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November 20, 2012

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41017 Absolution3

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HITMAN: ABSOLUTION follows The Original Assassin undertaking his most personal contract to date. Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.

Showcasing Glacier 2 technology - HITMAN: ABSOLUTION has been built from the ground up to deliver a cinematic story, distinctive art direction, and cutting-edge game and sound design
Freedom of Choice - Stalk from the shadows or rush in guns blazing thanks to fully-evolved game mechanics and a sophisticated AI-System that responds realistically to every tactic you employ
Experience a Living, Breathing World - Robust and memorable characters spring to life on the screen with an outstanding cast of Hollywood performers, ensuring every moment becomes a story in HITMAN: ABSOLUTION
Disguises - A huge variety of disguises, you can impersonate your victims and blend into the world around you, affording you new actions, options, and the element of surprise
Instinct Mode - Predict enemy patrols, identify weapons and escape routes, and temporarily enhance your disguise--even engage in 'Point-Shooting,' making full use of your skills as an expert marksman to clear entire rooms with stylish efficiency

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Minimum Specifications: OS: Windows Vista, 7 Processor: True dual core CPU (Intel, AMD) RAM: 2 GB Hard Drive: 10 GB Video Card: NV8600 512 Mb RAM, or AMD equivalent Additional Info: DirectX: 10

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HITMAN: ABSOLUTION follows The Original Assassin undertaking his most personal contract to date. Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.

Showcasing Glacier 2 technology - HITMAN: ABSOLUTION has been built from the ground up to deliver a cinematic story, distinctive art direction, and cutting-edge game and sound design
Freedom of Choice - Stalk from the shadows or rush in guns blazing thanks to fully-evolved game mechanics and a sophisticated AI-System that responds realistically to every tactic you employ
Experience a Living, Breathing World - Robust and memorable characters spring to life on the screen with an outstanding cast of Hollywood performers, ensuring every moment becomes a story in HITMAN: ABSOLUTION
Disguises - A huge variety of disguises, you can impersonate your victims and blend into the world around you, affording you new actions, options, and the element of surprise
Instinct Mode - Predict enemy patrols, identify weapons and escape routes, and temporarily enhance your disguise--even engage in 'Point-Shooting,' making full use of your skills as an expert marksman to clear entire rooms with stylish efficiency

System Requirements

Minimum Specifications: OS: Windows Vista, 7 Processor: True dual core CPU (Intel, AMD) RAM: 2 GB Hard Drive: 10 GB Video Card: NV8600 512 Mb RAM, or AMD equivalent Additional Info: DirectX: 10

Steam account required for game activation and installation

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KingsFullofAces

Has its flaws, but still shines where it should

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2012

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

With the return of Hitman after a 6 year hiatus, hardcore fans were psyched with a release of a seemingly flawless product, but questions remained as it neared release date. People now began to realize some major cons in the game, as I did with my further gameplay.

Cons
-The disguise system is flawed, do not play on anything past normal on your first playthrough, my advice to you. This new 'instinct' system they implemented is the only way you can avoid being detected by someone with the same disguise as you, and they detect you at long distances!
-No weapon upgrades in Campaign! This bothered some people, but I don't care personally, and while they are still present in the new Contracts feature, I think that it wasn't a big deal leaving them absent in the Story.
-This game is not, by any means, Blood Money 2. If you loved Blood Money, and didn't care as much for any of the other games in the franchise, you might dislike this game. My advice to you is, DO NOT QUIT EARLY IN THE GAME. The early game is seriously boring, that's why I advise playing on normal, so you don't spend hours on levels that have no targets, I agree the levels spent simply evading Cops instead of killing targets is a bore, don't spend all your time playing this, advance!

Pros
+Very long and enjoyable Campaign, I pumped about 15-20 hours in playing just it, although the story does fall flat, not only to me but others as well.
+Contracts mode is awesome! You know have the ability to travel back to stages in the Campaign, yet pick your own target from that level, picking up what you will from the level and setting the grounds for your own contract. This mode is a huge step for the franchise, and with the development of a new Hitman game already being announced, I would like to see them take this even further, with level modifications possible in addition to target modifications.
+The new kill animations rock! Being able to kill any target with truly anything you spot is a huge plus.
+New instinct system, while I think it was implemented poorly, it is a good idea in theory. The problem is that in order to hide your disguise (putting a hand over your head and hiding while walking past a guard) it requires instinct. I want an explanation as to why, in order for 47 to hide his face, he has to have some special superpower, if he runs out of it, guess what? He can't put a hand over his face. The system is very cheesy, but you learn to look past it and use it how it was meant to be. For more hardcore players you may want to turn all of instinct's help off and just use it to get past guards, because I don't see how this is playable without instinct to sneak past guards.
+Graphics are gorgeous! My fps was pretty poor, but my computer isn't top notch, even still I loved the graphics, seeing Agent 47's bald head finally rendered without choppy graphics six years later is actually pretty satisfying.

In conclusion, if you like stealth games, buy this game. Hitman Blood Money, the game prior to this one, was strictly an Assassination puzzler. This game, however appears to be more stealh-based, sneak past without being spot, but they don't force you to play that way. The biggest gripe about this game seemed to me to be that Hitman: Absolution didn't turn into Hitman: Blood Money 2. The game developers sought to evolve the game, and you must applaud them for that. Whether all game evolutions are well-received or not, this is not some company seeking to pump out a repetitive franchise game.

My word to you would be buy this game, if you played Blood Money, and liked it, BUY IT. You cannot know your opinion off one review, every person's opinion will vary. I didn't know if I truly liked the game until IO Interactive blew me away with levels like Blackwater Park near the end of the game. I don't understand why they decided to make these droll levels in such early game that seemingly discourages all new players from continuing simply because they are sick of running away!

If you haven't played a Hitman game, but are a stealth game fan, boy will you love this game. You will get a lot of play out of this game simply by trying to progress every level without being spotted, and after finishing a level where you do so you will feel very accomplished. But as with every stealth game it can be aggravating, what I enjoy about Hitman is it gives you the choice, if there is a guard that has spotted you, you can hit him with a quick punch, hide the body, and be on as if nothing happened. When you rage at the game, and are sick of a level, you can unload on everyone (even though it seems farfetched, this is extremely enjoyable when you are fed up with the game mechanics). Me writing this long of a review proves how much I like this game, even with its flaws.

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Cthulhu Jones

Extremely Fun, But Not Really Hitman (or the worst Hitman)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2013

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I'm torn when it comes to this game. I had a lot of fun playing it, and if it didn't have the word Hitman in the title I would love it despite its man, MANY flaws. However, it does claim to be a Hitman game so it comes with a lot of expectations. Some of those being large, open-ended levels that can often be so overwhelming at first that you feel lost and nervous, tight and challenging stealth that takes advantage of disguises, timing, and good recon, and the satisfaction of a a well executed assassination at the end of each level. You don't really get any of that in Absolution.

Instead of one large, intricate level the levels are now cut up into smaller, more digestible chunks which often end up feeling stunted, linear, and overly scripted. There are a few exceptions, and sometimes the cut up levels aren't as intrusive and cheapening as it is at other times. The save system, now implemented as a few checkpoints throughout a level, is completely botched. You can spend an hour creeping through a level silently killing every guard in your path, activate the checkpoint and end up having to reload (especially if you're trying to avoid being spotted) and suddenly you spawn at the checkpoint but now every guard you killed up to that point is alive and running through their scripted routine. This can also cause problems with the games bizarre scoring system. You start each level with a 0 score and gain or lose points as you achieve things or stray from the core mission. Every time you kill or pacify a non-target person you lose points,though often gain about half of them back for a stealth kill (except civilians, which receive a large penalty). You can then get back to a neutral score by hiding the body. However if you kill someone on the other side of a level and plan to work your way there to hid the body but activate a checkpoint before getting there and then have to reload the checkpoint that dead guard is now back alive but you're still docked the points from not hiding the body. You can only get those points back by restarting that segment completely. The disguises are almost completely useless. Say you take down a cop and put on his disguise. That disguise won't work against other cops and they are almost immediately suspicious of you. You can try to lose some of that heat by using the games instinct system, which is a power bar that allows you to perform advanced skills like slow-mo, targeting and shooting multiple foes quickly, and tipping your hat or hiding your face which instantly makes you unrecognizable to those suspicious cops. Now there is often one disguise in a level that will get you through most of it unrecognized as long as you don't draw attention to yourself. Finally, the story in Absolution is ridiculously bad. The kind of bad you expect from a cheesy 80's action movie starring Dolph Lundgren.

Despite all those things, the game is fun. If you can ignore the laughable story, get over the frustration of the checkpoints, take the time to learn the levels to exploit the shortcuts and rare useful disguise, and learn to ignore the scoring system and just sneak around and murder people it's a fun game. Even though the levels are nowhere near as intricate as in games past, they are well crafted and breathe like a living world. There are many creative, signature ways to take out your targets that make for a good bit of replayability, and the games Contracts feature is genius. Contracts are created and shared by players all over the world who create a set of mission parameters (created by playing the level the way you intend others to try and play it) and then submits them for others to play. It's basically a real Hitman game inside the cheesy action movie that masquerade under the Hitman banner. I really do mean it when I say the game is fun despite the flaws. Play the game at least on Hard so that it's truly Hitman hard, refrain from using Instinct as much as possible (it's disabled on Purist mode), and completely ignore your score (if you end up getting the Silent Assassin bonus you get a ridiculous bonus anyway) and you can play what is a truly entertaining game.

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