Hitman: Absolution Hype Thread (7.5 at gamespot)

hanslacher54 · 2012-11-11 02:29:01

Release date: November 20th, 2012Developer: IO InteractiveEngine: Glacier 2The Professional Edition's price: $79.99The Deluxe Professional Edition's price: UnknownPre order bonusesVideosStreets of Hope gameplayKing of Chinatown gameplayOff screen gameplay(unknown level)Run for Your Life gameplayContracts mode gameplay showing off the Run for Your Life levelContracts mode gameplay showing off the Streets of Hope levelThe Ultimate Assassin trailerIntroducing Agent 47 trailerIntroducing disguises trailerLiving Breathing World trailerTools of the Trade trailerAttack of the Saints trailerIntroducing the Kill trailerShe Must be Special trailerA Personal Contract trailerReviews'This is a fantastic package - a dark, witty tale of death and retribution that can be whatever you want it to. It captures the ebb and flow of tension that stealth games forgot about years ago, but presents it in a way that feels utterly contemporary.' -Playstation Official Magazine UK (9/10)'Hitman: Absolution absolutely nails the modern gaming trope of presenting oodles of gameplay choice. It would be an insult to polarise Absolution into 'stealth' or 'action', where the real beauty of the game is found in the fertile grey area in between.' -Playstation Official Magazine Australia (9/10)'slick, thrilling and well paced with jet-black humour...Absolution genuinely makes you feel like the most dangerous man in the world' - Official Xbox Magazine (9/10)'A passable stealth game, but one that betrays almost everything that, until now, has made Hitman great.' - PC Gamer (62/100)'brilliant mission design,extremely motivating game mechanics.' - Play 3 (88/100)'Improves on hitman's core strenghts,and boosts the replay value with the new contracts mode' - Game Informer (8.75/10)'On the right difficulty setting Absolution is Hitman at its cleverest, funniest, twisted best' - GameMaster (90%)'The sheer number of unlockables and challenges adds tons of replayability to a game that already demands multiple playthroughs' -Playstation: The Official Magazine US (8/10)'Stylish. Accomplished. Brutal' - PSM3 (9/10)'One of the best games we have ever played' - X360 (10/10)Story (Spoilers here, but they happen early in the game)The first in-depth trailer for the game shows Agent 47 storming a safe-house, and confronting Diana while she is showering. 47 is 'betrayed by those he once trusted and now hunted by the police, he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world, in his search for the truth'. At least one portion of the game will be set in Chicago, but it has been confirmed that the rest of the game will take place within the US.It is also confirmed that 47 will kill Diana in her mansion under the order of the Agency as Diana found incriminating evidence about the ICA. Diana then asks 47 for a final request which is to protect and find this girl called Victoria. As 47 accepts Diana's dying wish, the ICA deem 47 as traitor and sent a group of assassins known as The Saints to kill him.According to the latest cinematic trailer for Absolution, released on 26th October 12, titled as 'How many lives will you take to save one?', Diana has already told Victoria that 'a man will come, not like other men. He will protect you. Don't judge him for what he does.', implying that Diana already suspects that she will be assassinated by 47.hitmanwikiaContracts ModeContracts mode allows the player to play through any level of the game and select up to three NPCs in it to mark as targets and also to establish a set of conditions for the Contract, such as hiding all bodies, not being spotted, not changing the starting suit/disguise, only using specific weapons, etc. The player is allowed to pick any suit and starting gear to use in the mission. In order to save the challenge, the player has to clear it themselves. For completing Contracts, players earn in-game currency to spend on disguises, suits, weapons and weapon upgrades.In order to create a Contract, the player plays through a level (or at least a part of one), selecting up to three different NPCs as targets, eliminates them in any way of their choosing and leaves the level through one of the possible exits. The Contract, along with the conditions under which the player completed it such as which disguises and weapons were used, can then be saved.Contracts mode will also feature a great deal of online connectivity, as players can upload their own Contracts. Each week, five user-made Contracts will be uploaded to the leaderboard for the online community to try.hitmanwikiaHUDMap has been replaced with anInstinct Modethat shows the locations of NPCs and the routes they will take with a kind of x-ray vision similar to Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed and Detective mode from Batman: Arkham City.-Mini-map is added to HUD, showing the positions of guards.-There is now a Purist Mode, where Instinct and HUD will be completely disabled-The HUD now contains a warning system alerting the player if 47 has been spotted by guards. It looks like a long white line that gradually turns into an arrow the longer the guard sees 47 or becomes suspicious of him. The arrow turns yellow when he physically attacks someone in front of others and red when guards are alerted.-The player is now notified by the HUD if 47 is trespassing, in a hostile area, dragging a body, having a body near him in plain view, hiding a body, and if visibly armed.-The top right of the HUD will show a picture of the Target(s) and their status, such as Alive, Dead, or Unconscious.hitmanwikiaGameplaySaves are replaced by checkpoints now.-There will be cinematic sequences during the missions.-Point shooting, which will allow 47 to place strategic shootings in slow motion to kill multiple enemies quickly at the cost of Instinct mode, similar to theDead Eyemechanic in Red Dead Redemption orMark And Executefrom Splinter Cell Conviction.-47 can take cover and peek around corners similar to most third person shooters. He can also grab targets over low covers.-Absolutionhas an improved aiming system when 47 uses guns that is more typical of third person shooters. Unlike the previous games, the player now apparently ...

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#251 deactivated-5cf4b2c19c4ab

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[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"][QUOTE="GamerwillzPS"]
I know that consoles will be here to stay but they're really holding the PC back though. It would be good riddance to get rid of consoles and have everything on PC. Uncharted on max settings FTW! Killzone on max settings FTW! Hell, if Uncharted was a PC exclusive, it wouldn't have been goddamn linear!
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You do realize that some games are linear because the developer wanted to make a linear game, right?

Yes.

Open world is always a better option.

No it isn't, it depends on the game and what the developers are trying to achieve. If Naughty dog wanted to make Uncharted and open world game, they would have, but they didn't because it didn't really make sense for the game they were making, which was a heavily cinematic story driven single player

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#252 GamerwillzPS

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[QUOTE="GamerwillzPS"]
[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"] You do realize that some games are linear because the developer wanted to make a linear game, right? ferret-gamer

Yes.

Open world is always a better option.

No it isn't, it depends on the game and what the developers are trying to achieve. If Naughty dog wanted to make Uncharted and open world game, they would have, but they didn't because it didn't really make sense for the game they were making, which was a heavily cinematic story driven single player

I see what you mean.

But still, PC offers endless possibilities. Uncharted on PC may still be linear but there would be other things.

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#253 BPoole96

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[QUOTE="BPoole96"][QUOTE="GamerwillzPS"]
A month? Hmm.
I built my PC in July.
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But you continued to show strong bias towards PS3. Now you think it should no longer exist. It's fine to address the flaws of consoles compared to PC, but consoles definitely have their place in the games industry. To say otherwise is nonsense.

I know that consoles will be here to stay but they're really holding the PC back though. It would be good riddance to get rid of consoles and have everything on PC. Uncharted on max settings FTW! Killzone on max settings FTW! Hell, if Uncharted was a PC exclusive, it wouldn't have been goddamn linear!

Uncharted wouldn't be as good if it were open world. The whole point of the campign is to take you on a thrill ride adventure with awesome setpieces and crazy events unfolding in rapid succession. Having an open world and have to have sveeral long periods of downtime where you're just massacring hundreds on enemies from point A to point B in the open world with no story progression would break the game's pacing and not make it as enjoyable.

Killzone would be awesome on PC though since the controls for that game aren't the best, and playing it with a KB/M at 60FPS would fix all of that. Current gen consoles are nearly gone though and the new generation of consoles will hopefully be enough of a significant jump to not hold back PCs as much for a couple years.

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