Hitman: Contracts

Hitman: Contracts

All Age Gaming's John Elliott brings us the 12th developer profile. This time he looks at the Hitman and Kane and Lynch series developer IO Interactive. See inside for a look into this respected developer.

"In the world of games the male lead has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. Among the things a hero has to accomplish is being a tough guy or a bad-ass in this case. While plenty have accomplished this throughout the history of gaming, few have made major impacts in gaming in the last ten years. What does it take to be a bad-ass you ask? Well first of all you have to be able to hold your own in a fight despite all the odds being stacked against you. There's no denying that the guys on o..."

"It’s an accepted fact that video games aren’t real. Of course some people would like to tell you that you don’t know the difference between video games and reality (*cough* Jack Thompson of course *cough*). Well, sometimes the line is actually blurred. It would appear that video games have seeped into our reality from time to time, and it’s only a matter of days, months, or years before we have to deal with the emerging video game menace. So why not prepare ahead of time by taking a look at t..."

"You may have played games such as The Darkness, Hitman: Contracts, BioShock or Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. I bet you didn’t know that Plastic Wax was one of the companies responsible for the CG work that was put into those games. Pretty spiffy work, eh?"

The mighty Agent 47 is making his way to the PlayStation 2 and PC this Friday in a new Triple Pack offering that consists of Hitman: Contracts, Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Silent Assassin... all in one pack for one fixed regular price. If you've never played the Hitman series, trust us, now's the time.