I absolutely loved the strong, Gothic sort of atmosphere in the first 4 hitman games. They really made you feel like a unstoppable, cold, heartless biblical depiction of death who has been sent to cleanse the scum of this world.

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The WoA trilogy is really fun to play, don’t get me wrong, but they just feel like a sort of John Wick-like modern assassination game. The early games felt like you were some eldritch horror entity that is lurking and creeping its way unseen into the heart of the villainy, killing them brutally and leaving without a trace so perfectly that no one even knows that the person is dead. It almost felt like a reverse horror game at times, especially the last levels where you would ditch all stealth and just go up against unrealistic odds and just massacre everyone in your way.