![]() ![]() Similar to Hitman 2, players can play the entire trilogy in Hitman 3 along with carrying over your progression. ![]() Naughty Dog is well within its rights to take as long as it needs to on its games and I’ll be excited to see what it’s been working on whenever its ready to reveal it, but this felt like the moment to finally show us what we’re waiting for, and it’s disappointing to still be waiting without any end in sight.Hitman 3 is almost upon us, so dust off your suit and grab a fistful of coins because it’s time to hunt a new collection of targets. Opinions are split on the quality of this showcase, but a Factions 2 reveal would have made it feel much more significant. ![]() If it's just going to have its own random State of Play reveal later this year that’s fine, but it feels like a wasted opportunity. ![]() Why even do this showcase without the next big PlayStation game?Įxpectations for news about the next TLOU game have been set, and at this point Sony has a responsibility to tell us when it isn’t going to be shown. Sony could have built this entire show around Factions 2 and still had time for some Spider-Man 2 gameplay if this Showcase had taken place at the end of summer. Street Fighter and Final Fantasy 16 were the only games coming in the next few weeks featured during the PlayStation show, and we’ve seen plenty of both of them already. There really wasn’t anything in the PlayStation showcase we haven’t seen, or couldn’t have waited a month or two to see, considering Keighley’s showcase is right around the corner. Maybe Druckmann is planning to make another appearance at Summer Game Fest in two weeks like he did last year and show off the game then, but it seems strange to have such a massive PlayStation showcase right before SGF, if Sony is just going to save its best for a different show. This seemed like the moment for a big reveal, and now I don’t know what to expect. Had it shown up, it would have easily been the most talked about game in the entire show. If there was one game I would have bet money on seeing during the showcase, it was this one. But this week, during Sony’s big PlayStation Showcase, an hour-long presentation that dwarfs the typical State of Play livestreams and only happens every couple of years, Factions 2 was a no show. We saw some more concept art in January, at which point it was reiterated that more details would be coming this year. Related: The Snake Eater Remake Can't Ignore How Hitman And The Last Of Us Changed Stealth Games At the time, he promised we’d finally see the game revealed in 2023. During Summer Game Fest 2022, studio director Neil Druckmann took the stage to share concept art of the new game, and described it as the most ambitious game Naughty Dog has ever made. The studio confirmed it was working on a standalone multiplayer game set in The Last of Us universe (so, Factions 2) when job postings for it were discovered in mid-2021. We’ve known that some kind of sequel to TLOU’s Factions game mode was coming ever since it was absent from The Last Of Us Part 2 when it released in 2020. We know so little about Naughty Dog’s next game that we don’t even know its title yet. ![]()
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