I have spent an entire day playing one level over and over again, enjoying discovering and carrying out the countless assassination opportunities. Shoot a target with their own sniper rifle. Rig a huge lighting tree installation to electrocute targets at the climax of a song, brought on yourself whilst acting as DJ. Disguise yourself as a bartender and serve poisoned juice to a target.
It’s many floors, areas and dark corners filled to the brim with opportunity. One level sees Agent 47 tasked with finding and eliminating 5 targets in a Berlin nightclub. It’s praise I was close to dishing out with some levels from the recent entries, but they didn’t quite capture that same emotion. Nearly every level in Hitman III feels as good as that level did. The outrageous amount of options, including having the target shot on stage by switching out a prop gun with a real one, is exactly what Hitman fans crave. ‘Curtains Down’ from Blood Money is one of my favourite single levels to play in any video game – tasking you with taking down two targets in a Paris Opera House. They are some of the best that the series has ever produced. All six locations are labyrinths to explore, understand, and master. There were some excellent locations in the first two (Paris, Sapienza, Hokkaido) but each certainly had its duds, too. Hitman III’s level design is simply phenomenal. Whilst I finished every mission in a day, I am far from done. This is truly where the satisfaction of the Hitman series lies. Spending hours soaking up this information might well lead to your own ability to finish a level in ten seconds. Taking your time to explore every room, study your target’s routine, establish the perfect route, find NPCs with helpful disguises to take, source helpful items.
See, the beauty of Hitman games is in the exploration. I first completed that same level in around 3 hours. Recently, someone managed to complete a level in under ten seconds. Each with targets to locate and assassinate alongside objectives that need to be completed. Each mission takes place in its own entirely unique location. To many, that probably sounds incredibly short. Like the previous two entries in this Hitman ‘reboot’ trilogy, there are only six missions to complete (excluding DLC). With tons of replay value, you could be busy for a while too. If this is the final entry in the franchise for a while, as IO Interactive move on to another man with a licence to kill, 007, then they have certainly gone out on a high. Hitman III is not only the best in the ‘World of Assassination’ trilogy, but it also features some of the most inspired and well-crafted level design in the entire series, whilst also offering an engaging story unlike all of its predecessors.
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