Great. Thx for sharing this with us! Very impressed to see how the game has evolved over time.
It is also noteworthy to see that the game’s title has been changed: from “Silent War” to “World of Assassination”. IMO, “Silent War” was a beautiful name, even though I do like the “WoA” name.
Each name sounds to be connected to one aspect of the game: Silent War is more related to the game’s plot, while “WoA” is linked to the game’s gamelay.
Moreover, I was looking for other videos and I found this one on Youtube:
Very interesting that originally they had made fully animated briefing videos. I suppose it was budget reasons that forced them to use the animated slideshow style for the briefings, given the sheer number of briefings that had to be made for the game (6 levels, 3 bonus missions, 26 ETs).
It makes me wonder what the original Bangkok was going to be like before they decided to just move stuff from Paris over to it. And because a good chunk of it was meant for Paris, that’s why Bangkok feels so ill fitting to the setting compared to so many other locations!
By the way, the idea of an ET having one target who is required and a second target who is an optional bonus is a quite unique concept. I think programming wise it would work since the extra Berlin targets can be killed or ignored without voiding Silent Assassin. I would’ve liked to see that at some point, even now I think it could be cool though I don’t know if it would really fit with a celebrity ET. Maybe if they did a celeb duo like Penn and Teller where you need to take out Penn’s character but Teller’s character is optional cause he won’t tell anyone about the hit.
Can’t remember if it was in the first alpha that we had, but I like that if you cause a panic in the IAGO auction - the non-guard NPCs will evacuate the floor and group at the bottom of the stairs on the floor below and once the alert is over, they will slowly head back to their positions. Instead of just standing around panicked like they do in the final game.
Finally makes sense why if you’re not compromised, guards shout at 47 to “leave the area”.
Really happy about this. Is there any assets or mentions of the scrapped Absolution sequel in the prototype? Or was Silent War originally the ‘canceled sequel’ itself?
Ah yeah, it was confirmed to be a January 2015 build. Not 2013. One day we’ll get the build of the canceled Abso sequel. Maybe even footage of that infamous ‘internal trailer’.
I wonder if it was just a placeholder for the briefing, or if Francesca De Santis was originally going to actually patrol the city section of Sapienza in her route. It shows her in the church too, so maybe it was originally her who confesses to Father Francesco and feels guilty about the lab guy’s death instead of the other lab assistant.
To clear some things, that front facade of the Bangkok/Galar hotel at night is Kevin and Kercyx’s ToTT mod nothing to do with the Alpha, and the watch collection (mine ) is for the most part Beta content, but I guess this one is still relatively on topic
I can’t say 100% but I don’t think Bangkok had much plans before that, it seems more like when they decided to design the level with the idea of a hotel resort in Thailand, they decided to re-use the cut content and adapt it rather than do something entirely from scratch,
I think the levels with the most plannings were the first 3 (+ prologue later) and the last 3 were probably running out of time and so a lot of things about them were cut short and shortcuts were taken
Silvio was originally going to the church and the lab so it’s not impossible they both had very wide routes going around the town before they mostly stuck to the mansion
These are incredible. Thanks for posting these especially the Paris briefing as i love that final version they had in game so it’s good to see how different the original was.
Also realized the “Rhodes” in this animation file likely refers to Jim Rhodes and we know from Travis (ex IO Community Manager) that Ekwensi could be killed with a lighter gun swap (Blood Money reference) but I guess it was always assumed he’d shoot himself
nothing to do with the Alpha, and the watch collection (mine 
) is for the most part Beta content, but I guess this one is still relatively on topic
