Hitman Absolution, an absolute delight to play! (Review)

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Environment
The stages in this game takes puts you in all sorts of different places, Chinatown, pubs, abandoned buildings, hotels, secret underground research facilities and more! Infiltrating and killing people is quite the thrill in this game, discovering secret ways to assassinate or hidden rooms are always so exciting.


Gameplay
The gameplay would depend on the difficulty you choose to play on, there are 5 in total, ranging from being able to just go in guns blazing and killing everyone to needing to plan your every move carefully to prevent being killed.  

I'll talk briefly about my experience where I completed the game on normal, the 2nd easiest difficulty. To put it in a few words, it was immensely fun! Although you're encouraged to keep casualties to a minimum and only killing the main targets, I found killing and eliminating threats to be a more enjoyable approach. I'd usually circle around perimeters and eliminating as many threats unseen as possible and then proceeding to kill off the main target. 

The different variety of locations kept me interested in the game all the way through, because sometimes, you're running from security guards, sometimes you're evading the police, and others, you're pit against deadly assassins and agents. It was a whole lot of fun! 


Story
I haven't have much to go on in comparison for Agent 47, the protagonist, as this was my first Hitman game, but if we're going by just the story of this game, it is pretty decent, the mysteries concerning the girl and the increasingly staggering stakes kept me going and wanting more. 

Although as a first timer in the Hitman series, the opening sequences really confused me at first, but I do think you won't need to play any of the previous installments to get the story of the game, as it is pretty much standalone, other than the fact that you won't have a comprehensive knowledge of the factions presented in the game. 


Summary/Conclusion

Pros:
+Interesting stealth mechanics
+Graphics still hold up 
+Sufficiently interesting plot
+High amount of freedom in terms of ways to complete mission

Cons:
-Only lasts around 10 hours
-Cutscenes are part of loading, can't skip immediately
-Dead online component

Graphics: 7/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Overall: 8/10

Hitman Absolution is a nice game for stealth shooter fans, it is creative and fun, worth it's price as is. Would be nice if the missions are not that straight-forward and maybe contain some amount of branching choices in outcome. 

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