teh_gunslinger said:
commodore96 said:
I hope you don't have to kill a lot of people in this game. I liked the earlier ones where it was more rewarding to kill as few people as possible than killing 8 cops to get to your target.
I'm fairly sure I've completed Hitman 2 without killing anyone other than the targets. The same goes for Blood Money and possibly Contracts. If Absolutions force me to kill anyone that is not the target I will forever curse the game. And I mean that in all seriousness. I will curse the game if it forces my hand. Like I curse that black memory that is the new Splinter Cell game.
So I'm rather worried that Absolutions will be a terrible game. Cover mechanics and guidance systems certainly makes it seem very very bad.
Well... yes and no - it's possible what they were demonstrating was the tutorial section of the game. Remember the
beginning of Blood Money? No matter how methodical and precise you were in the rest of the game, that 'first mission' is always a blood bath of some variety, because the whole thing was an essentially linear introduction to the various things you can do as Agent 47, presented in a far more engrossing format than a straight up "this is a tutorial now do some stuff" segment would have been, and it made the beginnings of the previous Hitman games look like crap in comparison.
And then of course the game turned you loose and expected you to fend for yourself in complex environments, and it was awesome. So if I'm right and what they were showing off is just the introduction before you get to the real meat of the "figure out how to assassinate these dudes and then get away" bits that Hitman has always been about, then I'd say it's a good thing if the fact that it's just a tutorial isn't immediately obvious - the best tutorials are the ones you don't necessarily realize
were tutorials until you've finished them, and Blood Money did that beautifully. Color me distinctly not worried about that aspect of the game, not yet at any rate.
Not so sure about this Premonition business on the other hand, but if that's something they're implementing in place of just constantly having an overhead satellite map that tracks everyone's positions at all times (on the lower difficulties anyways, I'm recalling that certain things were left off the map on higher difficulty) then I could maybe see that being appropriate. The way it's described in this article though makes it sound like it's going to break immersion over its knee with an audible crack; glowing trails of light and indicators of "use this!" don't sound very much like Hitman at all.
