It can be enjoyable if played in a competitive spirit with friends. This will record the time it took you to kill your targets and which weapon you used (or if killed by triggering an "accident") You later post that murder recipe and other players on the net can try and assassinate the targets the same way as you do. Finally, the multiplayer mode is new to me: it's a sandbox mode where you get to pick targets to assassinate, then murder them. You will most probably enjoy the story and the generous range of characters. I don't want to spoil the review, just take my word on it. I recommend playing in stealth and using melee silent take downs, where you get a variety of eliminations. You can still play with guns blazing, but the lack of upgrades makes this particular game style real boring real fast. Only the legendary Silverballers remain, and they don't possess any sort of important power, since most enemies should die in one shot. The selections of firearms is disappointing. You should also take note of the challenges (Or achievements, sort of.) that makes the game even more challenging, and encourages you to re-play missions taking many different approaches. An argument against the linearity of the game would be that each mission is divided in many sub-missions, which allows you to "plan" your moves. In some environments, you can blend with the surroundings which is great, but in others, you have to require stealth in order to get undetected, disguise or not. The abilities that Agent 47 gains are nice (movement prediction of the hostiles + an enhanced aim then shoot mode), however i get mixed feelings about the disguises.
The gameplay seemed dull and linear, especially with the lack of planning potential and almost no content from the previous games. The gameplay seemed dull and linear, especially with the lack of planning potential and Hitman: Absolution took its time to be released. Hitman: Absolution took its time to be released.