Hitman: Absolution
DEVELOPER: IO Interactive
PUBLISHER: Square EnixRated M
platform:Pc,ps3,xbox360
RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2012
HMA is a great game. It looks great, plays great, snapping necks and shooting guys in the face sounds great, and while I’m decidedly not great at playing it, I still had loads of fun and came away a significantly less awkward killer than we was during our first mission.
If you’re a fan of the series, you’re going to love this game. If you haven’t played a Hitman game before but are now interested because of everything I just said, you should still check it out. I highly recommend it.
Absolution later moves on to sunnier climes, but it’s at home in Chicago’s rundown apartments and seedy hotels. Here, adulterous couples meet, desperate businessmen make equally desperate sales calls, and bent cops make deals with organised crime. IO’s Glacier 2 engine takes the moral degeneration and slathers it over the environment itself, painting in the incidental details such as the filthy state of a Chinese takeout’s kitchen, but dealing in broader brushstrokes, too. An overabundance of smeary bloom and lens flare faintly recalls the documentary style of the studio’s Kane & Lynch sequel, whereas light itself is almost aggressively stylised, with blades of it cutting violently through the game’s darker corners, exposing all the ugliness.
pros
Still Hitman gorgeous
levels very replayable.
Intresting combat
assassination is very intresting
Chinatown's crowds look great.
Cons
Glitchy AI; appalling
story; bad stealth.
For a high score, don't kill anyone
-Review by NFLZIO