Instead, you have to sleuth around a multi-level warehouse dance club – which looks stunning on next-gen consoles – and identify the targets yourself, then pick them off one by one.
You’re tasked with eliminating five targets any way you like – but the game doesn’t immediately identify who those five targets are. In Berlin, one of HITMAN 3’s new locations, I found one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had with the series to date. It’s up to you to explore, acquire different disguises that allow you access to different areas, learn more about the surrounding world and its rules, and figure out the best – or most entertaining – way to complete your mission. You enter a map with a set of targets to assassinate, a small handful of tools, and little other direction.
If you’re new to the series, you can think of HITMAN 3 levels as giant, excellently designed interactive puzzles. We’ll touch on the story later, but HITMAN is a series that’s about the gameplay, first and foremost, and it’s never been better. You play as Agent 47, an assassin working to take down Providence, and international cabal of the super wealthy and powerful. HITMAN 3 raises the bar on its unique sandbox gameplay experiences to a new level, and also gives new life to earlier games in the saga.
It’s also the first must-play title of the year, and will certainly be in Game of the Year conversations months from now. The reboot of the HITMAN franchise was one of the best success stories of the previous generation, and developer IO Interactive’s highly anticipated closing chapter in the “World of Assassination” trilogy is the first major video game release of 2021.
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