Hitman Absolution Gets Date, Gamestop Exclusive Pre-Order Bonus Game

[DoctorFinger]

Square Enix and developer IO Interactive today announced that Hitman Absolution will be released on November 20 in North America. This nugget of info was buried in a press release touting one of the more elaborate pre-order bonuses I've yet seen. If you pre-order Hitman from Gamestop - and apparently only from Gamestop - you'll get the Hitman Sniper Challenge stand alone title for free starting next week. This downloadable game will score your attempts to kill a corrupt CEO with your trusty sniper rifle from a distant balcony. The Kazo TRG sniper rifle you use in Sniper Challenge can be carried over to the main game along with the upgrades and unlockables earned therein.

This is, as far as I can remember, the first time a separate XBLA/PSN quality game was created just to be a pre-order bonus for another game. Dead Rising 2 had the Case Zero game, but I don't think that was given away with pre-orders. And in any case, that wasn't really a separate game, just the first level of DR2 dressed up as a separate game. Facebook games and flash games? Sure, but an XBLA/PSN/Steam release of this sort is, I think, a first.

[Xerxes]

Oh that's quote as fuck. I havne't played any of the previous Hitman games. I tried the first one, but slipped into something newer and haven't went back.

Gamestop exclusive? Fuck off!

[TheSilentDeath]

There was also the Fable 2 Pub Games, but they were also released as a XBLA game that you could pay for, which you got for free for pre-ordering. As much as I don't like GameStop, if I really wanted the new Hitman (which I may, the verdict is still out on that) I might actually pre-order it at a GameStop instead of Amazon.

[AversionFX]

That looks fun, but I wouldn't pre-order anything from Gamestop, even if the lives of my entire family depended on it.

[KamaItachi]

Hell no. I think think this may have even hurt my intention to buy this game at all now.

[Libuke]

Seems stupid to me.

I am looking forward to he game but no way in hell I am buying it from gamespot. I was planning on steam, I think it will be available there.

[BLeeP]

I love the stab at Assassin's Creed at the end of the trailer.

[TheKeck]

Originally Posted by AversionFX

That looks fun, but I wouldn't pre-order anything from Gamestop, even if the lives of my entire family depended on it.

I hope you know this is irrational.

[Squidbot]

Originally Posted by Xerxes

Oh that's quote as fuck.

Please stop.

[muddi900]

Originally Posted by Squidbot

Please stop.

Not quote as fuck!

[Squidbot]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Not quote as fuck!

[Squidbot]

Originally Posted by BLeeP

I love the stab at Assassin's Creed at the end of the trailer.

Indeed.
Wondering how this promotion will work in the U.K. I love me some Hitman.

[Sl1pstream]

Originally Posted by Squidbot

Indeed.
Wondering how this promotion will work in the U.K. I love me some Hitman.

They will be available over here, I assume that that also means that they'll be available in the UK.

[Narradisall]

Well, that's a first, unless you order from Gamestop there's NO way to get this?

Gamestop are really becoming a pain in the ass with this stuff.

Fable 2 pub games you could at least buy seperately.

[Sl1pstream]

If these are distributed the same way that other pre-order bonuses are, I might be able to give away one or two.

[KamaItachi]

Game are running the promotion here. I'm sure someone will have partnered up with Square Eenix to get this.

[Wilkz07]

knowing how gamestop/ebgames works with pre-orders - they either won't get the codes on the day of release or they won't have enough brought in to cover their pre-orders. Also, pretty sure it doesn't add any achievments/trophies so I'm okay without it.