IOI has a very interesting design ethos when it comes to their linear games, the most recent linear TPS they made was Kane and Lynch 2 which built off the ideas from Kane and Lynch 1 which built off the ideas from Freedom Fighters which reused a lot of the systems of Hitman 2. I think this game is really interesting mainly because of how terrible it is, but in a way that was necessary for the company to grow and make some of the best linear TPS games in the future, depending on how you feel about Hitman Absolution. The game is awful, but it acts as a start point for future games by the same team, it feels like an alpha build of a better game in a way that you would never see today.