Despite the bald guy wearing a suit on the front cover, Hitman Absolution is not a Hitman game; it's not even close. With its borrowed gameplay mechanics, overwritten plot and dull environments, ...

Here's the scene; an orphanage, on a dark and typically stormy night. Blood runs through the corridors, and fresh corpses pile up by the walls. In the nursery, under bright birthday bunting, there's a ...

Hitman Absolution made changed to the series formula (Image via Io-Interactive A/S) Hitman Absolution was released in 2012 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The game made some big changes to the ...

Let’s get this out of the way up front: Hitman Absolution is a weird game. It’s a considerable departure from the rest of the series, trading in wide-open, puzzle-like levels and a negligible plotline ...

Story plays a bigger role in Hitman: Absolution than in Agent 47’s previous adventures. This time he’s gone rogue to protect a young girl from countless lowlifes who want to hand her over to his ...

Hitman Absolution is a fascinating case of an error of judgment costing a game its heart. For Absolution, that mistake was placing a focus on a story that didn't need ...

Agent 47 doesn't begin Hitman: Absolution with amnesia, but the six years that have passed since we last took control of him in Blood Money do seem to have dulled his creators' recollections of what ...