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Hitman bonus campaign patient zero7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Our first worry was that since the regime change quality control had slipped, but luckily things picked up from there. Not only was the execution of the level pretty standard fare, but there were strange audio issues that persisted throughout, where we'd hear fragments of conversations between two characters who were on a different floor to us. We're once again in Bangkok at the hotel first seen in Episode 4, and we have to take out two cultists with designs on releasing some kind of terrible plague on the world, but despite this level kicking off an interesting narrative, it was actually pretty unremarkable in most other respects. The first of the four missions is pretty run-of-the-mill. Still, if you've played season one extensively, you may well be feeling a bit of fatigue by now, and coupled with the pricing, it might be enough to put you off. It's a £16 upgrade, so these new missions aren't exactly cheap, but at least there's four of them, and despite a slow start, IOI has actually mixed things up a little by introducing the odd change of pace to keep players on their toes. ![]() It's accessible as part of the Game of the Year Edition Upgrade (which also includes some character packs), so you can only buy this content if you've already got the whole of the season one, either via individual purchases or The Complete First Season. While performing a similar trick to other missions set in redecorated locations, Patient Zero has a little more substance to it, with short but slick cutscenes and a cohesive story that binds the whole thing together. Story campaign is a bit of a stretch to be honest, because we're talking about four missions, each one taking place on a repurposed map, similar to how IOI has handled other DLC, retrofitting existing sandboxes with new features. (An aside: we played the Xbox One X version and it does look lovely with 4K assets, although it sometimes took us more than one attempt to boot the game up for some inexplicable reason). The studio has been preparing a second season of content to follow the events of the first, but in the meantime, the company has published a new (final?) edition of Hitman on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, this time complete with a second story campaign. IO Interactive was recently set free by former owners Square Enix, with the Hitman studio left to fend for itself following a lukewarm commercial response to the latest, episodic outing of Agent 47. ![]()
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