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Welcome Back Agent 47!
posted by CptnCommamdo (MORENO VALLEY, CA) Nov 22, 2012
Member since Sep 2011
9 out of 15 gamers (60%) found this review helpful
From Publisher Square Enix & Developer IO Interactive comes Hitman Absolution, the 5th Installment from the Hitman Series where players follow Agent 47 who takes on his most dangerous contract to date. Hitman Absolution is an intense mix of serenity and obscenity, its foul-mouthed criminals and grubby henchmen adding a layer of thick grime to otherwise quaint small-town streets and warm desert sands. Agent 47 returns in this open-ended linear challenging game to hit up one final contract by his former handler Diana Burnwood who went rogue & died by your hand & the tasks are to protect a girl named Victoria, stop a crimelord named Blake Dexter who made you the Most Wanted man to date, kill his associates & stop Assassin Nuns hired by Blake who will do whatever it takes to stop 47. Your tasks are to either eliminate your contracts using 47's amazing stealth skills, go in guns blazing using 47's combat skills, or choose your enviroments to take out your contracts & make it look like an accident. Also you must avoid or kill the assassin nuns & walk away like nothing happened. Story is somewhat Phenomenal, Stealth Gameplay is tense & has become more challenging than ever also Combat is excellent. Art Design is amazing & Soundtrack can make the game tense & Sound Design is great which is another reason to play Hitman. The many challenges/options to complete your tasks are what makes the game great. Characters Design & Voice Acting is well put & Level Design is epic. Game is not perfect, game does have some flaws & issues like the A.I. use in levels, cell phone coversations, story hobbles a bit near the end & leaves some gaps but in the end its good to have Agent 47 back & we needed him. If you still love playing Hitman games like I do & love the amazing storyline then this game is for you & newcomers beware for this might not be your game. Hitman Absolution gets an 8 out of 10.
Not worth a rental
posted by mattr25 (PHOENIX, AZ) Nov 22, 2012
Member since Dec 2006
9 out of 28 gamers (32%) found this review helpful
The game itself looks more or less like any other Hitman game. Obviously graphics are not the end all be all of games but improvements would be nice.
Control scheme works well enough, so long as you do not need to change what you use at the drop of a hat. Which is exactly what they want you to do. In other words, the controls work great, unless you are playing the game.
Stealth is well not really there. You can sneak, but unless you have a wide open area with guards spread out, it doesn't work worth anything.
Story is honestly the worst part. You are an assassin who has no feelings, I mean they lay it out in earlier games. So now you go and kill the woman who was telling you what to do, and then you have a conscious. Just out of the blue, hey let's not let people do what I do.
To not let people do what you do, you go do what you do. If you don't see a problem with that story line, try the game. You will send it back rather quickly. It is a stealth game with no use for stealth, it is a shooter with nothing saying this is different besides the supposed stealth.
As an example, the first target you get after the stupid set up, is not there unless you do it a specific way. Every single one after that is the same thing, you have to do a specific way or you don't actually do it. In other words it is an open world kill a certain person game with little to no stealth, and you are on a rail. You go point A to point B only how they want you to. Everything else, is glitter and serves no purpose.
Control scheme works well enough, so long as you do not need to change what you use at the drop of a hat. Which is exactly what they want you to do. In other words, the controls work great, unless you are playing the game.
Stealth is well not really there. You can sneak, but unless you have a wide open area with guards spread out, it doesn't work worth anything.
Story is honestly the worst part. You are an assassin who has no feelings, I mean they lay it out in earlier games. So now you go and kill the woman who was telling you what to do, and then you have a conscious. Just out of the blue, hey let's not let people do what I do.
To not let people do what you do, you go do what you do. If you don't see a problem with that story line, try the game. You will send it back rather quickly. It is a stealth game with no use for stealth, it is a shooter with nothing saying this is different besides the supposed stealth.
As an example, the first target you get after the stupid set up, is not there unless you do it a specific way. Every single one after that is the same thing, you have to do a specific way or you don't actually do it. In other words it is an open world kill a certain person game with little to no stealth, and you are on a rail. You go point A to point B only how they want you to. Everything else, is glitter and serves no purpose.
Not letting you save when you want ruins the game.
posted by Seizure (POWELL, OH) May 13, 2013
Member since Jul 2007
Stealth games, by their nature lend themselves to tedium and boredom. This can be ameliorated (somewhat) by saving often. So, if you alert someone accidentally all you have to do is reload. Hitman Absolution hates this idea as much as it hates you, the gamer. Instead of letting you save whenever you want, making the game fun, you can only save at save-points of which there might be one or two a level.
So, if you play games for mind-numbing tedium and extreme boredom as you reload AGAIN because after 5-10 minutes of WORK at the game, someone saw you... AGAIN, so you have to do the SAME 5-10 minutes of game-play... AGAIN, this is a good game for you. Personally, I can't think of a worse way to spend my time. Seriously, I would rather go back to work, go get a hair cut, go to the dentist, or just plain go back to sleep than play the same level over AGAIN.
So, if you play games for mind-numbing tedium and extreme boredom as you reload AGAIN because after 5-10 minutes of WORK at the game, someone saw you... AGAIN, so you have to do the SAME 5-10 minutes of game-play... AGAIN, this is a good game for you. Personally, I can't think of a worse way to spend my time. Seriously, I would rather go back to work, go get a hair cut, go to the dentist, or just plain go back to sleep than play the same level over AGAIN.