The situation is kinda unclear and I’m not legal expert, so maybe the situation is a bit more complex, idk. I think IO has exclusive rights on the HITMAN IP (only them can use it but the trademark is still owned by SE).
I knew about this new sniper hitman game. I’ll play it, but I really don’t like mobile games and I don’t like the Hitman Sniper formula (that of the first mobile game). I always hope that they remaster those missions for consoles, in the same formula of sniper missions in WoA, but I know that this will never happen
Feels more like this is gonna have a similar story set-up as the elusive targets - extra missions not connected to the ongoing plot, which I think works fine.
So after analyzing UI and menu sprites, it’s understandable why people already hate the game for its soon to come micro-transactions, and that’s pretty much the “core” of the game outside its gameplay,
you get to have two different currency, coins (most likely being the one you gain while playing) and diamonds (most likely being the paid one) and with these you can buy lootboxes of different rarities (you can also get some for free) and each of them contain weapon pieces of different rarities as well,
there also seems to be weapon abilities, which are either granted by the played character or by the weapon parts you own on your sniper
The game is also multiplayer so PvP included, and there seems to be a “reputation” system for which I didn’t understand the purpose yet