Hitman 2016: 10 Signs It'll Make The Series Great Again

4. More Ways To Kill Than Ever Before

Hitman never had problems when it came to offering players a wonderful cornucopia of creative ways to kill your target. In this respect, Absolution didn't stray too far from the series' tradition, and in its relatively small number of 'classic' Hitman missions, gave you more ways than ever to carry out your work. Square Enix proudly said that in the new Hitman there'll more traps per square metre than ever before (not sure why they had to mention the 'square metre' part without going into specifics). While the Showstopper mission playthrough didn't take us through all of these, the narrator pointed out that nothing in the environments is without purpose, and that pretty much every noteworthy object in the level can be put to lethal use in some way. In Showstopper, for example, you can drop a chandelier on your target's head, poison his drink, bring the whole ceiling down at the fashion show, or stalk him to a back room and stick to the classic fibre-wire. The ways in which you can despatch your target look like pretty classic Hitman stuff, there'll just be a whole lot more of them, which essentially was all fans were asking for back in 2012 anyway.