Hitman: Absolution is an intense mix of serenity and obscenity, its foul-mouthed criminals and grubby henchmen adding a layer of thick grime to otherwise quaint small-town streets and warm desert sands.

The best missions are open-ended and allow you to be stealthy or shooty; Stealth gameplay is tense and challenging; Excellent production values instill a strong sense of place

AI inconsistencies diminish the action; Multiple linear; anticlimactic sequences

Has there ever been a year with more assassination games in it I'm not sure there has. Certainly never so many high-profile games. Hitman has been around for a long time, but with Dishonored and Assassin's Creed III both recently released, the stealth action genre has more competition than ever.

Hitman: Absolution is the sequel to Blood Money that fans have been itching for. In terms of game mechanics it's the best Hitman that IO Interactive has ever created, although the lack of inherently unique settings is a disappointment.

Hitman's past has been as cold and calculated as its murderous anti-hero, each game cloned from the last to create a technically better...

Varied missions with seemingly limitless options; Sleek; sexy style; Bountiful improvements to the basic gameplay

A sometimes muddled story; That there aren't enough traditional levels; Seriously; whats up with the bloom lighting

does exactly what you would want from a master assassin game; it turns killing into an art form. Playing as the bald-headed badass Agent 47, you have everything at your fingertips to end someone's life. Want to garrote someone in a bathroom? Go for it.

I really enjoyed the game. If it weren't for me loving the previous hitman titles i'd have given a 5/5. The game itself is really good but this one is focused on a story more than separate assassinations with a story back-plot like its previous titles.

This game is glitched this is ment to have be fixed but still it carrys on that all the game saves are corrupted when you turn xbox off after starting over twice I give up with it am glad I only rented it and not bought it, other than that nice game to play all round..

We play through the opening hours of the first Hitman game in six years.

The Hitman series has been a long time favorite of mine.  No other game has managed to pull me in and immerse me the way these games have.  Constructing a strategy, using the environment and disguises to your advantage, and executing a clean kill before anyone even knows you have been there is what...

Hey, we're hip. Sexy nuns with guns have their place somewhere on this planet, they really do. Or so we are forced to imagine. But, having been delighted, immersed and mostly convinced by IO Interactive's latest and greatest incarnation of its murky and quirky assassination series, one thing is for...