Design your game item Hitman Absolution

The game that I will be talking about today is Hitman Absolution. Hitman is an action adventure, stealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. The game levels and missions are based on eliminating your target and making a clean escape. You can traverse through the level in whatever way you seem fit and can execute your mark in a number of ways. Hitman is all about killing your mark and then getting away but often times you have to kill other people as they are in your way. If you kill someone that is not your target you lose some points overall. I would like there to be a way to take out enemies without killing them.

I would like to add a stun gun to your arsenal. This would provide players with an alternative to handle guards instead of just killing them. Adding a non-lethal weapon to your kit would change the way you approached the level. Instead of killing every guard that is in your way you can incapacitate them instead. This would mean that you are not killing them and you will not lose points for non-mark kills. This would also make the game easier as you don’t have to find interesting and unique ways around the level. Instead of looking at the paths that the AI takes and then figuring out a solution you could just incapacitate everyone and you would be done.

I would like the stun gun in the game for new players but for the more experienced players I don’t think they should be able to have this ability. In Hitman there are two categories of difficulty, Enhanced and professional. Enhanced is an easier level of difficulty and the game will give you a helping hand while you are in the level. Professional category does not give the player any tip, hint or help in any way and the enemies are more alert. Hard and expert are difficult to play on as you are given no help and the enemies are smarter and more alert. Purest mode leaves you with nothing. You have no help, no guides, no HUD and only a crosshair. I do not want to take away from the challenge from the professional mode so I would only let Enhanced levels use the stun gun.

Adding a non-leathal approach to Hitman would add an interesting game mechanic and a new way to look at the level. This would make going through a level and only killing your target that much more achievable.