Welcome to Marrakesh, where we stop a government coup just because someone would lose money if it went through.Marrakesh is roughly the same size of Sapienza, but it never gives off that the impression that it's as big. There's a good reason for that.In Sapienza, there was a fairly large and...

I want to talk about content ID. Starting from 2:25 and ending at 3:17 of this episode of Hitman (2016), I hide in a coffin in a morgue, attached to a church. During this time, an angelic song plays in the background.Imagine my surprise when I found this shortly after I uploaded the video (it was...

Our time in Sapienza comes to an end...The episodic nature of this game is pretty unique. Until this game came out, the only time the episodic model was seen was in the likes of Telltale's adventure games and others like them. Developers didn't try to use that model in other products. Alan Wake had...

After our fabulous performance in Paris, we head to Italy for some much a needed vacation... and murder.After this episode, I looked up the use of the Modern Lethal Syringe, just in case I had missed a good, or at least an interesting, use for it.Unfortunately, my conclusion seems to be the...

And now, for a funny little diversion.Though this episode does show off a little bit of what I was talking about last episode, in truth this was just an excuse to have a little bit of fun.In case anyone thinks that Hitman is a serious game for serious people, show them this episode. Trust me, it'll...

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...