Hitman:Absolution

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A couple of weeks ago I saw two videos concerning the game.

One was a gameplay video. I did have a few worries before, but most of them are gone. The Instinct mode looked good. Face it, Instinct mode is just like the map in the earlier games, letting you see everything and plan your approach accordingly. With that said, there was one thing I really did not like in the video and that was the stupid achievement popping up. A Hitman game should NEVER have achievements.

I also saw some kind of cinematic trailer/commercial for the game, where 47 dispatches several Dominatrix Nun Assassins. That video just made me cringe...

Good thing Steam lets you disable notifications, so that the people who are into that sort of thing can enjoy it and the other people can ignore it. Also, it is not like the map in the earlier games because on the Professional difficulty (which is how the game was meant to be played) you can only see points of interests, 47 and your target. I'm not really an apologist of the Instinct see-through-walls vision mode, but I do like the idea of mindreading because the reasons for it are noble. As the developers have said before, it's to add personality to the characters you encounter, not make the game easier.