Not the nominator, but I'd say yes, they're all in continuity - Agent 47 and Diana Burnwood are present in each entry in some capacity, and there is a generally agreed upon timeline that incorporates all the games.
That being said, some people refer to the "World of Assassination Trilogy," which are the newest three Hitman video games, as a reboot since they were designed to reduce continuity lockout for new players and kind of gloss over major things from Absolution, the previous entry.. However, the developers said they are sequels to Absolution, there's references to the other games, and nothing directly contradicts events in the previous entries. I tend to lean towards the latter myself, but I have sympathy for the former, since a number of people who've played the trilogy have in all likelihood never played the earlier games.
So I could see two ways I'd categorize this - Hitman (Video Games) and lump everything together in it, or Hitman (2000-2012) and Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy.
ETA: Changed years of Hitman since I accidentally excluded the first game.
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Date: 2022-07-01 04:23 am (UTC)Not the nominator, but I'd say yes, they're all in continuity - Agent 47 and Diana Burnwood are present in each entry in some capacity, and there is a generally agreed upon timeline that incorporates all the games.
That being said, some people refer to the "World of Assassination Trilogy," which are the newest three Hitman video games, as a reboot since they were designed to reduce continuity lockout for new players and kind of gloss over major things from Absolution, the previous entry.. However, the developers said they are sequels to Absolution, there's references to the other games, and nothing directly contradicts events in the previous entries. I tend to lean towards the latter myself, but I have sympathy for the former, since a number of people who've played the trilogy have in all likelihood never played the earlier games.
So I could see two ways I'd categorize this - Hitman (Video Games) and lump everything together in it, or Hitman (2000-2012) and Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy.
ETA: Changed years of Hitman since I accidentally excluded the first game.