Hitman 3 Review - Is It Worth Buying?

47 handles smoothly, has access to an incredible assortment of weapons and distraction tools, and Hitman 3 adds even more hilarious murder tools to his arsenal, and I blush when I think of how many people I've impaled with model buildings or bashed to death with coconuts. Ducking from cover to cover and diving out of a room moments before being seen is as smooth as it needs to be and it was mainly down to human error if I ever got caught out in the open. Guard AI is as ever on point when it counts and just dumb enough to make players push themselves that bit harder to try risky moves, although you definitely will want to bring a body bag for the higher difficulties because it's like trying to take on the bloody Predator and his mates all the while having the constitution of a very leaky blood bag.

Every single assassination is satisfying to pull off as is leading the target to new areas to experiment with the myriad of ways there are to finish the job, and things enter a kind of replayability singularity once the main objectives are done. Escalation contracts see you return to levels to take down new targets that then as the title implies escalate in number and difficulty the more you replay the mission, there's the ability to create your own contracts for other players all over the world to take on, and best of all, each and every time you complete challenges in a level you'll level up your profile unlocking new starting locations, new items to use and new costumes to wear.

This, when coupled with all of the content from the first two games imported in makes this an overwhelming amount of content at your disposal, and it becomes clear that Hitman 3 isn't just a game, it's an entire platform for the franchise that presents itself at the peak of what it does extremely bloody well. I cannot recommend this game enough, especially if you have the prior two games as this isn't just the best Hitman game in recent memory, but might well just become known as THE Hitman game.