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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviewed Hitman 3.
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Yahtzee they put the last mission on a train so they could "Railroad" you into a certain playstyle......
I will except your disgust in downvotes and comments filled with your disappointment
yhatsee should change his theme song. Been watching for over a decade, at first it was cool, then kinda nostalgic for when people actually listened to rock and metal, now its more akin to an edgy 8 year olds idea of cool. It's just really an odd fit considering theres probably been one or two metal references in the history of yahtsee, maybe even abandon the idea of theme song all together, it is a convenient way to artificially lengthen your videos, but I'm sure you can do the same with actual content.
I found the JFK bit they did at the end really entertaining, and was legitimately caught off-guard by the swordfish.
wait, there's actual story in this game?
i was too busy admiring the dedication of an irishman and his journey to stuff the entire population of a small town into a single meat cooler
What assassin? I didn't see an -gets whacked from beind-
That was in hitman 2, I thought.
@@Fishcrab watch his latest hitman video
@@noahsvirsky9962 nvm, the map is from the old game, but its now in hitman 3
Is Agent 47 Irish or am I missing something?
I love how popular the mansion level was that many people wanted a detective game based of it
Let's face it: 47 would be the perfect detective if he wasn't an assassin.
@@q-tip4723 He definitely would cause hes got pretty much 0 emotion which is the best thing a detective can have imo
@@pauloandrade925 Don't need money or fame, just get the contract done and dusted.
@@justjuniorjaw yup
Maybe IO can get a licensee to make a Sherlock Holmes game, like how they are doing James Bond.
You know it's a fun review when the outro skit is Agent 47 killing John F Kennedy with a giant swordfish and it makes perfect sense.
Fun outro-related fact I found out 10 minutes before watching this: the first 'bullet-proof' kevlar umbrella was owned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Apparently by the end of his term he was so unpopular that getting pelted with various projectiles was a fairly common occurrence.
Hearing all those sit com oneliners i think there may be something here for IO if they want to bring the franchise into the sitcom business. Here is Agent 47 with his trusty sidekicks the lethal banana peel and the target seeking briefcase.
Ha Ha Ha !
big Bear.
don't forget the fish
Now that would make for some killer comedy.
They're obviously setting us up for a return of Timoth Oliphant for hitman the movie: here we go again
Every target would be a special guest star
Hitman always had a sense of humor. The fact this game can be serious one moment and then seconds later lets you dress as a clown slapping everyone with a fish is one of my favorite things about the game. Blood money had silly moments too.
Word
Yeah if you go at HItman with a pure serious viewpoint, it doesn't work. It's a bit like a kooky crazy sandbox game of possibility *dressed up like* a serious assassination narrative. And it works. And I love it.
That's false. The games were always serious. Sure ,you got "silly" point but they were never the focus or forefront
@@abdullahahmad4239 you are twisting my words. I never said the games are overall silly, I said, and I quote “Hitman always had a sense of humor” which is undeniably true. The awesome thing about the games is that each player can interpret them how they want. So you shouldn’t be so set on changing others view points on a single player experience. Just saying 🤷♂️
@@polishrocker93 i have nothing to add other than i love the gy!be pfp
"one unhorrifying toilet cubicle at a BART station" as a Bay Area Native I can say with confidence that doesn't exist.
I was gonna say, finding that is akin to finding a unicorn, that effort is better used shitting outdoors in a carpet furiously making eye contact.
i felt personally attacked by this reference.
Every story I have from BART involves urine in some way
@@rockyroad7247 you've taken 10 psychic damage
@Cara SaluscThis is a regional thing, not a national thing. The "ART" in "BART" simply means "Area Rapid Transit" so yeah, it comes up frequently in English speaking places, especially since those letters can also often stand for other related words like "Airport", "Rail", and "Train".
Since you wrote "nappies" (in the US we call them diapers) and the Luton DART line is still under construction I'll guess you're referring to the Dublin Area Rapid Transit network. In the US we have a DART rail network in Dallas, Texas and probably others.
Hey at least the guards check you for concealed arms about as enthusiastically as Yahtzee reviewing a new AAA game.
*guard watches me walk into a bush, drop seventeen guns and then come over to be frisked*
“This guy seems harmless.”
I still haven't figured out what these guards actually detect, because 9 crowbars are fine for whatever reason...
@@alexnoman1498 all the illegal items (You see that in the inventory).
@@nerdineverythingnerdinnoth4984 so scissors are illegal but a crowbar is fine. Makes sense 😂
@@borismuller86 I'm a mechanic, therefore it is okay for me to have a hammer on the soccer field.
So he liked it enough to replay it multiple times to explore varied missions then did challenge runs? Its probably got a challenge down pat.
you need to invent your own challenge in it. the game is easy, since you can just knock out infinite npcs at no penalty to your rating, so the true challenge and enjoyment comes from planning out a route to kill your target with an impractical weapon, without knock outs. personally, Hitman is at its best when the mission is easy to complete on its own, but with crazy challenges that encourage thought and planning. this Hitman just has a list of boxes to check in terms of "challenge". In summary, its a good game, held back by poor challenges, too binary of a rating system, and always online.
@@Vincent_Beers Dude what are you talking about? hitman has by far some of the best replay ability in any game hell that’s the whole point of mission mastery.
@@patheticbread6861
You do realise that's exactly what Vincent said, right?
@@matthewteo3111 his last sentence literally said it has minimal replay value.
@@matthewteo3111 he said without contracts mode and the mode is aside from the challenges you get for assassinate on a certain way the characters in the story that is amother thing than the guiding story missions the contracts mode is where you kill anyone with any method or suit and then upload it. So people play it
The part of Hitman that I liked so much is finding out the mission story for yourself, and solving the puzzle using your knowledge of the game’s mechanics.
The Poirot throwing someone off a balcony killed me
Were you the one he threw off?
Who's willing to bet that guy who kept hassling for the Huniepop review will be back to hassle for Huniepop 2?
Probably not, it will be you this time.
considering huniepop 2 sucks i hope he doesnt have to slog through it
@Nogilthazaa yes.....thats the point
It´s nice to see Yatzhee actually somewhat enjoyed this one. And, yeah, I do agree that the game tends to only really come alive after you do the opportunities. I personally tend to enjoy them if only because they tend to reveal a lot about the victim and learning about them is half of the fun for me, but they do tend to be a bit less satisfying than killing the victim using your own strategy. I hope they add more stuff like the suit only challenges in the next sequel. Since that is where the game tends to be at its most interesting in my opinion.
Also, the Hitman games actually make a lot more sense if you ignore the story and assume you are not actually playing as Agent 47 killing people. But are actually a demon in hell forcing your victims to relive the day of their death in increasingly more convoluted manners.
This just in, io has just revealed that in fact 47 is the devil and nothing mattered. Fans overjoyed
think thats why fans made hitman roulette its just more fun to mess around with the assassinations. Like ya gotta kill one dude with a screwdriver that lady with poison and the last guy with a fish on the paris level dressed as a vampire magician.
Well now I want a Hitman game where Yahtzee is the voice of Agent 47.
It's just more of Hitman 1 and 2? Great, that's exactly what I want.
@@Vincent_Beers Especially since it's currently not available on Steam, only EGS.
hitman 2 with better level design
@@Vincent_Beers hitman 1 and 2 were tiny when they first game out. they just feel bigger cuz they both got 2 dlcs, a mini game, multiplayer mode and all those free addons and targets that IOI will slowly churn out in the next yr or 2 for hitman 3.
As a man who frequented BART toilets, I would like to know which magical toilet 9 3/4 Yahtzee found.
Everytime I hear a zero punctuation intro I'm head banging doesn't matter what time it is haha.
After watching Dunkey cheese his way through the game with nothing but a wet floor sign, I will never look at this series the same way again lmao.
I legitimately just started playing it like a cover shooter like most stealth games I play after I get caught I just full on kill everyone and get to the end , while the game tells me why I shouldn’t have done that expect dishonored I full stealth those games love those games lol
I'll never look at it the same way after RT k.o'd and entire town just to put them into a meatlocker and try to blow it up to kill them all at the same time.
With a rubber duck.
While dressed as a clown.
While katamari damacy music plays for part of it.
@@appelofdoom8211 Hell. Bedbananas. That is all I need to say.
Love the pfp Metallica forever
I'll never look at it the same after Jerma walked in circles for 25 minutes yelling about cement
I remember playing the Paris level and giggling with joy after pushing one target onto the other from the roof of the damn palace. Series has come a long way.
This trilogy of Hitman games are the only games I can think of that I enjoy both playing myself and watching other people play,
I would actually LOVE a Freedom Fighters sequel or at least remaster. Sure, it IS something of a power fantasy about America fighting evil similar to another Call of Duty, but it's not my fault the gameplay was so fun
Keep the gameplay but make the freedom fighters fight America.
Same
I suspect it would play like Ghost Recon Break point or Wildlands
Such a good game. The squad system was gooooood
2:07 7 times if you count the movies.
Shh, we don’t acknowledge those.
@@vladimirlestrad3120 The first one (2007) was pretty good, considering how bad video game based movies are generally. The second hitman movie... yeah, we don't acknowledge that
"Hitman3."
Man named 3: *nervous sweating*
Why hit 3, what did he ever do to you?
Officer: "Fire at will!"
William: *concern*
@@KeithFraser82 What did Will ever do to you?
Hitwoman and Hitchild 3 as well
Here's an idea IOI, what about a Hitman game around Agent 47 having to masquerade as a target to act as a counter-assassin for multiple missions - sneakily luring your would-be killers into situations where you can quietly dispose of them without compromising your cover. For an added challenge, throw in a couple of missions where you also have to kill the target you need to pretend to be.
Considering how often 47 finds himself fighting against his own assassin organization, I'm amazed they haven't done this yet.
The Assassin's Creed: Rogue of Hitman.
I always go for at least silent assassin in my first playthrough of each level and I generally do avoid mission stories and I have a blast. Then I go for suit only silent assassin and then I try to do it on master where you only have 1 save. I do agree that the mission stories make it too easy though. It’s like it gives you the assassination on a fancy platter.
I feel like mission stories would be a lot better if they were much more vague (like they point you to a conversation that two NPC’s are having, then to a general location of interest instead of “find x to do y” (with a marker pointing to exactly where you can find x)
Thing is; they’re completely optional. Newer players will appreciate the game showing you how to do stuff, and obviously experienced players don’t need that.
@@courier6960 yeah you can turn off the marker btw manually in the options but that may be too extreme of a solution. I do prefer having the markers off though.
@@borismuller86
The problem with that though is that you are required to complete the mission stories for challenges / mastery experience (the mastery experience being essential for getting unlocks)
@@courier6960 then you can always do the mission stories after you played the game your way. This game thankfully gives players options, unlike absolution which dumbed it down for everyone, including the hardcore fans
That BART reference. I got it since I’ve lived in the area my whole life, but I’m curious how many people’s heads that went over.
I mean, I've never been there, but it sounds like he's talking about public restrooms being gross on public transportation. Chicago doesn't have bathrooms at its train stations, but my imagination can fill in the blanks just fine.
Never been, but it's not hard to figure it out from context.
I work for the subways in NYC... there’s a reason most of those bathrooms are closed.
The dog shitting on the carpet bit made me actually laugh out loud. A rare accomplishment during solo viewings, well done sir.
But the most important question still remains unanswered: how does the fucking briefcase work
spoilers: it doesn't
You put katanas or fully assembled sniper rifles in it. What's there to answer? :)
And if you're gonna question how stuff even fits in it then my thirty irons and bricks from Mumbai stored in my left breast pocket will want to have a word with you.
It's a throwable, non-lethal weapon that you automatically drop whenever you want to do something else and can't carry up ladders or across ledges.
It's like a Pokeball or your pockets. Does it make sense? Fucking no, it doesn't. XD
@@RealRushinRussian i think OP brought up the briefcase because of the infamous glitch in Hitman 2, where it was heat-seeking and followed people to the ends of the earth. I assume they are familiar with how putting stuff in a briefcase works
I came to this after watching another of Outside Xbox's great "three ways to play" videos. Andy does the stealthy ghost kills, Jane does some creative but typically a bit more chaotic runs, and Mike just stumbles through the entire thing running from guards and killing random bystanders as the case may be.
At least Toffee got some chocolate raisins I guess. 🤷♂️
Are... you glad a dog could be eating chocolate?
@@mitchwilliamson5552 And raisins are even more toxic for dogs than most chocolate (it takes about 3ozs of baking chocolate to poison a 50lb dog, 2-3ozs of raisins to cause renal failure in one). Not a good candy for them in any way.
@@fromthelostdays wasn't aware of that one, I'll keep that in mind.
Mission stories are like level-specific tutorials that let you explore before SASO/kill-em-all runs
Usually not an achievement hunter, but completing all challenges of a level is very fun in the modern Hitman trilogy and adds a ton of replayability. It really encourages you to do some stuff you would never do otherwise because it might seem too impractical to you.
I have been watching these for almost 9 years and they haven't gotten old yet
Really digging that Folsom Prison Blues reference at the end.
Yahtzee’s template of Agent 47 may be my favourite character template.
I feel like Yahtzee would enjoy these games way more if he just turned off mission stories. Personally, I find the game way more fun and puzzle-like that way
yeah homie just needs to remove more of the HUD and turn off the tips
Probably just breezed through on Casual difficulty.
Haven’t played Hitman 3 yet, but one of my favourite things in this series was pulling off “silent assassin”, “suit only” and “sniper assassin” all in one go in the Miami level.
It took hours and lots of thrown briefcases, but it was worth it.
You can also do that in marakesh. Great fun knocking out the entire basement and Tunnel and then luring both down there
That whole taking a shit on the carpet bit had me in tears haha 😂
Still remember the 2016 Hitman, where Yahtzee gave Agent 47's avatar a mouth. That was a surreal experience.
I'm surprised Yahtz didn't mention the Berlin episode, which has no Mission Stories.
It's my favourite in the series.
I love that Hitman Caricature!
They call him Ben "I swear i'm not an EGS shill" Crosshaw
Another modern Hitman game. Not very innovative and slightly lacking in content but extremely polished and engaging if you try hard enough. I am okay with this
"not very innovative" says the person with the Assassin's Creed logo as their display picture. It's a bit pots and pans eh?
@@baalrog887 I haven’t played any of the Assassin’s Creed games in almost 7 years. I don’t see the point of that comparison
@@jordanj809 I was just making a witty observation for comedic effect, I don't really care what other people do or don't play, whatever makes someone happy is fine with me.
@@baalrog887 I see
Saying it lacks in content is kind of hilarious honestly.The levels are so huge and thiers so much to see and that's not even including all the challenges and reaching max mastery in each location
Love this series. It's used the same story multiple times but the gameplay and missions absolutely make it
The credits animation with JFK being assassinated via swordfish is the best
Oh man i would love a new Freedom Fighters, or at least a remake!
That lee Harvey Oswald bit killed me
honestly i would rather play a James Bond Hitman clone. EA and Activision had the rights to make James Bond video games and all they did were FPS game
IO interactive got licencing for Bond and announced couple months ago they are currently working on just that. Could be 3 years away from now.
Well IOI is making the next 007 game, so your wish is granted
It could be fun to go around and collect information from people, too, explore that side instead of the wacky variety of assassination methods (which I love). Also, it'll probably be Suit Only but with a lot more range of hostility than safe and trespassing. I'm really curious where they go with it.
If they truly make a 007 game similar to GoldenEye I'll be salivating at the thought merc'ing my nephews the way my older brothers did me
i think you're forgetting about Everything or Nothing, which was basically Gears of War before Gears of War was a concept, plus some stealth and unique gadgets.
The mission stories are by far the best parts of the levels actually. Just turn the hints off so that you actually have to explore the level to discover them. It makes the whole experience so much more rewarding rather than following sign posts to the next part of the objective.
Elusive targets are exactly what fills that itch for "one shot, no retrying" gameplay, however their fomo was a double edged sword, since it's a lot of content with new dialogues and NPCs going down the drain once the contract expires.
On the nose with the Mission Stories!
This one was a really good episode man keep it up
suprised there was no mention of "always online" in a singleplayer game. just like how the servers went down for Absolution a few years back, the same could happen to this, and then all mastery progression would be locked out to players.
Absolution went offline because of the Square Enix drama. Otherwise managing hitman servers are as easy as managing a school website.
Wow, I completely forgot to call the service guy about my pit of rotating knives. Thanks Yahtz!
IOI? Are you listening? I want another Freedom Fighters game!
I recently played through all of hitman 2 and my favourite mission ended up being the island resort one because I ran through it headshotting targets and escaped in 10 minutes with no guards spotting me.
This is a really solid review. Lots of good gags and jokes in this one.
1:17 "TELL ME MORE ABOUT AUDIBLE SOUND."
The best way to play the newest Hitman trilogy is turn off all the assists! You actually have to think to solve the giant puzzles set for you and fully explore the maps to find all the pieces. Sure it takes waaaaaaaay longer but it’s so satisfying when you figure it out!
So no instincts and mission story guide?
@@ShoXwavee Exactly. Makes the whole experience very challenging, granted, but a lot more stimulating than just following pretty colours and timing moves past guards.
I played Freedom Fighters a few times back on GameCube. I really liked it and the multi-player base control/deathmatch mode was fun!
Omg. I just realized I want a James Bond RPG (a JRPG if you will). I want classic FF-esc sprites and power ups like martinis. You can build a party of Bond girls and drive a chocoBond car.
If you haven't played Hitman 3 in VR you haven't played Hitman 3. It is fucking game changing.
2:56 Couldn’t help but imagine Agent 47’s VA reading from Murder on the Orient Express for a moment.
"Getting caught removing a waiter's trousers in a laundry room" is much more of a Murder She Wrote storyline.
Makes me think that maybe IOI should release a counter-narrative game where you actually play as the famous detective from the Dartmoor level and you have to try and work out how the target was killed and by whom then investigate the ICA. The difficulty modes would be reflected by the star rating system at the end of the Hitman missions and if you seed your game with a friends gamer tag you get to play against their 47.
And now I have XTC singing 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' in my brain.
Chocolate .... raisins?
*Visible disgust*
Solid Johnny Cash reference right at the end
The Hitman games of late have spent a long time perfecting the assassination mechanics that they've given up on story. The question then becomes which is more important, which is why we play the games and if the absence of the story is enough to condemn the games.
To be frank story in Hitman was never the point, and was never really good.
@@omarsheriff51 I mean really, people need to stop acting like the old Hitman games are god in his purest form. they were good, but they were not on the level of the new trilogy.
@@patheticbread6861 It's called nostalgia. People will forgive everything and conveniently ommit flaws from old games. AI was terrible priori to blood money, and the controls were pretty horrific, even for their time.
Lee Harvey Oswald in A Hitman Joke.
That was gold.
Hit man 3 in a nutshell. Full game priced hit man 2 dlc that is extremely inconvenient to own.
I mean Hitman 2 was basically Hitman 1 DLC and yeah replaying missions you own is a hassle but I'm just glad we got a complete trillogy and an upward trend in quality.
@@user-xsn5ozskwg why in this case?
I like to play mission stories but without the markers. Not playing them often involves following the target for minutes before you see the glass of wine they drink from or the neon sign the walk under.
gotta get this one day
I'll admit, I initially had to check to make sure this wasn't a repost after seeing the title
3:40
Yahtzee's impression of 47 is 100% accurate.
I’m sad that I won’t be able to see Funhaus play this one
That was one of the best credit animations lol
Please freedom fighters 2. The game had the best squad mechanics.
It didn't...
@@PunkRockMohawk how not. Three buttons and you could quickly set everyone up how you wanted
I remember playing Freedom Fighters on my original Xbox when I was younger.
For this game, I tried something new. The first time I play a mission, no reloads. I either succeed or die. This led to a much more organic (and satisfying) playthrough.
It’s the best way.
I typically explore the map to its fullest first run. Not caring what happens, just experimenting & exploring. Second run is then SA/SO.
The BART station reference will miss a lot of people who are not from around or have ever been to SFO.
The fun experience in hitman is turning those hints off and figure things out yourself.
that last joke was brutal
This is honestly the only website / guy i contribute money to. Own all your books YC keep it up!
that's.. quite the BART reference
The absolute best way to play Hitman is to try to get silent assassin suit only on your first run through each level. It totally changes the way you play the game. I started doing it with the Hitman 2 levels and it's great. You have to focus on paying attention to routines, and you explore way more of the map than you normally would.
How the hell does the trilogy not have morr content that two Blood Moneys honestly. The newer ones feel and play a lot more sandboxy with way more options than any of the levels in Blood Money
Yeah I was puzzled by that comparison as well, I feel like it's a perception thing, overestimating Blood Money just because it was this good back in the day. Emphasis on "back in the day" though, I've tried replaying it recently and it really didn't age very well. But that's beside the point.
@@RealRushinRussian I coincidentally replayed it last week, and while it is still an okay game at worst, it feels very shallow and limited most times. E.g target routes can be mindnumbingly short leaving very fee options to deal with them. While I hear a lot of the time that there's an unlimited number of ways of playing through a level in Blood Money, I don't see how that doesn't apply to the new games as well, hell even more so due to more mechanics to mess around with as well as having way more options when it comes down to the more "scripted" kills so to speak
A sandbox game is more fun as a sandbox? Who knew
Wait... He said "BART Station"... This guy's in the bay area, like me! That's awesome!
My favorite way to play the new Hitman trilogy is with just one save. You gotta take out the first targets all in one go, save, and then go for the final one.
Missed opportunity to have Agent 47 on the grassy knoll.
I think the Escalations are the best bit of these new Hitman games. They keep ramping up the tension & force you to be increasingly creative, whilst testing your knowledge of the maps. Sadly, I just found out that they don't have any VR support, so fingers crossed that changes along with the arrival for a PC VR version.
At a BART station? It's been a while since Australia, eh?
as soon as i saw the two bullet dodges at the end, my brain just said "Fish" and sure enough...
There was a bart toilet reference in there - Does Yahtzee live in the bay?
I’d actually spunk on a frog, for a freedom fighters revive!
@@magicmon it wasn’t much, but that gave me a smile 😂
Let's be honest, Hitman is Groundhog Day for serial killers. I'm bewildered at the people who seem to pay attention to the story. It's all about scooping brains back into heads and having another pop.
Just now realized one of the guys from Red Letter Media is in the intro commercial as a creator. Probably cus of Space Cop
Here we go again
I would not be mad, if they would make an sequel to Freedom Fighters :3