HITMAN

Agent 47 is back! During his absence, he became extremely prettier - he acquired an episodic narration, a new graphics engine, Glacier Engine 2, and began to travel the world. In addition, he returned to the origins of the genre and turned into a full-fledged stealth action game in which the player is given a goal and complete freedom of options for passing.

Business travel of a professional hitman

Thanks to the episodic narration, Hitman, interestingly, received an increased integrity of the gameplay. Each series is a separate mission, with its own goal and options for passing. In total, 6 episodes were released, excluding the training campaign, and each of them unfolds in a new interesting place:

• Free Practice. The first of the tutorial missions, set 20 years before the start of Hitman's main missions. Deployed in Greenland on a yacht layout;
• The Final Test. The second of the tutorial missions. The action also takes place in the 1980s in Greenland on a model of a Cuban military base. Here you need to track down and destroy a Soviet spy (outside the window, after all, the Cold War);
• The highlight of the program. Mission in French Paris. We need to deal with the leaders of the terrorist organization, who can publish detailed information about MI6 agents working undercover in the territory of Central Asian states;
• The world of the future. Mission in Sapienza, Italy. It is necessary to cope with the scientists who began to work on the creation of a selective virus, and prevent the penetration of this biological weapon outside the laboratory;
• Golden Classic. Mission in Moroccan Marrakech. We need to get rid of the former banker, who turned out to be a fraud, and his partner in the local armed forces, who dreams of a coup d'état;
• Club 27. Mission in Bangkok, Thailand. It is necessary to get rid of the rock musician and at the same time the son of the millionaire, as well as his lawyer, who organized the murder of the girl, and then were able to get out of court proceedings;
• Freedom Fighters. Mission to American Colorado. All previous events, it turns out, were organized by an international criminal organization. And now you need to track down eco-terrorists "registered" on a small American ranch, and destroy them;
• Organ transposition. Mission in Japanese Hokkaido. Numerous storylines are finally coming to their logical end. And now Agent 47 is sent to Japan to once again fight the world government and at the same time find out a couple of interesting information about his own past.

Hitman has also released two DLCs that bring new story campaigns, but their setting does not differ from that shown in the main episodes of the game.

Hitman is a hitman simulator

Studio IO Interactive in Hitman returned to the canons of the genre. Therefore, from the point of view of gameplay, the game is a classic assassin simulator. And quite realistic and hardcore. Comedic elements like killing enemies with a huge fish have not gone anywhere, but they are added solely to slightly dilute the dramatic narrative.

So, each mission begins with a detailed study of the personality of the future victim. The more information you can collect, the higher the chance of successfully completing the task. You can learn a lot about the victim - habits, daily routine, some other useful little things. You also need to carefully study the location and develop the most effective way to destroy the enemy.

What is especially interesting - along with the growth of the player's level, the locations on which the missions unfold also change. So, for example, additional starting points become available (along with elements of disguise) or various caches are opened.

Hitman's Hardcore Life as a Hitman

The main feature of Hitman is the highest level of complexity and realism, even at basic settings. So, for example, a mission from the category "Elusive targets" cannot be restarted and started over if at least one of the tasks has been completed. As a result, every mistake “bucks around”, and you have to think over the steps and actions from the very first stage.

The second difficult mode is "Aggravate" contracts. They consist of several stages that are carried out sequentially. And each of them brings more problems than the previous one.

And if you want to feel the maximum hardcore, then the game will need to be played twice. At the first stage - at any of the standard difficulty levels. After the completion of the story campaign, another one opens - "Professional". It has fewer caches, more enemies, smarter opponents, and more complex target destruction mechanisms. In short, being a hitman is not easy.