Hitman will support HDR from January 31st

IO Interactive and Square Enix just confirmed that Hitman will be updated with an HDR patch in about a week's time, January 31 to be more precise. This is the date when the actual physical copy of the game launches as well.

Programmer Anders Wang Kristensen said: "As an example, think of 47 in a dark room looking out a bright window. Without HDR you would not be able make out what's outside, whereas with HDR you can simultaneously see details inside the room and outside the window. Another extreme example is the sun. Without HDR we could not render the sun brighter than a white piece of paper, so we had to 'simulate' the sun being blinding. With HDR we can draw the sun several times brighter, so that it is actually close to being blinding, just like in real life."

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and is essentially the possibility to expand the colour depth inside the picture together with increased fidelity regarding black-levels and the use of brightness. Do you think this is a game that will benefit significantly from the introduction of HDR?