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Square Enix reveals Marrakesh as latest episode for Hitman’s ‘assassination tourism’

Square Enix is revealing the details of yet another episode in its Hitman title today with the Marrakesh location. Marrakesh is the third episode of seven that will be released throughout 2016.

The first installment debuted in March and it enabled you to play Agent 47 in the city of Paris, where the highlight was assassinating an oligarch at a fashion show in Paris with more than 300 different artificial intelligence characters in the crowd. Marrakesh is a new open world with more targets, like a general planning a coup.

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