Since Agent 47 also ditches his former employer in Absolution you don’t have access to your safehouse and the weapons stored within. There are very few places to visit throughout the campaign and in most cases you spent much more time in them than you would want to. Absolution however is taking place in a relatively small area within the United States. But what about that whole “compromising the gameplay mechanics” from earlier? The older games where world trotting adventures, they weren’t held back by a story that takes place in relatively small area. Okay, the story is bad and the writers should feel bad. Sure, they are that way so that you would actually want to kill them during the story, but I do think IO-Interactive took it too far. They come of as incredibly over the top stereotypes. Crude, obscene, psychopathic and without any redeemable traits what so ever. The aforementioned douches are another big problem the villains are horrendously written characters. Whenever you think you’re about to reach her, the game pulls a twist and adds another couple of levels – it gets old really fast. It’s a pretty underwhelming tale in which Agent 47 tries to safe a young girl from some criminal douches. The second reason is the fact that the story is just plain bad. First off, it compromises the overall gameplay mechanics and removes a lot of what made the older games so interesting. And there are two reasons why Absolution’s story is such a big problem. Now, obviously incorporating a story isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but in this particular case it is. It was the freedom to make up your own stories that made these games so interesting. It wasn’t a problem because Hitman’s unique selling point where the sandbox levels and all the ways you could finish your mission. The old games only featured a minimalistic plot that was simply there to give a frame around the assassinations. Hitman: Absolution changes up the formula of the older games and tries to tell an actual cohesive story this time around. Whether or not that was a good decision, I’m not sure though. But the announcement of a new Hitman and a convenient sale on the PSN made me curious enough to pick it up. So when Hitman: Absolution came out I was intrigued but I heard a lot of bad stuff about the game and eventually forgot it was even released. It was pretty cool and I remember spending hours trying to figure out the best approach for every mission in the first Hitman.

It featured big, open levels with lots and lots of ways for you to accomplish your goal.

The Hitman IP isn’t the most prestigious of franchises but it does have a following and is a pretty unique series. Streamlining the experience for modern audiences is the general idea but more often than not games just get dumbed down to make them more accessible. When beloved franchises receive a new chance in the spotlight there is always a certain sense of dread looming in the back of the head of old-time fans.

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