They put limits to player freedom by creating closed-off areas with single-point entry and exit ways, hallway-like maps where players had no choice but head into a gunfight or just levels where there were no targets at all. In a bid to appeal to more mainstream gamers, IO made the game maps more linear and cramped. This game still featured some of the same stealth-based third-person gameplay as former games with one big difference it lacked the same open-world freedom as the others in the series. Hitman Absolution had a chance to be the best Hitman game in the series but courageously flopped to its hardcore audience. Interactive Entertainment for the HD version. Publisher: Square Enix Europe and Warner Bros. If not, this game is an easy pass instead. If you want to see the game that started it all, this is good for a playthrough or two. It has dated graphics from the late 1999s, a clunky control system, and worst of all, bad third-person camera angles that cut out at bad points in the playthrough. Technologically, the game has aged badly. This game also introduced the disguise system, versatile AI, and the idea of infinite replayability due to the ways you can finish missions. The game was the first ever to use ragdoll physics, a relatively new technology at the time.
Gameplay-wise, this entry started the series’ path into revolutionizing the stealth genre with open-world gameplay and a mission grading system. This game introduced the world to Agent 47, an assassin for the secretive International Contract Agency (ICA). The games on this list are all ESRB-rated Mature 17+ unless stated otherwise, starting with the 10th spot.Ĭodename 47 is the game that started it all. However, we’ll exclude the “DLCs” and note if games have HD versions when available. For this list, we’ll look at all the single-player campaign missions in the mainline games and mobile games in the series.
The Hitman series continues to tweak and innovate its mechanics and gameplay, an idea that extends to the soon-to-be-released Sniper: The Shadows.Īfter 20 years, and with the upcoming release of Sniper: The Shadows and Season of Sloth for Hitman 3, we thought of looking through the series and ranking them for the players out there who might want to revisit the older games. Interactive Entertainment, the series is still going strong. Even though it has gone through three publishers, Eidos Interactive, Square Enix, and Warner Bros. Since the first game, Codename 47 in 2000, the series has seen two soft reboots and a few misses. Part of the second generation of stealth games alongside Thief, Metal Gear Solid, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, the Hitman series continues to be the flagship game for IO Interactive.
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