Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games. Of course, the push and pull between interactivity and authored narrative plays on the essence of 47’s job itself: He is a laboratory-engineered contract killer, designed to be the perfect hired gun, always carrying out someone else’s orders rather than acting of his own volition. That’s never been more true than in Hitman 3, which occasionally signals that it wants you to make a particular decision, and reinforces it with a cutscene afterward that follows directly from the choice in question. IO has said that it considers certain assassinations to be the “canonical” endings for some of this trilogy’s missions. But there’s something fascinating and, for this franchise, novel about Hitman 3, the final entry in IO Interactive’s World of Assassination trilogy: The story that the game’s writers have crafted matters at least as much as Hitman’s play-it-your-way spirit.
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Other additions to the game, such as the “camera” gadget, and some light puzzle-solving tasks, seem to add little (though an expansive VR mode on PS4 and PS5 appears promising, for those who have the gear to experience it).The Hitman series has always been defined by its openness, allowing players to assume the role of the peerless assassin known as Agent 47 and take out targets however they please. If you’re invested in the ongoing drama, I suppose this could be a welcome change, but for me (and, I presume, most casual players), the sub-Jason Bourne conspiracy-laden plotlines have always been just white noise, a forgettable overture before the game lets you get stuck into the proverbial muck. There’s more of an overarching story here compared to most previous Hitman entries, and some of the humour has been sanded off. As you travel deeper into the bowels of the building and find its huge, crowded dancefloor, it’s hard not to be struck by the game’s immersiveness, its vivid sense of place. Different modes shake up the levels completely, changing who you are asked to kill and the many ways in which you can do it.įor my money, the game’s best level is set in Berlin, and sees Agent 47 play a game of cat and mouse with a team of killers out to get him, against the backdrop of an all-night rave inside a repurposed nuclear power plant. The joy of Hitman games is their replayability, and there’s plenty here to keep players coming back. The opening level sees Agent 47 infiltrate a glitzy Dubai skyscraper others are set in the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, China or at a lavish event in Mendoza, Argentina. A close continuation of its two most recent predecessors, Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 (2018), Hitman 3 comprises six missions, each taking place in a drastically different environment. Hitman 3 – somewhat misleadingly, the eighth game in the series – is mostly more of the same. Hitman: Blood Money (2006), for instance, let you murder an opera singer by switching a prop gun for the real thing, or infiltrate a target’s child’s birthday party dressed as a clown. In it, you play as the hairless master of disguise known as “Agent 47”, as he strangles, poisons, stabs, crushes, electrocutes and otherwise does away with a succession of high-profile targets, across a range of goofy and inventive scenarios. Far from the self-serious military cool of Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid, Hitman is basically a Looney Toon. In the world of stealth games, the Hitman franchise has always been a bit of a black sheep.
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