Usually we’d say that Telltale Games, famed for The Walking Dead, Minecraft: Story Mode, Wolf Among Us, Batman and other series, was the king of episodic games, but IO Interactive has very much stolen that crown.
When developer IO Interactive announced back in January that the 2016 Hitman game would be fully episodic, the gaming world took a sharp intake of breath. Hitman? Episodic? How’s that going to work?
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It’s fair to say that the fans were sceptical, especially off the back of a game like Hitman: Absolution, which had received a lukewarm reception at best.