i don’t know if people care enough about this, but i wish H3 had better, or maybe just more promotional art. as it is, we only had 47 standing silhouetted with a gun, facing right. (if you check out Khakiasp’s Hitman box art series, he concluded with this and he made it look great in his style). my issue isn’t so much the quality, but the quantity of what we did get.
take the promo art for H2 in 2018 for example. we saw creative colorful pictures of 47 holding various objects to weaponize them, embellished with catchy and clever slogans. yes, H2 was notably lighter in tone than H3, but i still feel that IO could have come up with more than just this one picture and “Death Awaits.” i guess the slogan is fine, but more staged promotional pictures would have been appreciated. it’s the last in the trilogy – you’d think they would do more, right?
though, i think i know the reason for this, and it’s likely budget. senior producer at IOI, Forest Swartout Large had at one point even remarked that H3 almost released without voice lines for NPCs. not a big deal, but it’s been on my mind since drawing my profile picture