Why all the hate on this game?

[CrazyJ9211]

Yes I understand this game isnt like blood money or contracts or whatever better variation of hitman out there but I dont get the hate on this game, I mean of course I never played it so I could just be sounding like a dummy here, but I have seen some videos and it looks pretty cool and fun like a normal hitman game, So why all the hate on this specific hitman game? Please respond with a answer, and thank you :)

[JacobDannAlexx.]

Actually, it is hated precisely because it's not a Hitman game. In Absolution, the action is not about 47 traveling around the world in different places and assassinating people. In fact, the vast majority of missions in the game are not even about assassinating people... This being said, I too don't understand the hatred of the game. True, it's not the typical Hitman but it is enjoyable to play.

[Kunovega]

There's so many existing threads that already answer this question that I'm not going to retype it all again. If you want a more thorough answer, read:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Hitman-Absolution-the-worst-Hitman-game/answer/Vincent-Beers?ch=10&share=1266a55a&srid=d34m

[Hyperchaotic]

Because instinct realised bad and players forced to use it all the time

[Hyperchaotic]

And because of little replayability, I've got almost all achievements in 18 hrs

[Тривиум]

I was wondering that too and I think it has a lot to do with 47's actions being completely illogical. Like just shooting Diana without even questioning her!!! One thing I find very cheap is the fact Diana's voice is totally different to the one we used to hear from the previous games!

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Тривиум:

I was wondering that too and I think it has a lot to do with 47's actions being completely illogical. Like just shooting Diana without even questioning her!!! One thing I find very cheap is the fact Diana's voice is totally different to the one we used to hear from the previous games!

Her death was faked, it's just poorly explained until the end as a (badly done) plot twist so even players don't know until the reveal.

47 had been gone since Blood Money (where he faked his death and an entire branch of the ICA had been shut down to the protect the rest of the organization). There's a book before Absolution where he comes out of hiding and is assigned a new handler.

47 is ordered to kill her by his new handler. She's left him a note asking that if he chooses to kill her that he at least take care of Victoria. He obviously chose to not kill her.

By the time the note is done being read, you realize 47 and Diana are both alive and Victoria is free.

The entire game was just one long personal agenda mission of 47 taking down the rogue ICA manager and all of his mercenaries. The ICA is compartmentalized, so branches often operate independent of each other, 47 and Diana use her faked death to remove that entire branch.

As for the voice actors yea, that's on Square-Enix, they almost replaced 47 as well but fans were able to protest and they relented and kept him, but still replaced her.

[Тривиум]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

As for the voice actors yea, that's on Square-Enix, they almost replaced 47 as well but fans were able to protest and they relented and kept him, but still replaced her.

Thanks for the explanation. When they make a book story in between games/movies it's really confusing as the fans could miss some important parts and wonder what really happens. The Matrix is also related to an anime with lots of backstory and without it you can't understand understand the movie completely. For example this anime story reveals that the humans were the first to attack the robots and not the other way around. The robots simply wanted to live peacefully with the human race. This also reminds me about the movie V for Vendetta as it's also based on a book/anime with some background story.

It's very cheap that they couldn't even hire a voice actor who sounded similar to Diana's (british?) accent.

The game looks rushed and more like a movie at some points especially when trying to get away from the cops during this long sequence. It looked nice on the trailer showing this game play footage but somehow I find it boring while doing it. It's a dumb mechanic to be able to see anyone behind walls with unlimited focus while on normal difficulty as well as conveniently revealing plot points destroying the vigilance/exploration/discussion (talking to other people to gain intel) parts of the previous games. Like is 47 now a terminator all of a sudden?! He self heals as well!

The way the shooting happens to me looks a lot like an arcade compared to the previous versions.

Being able to kill the first target (chinese boss) in 12 different ways (afaik) is quite nice tho. The game has 90% positive ratings on Steam somehow.

[Twan]

The gunplay in this game is actually pretty good, the levels are just too much on rails most of the time. It's not a bad game though

[CrazyJ9211]

Hitman absolution is unique and people hate it for being not a hitman game they say, It is unique in its own ways, like the inventory system or the point shooting, though you dont use coins anymore to distract people like in most hitman games, What im tryin to say is hitman absolution has its flaws, but it doesnt deserve this much hate.

[KiRA]

Its an action game but not an hitman game. The devs saw how some other games like Gears of Wars / Splinter Cell got popular and decided to shift the series by being more action focused, failing to understand what made the series unique or why it even had an audience. Originally the game was even more linear than it was released. Not even having targets to kill. But when it was first released to public eyes, the reception was extremely negative so in mid development they added some features to at least claim its an hitman title.

The story also basically showed the middle finger to everything it had established & created with the previous games. Diana saves your butt, you decide to fulfil the agencies request to silence her only to end up going against the agency anyways. Not to mention how he gets caught twice. Considering his numerous experience. Just mind blown how bad the writing is.

[WhiteKnight]

I liked this game.

[seaque]

It has good parts, but lacks the fundamentals of Hitman franchise.