We... look.... FABULOUS!The feedback loop for this game is one of its smartest systems, because it encourages exactly the kind of behavior gives the player the best possible "Hitman" experience.Players start with a single entrance point, and a single location they can smuggle an item into, along...

Welcome to the Paris fashion show: Home to chic design and fabulous murder.One of the things I am grateful to Absolution for is that it forced IO Interactive to seriously improve on the sneaking/stealth mechanics of Blood Money. Where we once had this terrible binary of "detected/not detected",...

Today, we finish the tutorial.There's some dispute over whether or not this section can be treated as part of the tutorial. I lean on the side that it is part of the tutorial, because it makes sense if you treat like a further escalation on the Freeform Training.At the start of the training, the...

Welcome to the smartest Hitman tutorial IO has ever made.I really can't stress how smart a decision this was for the tutorial. While any tutorial can be used to introduce the basic mechanics, the mechanics themselves are only half of a Hitman game.The other half of teaching someone how to play...

Welcome, my friends, to a World of Assassination.I never went through the tutorial for Blood Money when doing the LP for it, and there's a very specific reason for that. Said tutorial is so poorly done that it makes my blood boil ever more than the White House mission.It's does teach the basic...