Hitman’s third episode sounds promising during the briefing: take out a corrupt banker seeking refuge in the Swedish embassy in Marrakesh, plus a bent General plotting a coup d'état holed up in an abandoned school. Between the targets sits a sprawling Moroccan marketplace and an angry mob baying for the banker’s blood at the embassy gates. Time is of the essence, 47 is warned, and the city is reportedly about to explode.

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“ Hitman is still building itself into the Hitman: Blood Money sequel Agent 47 fans have been craving for almost a decade.

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“ Almost everyone in Hitman's Marrakesh speaks with a native American accent.

And yet that pressure fails to translate to the level itself. It feels underdone compared to the previous missions – especially the excellent Sapienza hit – and is the least convincing and least engaging level so far.There are no drastic revisions to the formula established by previous episodes here: you have to find your own path to executing two targets. Episode by episode, this new Hitman game is still building itself into the Hitman: Blood Money sequel Agent 47 fans have been craving for almost a decade. Unlike Paris (Episode 1) and Sapienza (Episode 2), however, Marrakesh is all sizzle and no sausage.Beyond the key kill locations there are a few rooftop areas containing useful items, but that’s about it. Compared to Sapienza, which felt ripped from a Bond movie, Marrakesh seems slightly more linear and less imaginative, with fewer forks in the road and fewer nooks and crannies to explore and exploit. There are some unique new disguises, but several of the kill opportunities are already rehashes. We’ve already done the bomb in the TV crew’s camera, team.Worst of all, though, is the utterly horrific voice acting. I forgave it in Paris, and it bugged me in Sapienza, but here the sheer density of NPCs in Marrakesh and the abundance of dialogue make it a complete debacle. According to its constitution, Morocco has two official languages: Arabic and Berber (or Amazighe). The Constitution itself is penned in French, which is a second language for many Moroccans. And yet I’m not convinced developer Io Interactive has actually assigned anyone to Google this.Surprisingly, it actually gets worse the closer to the Swedish embassy you get. The protest leader is a proud Moroccan youth who sounds like he made a wrong turn at Santa Monica and took the long way to Spring Break. Spoiler alert: nobody in the Swedish embassy speaks Swedish either, because of course they don’t. It’s amateur-hour stuff, and wholly at odds with the intelligent and patient puzzle-oriented gameplay the team has successfully baked into Hitman so far.This dud VO work is seriously undermining the globetrotting, exotic atmosphere Hitman is trying to create. It’s a shame because, despite Marrakesh being a little more filler than killer, I’m still having a lot of fun with the new Hitman. Exploiting and outsmarting largely predictable AI remains the order of the day, but I still glean a great deal of satisfaction from plotting out a perfect path to a coveted suit-only (no costumes), Silent Assassin playthrough.