Hitman Absolution: Learning from Arkham Asylum (CVG)

Some people, when they see the game, they say it's exactly the same, and some people say it's very very different," says Hitman Absolution's Game Director Tore Blystad. "It's funny how people's opinions vary…" In the aftermath of E3's breakneck schedule those 'varying opinions' painted Agent 47's long drooled-over return as faithful to the existing games, but… completely different; an actionpacked story, but smart and measured; more linear, but loaded with choices. Absolution's debut was a perfect piece of bad PR, simultaneously alienating existing Hitman fans and unnecessarily confusing everyone else.