PSA: HITMAN III and past game levels

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It turns out that cross-distributor carry over is a thing. So if you have Epic, or Steam, you can carry over your progress to the other platform. I bought Hitman 3, and did a Steam to Steam carry over. But I saw the options to cross platform. Must have changed at some point.

Or just wait a year and get it on Steam after the BS epic store exclusivity ends.

I did it. And that year is up. Bought H3 a couple weeks ago. More of the same Hitman goodness, and completes the "World of Assassination Trilogy". As mentioned, all of my progress carried over, and all three games are installed under the same Hitman 3 banner now. So all levels appear in the UI, which is really nice.

I'm a big fan of the series and of this sort of game play. H3 is just more of the same stuff that made the first two installments in the trilogy so good. The only knock I'd put on it is there are only three mission stories per level, where the other games had five at minimum and up to as many as nineteen.

All the extra modes return, sniper assassinations, escalations and contracts.

The campaign levels are uneven, as you'd probably expect. Dartmoor for example is quite small. It has a really neat mission story, a murder mystery. But after that there isn't much to keep drawing me back there. On the other end, levels like Berlin and Mendoza show Hitman at its very best.

Since returning to it I've been mixing old levels and new, and the additional modes as well. Replaying levels is central to the way Hitman works. There are always new ways to snuff out the mark. Good stuff.

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Steam is running a sale on the first two installments of the trilogy, US$25 for both.


For anyone on the fence, the Steam page lets you play Hitman 2's opening level, Hawke's Bay, for free.