The Mission Stories are cute and fun to do on replays but this game only really shines if you turn off all the hand-holding waypoints, explore the huge maps corner-to-corner, and figure out how to do things yourself. There's a lot to love here in terms of improvisational gameplay but, much like the last decade of immersive sims, the default HUD settings bury Hitman's strengths under AAA railroading that blunts its genius significantly.