yeah i really want to play this but dealing with the epic exclusivity and whatever process you have to go through to import your data from steam seems like a pain in the shitter
The Epic store sucks for real
But then again all the stores suck now
still they could do us the favor of shipping a usable webview app
Kinda like what they did with this one. It doesn’t always work that’s for sure. The self serious tone is bad, like some corny arse john wick shit tho at least it isnt as epic bacon as that. It is a shame because I think they nailed the tone previously, with like all the interweaving comedy about 47’s universal proficiency at everything. The last level is hilariously outdated but it’s almost charming. Feels like some early ps360 shit
The little special gimmicks some of the levels have are fun but perhaps they don’t all amount to much upon replay. The levels all stand strong tho. Berlin is sick. Chongqing I thought was a bit weak but maybe I’ll get down with it. did we really need another secret lab area
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the first day the game was out it kept doing weird shit like when the game became available there was a second hitman 3 that was still locked in the games list and some of the addons would appear in the main game list like they were separate games and disappear from it throughout the day.
I loved the game. berlin is my favorite hitman level ever maybe. trying to figure out how to crack mendoza the first time was really good too (I try to do suit only silent assassin first time through just to be done with it). It was interesting as a final “real” level for a lot of reasons. the actual last level being basically a series of puzzle rooms you’re trying to get through with nothing but a screwdriver was cool too. I liked how most levels had a more cinematic intro you do and can bypass after the first time. not sure what to make of chongqing though yet cause I just kind of breezed through that one almost on accident. a lot of the story missions are really good (the detective one in dartmoor, the tour one in mendoza, where you get to kill alongside diana). I can see why both hitman fans and sb might be less favorable to this one though because you’re both afraid to open the doors of your heart to god’s love (videogame cutscenes, seriousness, vulnerability etc) and want only contextless unserious playgrounds to detachedly laugh at glitches and emergent goofery in
I’m guessing this bond game will be something like a mix of the large playground levels with more linear and cinematical ones in between. they had it right all along with absolution they just were hampered by the hardware at the time necessitating breaking up the levels too much. and I guess they needed 007 money to be able to make something like that at current aaa expected asset fidelity levels now
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Should I play all three Hitman reboots, or just go directly to 2 (or even 3)?
All of the levels in the new Hitman games are worth playing, but since the game is kind of just a sandbox you could play them in whatever order. The fiction is fun, and playing them in release order may make you interested in it and get you in on the payoffs and funny callbacks. I recommend just playing them all.
Just don’t get stuck on feeling like you have to get all the unlocks on every level before you proceed to the next, like I have been. I’m just finishing the last of the Hitman 2016 levels, and I can finally allow myself to play the Hitman 2 levels I’ve owned since release. Won’t be repeating this pattern going forward lol.
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no reason to skip any one. in the year 2000 1-3 would of been one game but in 2020 that’s not affordable so you break it up into 3 games and try to play up the replayability of the levels aspect
the game does a dumb thing where if your starting up 3 it will play a “previously on hitman cutscene” whether you pick to start the first hitman 3 level or start the tutorial though. so you might want to skip that. or the tutorial is in both the hitman 3 and hitman 1 sections of the campaign so maybe you can just back out to the campaign menu and start it from the hitman 1 section
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I’m ready, Boss o7
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I keep hoping they’d do a real level like one of the sniper assassin levels that are on timers with the level changing over the course of it. Like one was a wedding, the other a prison riot etc. but people are afraid of being locked out of and restricted from Content. they want to be able to 100 percent ghost run everything in your starting clothes at all times but also complain how easy the game is while demanding it fit this design rule
rest in peace to the time io had access to square’s cutscene people which resulted in all the dog days trailers and these gems:
it hurts to think the rest of the series could of had that too
how did they back 3 tomb raider reboot games but dropped hitman
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Kicking myself for ordering the Deluxe Edition from Limited Run Games, since I won’t get it for a few more days, but god I can’t wait to play some more Hitman.
Both glad that progress carries over in this one and a little sad. Won’t be able to milk my “ah can’t wait to play Hitman 2016’s levels again” joke like I did last time…though I probably will, for old times’ sake.
Bummed to hear they scuttled the Electrocution Phone. I mean, I absolutely understand why they did (god it made those Hitman 2 elusive targets so damn easy), but…c’mon.
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I have played 47 hours of Hitman 2 
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The first level of Hitman 3 feels a little too easy. There were almost no aware guards for one suit you can find towards the beginning that gives you access to most of the level. It felt like the game was glitched. But the game is a good as it ever was.
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I think my only gripe (just finished Chongqing) is that a lot of these missions are…at best, doing the Sapienza thing, and at worst, doing the Colorado thing.
Which is to say - there are very specific requirements to the missions that lead to them being finished out more or less the same way every time.
That’s…kinda disappointing, honestly! Like if you gotta do that ending sequence for Chongqing every time, yeesh. The first level (and Berlin, to a lesser extent) are the only ones that feel as open as I’d like.
That said, the writing is still great (some, uh, odd lines for Olivia not withstanding) and it’s still a hoot to play. And I can’t complain too much, because I can always load into the Hitman and Hitman 2 levels whenever.
Just…I dunno! A little more fenced in than I had hoped for.
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yeah, I’m struggling to get into this, sorry parker, think I’m gonna have to wait until I’m in the mood for the novelty of VR
You don’t have to end Colorado or Chongqing that way every time. You can just leave through an exit after you’ve done it the first time.
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I think they were much more successful trying to give 47 a little bit of character development with lucas grey than they were with victoria in absolution. I like how he starts dressing like his brother after he meets him in 2. he just needed to see someone like him doing things another way. chongqing has an alternate starting location where he has a conversation with a civilian and tries to be encouraging and tell them people can change, right before he heads off to KILL THE PAST himself
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No way I can even jest about this without it being a spoiler, but complaining about the stages being linear, and the final level is literally on a train with pretty much one route, well!
I know IOI said they’re done with Hitman for a while with this one, but dang I could go for just a few more, uh, non-story focused missions.
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Alright folks here it is, the most tricky needle I’ve had to thread vis a vis “is Hitman 3 good?”
Is it better than Hitman or Hitman 2?
No.
But is it good?
Yeah.
I don’t know if this one being the first wholly independent release from IOI had some impact on development or the release of this, but it feels…slighter, I guess, than the other two of the trilogy?
That’s not to say it’s of any lesser quality! It’s as lavish and detailed as it’s ever been. I just don’t know. None of the levels really grabbed me in the same way as the other two games did (now, to be fair, I still need to replay the hell out of them, so that impression could very well change), and the last level in particular is… satisfying, for the story and as a one-time experience, but not really something I’d wanna go back to again and again.
I dunno! On its own? The lesser of the three games, for sure. But if you were new to this series and were to go all in on this one, get all the old levels and play the whole trilogy sequentially in the package? Then hell yeah, that hypothetical “single game” fucking rules.
Conflicted on it for sure, but I’m also probably gonna replay the shit out of the couple of good levels in here (and all the really good old ones).
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