What he needs, mostly, is the ability to stand still and an eye for details like poorly secured chandeliers. Questions of development budget aside, Agent 47 doesn't need "seamless" transitions or grounding naturalistic touches any more than he needs a sniper drone or a holographic decoy. Not at all - Agent 47's blunt economy of gesture and reaction are painstakingly crafted, and there's something endearing about this early-noughties stiffness, this lack of flourish in an age when AC protagonists slink through the geometry trailing a boutique's worth of cloth and harness. When he's shot, it makes no impression beyond a bit of controller rumble.Īll which might sound like I'm having a go at the animation team. I'm not convinced 47 even obeys the same laws of physics as anybody else in the game. When he stows a corpse, there's a slightly awkward little cutscene. When he puts on a disguise, the clothes simply teleport from the victim's body to his own. He's an old school anomaly carried forward from an era when ledge-mantling was an exotic practice. The joke extends to the fact that Agent 47 is somewhat unconvincing as an avatar, or at least, an avatar in a game that occupies the same commercial plateau as Assassin's Creed. IO has wisely refrained from making this ability to fit in more plausible, even as it has pumped up the splendour of Hitman's locations, and the result is an assassination game that is secretly a comedy long before you start dressing up as a butler and whacking people with fish. Yet somehow, 47 is the ultimate shape-shifter, able to disguise himself as anyone from a celebrity DJ to a noodle chef. In the reboot trilogy, you can mingle with NPCs to throw off suspicious guards, and the impression is always of a fridge trying to blend into a flock of sheep - even the Terminator looks more natural in a crowd.
He stands out like, well, a menacing, chalk-white man with a barcode on his head. The big joke of 47, of course, is that you can't miss him.
#HITMAN 3 REVIEW SERIES#
Hitman 3 is the final act in Agent 47's struggle against his nemeses at Providence, the illuminati-style collective of crooked politicians, crimelords and corpos introduced at the start of the World of Assassination trilogy back in 2016.
#HITMAN 3 REVIEW UPDATE#
IO's final World of Assassination game is closer to a seasonal content update than a sequel, but it's a thrilling endeavour all the same.
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