A 10-year veteran of Hitman development shared a microphone with Day9 to detail new features in the latest entry into the series, the simply named Hitman (2015). New maps in the series will be sandbox in nature and 6-7 times larger than the biggest maps available across all prior titles, include a commensurately larger number of NPCs, and do away with checkpoints altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqxMCZ3u6k
Hitman releases December 8th, 2015.