HITMAN™ as a game is quite refreshing in my eyes. It has improved upon its predecessor, Absolution, and in turn took elements from older games, namely Blood Money to please fans and give a greater gameplay experience.

In turn, you are able to explore your level, choose how you want to kill, how you want to look and how you want to approach your target, or targets. You can choose from a great variety of weapons inside a level, ranging from screwdrivers to lethal syringes, fire axes, various pistols and even rifles and shotguns in some cases.

The only level in the intro pack is the Showstopper level, which is disappointing, but already nice in its own right. The graphics in this game are stunning, of course, and despite people disliking 47's new appearance, I'm content with it as it doesn't necessarily matter.

Do you remember how he looked like in Hitman: Silent Assassin™? It was an abomination. An inflatable balloon, more like.

You can as always disguise yourself, and instead of an action bar to choose your weapons from, it returns to the weapon wheel in a Blood Money style fashion.

The episodic model is overall disappointing if not annoying, but I can safely say that under the circumstances of the company, it's understandable. IO Interactive had lost a lot of money and needed to make some in turn to avoid being closed down or laid off by Square Enix, and the game itself seems very promising as well.

However, not every game is perfect. HITMAN™ suffers from various performance problems, even on my machine, lowering my FPS to >30 in crowds, specifically in the Paris level. I hope IO makes an optimization patch in the near future.

The gameplay can be tedious as well, as sometimes the characters make one cycle onto an area that can be used to kill them, I.E. the showstage in Paris, only to never return or return in perhaps 10-20 minutes.

However, I think the game should still be played assuming you can do so. I suggest you have a good machine, as older machines probably lag like sin.

also the always online sucks but cant fix it myself

still nice game