IO Interactive’s, Christian Elverdam and Tore Blystad, take you behind the scenes of Hitman: Absolution in this 17 minutes gameplay video of the level titled “Run For Your Life”. Team directors explain some of the game’s new features that utilize on IO Interactive’s Glacier 2 engine, such as Instinct, which grants Agent 47 the ability to sense enemies through walls and predict the path they might take.

Hitman: Absolution is the upcoming fifth entry in the Hitman series, developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. The release date has not been confirmed, but we should expect a mid 2012 release.