I love that Adam & Eve continues to sponsor you. I can't wait for when you start releasing tutorials for them

I think people are way, way too hard on these games. People claim there's very little to do but they don't really play with all the nuance the levels have to offer. Absolutely amazing series.

"Mysterious, ancient artifacts" I'm dying!

Never understood why single player games have to be Always Online. I mean, I know why, it's because publishers hate consumers, but still, I hate it

Imagine a bundle of all three games, fully offline, that would be dope

As someone that grew up in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, I aplaude IOI for capturing the feel of the beaches here and just for featuring our little town in such a big game.

47’s dry delivery infused with death innuendo is so good. Also, throughout the game he never lies.

That was probably the most creative use of a sponsor commercial that I've ever seen

"discrete shipping materials" displays the Ark of the covenant before the walls of Jericho.

It’s no joke to say that this trilogy literally saved the Hitman franchise

Could not agree more. IO knocked it out the park. 👌 Also holy fuck at that sponsorship message 😂

With all 3 games finally out, this really is one of the best games ever. I still play Hitman and Dishonored almost daily, stealth sandboxes with near limitless player options are my jam. Super interested to see IOI's Bond game, though I swear to god if they put their online """features"""" in that game I'm gonna scream

To be honest, I really dig the unabashed love you have for these Hitman games. It's just nice to hear. I also appreciate that that doesn't stop you from mentioning the always online DRM. You hit the nail on the head. It's the anchor around this series neck.

“how many times did they come?” Oh god my sides

I love mysterious ancient artifacts...

47 in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (the original Hitman 2) had already undergone his moral questioning of whether or not what he was doing was right. He lived in a monastery even.

that ad for Adam and eve needs to be its own video. omg it was the laugh I really needed.

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH BUNNY MAN

I knew this is what you were working on, George. For the record: This trilogy is a masterpiece and truly a game of the generation. This is a trilogy that prioritizes gameplay, and yet delivers against a spy-thriller backdrop that is thoroughly intriguing the entire way. Outstanding level design to provide thousands of hours of replay value. Michael Vogt and the writing team make every line of dialogue count. Every character, every asset, they all matter. They are interrelated and the cohesion is established flawlessly. Niels...your music hit it out of the park. Stealth game developers take note. This is how you execute the assassination simulator.

I'm still waiting for it on Steam. Just another 9 months... I was skeptical, but the Hitman games are my absolute favorites. I've played through all the stages so many times to try to do things differently, absolutely love it.

Closest thing to MGS3 there is in terms of quality. Genuinely one of my favorite things ever

I'm pretty stoked to hear your take on this game. Honestly the first time I've ever been happy with an "Episodic" release schedule. Edit: Off to buy a large, jade historical artifact.

I completely love this trilogy. I've been playing since the first one in 2016 and it has been an amazingly good time with this series. Some of the best gameplay I've ever had. I very much look forward to future Hitman projects.

Your Hitman 2 video a while back convinced me to buy hitman 3 a week after release and bought 1+2 within a few weeks of that. I've poured almost 300 hours across the trilogy since then and it's been an absolute blast.

One thing I caught a few times - you probably mean "climactic" when you said "climatic". Reminds me a line from the TV show Joan of Arcadia: "Anti climactic. Anti-climatic means you're against the weather."

5:23 was that a blooper or a call-back moment?

Before watching the vid imma just say the hitman trilogy now holds a spot in my top 5 games ever I’m glad u reviewed this game

Super Bunnyhop! we have missed you my good sir Hope all is well!

Adam and Eve, please sponsor this man again. This was the greatest advertisement I’ve ever seen

At this point I'm convinced Adam & Eve PR contacted him because they thought "Super Bunnyhop" must be some code for Tinder Dating.

Holy shit I can't believe it's exactly what Ross warned about. Get it off the internet and I'll get it.

already dying laughing 4 seconds in, "Get fidy percent off "

I wonder if Bunnyhop got free ahem artifacts from Adam & Eve. What a weird crossover. I guess they're kind of VR machines.

"Exposition, exposition. I'm fixing a fuse box, in case anyone was wondering." Lol, that's some serious winking at your audience.

With how uptight youtube is, it amazes me Adam and Eve is an allowed sponsor.

The "problem" with Master difficulty for me is that it makes exploration and knowing the level inside-out far less rewarding because it removes a lot of resources from levels (like key cards, free disguises, poisons, etc.) and adds guards in inconvenient places which simply makes things more tedious instead of more challenging imo. And not being able to get disguises by killing people in a bloody adds to that too. This also kind of feels antithetical to the whole "mission mastery" theme, at least when you come from the professional difficulty, because quite a bit of your knowledge of a level will become useless.

I love the stealth genre and it saddens me greatly knowing that its nearly dead. I'm so damn happy the Hitman games are still going strong with doing the genre proper justice and not just becoming another action game with half-baked stealth elements. Thank god for IO Interactive.

I can't even begin to explain how much I love the world of assassination. Literally my favourite series of all time.

It’s a great day when George uploads. Still waiting on the Adam and Eve George Thigh-High socks though.

Game is so good that anytime I get off from work the music after you finish a level plays in my head as I leave the building lol.

First off, awesome thumbnail. Second, as a speedrunner of Hitman I kind of forgot that the story even existed. Third, I now intend to replay it from start to finish without being a perfectionist. Awesome video mate

Considering IOI is self-published now, and Hitman has basically been their only child for the last decade... With all the love they've shown the franchise over the years, and especially the new trilogy-- When they get to the point of having to shut down the servers, I highly suspect they will release an update to make it compatible for offline only.

the fact that the always online is talked about in the same breath as the greatness of the game is so unfortunate. its such a little change that disproportionately fucks up the entire thing. one of the most baffling things in this world, right along the likes of consciousness or problems of infinite regress. truly baffling.

Rewgarding the "always play on master" - I have a great tip for everyone looking for true, master difficulty level Hitman experience - switch off your entire HUD or parts of it. Since the 2016th release I have exclusively played without instinct, minimap, opportunities, weapon and tool HUD and some other tiny things. Game allows you to greatly influence what parts of HUD you see and I recommend disabling some of it so that you feel more immersed - it works miracles. From my experience, playing without HUD and instinct is infinitely more difficult than blank master difficulty - and once you're used to such gameplay, you see no difference between pro and master difficulty - except for single save file, which is basically never that important. Except for Colorado mission. Fuck Colorado.

Oh hell yeah! Finally! Another Adam and Eve Sponsorship! Must be big for George!

I hope World of assassination also goes to GOG eventually like Absolution.

As someone who was actually following the story through all three games I love that everyone else going through the trilogy again is finally able to spot the small details I’ve noticed going through all of the levels and cutscenes like how in the cutscene for the very first level in the trilogy they mention iago giving classified flight plans to the Delgado drug cartel who proceeded to shoot down the president’s plane and later down the line in one of the levels in hitman 2 where you have to take down the same previously mentioned drug cartel you can actually find the wreckage of that very plane.

I finally got the third game on the ps5 along with the other two games through a sale, and playing through all of them is so much fun. This game really takes me back to when I was a kid playing Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory on my xbox, sneaking around and doing levels over and over again until I learn the craziest ways to beat the levels. Man can you all imagine if hitman had a spies vs mercs style multiplayer in this game? A team of four hitman with limited gear vs a team or five: 4 bodyguards armed to the teeth vs a vip target who has to reach a destination before they get whacked by the agents.

I have waited so long to hear this from SBH. Season 2 was the best overall, Season 1 had the absolute best levels but also some the worst levels, and season 3 was probably the least effective but still good. But as a whole super game this is one of the greatest games of all time

The escalations are some of my favorite parts of the games because it shows you how the multiple mechanics can be combined to achieve your goals and sometimes make me laugh by the absurdity. Great trilogy and worth the price for the deluxe editions.

Piracy will save these games for the future

Came for the well-thought out Hitman review, came again to the ad read at the end. Phenomenal stuff as always dude

That ad is so good, you should be proud of it

Hell yeah, I've been waiting for this.

I was just scrolling through your channel and lamenting that it had been so long since your last video. But here's another great one. Worth the wait. Bravo!

I just wanted to thank you for this video. I initially wasn't a fan of the first entry in the trilogy and gave up after Paris because I didn't understand how the game truly worked. Your video made me give the game another try, and after disabling all story hints and just relying on intel, it finally clicked. I have now accrued over 200 hours in all three games combined and consider it one of the best stealth series in existence and my absolute favorite trilogy in video games. All thanks to this video. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Dude, been waiting for this review. So glad to see your thoughts.

George, I haven't played this game before. I'm not putting it on hardcore mode. I will do that myself later.

For the last 5 years any time that I watch a KZfaq video I instinctively skip through the ad. I didn't this time and it was amazing, bravo.

i rly loved this video. the ad at the end was the cherry on top.

Thank you for the review George. As someone who hasn't ever really gelled with these new titles, you've renewed my interest, and because of this review and your recommendation I do eventually want to check the mega-trilogy out...when it's not tied to the online requirement. To the rest of the comment section, stay safe and be nice! (edit - you have every reason to be proud of the sponsor segment)

Thank you for uploading. Appreciate the content.

i've been waiting for this... thanks for convincing me through your vids to finally get into this Hitman- it is flippin' RAD. no mini-map is sublime.

13:33 I'm actually gutted I've never heard this until now, that is beautiful writing.

I laughed so hard at *"Disclaimer: These historical facts are about as historically inaccurate as what the History Channel allows to broadcast"* in the sponsorship at the end, I catch a close family member watching Ancient Aliens on that shit all the time, it's ridiculous what passes for a show on that channel if I'm meant to take it seriously.

Still waiting for a steam release of Hitman III. Still very excited to play it when that happens.

I always love seeing new content from this channel. Much ❤️

Great video. I've been wanting to jump into this game for a while. Definitely sold me on it even harder, plus you've convinced me to have the guts to do the highest difficulty when I do. Also that ad was amazing haha

George and stealth games are a match made in heaven.

Adam and Eve European Extreme Difficulty Run (No Saves)

George, this is by far the best video you've created and the review of the hitman trilogy is also nice

After a pretty rough day, this videos was a godsend :) Thanks.

I'm _really_ starting to see why IO got the Bond license.

I just can't get over the fact how brilliant was Blood Money.

Even the ads are fucking high quality content! Goddamnit George, you're brilliant!

This has got to be my favorite KZfaq sponsorship ad. It's perfect.

that was an unexpected sponsor lol

Have you played it in VR? It's a blast.

I have been waiting for this! ❤️

Good to see you back doing actual reviews.

Fantastic love letter. I completely agree with everything here, most especially the set up for 007. Best game franchise ever as far as I'm concerned. Since Silent Assassin these games are the bar of which I've rated all other games. 20 yrs of brilliance from IO. Damned if I'm not gonna go play Hitman immediately after this sentence.

I would love to play the new Hitman games, I have been waiting for them to not have everything tied to being online for a single player game and I would be happy to buy each of them at full price. But I refuse to play a single player game that is dependent on the servers working and staying up and my data cap being eaten into to play what should be an offline experience.

I got my PlayStation Wrapped yesterday and Hitman III stood as my number one game of 2021 and was the game of that year. I played the whole trilogy as a mega-game and it was just an amazing experience. Few games are as mechanically rewarding like this trilogy is. Whenever I hear people saying “but they’re so short, there’s only like 5 levels per game!” my answer is that they’re looking at it from the wrong direction, because it’s all about replaying, experimenting and discovering levels in a new way. It’s honestly more of a puzzle game than a stealth game.

The ad at the end though, that's worthy of being a standalone video

the thing about the Master difficulty changes like "their hearing has been buffed only a teeny teeny bit" is that it prevents certain perfect timed maneuvers from being possible. when your going for that perfect speed run and you've memorized a particular "I slipped past that guard by the skin of my teeth" routine on Normal difficulty, it sometimes wont be possible on Master difficulty. The Devs put a ton of work into the way every single npc moves and behaves so that the entire map feels like a collection of small puzzles if played going for silent assassin rating

Fantastic thumbnail.

Honestly the Adam & Eve sponsorship makes me feel legitimately happy, like, this, this is the space I choose to be in and support. And that was even before I saw your sponsorship reel at the end. Also, f---- yeah hitman.

15:08 if anyone complains about the music they haven’t played New York. I swear the music of that level goes so hard and it perfectly suits the level. It is my favorite level by far for its music and also for the level itself

now THAT is how you do an ad read

At this point the need to be always online is the biggest obstacle to me every buying these games. Seriously just remove the requirement and I'll get all 3, no discount needed.

Oh man I've missed your videos! ,worth the wait!

Your description of this Trilogy reminds me of the newer James Bond movies. Quantum Of Solace, in particular. If you don't watch _Casino Royale_ ,Like *right* before _Quantum of Solance_ ,the latter movie makes absolutely no sense. But if you watch it consecutively, Quatum is a actually a pretty darn good movie.

I laughed when i saw Vin Diesel on the thumbnail. Thanks Dad.

This trilogy is the best gaming experience I've had my entire life. Truly a masterpiece with so many different moving parts it could give one a headache. Shame it's so under the radar. Hell, after the episodic fiasco and Square Enix dumping IOI it's a miracle these guys could even finish the damn thing. I'm so happy that it happened.

Makes me want to play hitman all over again. Good stuff Hoppy BunBun

This is an amazing review, but my God, I about died at the ad sequence at the end.

This sponsor spot gives the Internet Historian a run for his money.

I have the exact same feelings about the story. I remember in the first two games actively ignoring it if not laughing at it (specially at Santa Fortuna's "super cocaine") but then I'm playing all the levels in order and it's like: look! The Constant! The old lady from the manor! Olivia! Diana! It actually makes sense! Really looking forward to the James Bond game

I also love how the Hitman Trilogy soundtrack pays homage to the Blood Money soundtrack

this may be my favorite trilogy of all-time. watching the vid now and can't wait.