I always love the stories that people tell about multiplayer games but I can never enjoy actually playing them.
I finished Hitman: Blood Money today. After initially struggling to get into the right frame of mind to play the game (i.e. realizing you will have to restart every level many times over before actually building the knowledge you need to take out your target) I ended up really enjoying it. The satisfaction you get from approaching an open-ended mission and using your wits and knowledge to plan out your entry, make the kill, and get out without ever being discovered is worth all the repeated failures and restarts.
Having every mission be so open and having so many different strategies for accomplishing your goals is really cool too, and something that not enough games do any more. It’s a shame, since from what I hear the newest Hitman game is very linear.
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