Correct. Upgrading your silencer, etc, is all there in contracts mode. You can also start out With the various disguises you've picked up in the campaign. It's actually really great and I should have more people in my friends list playing it.
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Hitman: Absolution |OT| Police do not suspect Blood Money is involved.
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Correct. Upgrading your silencer, etc, is all there in contracts mode. You can also start out With the various disguises you've picked up in the campaign. It's actually really great and I should have more people in my friends list playing it.
Gareth Bale
Member
Pick up the sleeping pills from the bedroom(?) and put some in the soup to take the chef's uniform. Then put some in the security guard's coffee
I disagree. As do a lot of people. For me, this is the first Hitman game that actually plays well without any sense of jank. For all the issues people seems to take with this game in it's leanings towards modern game design, it benefits from that in a lot of ways, including smoothness of control.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
For a group of elite, highly-trained homicidal assassins... The Agency is a pretty unsubtle bunch.
I don't entirely recall, but doesn't Travis just rise to power at the start of the game? His regime could mark a departure in methodology as well.
There's some great easter eggs in here.
On the End of the Road,
In the last room in the final segment of Dexter's Industries,
Wonder how much they snuck in here...
On the End of the Road,
walk around the Vultures to get them to all fly around and snipe them. Wait a little bit and see what happens to poor old Lenny.
In the last room in the final segment of Dexter's Industries,
look up and shoot at the nuke.
Wonder how much they snuck in here...
Gareth Bale
Member
There's some plastic explosives down a set of stairs that a police officer is guarding. One of the targets goes down there at some point to talk to another officer. I'm guessing you use them to set of an explosion.
It was $30 before launch. Dude what price are you expecting? It's been out for like a week.
DUN DUN DUN
I was kind of hoping Tony could pull the same kind of black magic he pulled with spec ops and get a 50% for black friday. Maybe by christmas time I guess. I do have Amazon credit and would definitely prefer to not pay more than $20 for this.
Dick Justice
Banned
I just shot the stoves with a silenced gun.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I just heard the blood money theme
I'd wait.
Ain't gonna lie, my first run through the game was on Easy as I wanted to get myself accustomed to my first ever Hitman game.
Currently going through Hard mode now (going after Lenny and his cronies) and trying to do as many challenges as possible in each mission, and I'm getting soooooooooooooooo much more out of this game.
Good shit.
Currently going through Hard mode now (going after Lenny and his cronies) and trying to do as many challenges as possible in each mission, and I'm getting soooooooooooooooo much more out of this game.
Good shit.
doniewhalberg
Member
Yup this. I turned the stove on, went outside and across the street into the parking lot, and just waited for him yo go back in. One bullet through the apartment room window above the stove = boom.
Not a problem there. I got Far Cry 3 coming and a Vita with 7 games currently. I'm just in the mood for a decent 3D stealth title after Dishonored failed, even if this isn't a Hitman game.
But it is a Hitman game... :/
MickeyKnox
Member
I either really, REALLY like this game or I hate it.
I can't tell
I can't tell
The high points of this game are damn high, this sadly makes the low points stick out like a sore thumb.
I am far away from finishing it, but I can already tell it's one of my favourites this year - and I thought Dishonored would be my goty :/
doniewhalberg
Member
It's long as hell man. I think like 20 missions or something in the end, took maybe 4 major night sessions for me. I guess it'll depend how people play, but that wasn't even trying to get all of the challenges and so on. All the doomsday that single player is going away and this is some of the deepest sp content I've saw this gen.
Red Blaster
Member
By far the longest Hitman since Silent Assassin
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Deleted member 30609
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that's where I am too. Not sure how I feel about solving mazes versus kill puzzles. I miss the sandboxes.
Yeah, that was fucking weird. Nothing beautiful or elegant about that death.
Oh, right...like Load is a Metallica album. I gotcha *wink*
ShinobiFist
Banned
Cold Blooded...
Like you're a legitimate contributor to this thread. *pat on the shoulder*
SJRB
Gold Member
I just want to emphasize once again how impressed I am with the NPC chatter, how 'alive' the world is and whatnot, it is amazing.
I did the Vixen Club segment about 10 times because I kept screwing up my perfect run, and every single time I entered the toilets the bouncer would say a different line. Just not a single repeat whatsoever. That is just CRAZY. I almost felt bad for chocking him out.
All the casual chit-chat you hear all over the place is amazing, I can't even begin to comprehend how many hours of scriptwriting and recording this game has taken. This game's npc crowds remind me of the Watch_Dogs gameplay segment from last E3, a lot of unique animations and lines. It all feels very dynamic and overall feels so much more organic than games like Assassin's Creed handle crowds.
From an aesthetic point of view this game is mindblowing.
Also - those boob bouncing physics are straight out of Dead or Alive 5 or something.
I did the Vixen Club segment about 10 times because I kept screwing up my perfect run, and every single time I entered the toilets the bouncer would say a different line. Just not a single repeat whatsoever. That is just CRAZY. I almost felt bad for chocking him out.
All the casual chit-chat you hear all over the place is amazing, I can't even begin to comprehend how many hours of scriptwriting and recording this game has taken. This game's npc crowds remind me of the Watch_Dogs gameplay segment from last E3, a lot of unique animations and lines. It all feels very dynamic and overall feels so much more organic than games like Assassin's Creed handle crowds.
From an aesthetic point of view this game is mindblowing.
Also - those boob bouncing physics are straight out of Dead or Alive 5 or something.
The Wizard
Member
Just got to streets of hope, might be my favourite mission so far. Also wanted to echo the surprise at how lengthy this game seems to be, spent around 15 hours and I'm less than halfway through it. Figuring out the various challenges has been really fun and I've almost forgiven the crappy new disguise system.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I love how long it is. I hate short single player modes, and it feels refreshing how... meaty this game feels.
XANDER CAGE
Member
...Ave Maria?
Yeah, turns up for a bit
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Right now my only issues with the game are the difficulty (way too easy -- especially with the challenges page giving away all the special kills), being able to magically stow large two hand weapons, and more than anything else the uncustomizable HUD.
The way they determine difficulty... with the presets... none of them really feel "right".
I like the Purist setting, but would like some information. Like the indicators when I'm being spotted. And not being able to go incognito is a bummer.
But every other difficulty setting has the minimap. I want to turn it off, but can't. This imo, was a huge oversight, and has significantly lessened my enjoyment.
If I could turn off the cheat-sheet minimap that sucks almost all the fun out of sneaking, I'd have no major complaints...
Forced minimap was a bummer.
Game is pretty great otherwise though... I'm still in the beginning levels.
The way they determine difficulty... with the presets... none of them really feel "right".
I like the Purist setting, but would like some information. Like the indicators when I'm being spotted. And not being able to go incognito is a bummer.
But every other difficulty setting has the minimap. I want to turn it off, but can't. This imo, was a huge oversight, and has significantly lessened my enjoyment.
If I could turn off the cheat-sheet minimap that sucks almost all the fun out of sneaking, I'd have no major complaints...
Forced minimap was a bummer.
Game is pretty great otherwise though... I'm still in the beginning levels.
So you enjoy the game but you don't "admit" it? What am I reading?
It's pretty obvious. Much like a lot of other people who have posted their impressions in this thread, the game would have been a lot better received to them if it didn't have the Hitman name and thus bringing about Hitman expectations. Even if you want to ignore what I've said you can't ignore the others who have said it too.
Basically, a competent stealth game but bad Hitman game.
It would be great if it wasn't a Hitman game. The dissappointment wouldn't be there.
I don't know who ignores what, you generally don't respond to my direct responses and questions to you, but pick out my arguments with other persons.
But that's just silly I think, at least I am that kind of person - if a game is enjoyable it's enjoyable no whater what name or legacy it has.
How can you tell?
Gareth Bale
Member
I kind of agree with this. But it wouldn't excuse how poor the disguise system is.
The series has never been about corridors, it's like they created these new tools, instinct, point shooting, yet had you use them mostly in linear environments.
As a player and a fan I just felt suffocated by the linearity and the QTEs, they're just not welcome IMO.
The levels are smaller but you aren't shoved down a hallway with no other option at any point. Dexter's Industries seemed like the one closest to something like that, but it's not the majority.
Not a single QTE ever needs to be done, either.