The gameplay is actually really great, it's exactly what a Hitman game should be and a huge improvement over Absolution.

Unfortunetly it's marred by some rather stupid decisions when it comes to DRM.

For starters, progression is locked to always online, you can't unlock anything in offline mode. If you're playing online and their servers go out (which has happened a lot, even as I'm typing this the servers are unavailable) you will be kicked out of your singleplayer game and not able to get back in until the online mode is working.

You can't pretend you don't have always online DRM if you restrict offline mode to a completely nuetered version for no reason.

It's not protecting the sales of this game, it's hurting it.

The gameplay is actually really great, it's exactly what a Hitman game should be and a huge improvement over Absolution. Unfortunetly it's marred by some rather stupid decisions when it comes to DRM. For starters, progression is locked to always online, you can't unlock anything in offline mode. If you're playing online and their servers go out (which has happened a lot, even as I'm typing this the servers are unavailable) you will be kicked out of your singleplayer game and not able to get back in until the online mode is working. You can't pretend you don't have always online DRM if you restrict offline mode to a completely nuetered version for no reason. It's not protecting the sales of this game, it's hurting it.