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    The Hitman games are a series of stealth action games, in which players are encouraged to use stealth and disguises instead of raw firepower (not that this isn't an option) to complete a level.

    You know, I'm sitting here playing Hitman and I get thinking...

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    #1  Edited By CL60

    Why has there been a very little amount of Hitman "clones"? All I can think of off the top of my head are the two Death to Spies games. To me it seems like a perfect formula that other developers would've copied by now. 

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    #2  Edited By FluxWaveZ

    Because they don't sell well?

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    #3  Edited By MooseyMcMan

    Well, now that Assassin's Creed Brotherhood has shown how to do a game kinda like that in multiplayer, they can copy that and have everyone be clones.  
     
    So they were just waiting for the right idea to steal. 

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    #4  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @WaylonJennings said:
    @FluxWaveZ said:
    Because they don't sell well?
    This.
    Yeah. 
     
    Which is going to change when the new Hitman is out. Hitman now has feelings, gets erections and wants to fuck, has batman's x-ray vision, does EXPLOJUNZ.. Absolution is gonna sell well because its a COOL GAME
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    #5  Edited By HandsomeDead

    You have to put thought into a Hitman type game rather than a run forward and shoot guys game like almost everything else.

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    #6  Edited By MiniPato

    @HandsomeDead said:

    You have to put thought into a Hitman type game rather than a run forward and shoot guys game like almost everything else.

    I disagree.

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    #7  Edited By deathstriker666

    Because those same developers would rather clone Call of Duty or World of Warcraft

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    #8  Edited By DeF

    cause they know that all those clones would be killed at the end in the basment of an insane asylum. ´[hint hint]

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    #9  Edited By cstrang

    @MiniPato said:

    @HandsomeDead said:

    You have to put thought into a Hitman type game rather than a run forward and shoot guys game like almost everything else.

    I disagree.

    I admit, I played this level this way occasionally, but only after I SA'd it.

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    Why are you sitting there playing Hitman if you got into the SWTOR beta?

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    #11  Edited By CL60
    @TaliciaDragonsong said:
    Why are you sitting there playing Hitman if you got into the SWTOR beta?
    I'm trying to avoid playing TOR too much to avoid spoilers for when the game comes out. Currently I'm just getting every class to level 10 for now. My highest is 23.
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    @CL60 said:
    @TaliciaDragonsong said:
    Why are you sitting there playing Hitman if you got into the SWTOR beta?
    I'm trying to avoid playing TOR too much to avoid spoilers for when the game comes out. Currently I'm just getting every class to level 10 for now. My highest is 23.
    So do a fellow fan a favor and let me play a lil! ^^
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    #13  Edited By Pezen

    Hitman is pretty much a regular stealth game in the broadest way. Assassin's Creed might be the most similar game with civilians and blending in, though Hitman was a lot more basic and obvious about it. I don't think any real game mechanic of that game is entirely unique on it's own. Still, fun franchise that could have used without a lot of boring levels and uninteresting back story.

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