Hitman: Absolution

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The best thing one can say about Absolution is that it's impossible to feel ambivalent about it; players will love and loathe aspects of this game in equal measure.

It’s weird watching game worlds get smaller as technology gets better: it’s no surprise that early footage of Hitman: Absolution showed a game that was more linear and ‘corridor’-like than previous iterations, as the reality isn’t so far from the...

Absolution takes tremendous strides with the idea of social camouflage and presents flexible environments and systems that epitomize some of the best ideas in the stealth genre.

The world's greatest assassin has to work hard while in disguise. Linear evasion levels take the 'hit' out of Hitman, but the few sandbox assassinations are about as good as they were in Blood Money. With further modifications to the new formula,...

Given one of the initial salvos from Hitman: Absolution 's marketing cannon was a trailer in which its iconic bald-headed assassin brutally slays a squad of women dressed in rubber nun costumes and suspenders, it's perhaps no surprise that the finished...

Absolution is a morally reprehensible orgy of unspeakable violence that secures Agent 47’s position as one of gaming’s bleakest...

Here’s a simple truth: Modern gamers love longevity. Players expect to get a bigger bang for their collective buck now more than ever, a sentiment that has led many game companies to pack as much replay value as they can into their titles. Some—like...