The best-designed and most creatively freeing stealth game of all time in my opinion. Treating this review as the entire modern Hitman trilogy (as all of the games are contained within Hitman 3), the diversity of weapons, tools, locations, targets, and contracts make this game so immensely replayable for me. At it's core, Hitman is a puzzle game that tasks you to take out your target using whatever tools and restrictions you want. You can try to silently enter a location and eliminate your target without anyone knowing you were there, or on a subsequent playthrough you can bring a rifle and silently pick off your target from a vantage point on the other side of town, and be gone by the time the guards find the spot. To top it off, the most recent major update as of the time of this review added Freelancer, a rogue-like gamemode where you begin with nothing, and kill random targets on the same campaign maps but with different challenges and earnable loot, which is immensely fun as a challenge to yourself once you have mastered the main campaign.

Reviewed on Jul 31, 2023


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