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Hitman Developers Explain How The Game Isn’t Launching as an Early Access Title

August 11, 2015 by Ian Miles Cheong

Hitman’s developers have explained how the game’s launch content isn’t the same thing as an early access game.

The newest Hitman game is set for release this December, but it won't have all of the content that the game is set to offer. 

The game's developers at IO Interactive have been trying to explain what gamers will get by getting the game upon the game's release, and what content they can expect to see added to the game after it comes out. 

To put things in simple terms, the game will contain a good portion of the game's content on its release, but not all of the game. The rest of the content will be added throughout 2016, including new missions and contracts that expand the story and live events. You won't have to pay anything extra for the content. 

This seems to imply that the game will be released as an "early access" title, but the game's developers insist that this isn't the case. When you think of "early access", you think of buggy, unpolished, and essentially unfinished games. 

“When people hear Early Access they often think unfinished, unpolished and buggy. That’s the opposite [to what we’re doing],” said IO's Hannes Seifert in an interview with Videogamer.

Seifert says that the content that comes out in 2016 will not cost gamers anything extra over what they already paid at launch. “There is nothing hidden away you could even spend extra money on. That is very important to us.”

The game comes out on the PC, Xbox One and PS4 on December 8. 

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