IO Interactive is releasing the Hitman Holiday Pack as a gift to players. The pack will be available starting tomorrow, December 15, for absolutely free on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It’ll give players not only the prologue, but also the game’s first episode, Paris, for free. It also includes the game’s first festive event called Holiday Hoarders, where players “try and find Santa as he drops gifts around the stylishly re-decorated Palais de Walewska in Paris and try to stop the two thieves who are following his trail stealing all the gifts and leaving the taps running.”
IO Interactive says they’re giving this away to fans for free as a gift, and that they hope players will “do your bit this holiday season whatever you can do from giving money to a charity or offering your time to someone who needs it.” For more on the stealth title, check out our Hitman review. Here’s what Paulmichael Contreras had to say about the title:
Hitman shines in giving the player numerous choices when the time comes to deal out death. Perhaps describing what happened to me simply in the game?s prologue will suffice. One of the game?s first training missions asked me to infiltrate a yacht during a party, and kill a target. In front of my spawn location was a crate, upon which sat several items. I picked them all up ? some remote explosives, a few coins, etc. About 50 feet ahead of me, a gentleman looking rather dapper in a light-c...