Terminei a trilogia do World of Assassination do Hitman. E, é isso, a franquia que acompanho desde Silent Assassin chegou no seu indiscutível ápice.
Quão raro é isso? Um jogo criar seu próprio gênero e depois de anos aperfeiçoar a fórmula de tal maneira que te deixa pensando "ok, não tem nada além disso, é o pico, é a forma final". Porque Hitman não é um jogo de stealth, ele tem stealth, mas é outra coisa.
Até em pontos onde eu realmente não ligaria se fosse uma droga. A história do jogo é linda, muito melhor do que precisa ser. Sem quebrar os personagens como Absolution, pelo contrário, ele entra fundo no que é o Agente 47. Definitivamente melhor que seu AAA padrão que sacrifica gameplay por filminho e no fim faz os dois males.
O gameplay, eu realmente não vou nem tentar explicar. Quem jogou os Hitman antigo eu digo: É tudo aquilo, só que melhor. Para quem nunca jogou só alerto que o início é a pior parte, até para mim foi meio chato reaprender a pensar o jogo. Porque é basicamente um puzzle de ação, tem que aprender o que cada coisa faz e como usar para resolver um problema.
Isso leva a outro grande mérito do jogo: Quantas formas boas de ma... /quitar alguém. Se você for iniciante e estiver aprendendo pode seguir os guias das histórias e vai ser satisfatório, e até engraçado. Quem é mais experiente pode experimentar com tudo, e quase sempre o jogo recompensa. Parece que pensaram em tudo.
Só não dou 5 estrelas porque o menu é uma merda e o jogo insiste para você ficar online. Fiquei off numa fase e não ganhei nenhuma recompensa daquela merda, só passei mesmo. Ideia merda. Enfim, tá no GamePass também.

The Hitman trilogy has given me experiences no other game has ever come close to. The stealth, immersion and sense of badassery these games provide are next level, and I still remember how painful the wait for Hitman 3 was for me because I was so excited to play the new levels, but it was so worth the wait. Usually in trilogies there's always one weaker game that doesn't live up to the others, it always seems bound to happen, but miraculously Hitman stayed great for all 3 games, and it's impressive how the only 'bad' thing that happened was not having proper cutscenes in Hitman 2. I think that's a great example of the quality of games these are, where instead of one game being bad, it's instead each game getting better.

This trilogy will always be one of my favourites, and although I already had access to all 3 of these in one game since 2021 due to owning the previous 2, I'm glad people can now conveniently experience all 20+ locations in one package, as these games deserve to be played and praised as some of the best and simultaneously silliest games from the past decade.

The ultimate puzzle solving game. It scratched an itch I didn't know I had, to figure out how to beat a complex computer simulation in the most effective and creative ways I could come up with.

Unrivaled level design, brilliant stealth mechanics, and amazingly creativity. And it does all of that while not taking itself too seriously, including some truly laughable moments and easter eggs, creating a seriously perfect gaming experience.

One of the few games I will actually 100%

Hitman is obviously a great series of games and bringing all 3 of the modern titles into one collection has made the franchise accessible to more people as the episodic releases were a bit hard to get into.

The writing for this game when on missions is fantastic, npc interactions with each-other are meaningful, organic and help to progress the player whilst providing alternate methods for observant players.

Gameplay is tight, with agent 47 controlling so well and feeling as fluid as ever.

Freelancer mode is also a game changer. It drastically switches up how you play the game and gets you away from the standard suit only silent assassin runs. You’ll make mistakes, end up in shoot outs and generally just try to survive this mode rather than perfecting it.

Having heaped praise, the game is predominantly losing half a star for these 3 things…

Beginning in Hitman 2 the cutscenes just become images with voiceovers. What happened to the fully voiced videos that were acted? The final scene of Hitman 1 was gripping, removing these impacted the story.

The AI is still goofy, how can I panic a guard and then withdraw a sniper rifle in my suit without consequences? In the same way, how can a guard sometimes see me through walls etc? Its consistent enough, but frustrating when “Hitman bullshit” ruins your run.

And lastly how much of this game is gated behind DLC? Every time you unlock something, it seems to only be applicable if you have the DLC of which there appear to be so many. Bundle it together please.

A must play, even at full price. The value and replay-ability is there.

Having all 3 games together finally allows for a coherent story to be told. The stealth gameplay is really fun, the costume system, the various weapons and environmental interactions. I really like the mission stories system, it allows the player to streamline their gameplay by playing it more like a traditional game story, but you're not pigeonholed into doing it, you can bail out of the story at any time and do things your own way, you can never interact with them in the first place if you want, you can fail them as your targets move around and do things which really helps immersion. The world never revolves around you so you need to be thinking about what is going around you and what your target is doing, the game is always requiring you to problem solve and think on the fly and that's really fun especially in the context of being an assassin with the goal of leaving no tracks. My biggest gripe with the game is the always online requirement, yeah you can play the story offline but offline is a separate save which sucks. There's no real good reason for it, their rolling missions that change (separate to the story) don't really have to work that way, and it kinda sucks that content gets time gated. Hopefully a future update adds all the content to be available offline and a new disc can be printed so it can be preserved forever.

It's rare to find a good stealth game, but the Hitman trilogy does everything it strives to be in the right way.

Immersive locations, well structured level design and a ton of possibilities to execute your kills make the modern Hitman games really stand out amidst the crowd. There's just so much replayability by going for certain challenges or just goofing around doing sandbox things.

And if you ever find yourself bored from the normal missions, you can take on the roguelike Freelancer missions, sending you on randomly assigned missions across the world, with an own progression system and a safehouse to upgrade.

Overall just an amazing package and a must-play for everyone who's into stealth or sandbox games.

absolutely amazing stealth/assassination sandbox game. the story is sort of bad but it's far from the focus of the game. it really shines with its escalations, custom contracts and challenges. figuring out to kill your targets in specific ways in the most optimal form will never not be fun to me. another thing that could be considered a flaw is that, at the start of the game, you have no items, which can really limit your possibilities and imagination. however, seeing your arsenal grow and doing challenges to gain those good items was really fun.
overall, very entertaining game with a huge amount of content, could recommend it to anyone