Hitman: Absolution

So far so good. Catching up on 15 years of gaming. Puzzles are great, graphics are good for the time. Still wish he could jump.

I have been playing hitman ever since the first. This is a very sleek hitman with incredible real life graphics and great movie scenes. I play at 25 fps through Winlator Frost and everything about this game just keeps you wanting another mission. GOG STILL BATTING 1000 WITH ME. REMEMBER, THESE NEWER GAMES FROM 2010 ON REQUIRES YOU TO START THE GAME 1200X720 OR IT WILL NOT RUN. YOU CAN LOWER THE SETTINGS IN THE GAME ITSELF. TURNIP RUNS THIS NICE AND SMOOTH.

As the final entry to the original Hitman series, this game is the best execution of all the mechanics they had been working on since the first game. The clunkiness is gone, the weird glitches and bugs are - mostly - gone, the simple story is still there, but with a lot more heart and the levels are way more detailed and open-ended. This is absolutely worth the time to play through and maybe even try for those pesky special conditions like types of kill, finding all the disguises, avoiding detection and whatnot. Try it.

Sort of a step in the wrong direction for Hitman at the time but still much better than what people give it credit for. One thing that stands out to me a good bit is how enjoyable the shooting is. Of course that's never really the point of any Hitman game.

Garbage. Hardcore fans hate this installment of the Hitman franchise. And that's saying a lot considering how they put up with the first three games which were buggy and clunky. As an action game, Absolution is pathetic. As a stealth game, it fails miserably. Whoever thought the "Instinct" mode was a good idea deserves to be fired. The whole game is built around it, all but forcing you to use it to get past guards without them spotting you since the levels are linear with narrow hallways. The disguise system in this franchise has never really made sense. In other stealth games when you play sloppy and shoot enemies you can't wear their bloody with bullet marked clothes as a disguise. Apparently not in the Hitman games. There's also an infantile aim-bot ability and x-ray vision, but those are at least optional. And god, is this game janky. Simply selecting and grabbing items sitting on a table can be time-consuming and difficult. Also, the camera zooms in so far that sometimes there's a sickening 40 degree FOV. In the middle of a gunfight I literally had the brim of my cowboy hat blocking half the screen so I was firing blindly at multiple attackers. If I paid money I probably wouldn't have laughed at it. Melee combat is somehow worse. Instead of simply letting you throw punches, parry or block you are entered into a forced QTE mode where you spam a couple of random buttons a few dozen times. Yup, Absolution hasn't dated well. I only played this two hours and had it crash. Even on an objective, technical level it's a piece of junk. I can't possibly think of any reason why anyone should play this.