Don't know where I would have gone with a fifth HITMAN title ESPECIALLY after Blood Money, but can appreciate that they didn't just make Blood Money 2. ABSOLUTION is also the only HITMAN to be clearly influenced by IO's time with Kane and Lynch. This was an extreme exercise on their tech team as well, as not even the current version of Glacier looks like this. The fine threading on 47's shirt, how skin is rendered in the light, rain, shadows, heat and so on. Few of the levels feel like HITMAN Classic but the levels do have their own identity within the five games. They feel like a smaller realization of what you see in MGS Ground Zeroes, especially the later levels. Because those earlier titles are struggling to hold up, this might be one of my favorite HITMAN games as of 2025 and certainly one of my favorites from IO Interactive overall.
