HITMAN Classic Trilogy Remastered has officially been announced and it's exactly the kind of project my gaming brain needed today! 🎯 The team behind Project S.G.F., which recently gave us HITMAN: World Assassins, are bringing back all three classic entries—World of Assassination Part 1 (Codename 47 from 2016), part 2 (Absolution from 2018), and the original Hitman trilogy remaster in a single package. I'm genuinely stoked about this because Project S.G.F. has been on fire lately, handling all those fantastic World of Assassination updates like Bangkok, Dartmouth, Minsk City, Port-Sous-Tout-Vent, The Hotel and Chongqing expansions so they're clearly capable of delivering real quality—and honestly, if anyone knows how to make a Hitman remaster that doesn't feel like just slapping upscaling on old textures while keeping the gameplay intact in its core 2016–2018 design philosophy (I've been waiting for this forever—there's something so satisfying about those tight, deliberate assassination puzzles where you can spend twenty minutes figuring out if you're going to poison your target with that little cocktail or take out their guard dog first). The trilogy is confirmed coming 2027 on Xbox consoles which feels like the right window—not too close (let them build real hype) but not so far away we forget about it—and since all three titles are getting remastered together there's a great chance they'll get some shared quality-of-life improvements and performance optimization across the board that could finally fix what always felt slightly clunky in individual entries like Absolution.
I have to say I'm particularly interested to see whether Project S.G.F. goes beyond just uprestering these games or actually rebuilds parts of them for modern hardware—because knowing how much people loved those original classics with their memorable locations, brilliant disguises, and that wonderful feeling when your assassination finally clicks into place after all the experimentation, a proper remaster deserves more than "retro skin," it deserves next-gen polish that respects what made these games special while making them feel genuinely refreshed.
Source: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/05/hitman-classic-trilogy-remastered-sgf-announce/
Also see: https://hitmandb.net/game/classic_trilogy
I have to say I'm particularly interested to see whether Project S.G.F. goes beyond just uprestering these games or actually rebuilds parts of them for modern hardware—because knowing how much people loved those original classics with their memorable locations, brilliant disguises, and that wonderful feeling when your assassination finally clicks into place after all the experimentation, a proper remaster deserves more than "retro skin," it deserves next-gen polish that respects what made these games special while making them feel genuinely refreshed.
Source: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/05/hitman-classic-trilogy-remastered-sgf-announce/
Also see: https://hitmandb.net/game/classic_trilogy