Eminem will star alongside the legendary Agent 47 in a mind-bending new Elusive Target mission for Hitman World of Assassination, launching December 1 by December 31.

The Detroit rap icon groups up with IO Interactive’s bald murderer to confront his infamous alter ego, Slim Shady, in what guarantees to be one of many franchise’s most psychologically complicated missions to this point.

This collaboration comes on the heels of Eminem‘s latest album “The Death of Slim Shady,” during which the rapper sought to shed his controversial persona.

Set inside a reimagined medical facility in Hokkaido, remodeled into the chaotic Popsomp Hills Asylum, gamers will navigate a surreal setting the place actuality and nightmare collide.

The mission attracts inspiration from Slim Shady’s fractured psyche, making a dreamlike expertise that blurs the strains between medical doctors, sufferers, and performers.

The twisted scenario locations Slim Shady accountable for a former working theater, now transformed into a completely outfitted broadcasting studio. From this base, he delivers erratic dwell performances to a captive viewers of medical employees and asylum inmates.

Agent 47 should monitor his goal by interconnected areas, together with a recording studio and a weird “Group Training Session” the place Slim Shady brainwashes medical doctors into taking part in his scheme to weaponize music.

IO Interactive has packed the mission with references to Eminem‘s catalog, together with a poisoned Spaghetti Sandwich served in his restaurant and a haunting efficiency of “Houdini.”

The expertise builds towards a climactic confrontation that challenges gamers’ notion of what’s actual and what exists solely within the thoughts.

This marks one other high-profile movie star collaboration for the Hitman franchise, following latest Elusive Target missions that includes Bruce Lee and Conor McGregor. The gaming collection has more and more attracted A-list expertise for these limited-time occasions, which provide distinctive storylines and unique rewards.

Players can entry the mission free of charge as a part of the Starter Pack, making it obtainable to newcomers alongside present Hitman World of Assassination house owners. IO Interactive can be releasing the Eminem vs. Slim Shady Pack, which features a new go well with, 4 gadgets, and residential base cosmetics tied to the mission, for $4.99.

The collaboration represents a pure match between Eminem‘s complex relationship with his Slim Shady persona and Hitman’s themes of identification and psychological manipulation.

Both the rapper and Agent 47 have lengthy grappled with questions of who they really are beneath their public facades.

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