Hitman: Absolution for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

Between choosing what weapon to use, costume to wear, what people to take out and when; this games gives you more options every mission it will make your head spin. There are literally a few dozen ways to complete each mission and the paths to get there too.

I do a lot of research before starting my games because I go for trophies. I read a trophy guide that detailed this game would take 20 hours. That could not be more wrong. The amount of time you will find yourself dying (or manually restarting) trying to find out how to take out your targets (stealth) makes for a very lengthy play time. Of course if you run and gun you won't have to restart as much.

The game is polished and well scripted. Every enemy / npc has a line or two or more of dialog. Each level is different from the last so you won't find yourself being bored with your environment.

Having said all of this I highly recommend playing on nothing short of hard mode. There are three professional diffiulity levels. I choose Hard and that is a great level to play this game on. Anything easier and you might just get through the game quicker but find yourself with less challenges and options or at least exploring those options. Hard mode forces you to explore your environment in order to discover more ways of doing this. I am proud to say I've made it through the game WITHOUT a walkthrough and I highly recommend that style to anyone else. The game is much more enjoyable that way.

It was a great surprise to find that the deaths / restarts do not frustrate me nearly as much as they do in other games. Here they serve to make me take a different tactic through. Which is simply the beauty of this game because there are plenty of paths to discover, though it tends to get harder to discover them the later in the game you get.

There are plenty of geek references to movies and tongue and cheek humor moments you'll stumble across too.

Overall I think this game is one of the best games I've played this y