Hitman: Absolution director Tore Blystad told Kotaku at E3 that “[The controversy] was a big surprise to us. [The trailer] was not meant to be offensive at all.” The Internet firestorm apparently caught them off guard, according to Blystad.
Blysad said it was meant to be “outlandish,” much like previous games in the Hitman series.
“It was never supposed to be offensive in that way,” he said. “The Hitman games always come from this kind of cartoony, dark universe… This is no different from those. It wasn’t supposed to be a sexist trailer.”
Source: Kotaku
