With the new James Bond game coming out soon, I decided to head back to the Hitman games, IOI's previous masterpiece. For clarity, I love the recent Hitman trilogy, (the games since bundled and bolstered in the World of Assassination set), but I hadn't really dipped into them since wrapping up a few elusive targets in the wake of Hitman 3. But recently my trigger finger began to itch, and 007 First Light got me thinking that it was time to dip back into Agent 47's world of flung wrenches and rat-poison wine glasses. It's good to be ba– wait, what the hell is the "Freelancer" game mode? Is that new? I vaguely remember something about that, but I don't recall seeing much fanfare around it. I suppose I should take a glance at whatever it is, see if it's anything really significant. And oh look, suddenly it's 12 hours later and my girlfriend has made peace with the fact that I'm going to die on our couch. Folks, I think IOI casually made one of the best roguelikes in the last decade, and then decided that they didn't want to be all braggy about it. If this isn't implemented in some way at least in First Light, it'll be a baffling travesty.
