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In February 2017, Hitman was released on Linux. Hitman is the sixth title from the Hitman series and the first to be ported to Linux. Originally released in 2016 as an episodic stealth video game, Hitman was developed by IO Interactive & published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 & Xbox One. A total of six episodes were released, one at a time, over the course of 2016. These six episodes were put together to form what is called Hitman: The Complete First Season in 2017, which was then ported to Linux by Feral Interactive. Hitman: The Complete First Season sells for $59.99 through Steam and it is rated M for Mature. However, if you’d prefer to first try out the game you can buy the Hitman: Intro Pack which includes the Prologue and the 1st Episode for the very low price of $14.99 after which you can buy the remaining chapters for around $9.99 per chapter. There is a mild saving if you buy the complete first season all at once instead of buying each chapter individually, so it’s a decision you’ll have to make. This latest game in the Hitman series is one of the best I’ve played. It’s a third-person action-adventure, stealth game in which the stealth element is so important that you’re rewarded extra points for not being noticed when executing a contract. You’re also deducted points for killing anyone who’s not one of your contracts, so extra care must be taken to only kill your targets. The game begins with a short prologue which is a sort of tutorial where you’re given points for learning some key elements which you’ll be using later, such as finding a disguise, learning how to use your instinct, moving about unnoticed, etc. In this game, you play the role of Agent 47, a hitman sent out to kill undesirable targets. The prologue guides you into a ship where you’re supposed to kill your target and then get out. Upon completion, you must then complete a second mission where you’re expected to infiltrate a heavily guarded facility and then eliminate your target. After this, your first official mission is in a Paris fashion show in which you’re given two targets to kill.

Hitman est sorti pour Linux en février 2017. Il s'agit du sixième titre de la série Hitman et le premier à être porté sur Linux. Sortie à l'origine en 2016 entant que jeu vidéo d'infiltration par épisode, Hitman fut développé par IO Interactive et publié par Square Enix pour Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 et X box One.

Au total, six épisodes furent publiés, un à la fois, au cours de l'année 2016. Les six épisodes furent rassemblés en 2017 pour créer ce qui s'appelle Hitman : The Complete First Season (la totalité de la première saison), qui fut alors porté sur Linux par Feral Interactive.

Compared to previous Hitman titles, in this latest game you’re given lots of freedom to complete your missions. For example, you can use any object and any disguise to kill your targets. There are a few limited elimination opportunities which, if taken, will yield you a higher score because of their complexity. Having completed your Paris mission, you may begin Episode 2 which takes you to fictitious Sapienza, Italy. Here you’re expected not only to kill your two targets but also to destroy a virus which they’ve been developing. Hitman: The Complete First Season is, in many ways, an open-world game in which you’ve got certain preset goals which you need to accomplish. The storyline is not too complicated and it includes, at most, three missions per episode – which makes it so you can complete the heart of the game in a very short amount of time. However, there is much more to the game than just completing the storyline missions. At first I was a little confused as to why you must be online to play the game but, after playing it for a while, I figured out that the online element actually brings a few new features to the game, and it is, in fact, what separates this title from others in the series. One of the novel features is the contract creation aspect. You can custom-create contracts which can be added to other players’ contracts. This means that, if you come up with a cool way to kill a non-playable-character, then this character can become a contract that other people can select. It’s a cool feature because it means that there’s always new content being added to the game.

Another feature, and perhaps the most interesting, is the Elusive Target missions. Elusive targets are targets that are available for only a limited amount of time, they’re harder to find, track and kill. What’s even more interesting is that, once you kill the target, you will no longer be able to kill that target ever again. Also, elusive targets are each available for only a limited time (usually less than a week in real-time) which means that, if you weren’t able to find and kill an elusive target, you’ll never again be able to complete this contract (and I do mean never). This elusive target concept is, in my opinion, what takes this game to another level, and makes it very unique because you’re basically given a window of opportunity to complete your contract and you may kill these characters only once, so once they’re dead, they’re dead for good. The game’s graphics are pretty awesome, especially during the storyline cinematic scenes which sometimes almost seem like they’re authentic movie-like quality. The sound is equally superb, especially if you’ve got a surround-sound system, or if you’re using earphones, since sound comes at you from virtually 360 degrees. The voice acting also deserves being mentioned in that it excels at many levels.

You can play this game with mouse/keyboard or with a gamepad controller – either way it will feel right at home. There’s nothing revolutionary in the game-play, on the contrary, it feels very instinctual and familiar. This makes it easy to understand and play right off the bat. For anyone who’s never played any of the previous Hitman games, it should be pretty straightforward as well. You control your character by moving around with either the WASD keys or the left joystick on a gamepad. Then, when you’re behind any other character, you can “subdue” them until they’re rendered unconscious – at which point you’ve got the option of snapping their neck or you can just let them be since they’re already passed out. At this point, you can take the person’s clothes which will then provide you with a new disguise to use. A very important action which must be taken next is to drag the unconscious body and drop it in a bin or a closet so that it’s hidden from others. If you’re spotted by anyone dragging a body then your cover is blown and you must find another disguise or hide somewhere until the threat level drops. Although you have some weapons at your disposal, such as guns, poison, fiber wire, knife, etc, it’s generally best practice to not kill anyone except for your contracts. Remember what I said earlier about getting points deducted for killing innocent people.

The elusive targets and the customized contracts are the two features that add a lot of value to the replay factor. You can complete the storyline missions and afterward you can go back to replay the same city but this time looking for different contracts than the ones offered in the regular storyline. I have not encountered any glitches in this game after playing it since it was released on Linux, which so far is a good sign. However, I did notice that there was a bit of a drag when I first played the game due to my graphics driver not meeting the minimum requirement suggestion. Unfortunately, the minimum requirement for my graphics card driver is one that needs to be installed by using a PPA or straight from the Nvidia website, it’s not one of the ones available natively through my distro. This is the only game I have which requires the Nvidia 375 or higher driver. A flaw in this driver due to it not being officially supported by Ubuntu is that it causes problems to my window borders when resuming from suspend. If not for this high requirement for the graphics driver, I would be giving this game a full 5 star rating. Minimum Requirements OS: Ubuntu 16.04 CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K/AMD FX-8350 RAM: 8 GB GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 680/AMD R9 270X graphics card or better Storage: 67 GB available space Additional Notes: Nvidia graphics cards require driver version 375.26 or better. AMD graphics cards require MESA 13.0.3 or better. Intel graphics cards will not be supported on release.