Hitman has an interesting dynamic and offers something new to the third person genre.
The gameplay is a third person shooter, before you are sent off, you can equip yourself with weapons and tools to help you with obstacles and problems during the mission.
When you start your mission, you are brief on which target to assassinate and then set out. You get to learn how to control the character and are noted on the types of way you can interact with the environment at the tutorial in the beginning of the game. The controls are expands as you can lean your head to peak around corners… which I did have trouble to find using in the game at times.
Other parts include stealth elements, as when you sneak behind an enemy and knock them out or kill them and also hiding the body so anyone wouldn't be able to find it. The NPCs include enemies and also civilians, which will allow everyone to be alert that there's a killer present.
Unfortunately, when it comes down to this, half of the mission is already ruin, sometimes you have to resort to running and shooting everyone or forcing to restart again. However, you will still complete the mission, just a lower rating and lower reward of cash and you would have missed the true parts of assassinating in the game.
The weapons had a lot of varity and you are allow to pick up enemies weapons and their uniforms as well and sneak into the targets building, this element adds something new and matches well towards the games theme.
At the beginning of the game, the first few missions are extremely short, meanwhile, the rest of the missions are lengthy, however difficult to pick up after a few tries. On the bright side, the missions are good and do have a common theme of each chapter.
The games visuals and sound are pretty good and the art direction style make the game stand out and classy.
When you finish the game, you simply can replay the missions whenever you want, the game would be cool if it added some more replay value, however it just stands as a single player game.
Overall for a beginning of the Hitman series, as the game that starts it all, it has an interesting dynamic within the game and set this game apart from over third person shooters. Despites it's flaws, this game offers a lot of fun during a single play through.