Following its initial announcment in 2023, Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal has been confirmed to launch on Nintendo Switch later this month on January 25th, 2024.
The revamped re-release came to mobile platforms in November 2023 and boasted new features such as a mini-map and tailored touchscreen controls. The biggest addition came with Instinct Mode, an ability featured in later entries that would allow the player to seamlessly highlight targets, enemies, and points of interest. New features present in the Switch release can be toggled off if you want to experience Blood Money in its original form.
The original game landed back in 2006 but unfortunately skipped a release on the GameCube and Wii, making its arrival on the Switch the first instance Nintendo fans have been able to play it. It was critically acclaimed at the time and consistently ranks among the best in the franchise thanks to its clever sandbox levels and freedom of choice.
Instinct Mode: Inspired by later games in the series, this ability highlights interactable objects and points of interest.
Minimap: Complete situational awareness, right on the HUD.
Alerts: When you’re trespassing, or behaving in a way which makes the guards suspicious, on-screen alerts will let you know.
Control schemes: With the classic layout of the original and modernised layouts available.
Motion aim: An option for more grizzled killers, offering for even more weapon control with gyro aiming.
Autoreload and Weapon Hot-Swap: Spend less time in the Inventory when the bullets start flying with these convenient new settings.
Over-the-shoulder aim perspective: Allows players to focus on the target without losing track of their surroundings.
Graphical options include: Colour correction and Field of view
The game runs at a consistent 30 FPS both in 720p (handheld) and 1080p (docked).
The game is now available to pre-order via the eShop for $29.99 / £19.99 / €24.99. Early birds can also enjoy an additional 15% discount.
Will you be grabbing Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal on the Switch? Sneak on down to the comments section and let us know.
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I hope the new enhancements don't make the game too easy since the levels weren't originally built with them in mind.
I've easily put 100+ hours into this game in just my teens alone, it's probably the best classic Hitman game, not counting the newer Trilogy.
I know about Hitman but never played it. Perhaps I'll give it a go.
A welcome PS2/PS3 port.
That's a pretty respectable price point which will become very hard to resist in the sales!
I think I own this as part of a PS3 trilogy but never got round to it.
NintendoLife review subheading prediction;
"A classic game plagued by performance issues"
Keyboard and mouse support is a welcome surprise. AFAIK only Quake I and II have proper support for that feature.
Day 1 buy. The newer games have surpassed it but BM is still a classic.
Hope it runs well on Switch and hope we get more Hitman games on Switch (natively preferably).
I’ll wait for the inevitable Limited Run release.
Gasp, actually priced correctly in the UK at £20 against $30.
Think I need to sit down...
@PoeTheLizard Apologies, that list of features was from an old press release prior to the mobile launch - the Switch version won't include this as a feature.
Awesome I just finished the WoA collection so this is just in time.
I bought my Xbox 360 just to play this game when it came out. I shall definitely be picking up this version.
@Jack_Goetz This was the very first game I got with my Xbox 360. I actually only had this for ages but didn’t care as I loved it so much.
Only 30FPS? Why? Also, seems like this port happened thanks to mobile ports only, I guess...
Nice will love to have on the go!
One of my favorite games ever. While everything can be cheesed and gunned down if you want to, the rewards come from finding all the unique ways you have available to assasinate your targets and accomplish objectives
30 fps is weird though.
Man that's just one day after Neptunia Sisters. My choices are tough...
its Feral Interactive. I believe they can make this good.
They ported Alien Isolation to Switch remember?
Best Hitman game and easily top 50 best games of all time
I've only played Absolution but I loved it (despite often not being great at it and previously being biased against stealth games), even though the hardcore fans AFAIK seem to consider it a bit of a compromised/lesser version of the series. This one though I've heard a lot of great things about. I'd certainly like to play a beloved game in this series, though I dunno if I'll necessarily have time to.
Outside of being more (deservedly imo) beloved, I have the exact same opinion on my time with Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
I got it cheap on steam but I can't get it to work on deck. I'd pick this up on sale with gyro and stuff probably.
One of my favorite PS2 games, spent so much time redoing all the missions in various different ways. Definitely want to get this on Switch, the new additions look neat too.
@Astral-Grain I played it on the mobile phone version and found them to be absolutely useless and turned them off. It makes sense in the World of Assassination trilogy where big maps necessitates their use, but Blood Money's maps are quite small and objectives are mostly direct.
@AJWolfTill
Why wait for a sale when you get it much cheaper from numerous other (Brazil for example) eshops....
@Andyv01 it is but don't sit down yet as it's much cheaper on other eshops (Brazil, Mexico, even Poland)
@PKDuckman Welp, that's too bad.
I guess the newly added "powers" act as cheat codes more than anything. Good that you can turn them off though.
Good point though, the levels in Bloody Money are definitely small enough to easily memorize where everyone is after one play through.
In my opinion, that's like most of the fun of playing through it for the first time - watching people and seeing their patterns. I think having Batman mode on would ruin that fun, but to each their own.
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