The first rebooted hitman was sold off as an episodic game. Despite being a brilliant murder simulator that got the episodic formula so, so right, many consumers didn’t take to it just because it was sold piecemeal. They wanted a finished product, a retail game that they could hold in their hands. And that game is here. With developer IO Interactive nearly murdered themselves when Square Enix decided they were done with Hitman, Warner took the developer and the franchise on, The sequel is, admittedly, more of the same – but when that same is a glorious sandbox that lets you kill people in delightfully inventive ways, that’s a good thing.