Hitman: Absolution

[Flawless]

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[fredropro]

I'm liking the game so far I like the fact that you can take too many shots before you die
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[fredropro]

I'm about to put the difficulty down easy I can't get past the second mission

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[ps3veron]

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I'm about to put the difficulty down easy I can't get past the second mission

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That took me quite a few tries. Wait till you get to the third buoy!

[DGuinta1]

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Does Agent 47 have any hits left in him, or should this killer have remained underground? Check out the GT Review of Hitman: Absolution for the full report. (9:54)

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/1s3exv/hitman--absolution-review

[josef]

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http://www.oxm.co.uk/47703/reviews/hitman-absolution-review/

9.0/10

[mrprice33]

Does anyone else feel like the developers were misleading? Their entire marketing campaign was about how the game is open and lets you complete a mission the way that you want to...and just now we are finding out otherwise...

It seems like the only level they demoed is the most open one.

[greenegt]

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I think I'll wait until this drops to $40. It looks like a good game, but not quite the Hitman game I was hoping for.

[Splitter77]

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im still gonna get it tuesday.
i think i'll have fun with contracts and Im really not playing any other ps3 game besides nhl 13.

i guess im really waiting for the HD hitman trilogy now.
seeing how this game doesnt allow the freedom in previous hitman games.

[mikenoob]

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To be fair, only blood money had the open type of freedom many of you are all looking for. Contracts had some missions like that, but others were also just as linear. Silent Assassin wasn't like blood money either.

I was looking for a blood money type game as well, but ended up cancelling my preorder. I'll wait til this hits the bargain bin.

[Flawless]

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

there are long periods during which IO’s work operates like a less abrasive Kane and Lynch

There are entire missions with no choice at all – walk to door, open door, perform prescribed action.

There’s no continuity between one loading point and the next, even when it’s just a door. At times, 47 even loses his disguise between levels and the weapons he had gathered, even if the context of that shift was stepping out of a building and onto the street.

Remarkably, most levels don’t have a target – they’re about getting from one place to another instead of hitting a man, usually while being hunted or trespassing. On the rare occasions when IO build a decent-sized, believable area and provide 47 with someone to kill, the game comes close to recapturing some of the glorious nonsense and intelligence of its former years.

Whatever your approach, whatever you did up to the point of the kill, it’s all flushed away in a cutscene starring a giant sack of hammers who is more Hulk than human and a 47 who screws everything up. It’s not the only time the game takes away control and forces a contrived conclusion to a hit – and for what? An escape sequence that owes more to Uncharted than Hitmen past, followed by a long run from the law. There’s a lull, several hours long, before 47 rediscovers his anonymity, and until then every mission begins with his identity known and his iconic weapons replaced by a noisy peashooter.

I enjoy testing the limits of games, particularly sandbox murder-sims, but Absolution is more like being the one kid on the see-saw than building cities in a sandbox.

If this were the first Hitman game I’d played, I wouldn’t want to play another, but there’s just about enough in Absolution’s finer moments to keep the hope alive. Remember though: it’s the hope, not the hitman, that kills you in the end. As it is, I’ve already reinstalled Bloody Money as a sort of palate cleanser and I suggest you do the same.

[LionsFanNJ]

Yeah , all that wait I had...and I'm not going to get this game. I had such hopes too. Especially with that level escaping the cops and the one demo from E3. Well saves me a bit of money for something else.

[goh]

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The PC version has been patched and only messes up in specific foilage heavy areas now but it was in fact a problem.

[Kevin26385]

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So, Gamespot a 7.5 and IGN a 9.0. It looks like Hitman fanatics will be disappointed and casual gamers will enjoy the title.

[goh]

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4.5/5 from Gamesradar: http://www.gamesradar.com/hitman-absolution-review/