Strangely, guards still manage to spot you from absurd distances and demand identification, while you're disguised, and horrifyingly, by random, there's one ninja that can be killed by a truck. This stage requires you to pass a legion of ninjas on patrol in a snowy set of mountains, which sounds like its dense weather conditions will give you the leg up. The glitchy nature of the AI is at its worst in one of the series' most horribly-designed missions: Hidden Valley.
Hell, accidentally shoot a wall with a silenced gun, no thanks to the odd, inaccurate aiming cursor, and people just know and flip out. There will be times when, if you get spotted by one person, nearly every guard in the surrounding areas zone in on your location. This makes it extremely hard and time-consuming to accomplish anything without being discovered.īunch that with unpredictable AI behavior, and this becomes draining to stealth lovers. Doesn't help that some characters have multiple scripted routes that get picked at random at the start of levels. The majority of the stages, spanning "exotic", James Bond-esque areas like India, Russia, and Japan, are either waayyy too open or crawling with NPCs looking in every direction. For a game whose main goal is for you to be as stealthy as possible, especially with a subtitle of Silent Assassin, irritations cloud that objective. I wish I can use the excuse that it has aged poorly, but the truth is, it's never been that great to begin with. While Blood Money is virtually unchanged from its 2006 version, besides a new disc cover, 2 and 3 have been conveniently remastered to look more presentable and sharper on those new-fangled HD screens, along with a set of mundane and obvious achievements.Īs someone still green to the series, this collection will be viewed as quite the catch. Two months following Absolution's launch, IO Interactive and/or Square Enix have decided to get in on the HD collection craze, releasing Hitman HD Trilogy in early 2013, featuring Hitman 2, Contracts (3), and Blood Money (4).
Well, if you don't want to go through the hassle of purchasing these games separately, on older consoles, or download on your PC, you're in luck. "What? This was your first Hitman?!" Is this really a surprise, though? The last title, Blood Money, came out a whopping six years prior, which is, like, comparable to dog years. So, you just had your fill of Hitman: Absolution, enjoyed the experience, and now you're curious about the rest of this stealth series. "As someone still green to the series, this collection will be viewed as quite the catch.
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