Kinda morbidly fun for like three missions but then I got bored with the repetitiveness and annoyed with getting lost all the time and just started gunning down the targets in broad daylight and seeing if I could get away with it, the answer was usually a resounding yes.

It's hilarious to me that these evil billionaires you have to kill won't ever notice you following them no matter how long you do it or how ridiculous the disguise you're wearing is but if you're dressed in a scientist costume and happen to run into another scientist they'll instantly bring the entire security force down on your ass

For a game that gives you a lot of freedom, it feels intent on holding your hand.

Each level is incredibly detailed, a true spectacle of level design and a veritable assassins playground, but I guess it's indicative of modern games in that it never wants to let go of the players hand and risk alienating them.

You can turn the opportunities off, and I highly recommend doing that otherwise the game becomes a paint-by-numbers challenge. But even with that off you get the NPCs playing Extras just waiting for 47 to walk by so they can loudly announce the targets achilles heel.

It's a let down but it doesn't diminish the quality of the game, everything from the design, art, to the voices are immaculate, if you can look past why citizens in Paris sound eerily similar to the ones in Marrakesh.

Hitman is a wonderful entry into the series, I just wish they would make it a bit more of a challenge, and push players outside their comfort zones rather than letting them follow a linear path, especially when they've designed such a rich series of levels to explore.

I bought Hitman as soon as the Paris map was released, and I've sort of just never stopped playing it. This soft reboot of the series takes the sandbox level design of the older games and dramatically increases the scale, filling each environment with discrete NPCs and little important details about the world. The implicit class commentary in the older games is made explicit in this one; all 47 needs to become invisible to his wealthy targets is to wear the outfit of a service worker.

A huge amount of the gameplay in Hitman consists of the player obtaining a work uniform of some kind and observing a target, or someone associated with a target, and discerning both their schedule and their motivations. Each target has a number of ironic, narratively-appropriate, cinematic kills attached to them, and because Hitman levels are designed to be replayed over and over again, your sort of always getting to know the targets and the people surrounding them more and more intimately, each interruption you make into their schedules revealing more and more specific information. Each Hitman level is therefore like a spy novel-puzzle box, where narrative and gameplay are always neatly in sync with one another. An all-timer.

I like it, I never played a hitman game before trilogy so I think this was a good introduction for me, though I don’t think it’s the best part of the trilogy. Some targets, particularly the side targets in certain missions like ken morgan, felt a bit like “filler,” but a lot of the main targets were pretty good, Jordan Cross being one of the best in the trilogy. Also some maps look a little worse when compared to the rest of the trilogy but they actually kinda grew on me when I replayed these levels for certain gear.
Overall, yeah I like it.

Fuck the Colorado map though