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Hitman Freelancer is a fantastic bonus atop a modern masterpiece
The modern Hitman Trilogy has just had a rebrand. It requires a bit of explaining, but basically now the entire trilogy now lives inside Hitman 3, which itself has been rebranded Hitman: World of Assassination. The other two games will be delisted from storefronts to avoid confusion. This probably wasn’t the plan at the start – back when Hitman 2016 was an ill-advised episodic jaunt for Square Enix – but it’s a smart and fitting close to this saga: one huge game, flush with content, all available at a very reasonable price.
And, god, what a package it is. Without a shadow of a doubt, the package that’s now on sale as the singular modern Hitman game is one of the best deals in gaming, at least aside from subscription services that give you loads of games. If you’re going to buy a single game, Hitman is an excellent choice – emergent in a way that means it seldom gets old, with plenty of variety in levels and objectives. It’s hugely replayable. And it just got more so.
Launched alongside the merging of the entire experience into the ‘World of Assassination’ repackaging comes Hitman Freelancer, a new mode that genuinely probably could’ve been a fairly paid DLC, but IO Interactive has just served it up free. It’s bloody brilliant, and it might actually now be my absolute favorite mode in a game that’s already tremendously enjoyable.
Elden Ring Reforged mod’s latest update might just be what you need to play the masterpiece again
Elden Ring is almost one year old. It overtook the zeitgeist when it came out, and the depth of content found within its open world kept most of us entertained until the end of 2022.
Anyone interested in playing it probably already has, but those of us who have seen practically everything it has to offer are still on the hunt for a major addition to bring us back. Well, what we’re looking for may have just arrived.
No, it’s not some some rumoured/hoped-for Elden Ring DLC, or any sort of official new content. It is, however, one of the more exciting creations to come out of the community. The Elden Ring Reforged mod just released its latest version: v0.5.0.
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‘Metal Gear Solid 2’ mod adds a third-person camera to Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece
Twenty years ago this month, Konami released Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, an expanded reissue of MGS2: Sons of Liberty. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to revisit one of the most important games of the 21st century, now is the perfect time. Over the weekend, modder oct0xor released The Substance of Subsistence, a mod that adds a third-person camera to Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece.
If it’s been a while since you played MGS2, you may have forgotten the game employed an overhead camera that was a holdover from Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and Metal Gear Solid. It wasn’t until 2006’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, the expanded rerelease of Snake Eater, that Hideo Kojima and Konami implemented a proper third-person camera. That bit of history is also where the mod’s name comes from, with The Substance of Subsistence referring to the expanded editions of each game.
Adding a new perspective to MGS2 was no easy task. “The code to have a normal third-person camera was never present in the game, and in order to implement it, I had to reverse engineer and rewrite many things in the game engine,” oct0xor told PC Gamer. You can learn more about the work that was involved in a developer diary oct0xor shared a few months back.
You can find instructions on how to install the Substance of Subsistence on Github. The tricky part is finding a copy of the game for PC. Konami delisted Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 from GOG and other digital storefronts over a “temporary” licensing issue in 2021. In July, the company said it was still working on resolving the dispute but did not provide a timeline for when the games would be available to purchase again.
Persona 5 is still a masterpiece – and it’s a must-play for those newly able to get it on PC, Xbox, and Switch
If you’re a fan of Japanese RPGs but somehow aren’t a PlayStation user – which does appear to be a contradiction of terms, admittedly – this week marks a momentous occasion. Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced re-release of a 2016 game of the year contender, is finally on non-PlayStation platforms.
At this stage, Persona 5 is already six years old. It is, by any definition, old news. Even the Royal update is three. Elements of the game also haven’t aged well – especially a few story elements and tonal choices that felt pretty archaic and out-of-date back when the game originally released, leave alone six years hence. But the thing is, it’s still brilliant. Persona 5 is still one of the best and most important Japanese RPGs of the last decade.
Part of the reason behind this is that Persona takes an interesting path compared to the biggest-name JRPGs. Its most obvious peer is Final Fantasy, the series that acts as patriarch to the entire genre – which I suppose makes Dragon Quest the matriarch. Whereas Final Fantasy has spent the last decade or so analyzing and trying to emulate the successes of Western RPGs like The Witcher, Skyrim, and even Mass Effect, Persona 5 is unabashed in what it is – a full fat, highly traditional, anime AF role-playing game.