit expensive for what it is (provide you import any version of hitman 1)
@wiiware hitman was on psplus?
@Boucho11
Yes. If you go on the PS4 & push left on the D-pad to the PS+ symbol, you'll find a list of PS+ games. It should be in there, I cannot say 100% because I am not on my PS4 Pro at the moment.
@banacheck yeah you were right. I didn’t even know I had that game! Result
@Boucho11 I'm suprised that's it's on my psplus tab, I just realize this now
Update: It's a free psplus game only on may 1 - may 3, 2020.
@wiiware me too. I’ll definitely give it a go before deciding on the new one
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