The reviews for the first part of this are coming in and they're
pretty good.
They finally settled on three different purchase methods if you want to end up with the full game in the end. I'm quoting here from
this EG article:
Quote:
- Purchase the Full Experience, which will secure access to all updates down the line, for £44.99.
- Buy the Intro Pack for £11.99, then snag the Upgrade Pack for £36.99, offering access to the following episodes upon release. Total comes to £48.98.
- Buy the Intro Pack for £11.99, then purchase the following episodes separately for £7.99. Total comes to £59.93.
The actual content is divided up as follows:
Quote:
As far as what each episode contains, the Intro Pack includes the Prologue tutorial missions along with the Paris stage, while all subsequent chapters will feature a single new city. April's episode will be set in Italy, May's in Morocco, and Thailand, the US, Japan and an unannounced location will follow through late 2016.
So you basically get up to £15 off the full price if
you're a fucking idiot you trust them enough to buy the full game up front. I like that they're offering a lot of flexibility here and it's certainly not as offensive as their original plans. Ultimately though I'd rather they just delivered the full bloody game in one go so people knew what they were getting and could just buy it or not by choice. Or, at the very least, if it cost the same to get the full game no matter how you bought the individual bits. I've never actually played a Hitman game though and I'm not sure this massively interests me so it might not impact me at all if I don't ever pick it up.