What is the save system in the latest Hitman like?

[Mantis]

I'm considering buying this game. But first I have a question. The last game, Absolution, was totally ruined for me by the games' save system: you could silently kill every last enemy in a level but once you loaded the last checkpoint or died, EVERY enemy in the whole level magically reappeared. I eventually ended up simply killing no one to circumvent this immersion breaking mechanic.

My question now is: what's the save system in the newest Hitman like? Free save system? Checkpoints? I even could live with darn consolish checkpoints as long as every killed enemy won't get reanimated once you die or reload your last save.

Can someone clear this one up for me?

[BOT Cecil]

You can save pretty much whenever you want in the story missions, as long as there's not an event happening or you are not hunted.

You cannot save during contracts, elusives or escalations.

[tunnelcat]

It's got both manual save slots and autosave slots and you can load a save game from either. There is a fixed number of manual slots though, 8 or 10 I think (gotta go back in and check) and it uses those slots interchangably between the different missions and areas, so save wisely. It's not a problem if you've already completed a hit because you'll want to make new saves when you do new challenges anyway. You can overwrite slots anytime you choose. I use the manual save points when I'm about to try something I think will royally backfire. Plus, it reloads the situation as it was when you saved, so if you assassinated one of your targets, they stay dead. The poster above listed the areas you can't save in though.

[Jet City Gambler]

There are no checkpoints, and enemies don't magically come back to life like they did in Absolution. It auto-saves every five minutes or so, plus you can manually save pretty much anytime.

[theonewhoknocks]

Hey. For starters, you won't have that problem you had in Absolution.
Now for the save system:

.Saves can either be automatic or manual. The game will save itself when you start a mission and then will periodically save after ~3 min. You can also chose to save manually and you have about 7 slots for manual saves.

. Saves are either for online mode or offline mode: in this game, you need to be always online in order to access your saves regarding general progress - ie, xp points in missions that yield new starting locations for each mission, new weapons, etc.

If you're not connected, you are given a bare-boned version of the game: no access to anything you earned - and this includes basic stuff such as silverballer, sniper rifle, lethal and anesthetic poison, etc.

You can save the game when in offline mode - but those saves when in offline mode will be different from the ones in the regular online mode.

No checkpoints.

[Mantis]

Guys, thanks for the elaboration. Much obliged!