Hitman Paris is the first part of the new episodic hitman series.

You’re introduced with a prelude that introduces the story and agent 47 Hitman Paris is the first part of the new episodic hitman series.

You’re introduced with a prelude that introduces the story and agent 47 you’re are sent through a brief tutorial with a final test to let you play with your skills.

Much like the past hitman games, there are multiple ways to kill your targets, you can collect poison, add it to a food or drink, use explosives, mess with objects, and to get to various sections of a map you of course have to steal disguises…

This is where things get a little frustrating…

Disguises will almost always give you away if you’re too close to npcs wearing the same outfit as you, which makes sense since you would think they would recognize their coworkers, but the frustration comes in because in some locations only certain uniforms are allowed without you just getting shot at,

which kind of defeats the purpose of a disguise,

Either get shot at as soon as you trespass or power walk from someone who find you suspicious until they shoot you

And you can’t really turn this into a 3rd person shooter like you could in absolution, because 3 shots and you’re dead…

if you raise any suspicion at all you’re surrounded…

This could maybe be fixed if they only become suspicious if you stick around for a while rather than just stay in their line of sight...

Which is another frustration...

The first 2 maps are crawling with enemies, everyone has someone watching them….

You can’t really tell if you’re in someone’s line of sight until it’s too late…

I’m actually almost 100% sure that you’re in someone’s line of sight at all times

enemies for the most part just stand there, which leaves your stealth combat options practically useless…

you’re almost forced to use environmental opportunities

I feel handcuffed to trying to beat the game the way it wants me to, rather than feeling like I’m being dropped into an area with a few tools to do as I please….

And when I say area, I mean area…

You can buy the game upfront for $60, buy the first pat for $15 and every episode afterwards for $10

And for that $15 initially you get to create contracts to challenge the online community (fair warning though, a crappy internet connection isn’t going to cut it), 2 story contract missions and a tutorial.

That’s right, hitman Paris is One. Single. Mission.

This game relies on replay value.

The tutorial makes this clear by actually making you replay the tutorial a different way.

And the trophies make this clear by asking you to try and complete all of the different opportunities.

This is what they want you to do.

Take this one map and take out your targets in as many ways as you can.

I will say though that the map is crawling with life, it is really cool to explore the massive event going on that is this Paris fashion show, and figuring out how you’re going to pull off assassinating 2 targets and escaping without being killed yourself….

Especially with how difficult and annoying the enemies in and around every corner can make it

You’re up for a stealthy challenge here…

While I personally don’t find myself replaying the same map to change my approach over and over..

Or to even take out a different target

I can see how fans of the stealth genre could enjoy such a thing

I giver Hitman Paris a 7.5/10 … Expand