Hitman 3 is going to have VR support in 2022

(Pocket-lint) - In 2022, you'll beryllium capable to don your PCVR headset and measurement into the shoes of Agent 47 for a precise antithetic Hitman experience. That's right, successful a aboriginal update Hitman 3 is getting enactment for PC virtual world to spell alongside the existent enactment for PlayStation VR.  

IO Interactive has posted an update connected its tract astir the planned Year 2 updates for the game. Those updates see caller maps, other storylines and modes and more. Performance-wise, Hitman 3 is getting ray tracing support connected PC to marque it look adjacent much glorious. 

The astir absorbing portion of the planned update is the enactment for much virtual world headsets though. The workplace has posted a teaser video highlighting immoderate of the updates and successful that video, there's a conception showing disconnected gamers playing successful VR.

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In that segment, you tin spot Hitman 3 being played with a Valve Index and Oculus Rift S.

We person to admit, the thought of playing Hitman not lone successful archetypal idiosyncratic but besides successful VR is massively appealing and astir apt precise visceral too. 

With the quality to play each the missions, you've fundamentally got implicit 20 locations to research and get mislaid successful too. 

IO Interactive explains the acquisition nicely:

"Playing successful VR volition virtually alteration the mode you play with a first-person position that lets you immerse yourself into the crippled world. Stand face-to-face with your targets, blend-in to a engaged assemblage to overhear conversations and interact with the crippled satellite utilizing your hands. For example, ideate that you’ve picked up a frying cookware and you sneak up connected a guard. You tin plaything the frying cookware successful immoderate space you privation to sound them retired – and past usage it to deflect bullets that are fired arsenic you marque your escape."

The entreaty of Hitman has ever been the sandbox benignant of the design, the prime you person successful however you play and the what tools you usage to destruct your target. Now you're getting an adjacent much hands-on acquisition successful that process. 

For now, you'll conscionable person to hold with bated enactment until the update releases successful January 2021. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 7 August 2020.