Hitman: Absolution

                 Hitman: Absolution is the fifth game in the Hitman game series. This game was released is 2012 and was published by Square Enix. This game takes place shortly after the last game and has the same characters and just continues the story line from the last game.

                In this game you play as an elite assassin that just goes by the name of Agent 47. Agent 47 is part of a group of assassins in a group known as the Agency. In this game the Agency gets a new director who gives out missions that 47 doesn’t agree with. 47 goes rogue against the Agency in an attempt to protect a 14 year old girl named Victoria. 47 later finds out that Victoria is genetically modified by the agency to be a new type of super assassin. 47 has to protect Victoria from the many people that want to kidnap her. He is also trying to take out the people in the Agency that are corrupt.

                Hitman: Absolution is a third-person stealth game. The whole idea of this game is to not get seen by enemies. There are many different ways to do that. You can hide behind objects and then just sneak past them if you want. Or you can find a way to turn off the lights and just walk past the guards. Or you can find an outfit that matches the people around you so you can blend in with them. If you put the right outfit on than everyone will just ignore you unless you get too close. You can also activate Instinct Mode which allows you to see enemies through walls and to see where they are going to walk. This is very helpful because it allows you to see enemies that you didn’t know were there. It also lets you see which places are safe to hide in because you know that the guards won’t walk over there.

                This game is actually pretty hard. There will be sometimes when it seems next to impossible to get past the guards without getting caught. Sometimes it will take many tries to get past a room. There will probably be times when you get so frustrated that you give up trying to do it stealthily and just run past the guards. The game also feels very set up at some points. There will be things that are very obviously set up for you to use them. The guards might happen to just look over the edge of a cliff or there might be a guard right next to a trap that you can lure them into.

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