Don't get me wrong, I know there's a lot of fun to be had with this game. However for me personally, I the game crashes when I finish a level. I had played the first level four separate times to test out different settings that were recommended, but nothing worked, If the game works for you, don't take it personally, I envy you. Here are some pros and cons I noticed in the short time spent in the first level. Pros: - It seems you can play the whole game in first person - when you press F1, the perspective changes. That's pretty awesome feature that I really didn't expect. That's unfortunately it for my pros, because the first level is quite linear, so there isn't much sandbox going on, which I think is what Hitman is about. Cons: - Right of the bat, if you have multiple monitors and want to play fullscreen, you will have a bad time. Windowed is a necessity. - However the windowed mode is borderless, and is stuck to the top left - The subtitles are nowhere near for all voice, not even for all cutscenes. Also some cutscenes can be skipped and some can't. Especially the monologue in beginning is annoying when you're just trying to figure out the settings to make the game not crash. - The game seemed too dark to see anything at times, even with gamma way up. When I tried playing during the day, even slightest hint of sunlight would make it impossible to see anything after you trip the breaker in the first level. I know that is partly on me not having blinds and having crappy screen, but that's what the brightness slider is usually for. To repeat myself, I don't think it's a bad game, not by a longshot. If it weren't for the crashes, I probably would have given it 4/5. Or maybe I would have bothered looking for some tools to fix the brightness and windowedness to make it 5/5. However game that crashes after you finish a level is no fun for me, and supposedly it's not that rare of an issue.
I'm gonna be honest - I didn't finish the game, gave up on Tuesday. I tried to, but for me it crashed like crazy, and combined with long initial loading time I decided it wasn't worth my time. Not that I loved the game when it wasn't crashing. Sure, I enjoy tormenting NPCs, but my issue is that there isn't much to do when that gets boring. And it does get boring, because there isn't even an interact button (you can't talk to anyone, except for story reasons), and the environment isn't destructible (except for glass, I think) to supplement that either. If pissing on people isn't a neccessity for you, I think more sensible might be to buy something with interesting story or gameplay and torment NPCs on the side. Deus Ex, perhaps?
Honestly I agree with most of the reviews here. There is no story, just pure repetetive gameplay. And that's far from a bad thing, because the gameplay is addictive and restarts are frictionless. However, there are four cons I can recall, fixing which wouldn't be hard and would elevate this game to a legitimate masterpiece. Number one: audio settings. You can only toggle audio on or off, nothing like volume slider, much less an option to change levels of different elements (voice, effects, music). That means to change the music volume, you have to mess with settings of your OS. Big yikes. Number two: resolution settings. You can only toggle windowed mode, nothing else. Not a big deal with a small resolution monitor, but terrible for a large resolution one. Even bigger yikes. Number three: Resolution capped at 60 fps. Again, this wasn't an issue when the game was released, but now it kinda is. Number four: There's only six levels? Yeah, they're tough as nails so it's not like this game is 20 minute affair, but still.
