“Instinct” Allows Agent 47 To Predict Enemy Paths In Hitman Absolution

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Last month, Square Enix released a 17-minute video walkthrough of one of the stages in Hitman Absolution. Now, we have a version of that same video accompanied by commentary from game director, Tore Blystad, and gameplay director, Christian Elverdam. Take a look:

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A new infra-red vision feature called “Instinct” allows Agent 47 to see enemies through walls, as well as the paths they’re going to be walking along. It was a feature that was added once the team felt that the game’s AI was getting too hard to handle.


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Ishaan Sahdev
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.