The more I get into live-service games like XDefiant and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The First Descendant, the more I realize that no game-as-a-service will ever match the highs of my favorite game-as-a-service: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hitman: World of Assassination.
Hitman 3 Is The Best Live Game
You might be thinking, "Andrew, that's a single-player game!" And yes, it is. But, that's what makes it such a great live service ga🐠me. Do I like it when games are consistently updated with cool new content that keeps me engaged for years after launch? Of course. Do I like playing games with other people? Eh.
Fallen Aces’ Early Access Is An Opportunity To Play It Likeಞ Hitman 💫
Hitman's episodic release model led to players returning to levels over and over. Fallen Aces'💛 slow roll could do ꦚthe same.
Hitman: World of Assassination is the best of both worlds: an excellent single-player game supported like a game-as-a-service. It has a metric ton of content, collecting all three games in IO's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hitman reboot trilogy in one unified launcher. That means that it has every map, the DLC levels, the additional missions that IO retroactively built into levels like Sapienza and Hawke's Bay, the optional objectives that make each level near-endlessly replayable, and all the creative kill opportunities, all under one roof. Hitman: World of Assassination is the kind of game that you can play for hundreds of hours and still not see cl🧸ose to everything it has to offer. I know because, in 2021, that's exactly what I did.
I have never gone as deep on a game as I went on (the game formerly known as) Hitman 3. There are others that have captured my imagination more deeply — Breath of the Wild — and others t♕hat I spent years longer thinking about — Ocarina of Time — but in sheer hours played, Hitman has them both beat by a few🌳 hundred.
So Why Can't I Get Motivated To Play It Again?
And yet, I haven't touched the game in a year-and-a-half at this point. I played a bit of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Freelancer when it launched back in 2023, and reviewed the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ambrose Island DLC map wh𒆙en it dropped in 2022. But, aside from those brief excursions, I haven't had a good excuse to jump back into one of my all-time favorite games. I miss it, but what ౠam I gonna do?
This is the difficulty of being a game fan in the Way Too Many Games era. We talk about how Xbox doesn't have high-profile exclusives and how the PS5 doesn't have any games, and there's some truth to both of those criticisms. But we're also living in the busiest time in the history of the medium. It would take me the rest of the year (at least) to play through all the games that have dropped just this week across Steam, itch.io, the App store, and all the console storefronts. I'm still working through the crop of indies that were released over the course of one week back in May.
When there are so many cool, new things to play, it feels hard to justify putting more time into a game I've already dumped hundreds of hours into. I need to finish Indika and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, put some more time into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rise of the Ronin, get good at XDefiant, and finally return to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3. And yet, I would enjoy playing another dozen hours of Hitman more than playing basically anything else. Maybe that, on its own, is enough reasonꦇ to install World of Assassination one more time.
Baldur's Gate 3 Act 3 Feels Like A Hitman Level
Walking around Baldur's Gate feels a lot like🦩 exploring Sapienza for 🗹the first time.
