You say that like the Mardi Gras mission where you dressed in a chicken suit didn't happen.

It was a viable tactic in Blood Money. It just punished you in the end mission ranking for doing it. And it wasn't fun. And it was frequently harder than doing it sneakily.

From the looks of the gameplay trailer, it seems to stick to the classic sneaking/disguising gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrE36PeQgKE&feature=related

So this trailer is either a trick for action fans, or you can either sneak or run and gun. Which I think I'm fine with.

It is good to have the option. But disguising as a stripper nun will probably be difficult.

Bah.

Good thing he escaped in a totally anonymous-looking and unidentifiable car.

But how will people know that I'm smart unless I remind them about it?

no they are scantily clad, immodest women, and therefore strippers. i learned this on the internet

They stripped off their habits, ergo strippers, I guess. Also, they appear to be hard of hearing.

They also stripped women in media of further dignity.

whereas men obviously came out of this one looking intelligent and emotionally balanced

Not on this website, brother.

Don't worry, this is exactly how I expected everyone to react when I saw this in the hopper. People on this site often use forced cynicism and overblown incredulity in response to something that hurts their feelings.

Either that, or a lot of people on this site are desperate to convince themselves that majoring in women's studies wasn't a horrible waste of their parents' money.

(kazoo noises)

There are lots of female assassins that would like to talk to you about your opinion of tits, Caminante. It's worse than you think, too, some of them are Israeli.

*shaboom-CrAsH!*

What the fuck is shaboom-crash?

Hush Caminante, you know we're both going to be cosplaying as those nuns for the opening.

I think that was "ba boom pssssht" in another language...

She was sworn to carry their burdens.

My favorite part of Blood Money was hiding a bomb in a cake and blowing up a fat river captain as he ate it.

the butcher, naked except for a bloody apron, in a candle lit walk in refrigerator just finishing gouging out the eyes of the girl you're supposed to rescue while she's strung upside down on a meat hook as "put your head on my shoulder" plays scratchily on a record nearby

it's a game about moments.

actually the 'hunt down an english gentleman at his lovely country estate in full upland game hunting attire' was from Hitman 3.

Hitman 4 should have read 'allowed you to shoot out the bottom of a glass-bottomed hot tub and watch your target and several bikini-clad women plummet to their deaths on the rocks below.'

Sir! You are correct! I apologize but am happy someone else remembered that level.

Also, strangling the Latin American drug lord while he practiced cello alone on his balcony overlooking an impoverished village, although if I recall you had to wait for him to stop practicing otherwise the sudden halt to the music alerted the guards. Moments.

MURDER SIMULATORS CORRUPTING OUR YOUTH

more like murder simulators encouraging subtle creativity in our youth...through, uh, murder

I tried the Sniper Challenge pre order mini game, and it definitely had the Hitman feel I remembered, even when expressed in a sharpshooting level. Still trying to figure out silent assassin rank on it, plus you get to shoot Ezio

For the drug lord, I put a bomb on his chair, casually strolled outside, waited outside of his window, and detonated the bomb when he started playing. His body soared out of the window like a moose launched out of a catapult.

The first Hitman wasn't unplayable, it was just nigh-impossible to finish missions with much finesse, since the stealth kill garrote was lousy to aim. Inevitably it was a matter of when, not if, you'd have to break out the guns and kill every last person in the building.

The moment that made the first game great was the point where you realize, mid-mission, that you've been set up. Unlike most games this twist wasn't telegraphed so it had that great dose of "why isn't this work- OH SHIT". It had left it out there that someone was coming for you, but it didn't make it obvious when it was going to happen.

yeah "unplayable" was probably too harsh, should have gone with "unforgiving". the one mission where you had to snipe the asian gang leader during the peace summit was pretty amazing.

also caminante, i had no idea that was an option. the sense of choice is one of my favorite aspects of the series.

also for what it's worth, Jesper Kyd's "47 makes a decision" from Hitman 2 is the finest song ever composed for a video game.

Everyone listen to Maru, he's travelled back in time from six months in the future when the game will have been released to deliver us this warning.

I AM MAD AND DON'T LIKE THINGS

http://tinyurl.com/767u47p

Yeah but they probably have a story written about this stuff too.

sexy irish catholic terrorism is my guess. the black woman is a vampire

>I AM MAD AND DON'T LIKE THINGS

BWAH PEOPLE WRITING THINGS ABOUT THINGS

that's you. that's what you sound like to me.

I WRITE THINGS ABOUT STUFF, GET IT RIGHT MARU

no that was you reacting to me writing about things

I want a realistic hitman game where I can play as some lowlife shlub with a scooter and a cheap gun killing defenseless Russian journalists and Philipino union organizers.

Okay, interesting, I like where you're going with this, but I can just toss one thing into the ring here?

Grappling hook arm.

No grappling hook arm, but you do get one of those cheapo "Reaching Aids" that older folks need to reach high-up boxes of cereal after the level where you strangulate your hernia trying to climb into a gay rights activist's second story apartment.

http://www.amazon.com/Carex-Inch-Grabber-Reaching-Aid/dp/B000A EGCW6

yeah, that thing.