Hitman: Absolution™

To me, this is Hitman at its best. Levels are condensed to reasonable sizes, but offer countless ways to approach each one. The story is exciting, while the writing can be lacking its got great tension stakes villains and provides the peak hitman experience as far as I'm concerned

The disguise system is so bad and like- its just a pretty bad hitman game. Not to say a linear hitman can't work but this one just feels like they heavily tried to tune into one thing a little much

This game is a masterpiece imo, the gameplay is very fun, the graphics is top notch. The story is ok, but overall this game is great.

This is my first Hitman game that I EVER played and its super good. I love the story, graphics are okay, the characters are good and more shit!
But I really hate that one mission where you have to shoot some targets to get your silver barrels back.
In my opinion this game is super good

My first real jump into the Hitman series. Honestly, great game to start off with.

I didn't realize the rest of the franchise was such a sandbox which was a bit overwhelming. However, this game is fairly linear with mission design and story telling. I had a good time learning the basics of the genre with this title first and it's got me set-up with a better set of expectations of what to expect and enjoy when playing through the main trilogy in WOA.

Absolute masterpiece one of the best games in one of the best series of all time. When I write something and it's going good and flowing, I think of Hitman Absolution.

I guess I gotta play Bloodmoney again

i don't know why but i just found this game boring and i couldn't finish this game,well the story is not so bad but that game is just boring

Amazing game as always. Ive enjoyed every Hitman game that has came out. Will always continue to play them.

This is an enjoyable play through for any Hitman fan! Although different from the other titles, it has it's awesome moments. It is my personal favorite Hitman game.

Amazing game. Yes it might be kinda old, but forget the graphics. The story is incredible and the action is there. Not too much rage, simple to understand levels with enough challenge for anyone

Not so bad a game, for trying to bring in new story and gameplay style.

One of the best Hitman games in my opinion. It does such an amazing job at characterizing Agent 47, and the game looks amazing and runs better.

The game was absolutely amazing. The atmosphere, colors, mechanics, weapons, characters everything was absolutely amazing. This is my first Hitman game in the franchise and I was absolutely impressed by the game. The protagonist and antagonist were good. Agent 47 dealt his missions like it was nothing. The most best thing about the game is stealth itself. I had so much fun playing and enjoying the game. I bought it and got 100% completion with all the Achievements. I liked the game very much. Overall Rating – 9/10

Hitman: Absolution offers an enjoyable experience, but it’s not the best entry in the series. While it can be fun, the game leans more towards action than stealth, which takes away from the classic assassin feeling of leaving no trace. It’s more about intense action sequences than silently eliminating targets. However, despite its differences from traditional Hitman games, it’s still worth playing for fans of action and a fast-paced experience.

- tries to be stealthy
- learns something
- fails
- retry

it may not be a good HITMAN game. but still a good stealth game.anyway lot of people just beat it like a shooter game.

Very nice to play. Similar to all the other Hitman games. Short campeign but very fun. Will play again.

Great and modern stealth assassin game

The best Hitman game, whether you want to hear it from me or not. I enjoyed going back to it more than the WOA games, which I used to consider among my all-time favorite games.

Its very different compared to any other hitman game, but its genuinely fun and an enjoyable experience. Disguises suck, the levels feel linear, and there aren't any loadouts but I still enjoyed this game as much as Blood Money.

After a long time playing stealth games ,I tried Hitman absolution... it was a fun experience and npc dialogs was quite funny. Stealth mechanics of this game is quite different from other Hitman games I played previously really enjoyed it.

While it departures from more open level design seen in previous games, this is still an amazing Hitman entry.
The controls, the mechanics and traversal, accidental kills are in full force here, the ridiculous amount of disguises, the story is pretty engaging too.
One thing I love about this game is the replayability: the score system is back (though a bit more stingy than in previous games) and there's lots of challenges for each level to tackle, making you take a different approach in every session.
The level design is more similar to Splinter Cell, with some open arenas here and there. But a good thing is that Contracts mode seems to be back thanks to mods so you can still have the OG Hitman experience there.
In conclusion, if you are a fan of stealth, this game is awesome. And if you are a Hitman fan, give this game a chance.

Even though the story is a bit short and clunky, this is still my favorite Hitman game of all time. It may be because it's my first Hitman game or it's my first game with pretty graphics, but I still love this game after 12 years.

I just finished Hitman: Absolution for the first time...

Honestly, this game is decent despite what others might say but it suffers from lots of problems!

The story is weird and all over the place (and definitely too cinematic by Hitman standards which usually have a lesser focus on story compared to other games).

The level design is too linear, the disguise system is a downgrade from the previous games, and the enemy AI feels dumbed down compared to the older games.

Although the gunplay is very nice and i do somewhat like the instinct system (however it has its issues by making the game feel too easy sometimes).

Overall, its a decent game that you might have an interest in picking up when it's on sale if you like the Hitman series...but just come in with lowered expectations in order to not be disappointed.

Hitman: Absolution gets a 7.5/10 ❤️

English/Ingles

I recently finished this game and I have to say, it's the best Hitman, I've played all the Hitman games so far except 2 and I can say that it's the best, it has a lot of levels and although some last literally 5m there are others that last up to 40m or even 1h if you're bad or if you want to do it perfectly, the enemy AI is beautiful, it almost never fails and makes them quite intelligent, the levels are not only long but entertaining and it's the first Hitman game that for the first time brings us a complex story and although at times it's a bit bad it's still better than having nothing. The game introduces many new mechanics such as instinct that makes us detect where the enemies are, the point system that unlocks new skills or upgrades for Agent 47 and something that adds a lot of realism and difficulty which is the fact that even with a suit some enemies can recognize us if they look at us for too long or if we are close to them and the most important mechanic is the CHALLENGE system which adds difficulty, fun and immense replayability. Its graphics section is very good and there is a big difference between one Hitman and another, in addition to the game having very good music, some original and others not, and a very well achieved immersion and one thing that I personally love is that it has missions that are not just killing someone several times, in addition to that you have to do something else. At the time it was a very hated Hitman and I cannot understand why because Hitman WOA has the same mechanics (with less story) and at the time it was applauded as a work of art, Hitman Absolution is a good game and deserves more recognition than it has.

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Me pase recientemente este juego y tengo que decirlo, es el mejor hitman, he jugado todos los hitman hasta ahora menos el 2 y puedo afirmar que es el mejor cuenta con muchos niveles y aunque algunos duran literalmente 5m hay otros que duran hasta 40m o incluso 1h si sos malo o si queres hacerlo perfecto, la ia de los enemigos hermosa, casi nunca falla y los hace bastante inteligente, los niveles ademas de largos son entretenidos y es el primer hitman que por primera vez nos trae una historia compleja y aunque en algunos momentos es algo mala sigue siendo mejor que no tener nada.El juego introduce muchas mecanicas nuevas tales como el instinto que nos hace detectar donde estan los enemigos, el sistema de puntos que nos desbloquea nuevas abilidades o mejoras para el agente 47 y algo que le agrega mucho realismo y dificultad que es el hecho de que aun con traje algunos enemigos nos pueden reconocer si nos miran por mucho tiempo o si estamos cerca de ellos y la mecanica mas importante es el sistema de DESAFIOS los cuales agregan dificultad divercion y una rejugabilidad inmensa.Su apartado grafico es muy bueno y hay una gran diferencia entre un hitman y otro ademas de que el juego cuenta con musicas muy buenas algunas originales y otras no y una inmersion muy bien lograda y una cosa que en lo personal me encanta es que cuenta con misiones que no son solo matar a alguien,varias veces ademas de eso hay que hacer otra cosa,tales como escapar de un lugar o llegar a otro a tiempo.En su momento fue un Hitman muy odiado y no logro entender porque debido a que el Hitman WOA tiene las mismas mecanicas (con menor historia) y en su momento fue aplaudido como una obra de arte, el hitman absolution es un buen juego y merece mas reconocimiento del que tiene.

9/10

IDK i play it when im bored and just a really fun game overall I had a great time with it <3

This game gets a lot of negativity from the Hitman community from what I've seen, but being my first Hitman game and only costing a couple of dollars, I got my money's worth and had a good time, which is what gaming is all about. Recommended.

Given this game as a gift by my dad for having good grades while it had a bundle sale. Absolutely amazing game, I enjoyed every play through I've had and can't wait to play more. Would suggest to any Hitman series fans.

My favourite level would have to be attack of the saints.

For me this is the best Hitman game . Love the story and how immersive it felt . Also love the missions .

This is just The Art Of Killing, even though the game is from 2012 it play better than many new games, highly recommend

A fun game but not a good Hitman game, it is like the Dark Souls 2 of games where it is a good game on its own but as a game that is part of the Hitman series it is a mid Hitman game.

Best Hitman game by far. This is better than three latest Hitman titles. This has best story, mechanics and characters. Loved it!

Great gameplay, great story, great graphics, great game.

If you don't find this game fun, don't talk to me.

Grew up playing this in secret back in the days of the Xbox 360, because my dad got it but never really played it. He also didn't want me to play it but, being the sneaky kid I was, I absolutely DID!

Do I regret it? Nope; in fact, I'm so glad I did! If I hadn't, I likely would never have even bought this game again for PC. Now, while I may be excellent at writing, I'm not great at critiquing stories... but here's some stuff:

Q: Good story?
A: Loyalty-wise, yeah. As far as I understand, 47 goes rogue for his former handler to protect a girl she left in his care.

Q: Good gameplay?
A: Very much, yeah. While I find it a bit clunky at times (I still sometimes accidentally disguise instead of dragging lol), the controls are great. However, if you're asking if the gameplay itself is good, then that's also a resounding "yes"! In fact, I actually quite enjoy this game's Instinct. The target acquisition system is awesome, and makes you feel like a total badass if you use it right.

Q: Humor?
A: "I got wood, man... why do I got wood?"
*Start a dance party FOR cops, DISGUISED as a cop, HIDING as the DJ.*
That a good answer for ya?

Q: Cons?
A: I'm biased. I can't give you cons. Just don't go to IGN lmao.

Back into playing the games i loved as a kid, hitman is an absolute classic i can never get bored of this no matter how many times i have played and finished it. all the hitman games serve for me great great gaming experience

challenging missions, good hardcore stealth. I've enjoyed this game a lot.

one disappointing factor was the contracts mode. its no more accessible which is sad.

If you've played any other Hitman game and want more of that experience, skip this one.

I started on the Hitman series since Contracts and I've played every title (including C47), and unless the Hitman identity for you starts and ends at "Barcode baldie who changes clothes", this is not a Hitman game.

Most egregiously, there are only around 3 missions that feel like genuine sandbox "kill your own way" levels. I don't mind a more story-focused experience, but Absolution ham-fists it in at a detriment to the game itself. A good chunk of the game is spent in missions that don't even have targets, and are either linear levels going from point-a to point-b or essentially interactive cutscenes. There are also multiple situations in which you are scripted to get caught; no matter how good you are, the game just tells you that you've been caught for story reasons. On top of that, the missions that are sandbox assassination missions are still tiny. Obviously comparing them to World of Assassination's maps is in bad faith considering the march of progress in gaming hardware, but these levels are still smaller than many of its predecessor's (Contracts and Blood Money) levels. One more thing about the missions that was super cool in... really every Hitman except this one, are the locales. Blood money took you to Chile, France, California, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and even the White House. Contracts had missions in China, England, Russia, Hungary, and the Netherlands. WoA gives you Paris (again), Italy, Morocco, Vermont, India, some secret island somewhere, Miami, Germany, Japan, and Argentina. Absolution gives you literally two settings: Chicago and South Dakota. The latter has an underground lab and a Hawaii-themed locale to introduce a slight change of pace, but it's a far cry from the grand tour we get with any other game.

Disguises are another cornerstone for the series and another let-down in Absolution. NPC's can see through disguises similar to their own outfit, meaning the "Hide in plain sight" moniker to the series doesn't exist here. The levels were designed with this in consideration with lots of cover and hidden routes so it doesn't really make the game difficult, just less fun.

So what are the positives? I actually think we should give IO a lot of credit here. They tried a new formula, it didn't hit with Hitman fans. So for the series reboot, they ditched everything bad about Absolution and kept the two good things: The cover system feels good and works well with both combat and stealth (further enabling Suit Only runs), and the Instinct system is (while in infancy here and fleshed out in WoA) an excellent accessibility tool. Really, it's rare that a dev reads the pulse this well.

Between the complete departure of mission design and the way enemies can see through disguises after a few seconds, I genuinely had more fun doing a guns-blazing playthrough than I did going for stealth, which would normally still be enough for a good review... except "more fun" in this case still wasn't a lot of fun.

So if we distance this game from the Hitman name, how is it? It's fine. From a technical sense, it's competently made, the visuals are good, the gunplay feels nice. However I still hesitate to give it a positive score even from this perspective: The reason it isn't a Hitman game is because the game and its missions are completely focused around the story, so looking at away from the Hitman lens puts a lot of weight on the story, and the story is... pretty bad. You have a deadly, professional assassin going up against the elite agency he used to work for. Decent premise... except EVERYONE involved is utterly incompetent. 47 gets caught multiple times in contrived ways, his captors never treat him like a danger despite knowing his history, and he escapes multiple times. It's also nonsensical: The elite covert agency responds to 47's escape by sending latex nuns with rocket launchers to blow up his hotel room along with a dozen innocent civilians. Suspension of disbelief is just not gonna cut it.

If someone who isn't a Hitman fan likes this game, more power to them, I think that's fine. But I'd be weary of positive reviews written after the publisher split in 2018. Even if you separate the Hitman name from the game, it's definitely not good enough to counterbalance the fact that a third of this singleplayer game is **literally unplayable** after the servers were shut down; it is content that you can not access.

Looking for more Hitman? Go with World of Assassination, Blood Money, or Contracts. Silent Assassin is alright. Codename 47 really didn't age well. Absolution is Not Him.

its def not STEALTH on hard mode atleast i cant say thats hitman game

very very good hitman game which, although it was released in 2012, has very good graphics and very advanced gameplay. This game does not have a story, again the story is there, but this game focuses more on the gameplay and the stealth mechanics themselves. 8/10

Don't understand why people hate this game.........
The missions are OK according to the story as far as i played,
The graphics not that bad,
Getting 100% mastery on all missions can be challenging and you HAVE TO replay a mission couple of times that makes it boring but OK

nice game only thing i disliked is the map system

Perfect game for someone who wants to experience an immersive gameplay of being an assassin, I rate this game 10/10, 100% recommended.

Genuinely an amazing game imo. Stealth is very well done, the combat is very engaging and smooth and makes for levels to be very fun and replayable, along with its fairly good storyline. Game is well adjusted for those who are casual or those seeking a much more difficult challenge. And for a 2012 game, it 100% holds up to todays gaming standards in terms of graphics and gameplay. Buy it on sale, you won't regret it.

So, Hitman: Absolution is a third person stealth-action game but to me it felt more as an modern shooting game not stealth game which it should have been.. moreover the game's linear story-play was very bland which was not at all interesting to play. The game's intro was pretty good and would make one feel as if they are in for a banger but little did they know that just after 2 missions the whole point of the game would be to go from one point to another and just kill one person with little to no difficulty and no stealth involved at all.. I played this game at the highest difficulty yet the AI felt so stupid that I was able to complete the game with no struggle... For a stealth based game it certainly didn't stand-up to it's expectations.

But the game had few pro's as well such as the gunplay felt good to handle and also the graphics of the game were too good for it's release date, also there was no option to save the game which was something that bothered me a lot but like even in highest difficulty dev's should provide an option to save (it's very crucial). This was my first Hitman game in the series.. I played this game back in 2017 and wanted to reminisce the old days. Overall the game is average, one could give it a try I guess.
5/10

the story direction and the kind of action movie type of vibe this game gives off is really shitty BUT the actual game itself is fun as hell

This game is really fun. Feels very immersive compared to newer hitman games. As a long time player of hitman games I would highly recommend.

i think people give this game a harder time than it deserves, if you think about it, it laid the groundwork for hitman 2016 so you cant bash it too hard imho. i think the only thing that it gets wrong is the level designs of some levels, other than that its a perfectly fine hitman game

Game played at Normal difficulty, and I generally tended towards stealth where possible. It took me about 20 hours to play through the game, though I restarted often and had to be quite patient in order to make stealth viable.

I enjoyed this game.

This is the only Hitman game I've ever played, and my understanding is that it was trashed at the time for being too linear. I think that's a double edged sword though; I greatly preferred having an idea of what I was meant to be doing and I've found games with less direction to be a lot less fun. That being said, there were absolutely moments where it was obvious that there was only one way to progress and having to rerun areas over and over because I'd be spotted was tedious and annoying. Even at Normal difficulty, towards the end of the game there were checkpoints that I had to restart a dozen or more times because stealth seemingly wasn't part of the level's balancing pass. In fact, the idea of balance seemed to mostly consist of increasing the number of guards on each new level, to the point that stealth was borderline impossible.

There are a few bugs - the main one being that you have to be careful with how NPCs follow their routines. For example, in The Penthouse (Blackwater Park), I took a very long time to sneak around, clean up a few annoying guards, and scope out the penthouse, including the panic room. Somewhere along the line, Layla got stuck in the room with the fireplace and would not come out for any reason. This happened more than once in various levels over the course of my playthrough and usually it was 10+ minutes into a level and required resetting back to the last checkpoint. Very annoying.

I enjoyed the story. It was ridiculous, but the whole game is, really. I would have preferred a bit more of an epilogue, and particularly Crematorium (Absolution) was very short.

You should expect to restart levels a lot, and consider your use of checkpoints - there were a number of levels where the checkpoint was maybe physically halfway through, but in terms of mission progress like a third of the way. You can sometimes skip it, grab a key item/kill a target and then backtrack to save yourself having to do a bunch of make-work over and over before you get to the end-of-level difficulty spike where you'll inevitably fail.

I did not look into contracts mode but I believe the online portion is long gone and I suspect a few of the achievements are no longer possible, which is disappointing.

All in all, it's worth playing if you pick it up when it's on sale for $2.50.

so fun even though theres mainly linear levels

Awesome fun game.
Love the checkpoints and all the fun useful supports especially for someone new to this game.
Achievement are a plus too.
Warning for kids, lots of cussing and inappropriate scenes, so it's not for kids.
Later, definitely would want to replay in a harder mode and to go after more achievements.

This game is a masterpiece and I suggest you try this game
This game combines anger and hatred and doing the right but seemingly wrong things of a character with a perfect story.

game rate : 10 / 10

For Agent 47.....