Hitman 3: Contracts

Having played through "Contracts" after having finished "Silent Assassin", I really think that the aforementioned game is much better in many ways. The first 6 missions in "Contracts" are really good but later you just get remakes of levels that already have appeared in "Codename 47". The problem are not these missions themselves (they´re okay as they are) but the fact that don´t really fit in the game here since they mostly are much smaller and simpler (just think of the sniping mission which is over in a few minutes) than what you got before. It feels odd because they don´t really fit in after having played through bigger, more complex scenarios. So basically people who have played "Codename 47" just get about 6-7 new missions which is okay but not enough for a great Hitman game. Another issue is that there isn´t really a story here that ties these missions together and that you don´t have the opportunity to plan your missions before you start (which is nice because it creates immersion). So it´s still worth playing but definitely not the best Hitman game for me ("Blood Money" is my favourite). Problems with broken framerate and SOLUTION: I got problems with a somehow broken framerate with minor, but regular, slowdowns in this game. The game was still playable, alhough the physics often went "crazy" (for instance when dropping an item). But this completely changed when I reached mission 9 and 10 in which I got severe "freezes" so that I couldn´t move anymore. This first happened inside the "fish restaurant". First, I tried to restrict the framerate in Nvidia Settings to 60FPS, but it didn´t help at all. The solution is as effective as it is simple: Just add the the line "WINDOW 1" in your HitmanContracts.ini. After that the physics worked perfectly fine and all the slowdowns / freezes were gone.

The most dark atmosphere of the franchise +you can kill a ghost in a hotal with a fiberware for an achievement on ps3, 10/10 game

Best Hitman Game with Blood Money, great graphics, perfect gameplay. Love it.

This was not the leap forward that the second game was. I forget if I ever seen evidence for the following theory but definitely it feels extremely likely that simply they made this to keep people interested in the property until they could finish Blood Money which is indeed another massive improvement on what came before. This doesn't have very many new features. However it does have some very impressive elements. The levels are sometimes absolutely huge even once you know exactly what to do it'll take a while just to carry it all out. Where before this one sometimes you genuinely did just have to figure out what your meant to do and then do it it wasn't necessarily easy but it was less compelling than this. There's also sometimes complications. On a non-zero number of occasions you not only have to deal with the regular stuff but there's also a SWAT team or equivalent that you have to choose between engaging with or possibly being faster than. It is simply not an option to just ignore them. This is the kind of thing that you would normally only experience in one of these if you had failed stealth. Literally every single level of this allows for a Silent Assassin rating. Some of them are massively difficult to obtain of course that simply makes it that much more satisfying. I haven't played past absolution yet but so far this is the only one of these that this is accurate for. All the others have at least one level where it simply is not possible; you are forced into armed conflict. The overall storyline continues to just be fine. The non-linear narrative with flashbacks association and a flashy gritty look is very of its time and doesn't quite work as well today as it did when it was released, which I think is completely forgivable. This is also one of the most fun to return to if you just feel like running around and playing in the world of Hitman. I'm somewhat mixed on the reinterpretation of levels that we've seen before.

The atmosphere is simply stunning, as with all Hitman games, but even more so here. The only thing I knew about Contracts was that it contained remaked missions of Codename 47, and I have to say that's my least favorite part: they're certainly well-made and fun but, let's just say that, for the purposes of the story, some of them make more sense to exist (RE-exist in this game) than others. The reason I consider this the best game out of the first three is mainly the yet mentioned atmosphere, but also the improved enemy AI and 47's movement speed, who, for all its good things, was a snail in Silent Assassin. IMPORTANT (for me): I've reinstalled the game several times, but the music from the end credits is still missing. Maybe an update will fix that. Anyway, a definite Good Old Game in my opinion.