Most players won't finish Hitman: Absolution

Only 20% of players will complete the next Hitman game.

This is according to IO Interactive’s Tore Blystad, who spoke of his fear that only a small minority of people will see the game through to the end.

He told OPM: “20% of the players will see the last level of the game. It’s horrible to know. It makes the people working on it really really sad.

“We are using metrics a lot more now than we did, for good and for bad. The general player will probably never even finish the game, which is very sad.”

Blystad also spoke about trying to encourage players to explore as much of the game as possible.

He added: “A battle we have is that we want to put all this stuff in, but we also know that because the game is up to the player there’s a lot of people that will never ever see it. The only thing we can do is incentivise replayability in different ways.

“In the user tests we have they actually tell us that the replayability factor in itself, it’s the situation or the humour that’s the reason people actually go back through the levels.

“They want to see more, they want to find these things, which makes us very happy, because it takes a lot of time and effort to get these things in.”

Hitman: Absolution is set to launch 20 November.