The biggest part of the Hitman 3 outrage was that IOI dropped the ball on back-compatibility, it was a bit of a hassle and poorly communicated throughout how on

The biggest part of the Hitman 3 outrage was that IOI dropped the ball on back-compatibility, it was a bit of a hassle and poorly communicated throughout how one would gain access to the levels from Hitman and Hitman 2 from purchased copies on Steam, inside Hitman 3 from Epic. IIRC one of the early messages was "you'll just need to own them on Epic - Hitman was free for a week a year ago and Hitman 2 was just on sale for 80% off last month (but isn't anymore)" and if you missed those you were SOL. Though I understand it's complicated by the publisher/ownership situation w/ Square Enix for the first Hitman, I'm glad they got it sorted for launch (and even happier that they're simplifying the whole trilogy behind one SKU later this month).