A suit, a crowd, a target who suspects nothing, and all the pleasure lies in patience.

On gut feeling, Hitman sits barely above average. But the real split is elsewhere. On desert island it climbs ahead of 91% of games: a playground so dense you'd take it to spend months. And yet everything else falls back. Connection below average, art style near the bottom, ahead of less than a fifth of titles. Above all, fun crashes almost to the floor, though on few votes. That's where the game shows its hand: you respect it as an endless sandbox, you don't dive in for an instant hit.

Against a twitchy action game, Hitman plays a different tune. This is methodical infiltration, cold replayability, a human puzzle more than an adrenaline rush.

So who's it for? For you if you love restarting a level ten times to find the perfect kill, planning, watching, executing. Much less if you want to boot up a session to blow off steam fast and feel the game win you over in the first minute.