The official title will be "HiTMAN (2016)" just to mess with me personally.
Watch the doc. They just opened a new studio and are working on 2 new games as we speak. They also went from 1.8 million Hitman 2016 players to (iirc) 5.9 million players after the split with Square. Also they are considering to return to episodic releases with Hitman 3, so the games are selling well enough for them to be able to take such risks.
I'd say it's the best for both the maps and the development team. There are still a lot of players who play each map only once or twice before they continue on to the next one. Only having one map available to you every other month might trigger people to invest more time in each map and getting hooked to the gameplay loop. It also creates an opportunity for IO to release Hitman 3 sooner rather than later, because they don't have to finish 5-6 maps before launch, and they can implement feedback from fans in the new maps or look at stats of how people play the maps and use that to improve the maps that are still in development.
But this is the other way around. The fall first, then the rise.
Yeah, if you own Hitman 1 on the same platform you get all those levels for free as downloads into the H2 client. These versions have minor visual upgrades but more importantly include the new H2 features, so you can hide in thick crowds and foliage, find briefcases to hide illegal items, and be spotted doing illegal actions by cameras.
There is better looking destruction on PC but I think that's it for visual improvement. It's more about the new features such as hiding in foliage, new equipment and smarter AI that were added to the maps in Hitman 2016.
Only if you consider the locations spoilers.
I'm pretty surprised in a positive way in how they handled this. A lot of publishers would just close the studio and retain the IP.
