Hitman - Episode 6: Hokkaido Reviews
As a finale to the first year of Hitman content, and as an episode of Hitman on its own, this episode is easily the strongest chapter yet.
Episode 6 proves to be one of the best episodes in the season and really places its mark on the entire series with a fitting end.
Although this episode, in fact, warms the players up for the next season of the game, but still impresses them with amazing stealth mechanisms and shows how IO Interactive is skillful in making a stealth game.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Hokkaido is a confident and experimental end to a great season.
As a series finale, Hokkaido manages to succeed in almost every way, even if the story has a weak and unsatisfying end.
Hitman bows out with a strong finale in game terms, if not in story. A fine balance of claustrophobic level design and Hitman’s signature murder opportunities make for a fitting personification of all Hitman is and was.
A calm and restrictive level on first glance, episode six of Hitman is teeming with poetic kills, intricacy and intrigue as it sets up a subtle tease of things to come in future seasons for Agent 47.
Hitman Episode 6: Hokkaido is one of the best levels this season and a great mission to end the year on. The map itself is very good, the atmosphere is excellent, and the hits are challenging. Tricky and more than a little James Bond-esque (the snowed-in private clinic has a real SPECTRE / On Her Majesty’s Secret Service vibe to it), Hokkaido is vintage Hitman at its most creative.
The final episode encourages players to think resourcefully by having players go in empty handed. Things don't exactly wrap up the way they should, since the stage is set for a future season. This latest addition to the Hitman serie has proved to be a solid product, but nothing more.
A much better map than the last two and amongst the best of the season, while still leaving you wanting even more from Hitman’s episodic exploits.
Hitman has been an uneven project (Marrakesh and Colorado were a cut below), but even at its worst it's still an above average stealth romp. It's been a long and laborious seven and a half month process with several delays to boot, but it's all here now, and worth picking up. Not to mention, Square Enix has done a noble job of actually updating the thing beyond DLC, fixing up several large glitches that plagued the first few episodes.
This sixth chapter of Hitman is a really good ending for this first season. In this chapter, the stealth is highly important and is more rewarding than complete and total action, just like in the old Hitman games.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Hokkaido may not be the perfect grand ending that many Hitman fans wanted, but it's a nice swansong to signal the end of a successful experiment. Episode 6 is the most atmospheric and creative of the bunch, and is right up there with Sapienza as one of the game's best levels thanks to its design.
Hokkaido closes the first season of Hitman. The sixth chapter offers a wide variety of situations and and well-diversified engagement, enhanced by a location that won us over from the first moments.
Review in Italian | Read full review
For a season finale, Hokkaido is exceptionally crafted.
Episode 6: Hokkaido is a brilliant and good looking episode which offers you a lot of replay value. An absolutely good ending for Hitman Season 1, indeed.
Review in Italian | Read full review
This final episode of 'Hitman' brings together all of the lessons IO has learned over the course of the season into a fun, elegant swan song. I will admit that I was skeptical of the episodic format before the intro was released, but they managed to come through and bring 47 into what is hopefully just the beginning of a glorious new career.
The episodic approach to an action-stealth game was a big bet. In this final chapter we can tell for sure that it surprise with the uncertainty of what kind of level we will see next in each episode, but the lack of connection fails to give the player a true motive to wear agent 47’s shoes.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Hitman: Episode 6 – Hokkaido is a great finale to what has been a rollercoaster of a ride with Hitman: Season One. There have definitely been a lot of ups and downs in terms of content and quality releases, but overall, the complete package is absolutely worth playing through by any fan of the stealth genre, or fans of Hitman games in general.
Hitman Episode 6 Hokkaido is a great ending to a series that started losing its touch a few missions down the line. A well detailed map with a very secret agent feel, and new challenges making the mission quite different are some of the few factors that make this episode one of the best of the series.
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