Hitman: Absolution

Absolution met with a rather cold reception from Hitman fans. It did many things right - gameplay itself was the slickest in the series and the game looked great. However, the franchise since its inception has always a simple premise: "a hitman simulation". Absolution abandoned this premise, by trying to deliver a more complex narrative, grand main character urgency and character arch, reduce what became sandbox level design into a linear, story driven game, while at the same time trying to tick of boxed to satisfy old fans. The end result is confusing: Agent 47, who up to this point was mostly sociopath, doesn't make for a great sentiment driven protagonist ala, Leon the Professional. Game constantly switched between sandbox design and linear adventure. Game is divided into small chunks violently breaking illusion of any coherent world. Narrative makes perfect stealth runs fail to satisfy narrative needs. Is it bad? No, but it doesn't flow well, and while it has hints of greateness the little space to each area doesn't allow it to flurish. There are also some awful QTEs. I found narrative annoying. It seems to mimic Quarantino style, and it is vlugar and violent but without the flare and sense of style and flavour that the mentioned director posesses. If you are curious, it is not a bad title to pick up on sale.

1) Game freezes at some points / levels and so on. Needed to restart. === 2) A large number of bugs, especially in passing challenges. For example, in the mission about the Hotel: I spent most of the day trying to complete the challenges of "Housekeeping". Everything bothered me. I fell into walls / under textures; I could not find the radio: it teleported / disappeared, and when using other objects of distraction, the following killings did not count as if I had been noticed; the guards sometimes saw me through the walls; sometimes after killing / stunning civilians, the killing counter stopped working; sometimes it did not count 2-4 enemies; sometimes enemies counted at the very beginning of 1-3, at the same time, when I had not yet begun to kill at all; well, at least there were no duplicates; in the end, just the game crashed after another fall under the texture. I'm tired, I'll rest a bit. === 3) Pretty bad AI. At least at the second level of difficulty. Shoot nowhere at point blank range? Run around the player? Forget about any suspicions after a while ( blood, corpses .. )? And some other oddities. This is all about it. === 4) In some places, the stealth system is rather poorly developed: it is simply impossible to pass secretly in your suit some levels. There are few different options for penetrating the mission goal. === 5) Nice cinematic graphics. === 6) The genre of the game has not slipped into frank ****. It's still the same stealth with stealth killings. === 7) Good story. Even with unexpected twists of fate. Yes. There is NO FATE. But idc. === 8) Creating missions by other players ( this is true - I have not tried it yet ). === 9) This is HITMAN. Argue with that?

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I hate when most people hate on this game just because all of the community does like so far i am enjoying this game and i dont see why people call this game the black sheep of the hitman series. Of course there are some shit things about it but they aint that bad.

Love the revamped graphics, Absolution takes a lot of pointers from its predeccesors however it keeps its venues open to new players with stealth being not a deciding factor in easy mode. The story however could have been better thought out.