10 Best Video Games Of 2021

5. Hitman 3

When it comes to must-plays, the now fully-formed rebooted Hitman trilogy is that sentiment incarnate.

Yes, Hitman 3 is ostensibly a deluxe add-on to what came before, but it still sees IO Interactive deliver the most complex video game levels, AI scripts and everything in between, in all of gaming.

These experimental sandboxes of causality are little slices of life itself; clockwork mechanism Rube Goldberg machines where each individual element can be poked at, prodded or considered, for you to achieve your goal.

Hitman as platform now comprises endless fan-created assassinations, upgraded level sets from previous titles and nothing less than the crystallised appeal of Hitman as it was in Blood Money or the mighty Silent Assassin.