Hitman: Absolution
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Frequent strong profanity, including the f-word, in scripted dialogue.
Realistic assassination gameplay with gunfire, close-up melee kills, fiber-wire strangulation, neck-snapping, and blood; enemies can be burned or blown up, though dismemberment is not a focus.
Strip-club dancers and other characters appear in lingerie and revealing attire with partial nudity, framed suggestively.
Alcohol is served and consumed in bars and clubs, and the player can lace drinks or food with lethal poison.
Story centers on betrayal, murder for hire, and the exploitation of a genetically engineered teenage girl amid a corrupt, bleak world.
The player character is a professional assassin who murders targets for pay throughout the campaign.
Villains menace and brutalize captives, and interrogation-style cruelty is shown in cutscenes.
A strip club level features exotic dancers and sexualized situations, with suggestive dialogue and innuendo throughout.
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What it is
Hitman: Absolution is a third-person stealth-action game in which you play Agent 47, a genetically engineered contract killer who goes rogue to protect a hunted teenage girl. Gameplay is built around infiltrating detailed levels — a mansion, a strip club, a courthouse, a rundown town — and eliminating specific targets using disguises, environmental traps, poison, firearms, and up-close methods like strangulation. The violence is realistic and bloody, with brutal takedowns and the option to gun down or set traps for enemies. The world is a seedy criminal underworld featuring foul language, alcohol and drugs, a strip club with sexualized dancers, and dark story material about murder, betrayal, and the exploitation of a young girl. It is single-player; the original online 'Contracts' mode had no chat and its servers are shut down.
How it's framed
The game frames 47 as an assassin questioning a lifetime of orders, leaning on themes of sin, redemption, and choosing compassion over obedience, with heavy Christian-flavored symbolism (including a squad of killers dressed as nuns used as ironic commentary). Killing is the central mechanic and is rewarded through scoring, but the narrative presents 47's targets as part of a corrupt world and treats harming innocents as a penalty rather than a goal.
Details
- Developer
- Io-Interactive A/S
- Publisher
- Io-Interactive A/S
- Released
- Nov 19, 2012
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