i’m pretty far from a game designer, but i think as a sort of aperitif - a puzzle-box/gimmick challenge level - it could be quite fascinating as both a design challenge for io (to make it interesting) and a challenge for the player (social stealth in a tight space).
it doesn’t have to be quite as linear as you think. you can get fairly roomy two-decker luxury trains, so you effectively have four vertical planes, including the outside top and bottom of the train (which would be dangerous, natch); and around five horizontal planes (three corridors/rooms inside, and the two outer sides of the train, which are also dangerous).
lots of ways to dispose of bodies; tight confines making social stealth difficult and suit only really challenging; sniper challenge requiring you to time the shot when the train is on a straight so you could shoot down the carriages from one end; lots of potential executions; a time limit based on reaching a destination; stops at stations that reshuffle or add guards; maybe even a gimmick of having to work out when the target gets on - all sorts of potential chicanery.
i dunno, i think current io could make something rather cool with it.
I’d like to see another Harbour Mission, Hantu Port would have been amazing if they wouldn’t have wasted it for Sniper Assassin. oh, and you cant go wrong with a good ol Hotel Mission - as long as it doesn’t contain a Recording Studio
I’ve said it before, but I want 47 headed to Toronto. I want a big open city where 47 needs to hop on a streetcar to get around quickly. It’ll have the CN Tower and the Scotiabank Arena, where a Toronto Maple Leafs game is being played. Some little shops and apartments in between the two, just to liven it up, but feel free to shrink it down to a size more conducive to fun.
Maybe there’s a target who goes up and down the CN Tower (with a functioning glass elevator) and walks across its area with the glass floor.
And of course you’d have to have a target at the hockey game, probably with a VIP box, and they probably have to come down onto the ice to make a special charity announcement. Maybe also one of the players on the opposing team is a target, and you’d have an opportunity to take the pair out at the same time.
Level idea I had in my head recently was to split the level budget into maybe four smaller self contained tight levels/areas comprising of maybe just a single floor of apartments, or just couple houses and a garden etc.
Maybe four hawkes bay style houses and the level takes place at night.
The idea is 47 has the hit order for four people in the same town and they all have to be done in the same night. So it’s one mission, you have one loadout at the start & what makes it interesting is you could choose the order to visit each one and the order affects how you can do things because the items and outfits are spread so the same stuff can’t be found in every area. Eg. One place might have a cop outfit that you can can use on the other areas, crowbar, stash of poison or drugs etc.
I beg to differ (and bow to no one!). A train level would work in Hitman if designed with the proper sandbox-like intention. Which the Romanian one clearly wasn´t. (but agree it´s still a good mission that serves its purpose well )
The problem with a train is that theres only really two directions you can go, forward and back. Unless you can get off the train at some point in the mission, it will always just end up being going from one end of the train to another to get to your target, like in this mission.
I did enjoy this mission, but like most, I’d take it over a full sandbox location any day.
It will still be just be going from one point to another, only with an extra floor. The idea is there but its still just too compact to make a proper sandbox location.
There are some lovely ideas in this thread!
I totally agree with a maximum security prison (so many possibilities to infiltrate/exfiltrate here: prison inmate, guard, lawyer, visitor, investigator etc), a flying airplane coupled with an airport terminal (could be a two-part mission, the plane being a bit linear then the airport like a normal sandbox), and also the Vatican (since some Providence members are apparently still alive, that would go for a great sequel with corresponding storyline), that kind of location would go well with secret passages / old sewers.
Here are some other locations I would throw into the mix:
A huge Hollywood-type mansion (maybe an actor’s house or a President’s house cough Putin’s compound cough)
An office tower, complete with cubicles and conference rooms
A stadium during an Olympic Games event (Think H2: Miami but indoors): Haas Rheinhardt could be a valid target (see below)
An offshore oil-rig
A submarine base or other secure military compound
The Kremlin or other widely known unique landmark (Notre-Dame, Eiffel Tower, Buzludzha Bulgaria)
Washington D.C. (but not the WH since it’s been done in BM)
A Royal Palace of some sorts (Tren Po’s?)
While we’re at it, let’s discuss targets. There are a few “loose ends” from the last trilogy that I’d like to tie…
Tren Po (Prince of Khandanyang)
The other Providence members that are still alive; a list of names and pictures that are found in the Colorado level (Alexander Fanin, William Candler, Mikhail Kadir, Haas Reinhardt, Byron Washington, Erik Olander, Esteban Montoya, Raoul Salazar from the Vatican(!), and so on)
All these targets deserve 47 coming at them. Call it Hitman: Redemption (lol)
I would like some of those “loose ends” to be bonus mission targets. Set perhaps in the “one year later” period. Montoya (I also wanna see Curare) and Washington in particular, since they are more closely tied to previous targets. And the Po family, of course .
In the meantime, Tren Po, Khadir, Olander, and Salazar can at least be killed off in Contracts
Yes, I agree this would make sense to get these as bonus missions. Less waiting than for a new game that’s for sure haha. Or maybe make them Elusive Targets?
This brings me to another wish (about ETs); As long as I’ve been following the Hitman series since 2004, I kinda got late in the WoA trilogy so I missed every ET so far. That would be neat if IOI could release these as an expansion pack or something (maybe have these ETs come back for a limited time to give new players a chance to try them?).