Thoughts on Hitman being developed by Square Enix?

What does everyone think about the next Hitman game being developed by Square instead of IO?

The whole 'fresh perspective' quote worries me - how about just perfecting the formula of the old games with this new interface?

http://au.gamespot.com/news/next-hitman-game-to-be-developed-by-square-enix-montreal-report-6400523

The title makes it seem like it's being handed over to Square-Enix--as in, the people that develop the core Final Fantasy games. That'd be lol-worthy if it was.

Pretty sure this Square-Enix Montreal was that expansion studio to Eidos Montreal that happened shortly after Square-Enix and Eidos Montreal hit big with Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Aren't they the same people who made Just Cause 2?

If it's montreal it looks like its the people who are making thief 4 but they are also advertising for game designers so might be new people. I think square enix london did JC2.

Nope not london avalance studios Stolkholm Sweden.

I never knew square enix was so big. Must of made lots of money off final fantasy.

Well seeing as my Hitman is unplayable ATM becuase of fps issues, it's not off to a good start :(mep69

How come? The game runs fine.

Have not played any Hitman game before but I will be getting Absolution sometime. I honestly expect it to be better than DE:HR, at least for me. Looks like more my style of Stealth game, though DE is pretty good.

[QUOTE="mep69"]Well seeing as my Hitman is unplayable ATM becuase of fps issues, it's not off to a good start :(Postmortem123

How come? The game runs fine.

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

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[QUOTE="mep69"]Well seeing as my Hitman is unplayable ATM becuase of fps issues, it's not off to a good start :(kozzy1234

How come? The game runs fine.

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

How will my GTX670 run it? I love to max things :)

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How come? The game runs fine.

NaveedLife

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

How will my GTX670 run it? I love to max things :)

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Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

Novotine

How will my GTX670 run it? I love to max things :)

Umm...probably great, but I am not sure, that is why I am asking. I run most every game great, including BF3 and Crysis Warhead. BUT some games are very difficult to run maxed or at good framerates. Arkham City is one of those games.

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[QUOTE="mep69"]Well seeing as my Hitman is unplayable ATM becuase of fps issues, it's not off to a good start :(kozzy1234

How come? The game runs fine.

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

If the developer is talented enough, they can get away with sameness for a very long time. Unfortunately IO Interactive is simply not one of those companies and Absolution, while a good game, is showing the stale signs that a new direction is indeed needed. It will be interesting to see what Square Enix can do.

If the developer is talented enough, they can get away with sameness for a very long time. Unfortunately IO Interactive is simply not one of those companies and Absolution, while a good game, is showing the stale signs that a new direction is indeed needed. It will be interesting to see what Square Enix can do.

Starshine_M2A2

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How come? The game runs fine.

mep69

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

gtx 670 with the latest nvidia drive, the beta one ran HITMAN AWESOMELY ! Beautiful graphics and Smooth FPS except one level in a building, I got noticable fps drops for 1 minute. Other than that, everything was smooth and beautiful

Now, when the article says Square Enix Montreal, do they mean Eidos montreal? If so, I have no problem with it as they've proven themselves with Deus Ex.

Square enix, however, has been doing fine as a publisher so far with how they've been treating the dev companies....Deus Ex Human Revolution is great, Hitman turned out okay (could have been better, but it could have been worse as well)...Hopefully Tomb Raider will be decent and Thief 4 amazing.

All they need to do now is announce the revival of the Legacy of Kain series...and all will be right again. :P

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Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

Elann2008

I notcied my GTX 570 performs pretty close to my GTX 680 in this game...

With maxed settings and 4xAA the benchmark runs on average at 34-35 fps.

Even with 2xaa my GTX 680 was only getting around 47fps.....I forget what it got with 4xAA on the benchmark.

With no MSAA the GTX 680 never drops below 60fps though.

Seems like the MSAA method is a bit demanding.

I do notice the game being pretty CPU heavy compared to the majority of games.

I am also using the latest beta drivers.

^ I don't know why this time it was any different than when I booted up the game before.. but I turned off Global Illumination again, and my framerate shot up to 57-60fps, still dipping into the upper 40's on few occasions but mainly 60fps.

My settings:

1920x1200
SSAO - High
GI - turned off
MSAA - 4xAA
Tesselation ON
Anisotropic 16x
Reflections - High
Vsync - ON
Level of Detail - Ultra
Depth of Field - High
Shadow Quality - High
Texture Quality - High

It's weird, but it's running better now.

[QUOTE="mep69"][QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

Game runs great for me to, maybe he needs new drivers. The latest nvidia gpu beta driver helped.

Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"][QUOTE="mep69"] I have the latest :( i go down to 40 / 20 fps. It's really annyoing..... Maybe i'll download the divers again with a fresh install.RyviusARC

I notcied my GTX 570 performs pretty close to my GTX 680 in this game...

With maxed settings and 4xAA the benchmark runs on average at 34-35 fps.

Even with 2xaa my GTX 680 was only getting around 47fps.....I forget what it got with 4xAA on the benchmark.

With no MSAA the GTX 680 never drops below 60fps though.

Seems like the MSAA method is a bit demanding.

I do notice the game being pretty CPU heavy compared to the majority of games.

I am also using the latest beta drivers.