Hitman: Absolution

I’m psyched to hear that the AI is good, because that can make or break a stealth game. From everything I’ve seen it looks like this could be a great game; I’m just a tad nervous about the story and the absolution angle. Is this going to be a gentler, kinder Agent 47? I hope not. That worry is the only thing keeping me from breaking my game-buying rule and picking it up on release day, but after being disappointed by several other highly anticipated games recently, I think I’ll hold out to rent it. I actually got my game-buying rule from one of my coworkers at DISH. Now I don’t buy a game without first thoroughly being able to play-test it. So I rent all my games through Blockbuster @Home first, and if it’s short or I don’t like it, I don’t buy it at all. It’s saved me a sizeable amount of money just in the past six months or so. I’ll put Hitman: Absolution in my Blockbuster @Home queue now so I’ll get to play it soon enough, especially since I still need to finish Dishonored and Assassin’s Creed 3 (that’s a lot of games about assassins, isn’t it?).