It looks like Agent 47 will have some sexy new enemies in the upcoming game Hitman: Absolution in the form of the Saints, an all female group of badass assassins trained by 47’s former employer.
The new trailer is in response to a trailer launched at E3 showing the Saints as a bunch of leather clad nuns hell bent on killing Agent 47 as he dispatches them quickly (which you can see after the jump). This caused some vocal negativity.
“We learned from the trailer that we really needed to give these characters some context and some backstory,” Hitman Absolution director Tore Blystad told Eurogamer during Gamescom. “We’re working within the game – within that level – to build these characters up before you meet them. That way you know what you’re getting and you aren’t put off by them.”
Blystad’s team at IO Entertainment didn’t expect the backlash stating “We’ve been trying to find out, y’know, how could we not see this happening? If we knew it would get such a negative reaction we would have done it in a different way,”
While the previous trailer featured an all out war between 47 and the Saints, Blystad stated that this is one outcome – and not necessarily the brightest – to that level that it is based on.
Meanwhile we don’t really see the big deal of the trailer as it just looks Freaking Awesome! You can see both trailers after the break.