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The game was nominated for "Best VR/AR Game" at The Game Awards 2021 for its PlayStation VR mode. [137] Eurogamer 's Ian Higton named it the best PS VR game of 2021 [138] and it was also voted the best PS VR game of 2021 by readers of PlayStation Blog. [139] After its Steam release in 2022, Hitman 3 won "VR Game of the Year" at the 2022 Steam Awards. [140] IO Interactive was nominated for "Best Game Development Studio" at the NME Awards 2022. [141] An episode of the A Sound Effect Podcast featuring Hitman 3 developers titled "How Hitman 3 's powerful sound was made with the audio team at IO Interactive" was nominated for "Best Game Audio Presentation Podcast or Broadcast" at the 2022 Game Audio Network Guild Awards. [142] [143] Year Broadwell, Josh (27 October 2022). "IO Interactive releases Hitman 3 Freelancer mode deep-dive". USA Today. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023 . Retrieved 2 August 2023. Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 2 Gold– Includes Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 2 Expansion, Hitman 3 Access Pass: Hitman 2 Standard

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When you first launch Hitman 3, it may not activate right away. Close the game, launch Hitman 2, restart Steam (or reboot your computer) and now launch Hitman 3 again.An Escalation is a contract that has three levels. The first one is easy, and the levels slowly escalate until they become incredibly tough. Let’s go through the six Deluxe Escalations that you get with the Deluxe Edition now. The Satu Mare Delirium Kunzelman, Cameron (19 January 2021). " 'Hitman 3' Loses Its Identity as It Goes All-In on Story". Vice. Archived from the original on 12 May 2023 . Retrieved 2 August 2023. Rosenberg, Adam (8 December 2021). "Our favorite video games of 2021, 'ranked' (as if)". Mashable. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 . Retrieved 20 July 2022. IO Interactive reduced the file size of Hitman 3—including the data for the first two games in the trilogy—to 60-70 GB, as compared to Hitman 2's 150 GB size. Engine improvements allowed IO Interactive to use lossless LZ4 compression. The team also changed their method for importing content from older titles, reducing data duplication. [46] In November 2020, IO Interactive announced that they had teamed up with Intel to optimise Hitman 3 performance on high-end CPUs with 8+ cores, which allowed the team to include more crowds and destructible environments. They also used Variable Rate Shading, a technique for improving rendering performance by dynamically changing the rate of shading in different parts of the frame. [47] [48] More high-end CPU features were added to the game on 24 May 2022, including real-time raytracing and adaptive supersampling when using Nvidia DLSS or AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. [49] Campaign mode will take you on a globetrotting adventure to sprawling sandbox locations and will deliver a dramatic conclusion to the World of Assassination trilogy.