Hitman: Absolution director: 'Most people won't finish the game'

Metrics suggest the majority of Hitman: Absolution players won't reach the end of the game, IO Interactive's Tore Blystad has said, and this makes him "sad".

Blystad told Official PlayStation Magazine UK: "We are using metrics a lot more now than we did, for good and for bad.

"The general player will probably never even finish the game, which is very sad. Or they might only play through it once, but the game is built for the people who want to go back through every single level and get all the stuff out of it. It's built to last, rather than be a one-off experience."

Blystad attributes this to an unwillingness to committ and said it's an issue that is common for most games.

"I guess people can't commit to taking all those hours to finish one product, they get tired of it. It's not just for this game, it's for any game," he said.

"Knowing that 20% of the players will see the last level of the game. It's horrible to know. It makes the people working on it really really sad."

According to the game director the more interesting content could be shifted to earlier parts of the game, however this isn't possible in Absolution due to its strict narrative framework.
"It's very difficult when something is constructed to fit into a larger story to move things too much around. I think in some of the previous Hitman games that that might have been the case - that some levels were moved earlier, because they were more catchy or interesting. For us it hasn't really been that easy, because the story is really tying all the levels together, so they're still coming in the same order, more or less, that they were designed."

Fortunately, the team is stirivng to maintain a high level of quality to encourage players to keep[..]assinating their way to the end.

"In the user tests we have they actually tell us that the replayability factor in itself, it's the situation or the humour that's the reason people actually go back through the levels, they want to see more, they want to find these things, which makes us very happy, because it takes a lot of time and effort to get these things in."

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I will finish it...

ditto

wonder how long the story is with him saying people will lose interest though [pic]

I don't know if they changed it since then, but back in March I read that it was about 14 hours...

never played any of the hitman series[pic]

Damn man you should try to get them...you should be able to buy all of them for about $30 at the most now probably even $25 for all of them ... some GREAT games...especially Blood Money

Man i cant even complete the shortest games right now

Damn attention span is gone to !!

yea im working on getting all the ps3 exclusives like uncharted god of war heavy rain mgs4 i got k!llzone already but most of them are still high as hell dont know where to buy them at [pic]

I played the one when the 360 first came out. Where u walk through marti gras and !!.

Then they had a heaven and hell theme party that got crazy.

Imma go back n play that !! when i get done with me3 multi player [pic]

If your PS 3 is BC then you can grab this now for the PS 2...or you can wait untill September and pick it up on the PS 3 HD-ified for $29.999 for all three

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wow why the !! would you admit that most of your game isn't interesting [pic]

he didn't say most of the game isn't interesting...

He said that they "COULD move stuff around so the more interesting levels are up front" but they won't do that because the story won't make sense (which is good they won't sacrifice story for action)

EVERY GAME has a couple levels that aren't as interesting as another... why move !! around to cater to the people who won't play those "less amazing" levels to finish a game?...

most gamers don't finish games

I remember when the tracking stats came out for EA's games....it's just about getting people to buy them and dlc at this point

the adhd generation loses again. they probably couldnt make it past the first level of hitman 2.

Played a demo of the first one on 360 and couldn't get into it, plus I suck a being "stealthy" in games, the Metal Gear series has been an adventure to say the least.

Off topic, but is it just me or is the CP3 [pic] smiley overused as !! already? It seems to show up at least once in 2/3 of the posts on the entire site.

Iv never played one of these games Hitman games new, i have played them 2 or more years after they were released i may give this a proper shot when its just released

if there's an IGN walkthrough of the game, i'm gone finish it

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I hope they also do walkthrough of different ways to beat a level..

I don't have the patience or smarts to be completing these puzzles on my own. I just want the experience first hand

I finished any game that had a good story, 20%er life lol.

he did say most, or at least A LOT at the start. implying that people won't bother playing long enough to reach the "interesting" content implies that there's a fair bit of non-interesting stuff at the start, and enough to make people say !! it.