Who's playing the new Hitman?

[Korodic]

me. Play my contracts! :D

 

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[Vindekarr]

Honestly mate, it IS amazing. Best stealth game I've ever played. Admitedly, the only one, aswell, but holy hell, the dialogue is amazing, the graphics are great, the action is great, and it's pretty reliable now.

[bruniss]

I just finished playing it too, and I'd have to give it an 8/10. I agree mostly to what Vindekarr said: It's an awesome stealth game, with awesome stealth mechanics, the story is Great as well as the voice acting, but I gotta say that somehow (and this is my opinion) the game "forces" you to go through certains paths instead of others. I really don't think Absolution has the best 3rd person shooter action, so in some scenarios you en up prefering to go stealth (of course many times you are outnumbered so it's only logical). Maybe it's just me, or maybe this is what ANgry Joe meant when he said "story driven". The "accidents" you can make are rather original and cretive, but sometimes I fell they are a little over the top. And since maps and scenarios are so small (compared to Blood Money), you don't end up with as many choices as you'd think. This is not necessarly a bad thing, but I won't say that I didn't end up missing those gigantic maps on Blood Money---like the theatre which was AWESOME!!!

 

Still, a great game, a must-have, specially if you can get it on sale. I myself pre-purchased it and it came with the whole Hitman saga :)

 

PD: Optimization sucks. I had the same problems as Vindekarr (CTDs, Direct X stuff and so on). It's a game that says PS3 all over the place and never took the trouble to work the transition well. It's very badly optimized. (I'm running FX 6100 OCd to 4.5ghz, 16 RAM and a GTX 680)

Edited November 26, 2012 by bruniss

[hector530]

Try the new beta drivers

[Passb]

I can see why people are calling this installment "linear". Think I'll have to give Blood Money a try first before jumping into this one. a lot of comments and reviews I've seen on Absolution compare it to Blood Money, the majority of which are upset by Absolution's more linear style of gameplay when compared to other Hitman games.

[Korodic]

I wouldnt call it very linear at all, there is a lot of individual choices you can make, particularly in how you handle your target's demise. However... it is linear in a lot of levels that dont really give an alternative in the path you take toward completion. However exiting the level is exiting the level, so it comes down to perspective in the way that games just do that.... if you know what I mean. Anyways, contracts makes up for it by making levels more dynamic.

[bruniss]

I can see why people are calling this installment "linear". Think I'll have to give Blood Money a try first before jumping into this one. a lot of comments and reviews I've seen on Absolution compare it to Blood Money, the majority of which are upset by Absolution's more linear style of gameplay when compared to other Hitman games.

 

You're right, we always compare it to Blood Money. Absolution on itself is a great game, but Blood Money set the path.

[Nadimos]

It is definitely good! A very polished game. Interaction is seemless and everything just flows along. Edited December 8, 2012 by Nadimos

[Vindekarr]

I think this is a game I will replay in the future. There's such an insane number of different ways to do thing, that I could probably replay it 10 times and not do the same style twice.

[Adriel8100]

Me and one of my friends played last night.The cavalcade of oddball villains is amusing, even if they feel like they have been plucked from a very bad B-grade crime thriller.Like it!!!