The upcoming new Hitman series will be expected to release earlier this week, but Hitman won’t launch officially until March 2016. That doesn’t mean you can’t access it earlier – in fact, Square Enix announced at the weekend that a beta period will start on February 19 for PC. However, there’s a catch, though: in order to secure the access, you’ll need to preorder the game.
According to the announcement, the beta mission “is set twenty years in the past at a top-secret ICA recruitment and training facility. This unique mission revolves around how Agent 47 was recruited into the ICA and shows the first time that 47 meets his longtime handler, Diana Burnwood.”
The Hitman will be launched officially on March 11, the full game will roll out over the course of 2016. It’ll launch with three sandboxes – France, Italy, and Morocco – with Thailand, USA, and Japan launches in April, May, and June respectively. Full details of Square Enix’s episodic approach can be read over here. Take a look at the gameplay at the embedded video which is 47 minutes long.
