Hitman:Absolution

[wolfmaster1231]

Hitman: Codename 47 is great (apart from the jungle level; that level is too fucking difficult).

Anyway yeah, I'm a huge Hitman fan (as you can probably tell) and have already pre-ordered. I'm really psyched and I don't think it's going to be more linear at all; the only video we saw was just a tech demo after all. I'm especially impressed with the amount of character development they want to have for random NPCs and the stealth mechanics seem much improved this time around.

Meh, but it was just a tech demo it all could have been scripted and not a real dynamic intelligence of the enemies.

The devs have said in interviews that they want to place a much higher emphasis on story and NPC interaction in this game. The way they're doing this mainly is through the unpopular "Instinct" feature, where you can read people's thoughts (or predict them, most likely). I trust them enough so that if they say they are going to do it, they are at least going to give it their best shot. I always hated how in Hitman you were just sneaking past and deceiving generic mooks instead of real people. For challenge playthroughs (like suit-only, all zeroes or ghost) this is alright because you're just solving one big puzzle by memorizing movement patterns and figuring out the internal level logic. On the first playthrough though it leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion anyway.

Its good that there is this purity difficullty where you can disable instinct feature

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Have you guys seen the steam group btw?