Death to Spies

It was decent when it came out, but it did not age gracefully at all. It's clunkier than the very first Hitman. It feels and plays as if its contemporary to Codename 47. But it got released after the Silent Assassin and Contracts installments, to which it doesn't hold up to at all, neither in gameplay, graphics or controls. The redeeming feature of the game is that it's properly challenging if you're trying to play stealthily. There are multiple approaches to objectives, there's flexibility in how you tackle them. And the margin of error is razor thin regardless of how you decide to tackle a mission. But it always feels like you're playing a worse Hitman.

Its got a wierd collision bug when trying it on nvidia Geforce GTX 980 that makes it unplayable, lucky i have an older AMD card and a newer RTX card that it runs great on, anyway its hard as hell but the dev console exist just add godmode and unlited ammo and have fun blasting nazis, who want to sneak around if you can be the RUSBO (the famous cccp rambo).

I consider myself an experienced gamer, I like games to be challenging so I always play games at a higher difficulty level than the standard: DO NOT DO IT WITH THIS GAME! I started a new game at HARD difficulty, which is not even the highest available, and it's simply too hard to be fun. Mission 1 was difficult but doable, yet with extensive quick saving/loading. Mission 2 was extremely difficuly and I had to randomly try sequences to check if it was working or not. Which kills all the fun. I got halfway through Mission 3 and quit playing as this is not something I enjoy. Stealth becomes almost useless and you find yourself just walking and costantly focusing on the map to try to avoid the enemies that can spot you. And sometimes this is not an option and you have to kill (noiselessly) all the enemies in an area and avoid others to discover the body. Maybe i will give it another try in the future with a lower difficutly level, because otherwise the game is not bad at all and it didn't suffer from all the bugs other reported. The atmosphere is good and also the graphics are OK for a 13-year old game. Also, i'm giving it 3 stars because I paid it 0,89 € :)

The camera glitches and the movment gets pretty bad, tried multiple fixes found on the internet with no luc.

I'm giving this game a lot of chances, actually I'm still trying to have fun with it. The reason why I write before I'm finished with it is simply that right now bugs are eliminating every chance this game has to catch me. I experience a lot of cliffing bugs, where I'm stuck in an invisible wall and move at a minimum rate. Also sometimes the camera changes, so that I don't see the game over the shoulders of my charakter, but from the side. While the latter might be innoative stuff, I doubt that it is intended and it makes it close to impossible to seriously plas this game. Admittedly I never even finished the tutorial or the first mission, due to constantly encountering those bugs. I'm gonna keep trying to play this game and if I actually manage to play it I will propably update this review.