a5c7b9f00b After assassinating his former handler, Diana, Agent 47 goes on a mission on her request to track down a young girl named Victoria. Meanwhile, his own employers hunt him and an arms manufacturer, Blake Dexter, pursues Victoria as well. I'll start this off by saying that I'm a die-hard Hit-man fan. I loved Contracts, Silent Assassin, and especially Blood Money. I anxiously waited 6 damn years for the new Hit-man game. Unfortunately, it sucks. In previous Hit-man games, it followed a simple but effective formula. You got to decide what equipment you brought to each level, and you were placed in a wide open world with multiple ways to eliminate your target. This is all gone in Absolution. It was removed because the story has you rebelling against the agency. Are you f****** kidding me. Instead, you start each level with some loud pistol and fiber wire. Wanna snipe the target from long distance? Better hope there is a random sniper rifle laying around. Wanna blow up the target violently with explosives? Better hope there is random explosives illogically placed around the level. Why does the game make you play like this? It's because of more focus on story. In previous Hit-man games, the story was set aside in favor of random assassination missions. Sure, the stories were god awful, but who really cared about them? That wasn't what Hit-man was about. Hit-man Absolution focuses on telling a story, instead of random assassinations. But, the story is embarrassingly laughable. The game is extremely linear and scripted. One level has you sneaking your way up to a hotel room to kill your target. Once you get there, your target escapes, and proceeds to burn down the hotel. The rest of the mission has you escaping from the burning hotel while evading cops. No targets. I repeat, NO TARGETS. This is completely unacceptable for a Hit-man game. Nearly 75% of all the missions are like this. The others have you killing targets, but you are being forced to kill them to survive. The wide open, richly detailed levels of other Hit-man games are gone in favor of scripted, linear stealth missions where you sneak from point A to point B. Very disappointing. One change they made was very promising. When you put on a certain disguise, people who are the same as you will get suspicious. But, this is ruined by the AI being way to alert. You're telling me every janitor and cop know each other? It takes them about 2 seconds to see through your disguise and blow your cover. EVEN WHEN YOU ARE WEARING A MASK. This gameplay addition actually had potential, but they screwed it up. I could go on and on with all the misfires of this game, but I think I'll stop here. Overall, Hit-man Absolution is a generic stealth game that completely abandons every element that made the other games great. Thankfully, the ending has given me hope in this franchise. The ending has Agent 47 rejoining the agency, which means the next game could get back to its basic roots. It better, because I don't want to deal with another mess like Absolution. <br/><br/>Final Score: 34 out of 100 Compared to previous entries in the Hit-man game franchise, this one trades a semi-open world game play mechanic with being, not required, but strongly encouraged to sneak around from place to place. However, it still has the core elements of a traditional Hit-man game in it. With things like being able to change disguises, specific targets to kill, and being able to use the environment to your advantage (accident kills can be some of the most satisfying in the game.). Hit-man: Absolution's storyline is also the most personal of them all for the legendary Agent 47. Set after the events of 2006's Hit-man: Blood Money, 47 is given a task that will force him to turn on the only person he's ever cared for: Diana Penelope Burnwood. Before passing on from a grave bullet wound inflicted by 47, Diana uses her final, dying breaths, to ask 47 to look after one thing: a young girl that she stole from "the doctors." 47 chooses to fulfill his only friend's dying wish, setting up the remainder of the game for a cat and mouse chase as The Agency attempts to retrieve both 47 and the girl. Gameplay features a new "scoring system," which either rewards the player points for playing stealthily, or punishes him/her for making mistakes. However, if you are the type of player who prefers to go guns blazing, then you will find your score well into the negative. This could have been improved by playing as the Silent Assassin (leaving one's environment untouched and unaware) the most rewarding, and players who prefer to put a bullet in anyone that is carrying a gun will have the least rewarding experience. Each level also contains challenges, which, when completed offers a permanent score modifier to the player, but some of these challenges are also repetitive, such as "Find the Evidence" and "Wear All of the Disguises." Contracts mode allows players to challenge other player from around the globe to create in-game contracts using the game's levels. By doing this, players earn money for upgrades and they also receive scores based on their individual performance, which are then compared to other players. With new contracts still being created every day, this can be an exciting opportunity to improve your skills. However, the weapons upgrade system feels somewhat forced, because none of them can be used in the single-player story. So, overall Hit-man: Absolution is a very good game, it's just the repetitive challenges and the forced upgrade system that bring it down. PS: This game is also extremely vulgar at parts, so I would not recommend parents buying this game for young children.
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