Wed, Oct 24, 2012 | 10:50 BST

Hitman: Absolution review appears, glowing praise awarded

Hitman: Absolution’s first review has appeared in the wild, courtesy of OXM. It’s a peach too, suggesting IO Interactive’s bald assassin has still got the goods.

CVG reports that the review appears in an incoming issue of OXM, and awards Hitman: Absolution a 9/10 score, stating that it delivers “everything that fans have ever loved about the series”

It’s a stealth power-trip too, according to the review, which adds, “Absolution genuinely makes you feel like the most dangerous man in the world.”

Boom. There you have it. Will you be getting Hitman: Absolution next month? Share the love here.

15 comments

KAP
24/10/12, 11:02 am

What I expected.

Edo
24/10/12, 11:03 am

An early(that’s 4 weeks early)review giving a game 9/10?Maybe,just maybe we should wait for more reviews.

KrazyKraut
24/10/12, 11:06 am

@2
Its print…so its handled a little bit different.

KAP
24/10/12, 11:08 am

A snippet from the Official Playstation latest issue:

There’s an online embargo so I can’t put the whole thing up obviously but here’s a quote that best gets across the game’s strengths.

“Here [Hitman has] finally been perfected in what is probably a peak for the series so far. It takes the ideas that made the original games so great and presents them in a modern context of checkpoints, hints and forgiveness but without sacrificing any of the challenge, excitement or shivery-skinned thrill of pulling off some impossibly and beautifully planned hit.” – 9/10

Happy?

Edo
24/10/12, 11:12 am

@3 I know that it’s print,I was merely stating that we should probably wait a bit longer before we spoon with it @4 Well if he says so,then by all means.

Fin
24/10/12, 11:13 am

Don’t trust official magazine print reviews.

a7md1990
24/10/12, 11:17 am

We need a new standard for the scores!. Nines and Tens are being given away like Halloween candy.

absolutezero
24/10/12, 11:17 am

“checkpoints, hints and forgiveness”

Well thats me sold.

ballz
24/10/12, 11:18 am

oxm only gives 9 or 10 so its useless

#10

Talkar
24/10/12, 11:20 am

About time we get a proper stealth game

#11

OrbitMonkey
24/10/12, 12:08 pm

Who needs Last of the Mohican Assassin Patriots? Looking forward to this

#12

Moonwalker1982
24/10/12, 1:03 pm

While i don’t trust OXM and OPM, cause they only give 9′s or 10′s, i am expecting great things from this game. And they say they keep it challenging while more ‘welcoming’ for newcomers. Which is what i expected. I’ll be turning all that Instinct stuff off.

#13

Erthazus
24/10/12, 3:08 pm

Everyone is giving 9/10.

when the game is mediocre it’s 8/10

when the game is crap it’s below 8

#14

Hunam
24/10/12, 4:12 pm

@10

There was one released like a week ago