What a jank fest, for me the disguise system was so bloody annoying in this one, walking ain't the problem, I just get detected by enemies somehow so I just need to spam the load game button each time. Sometimes I feel like the AI gets bugged out and the alerted guards from before loading the game still stay there or something cus they see through my disguise instantly. If they see me from afar 40% of the time they run towards me and that's so annoying, cus if they come close they'll spot me like BRUH. Was really good for half the missions or something, I liked the saints petersburg missions and hated the afghanistan ones. The india one was good but god damn that twist at the end was annoying in terms of gameplay as it got me caught the first time and ruined 5 mins of utter perfection I had maintained till in my last save (I played in expert so only 2 saves). Anyways, I hated the last two missions, so janky and so annoying. The last mission would've been okay if it were possible to stealth it better but nope. And the second last one, YIKES it sucks so much. Still loved the game overall just that it left a bad taste in my mouth. The sound, music and story are great imo just that the gameplay has glimpses of perfection with shitty jank thrown around.

Thief 2014 had a prequel and it was Hitman Absolution lmao.
Honestly though this is not that bad it's just that disguises are absolute trash and don't do the job. Oh what's that, you saw through my disguise, fellow technician, how silly of me! This is the stupidest disguise system yet and Hitman 2's (silent assassin) one was pretty bad to me. The gunplay was pretty damn good imo (only fought when I failed lmao) considering this is supposed to be a stealth game. Yeah it felt like a generic 3rd person military cover shooter of the time but it's still good. Sound design was pretty nice. Story was good at best and a mediocre slugfest by the end, it went on for 2-5 missions too long at the very least. Graphics are pretty nice but holy balls those lens flares!!! SO MUCH BLOOMING HOLY MOLY! Doesn't help that your character has a bald ahh head which shines brighter than the Sun. Anyways, stealth gameplay was pretty "crouch to sneak and use cover or you're fucked" kind of thing. I didn't really like it. The assassinations can be fun but they were awesome back in the day. This is legit a downgrade in terms of the "Hitman" gameplay from all past games except for the first one but even then I'd say if its jankiness were ignored, even the first one had better "Hitman" gameplay. That just ruined it for me, I wish there was more of the using disguises and sneaking around and stuff than here. This game looks so same-ey for the most part that I had to play on the normal difficulty to get the Instinct hints, ain't no way I'm playing without those. I finished the past games with Expert and above for the most part with a handful of Silent Assassin and Professional ratings on the Expert difficulty. I just had a blast exploring those levels. These levels feel tedious without Instinct. Wish this was never included, Detective Mode ahh thing, some clear Batman Arkham inspiration can be seen in everything and the cutscenes just remind me too much of Arkham Asylum's one, similar tone/quality.
Anyways, this ain't a bad game, it's an above average game or at best a "good" game. I think that's the problem, it should stand out from the crowd as something better, like it did back in the day. I don't hate this game, just disappointed. If disguises were better, the cover system wasn't so annoying and the Instinct system wasn't there then this'd have easily been an excellent game. The story focus was annoying cus the story ain't worth it lmao. I really REALLY loved Blood Money's villain, just made sense and was cool af, this 2012 ahh writing was pretty bad and kind of reminiscent of Adam Sandler movies or something where swearing a lot somehow makes you cool or something, jeez the two main villains are so annoying in that regard they have no class and just feel awful but they have such high ranks you're like wtf? a 6/10 game but giving 7 cuz chicks be mad hot in this game, jk I just have a soft spot for Hitman games.