If you've never played a Hitman, you probably love it. If you hold Hitman: Blood Money as a personal favorite, Absolution is a damned poor sequel. They fucked up Hitman's core mechanic, the social stealth (hiding in plain sight while disguised) so you kind of have to play it like a more traditional stealth game and none of their reasoning in interviews or design makes any damned sense. Especially how you evade detection once someone is starting to see through your disguise, that's the most stupid part. Use a game-y meter to do something incredible conspicuous (stop and stare at a broucher stand hiding behing a pamphlet or pull the brim of your cap down) to allay suspicion. It's like a step back from Silent Assassin's glitchy disguise detection. The level design flirts with the greatness of the older Hitman sandboxes but has much more buttoned down linear sections with points-of-no-return peppered throughout. It's a very flawed game game, worth 7$ I guess.
