People love the Hitman games for the meticulous ways you can take out a target. Wear an outrageous outfit, slide in between the shadows and NPCs and perform an assassination with meticulous stealth. Yeaaah, there's none of that in the new comic from two dudes who worked on the last game featuring Agent 47. It's pretty much "insert sword into demon, dodge attack, shoot face off, repeat", all of it drawn by an artist famous for gory action.
It's all about timing in the companion app business. Some people might tell you that it's best to get out a mobile application that keeps track of your performance, equipment and the latest right when the game is released — the sort of people who buy milk with their cookies so they can enjoy them at the same time.
Playing Hitman: Absolution professionally requires a lot of stealth and planning. You scope out the scene, and land your kills in such a fashion that no one will notice.
A couple of months ago, if I started a new game -- no matter what it was -- I'd start off on a high difficulty. At the very least, I'd go for normal, but only if it was clear that normal would provide a challenge. I reasoned that nowadays "normal" is geared toward a more general audience which may be less familiar with games than I am. And, more importantly, pssh. Of course I can do better than normal!
I adore YouTube user Cricken. I don't understand how he manages to break games the way he does. Here he is playing Hitman: Absolution, making me feel like I put too much effort into trying to be sneaky when apparently Hitman is more hilarious when you're sloppy about it.
Look, it's already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It's pretty tacky. Update: Square Enix apologises.
Hitman: Absolution lets players don a variety of disguises. And soon one of those outfits will be the Deus Ex suit. Because if you want to blend into a crowd, what better way to do that than with a futuristic body suit!
Hitman: Absolution is, for the most part, a serious game. It's a great game. But there's definitely some lowbrow humour at work.
I'm going to attempt to write this post about Hitman: Absolution without any references to how controversial it is/was, or how the reviews are 'mixed'. Ladies and gentlemen, I kindly request your early opinions of this video game featuring a bald man wearing a red tie.
Hitman: Absolution begins with 47 driving an ice cream truck, so it's not that much of a stretch that one of the weirdest Easter eggs in the game features the vehicle's deadly return.
The video game industry isn't all fast cars and trips to Japan. For every studio head basking in the glow of media attention there are 100 developers lower down the food chain whose job can be a little more mundane.
Far be it from me to only harp on Hitman: Absolution's less admirable qualities. The game is also frequently funny, and often very well-written. The overheard dialogue is often worth sticking around and listening to, and the crowd chatter is among the most convincing I've ever heard in a game. (The game itself is a lot of fun, too.)
Hitman: Absolution is a game that requires a lot of sneaking around, and like most sneaking games, you'll find yourself regularly incapacitating guards and stashing their bodies. Every time you stash a guard in closet, his body will slump standing up over to the left side of the enclosure.
Hitman: Absolution's "Saints", a troupe of stripper nuns, aren't actually in the game for long, but they'll forever live in infamy for their appearance in a rather silly pre-release trailer for the game.
I know it's really cool to hate on the ubiquitous use of dubstep in video game trailers but, you know what? The launch trailer for Hitman: Absolution has just been released, and I actually really like the song being used, despite its use of the old 'wubwubwub'.
Hitman: Absolution is a wickedly smart, darkly enjoyable video game, one that's as generous to players as its protagonist is merciless to his victims. You'll stab, strangle and shoot your way through level after level, sometimes grimacing, sometimes scowling, sometimes laughing. When all is said and done, you'll probably need a shower.
Oh, Conan. You surely are the clueless gamer, but you manage to make some of the best commentary regardless.
The latest trailer for Hitman Absolution is all about the game's world, about the people who inhabit it. The cops who dance badly, the couples who argue, and the men that Agent 47 watches in the toilet.
