Acceptable and insanely flawed, guilty pleasure out of nostalgia and wasted potential. Takes a groove out of gritty Michael Mann heist film sailing on cover-shooter. Gameplay suffers some of the most clunky, recoil-tainted gunplay which never was my fixation, but rather my conceptual fascination towards the shamelessly anti-heroic leads, tragic soap opera turned into bullet-spree anarchy and some of the most hectic "Heat" stylized run n' gun scenarios a shooting gallery would ever dream of. It slackers for a travelholic tour of redemption into a lousy-war section with insane difficulty and nonsensical choicemaking, but things add for a stylistically tragic and broken, ugly flavor. Definitely a misfire but one i admire, and Eidos apparently does, to some extent, by having their leads wandering around Hitman Absolution.