Does not come close to the predecessor.

For years waited with anticipation for Hitman 5.
Unfortunately, the fifth part is still very disappointing.

I have the game now played out and am not really pleased with it.
Bugs, there were hardly any. At least I have not noticed. The positive note, since it is no longer really common for a fresh release.

Could captivate me this game does not exist.

Why?

Therefore:

Can I choose my equipment before a mission is not itself but always start with the same weapons. Silver and shooting sling.
More weapons, always the same, can be found throughout the game in each level. Somewhere there is a pump-action shotgun in the corner, or a "victim" can a SMG fall. Done.
Rare to find even a sniper rifle, a revolver popeligen etc.

Bodies can be hidden only in standing around in heaps or boxes in a Wandschrabnk. In almost every room is a box around, in which fit two bodies.
Within a few levels you may encounter a person times over a balustrade.

It is virtually continuously on the run or have to hide. Even with paneling are around every few feet persons who expose a very short time.

You get points when recording objects. Every few meters stand around bottles that you can swap etc. against a stone, a metal pipe, a knife, a flower vase. Not you raise them all one after the other on the end of a level you get less points. Ridiculous, especially since you can actually never needed or used effectively these items.
One can take these items and thus distract / attract people.
In an empty room I threw a book on the floor. A / E opponents / AI said "Stay calm. I'll take care of the matter." and comes from a long distance even more from an adjacent room went to my position to check the situation. That is, in my opinion, total cheese.

The melee is designed incredibly boring. Before opponents pressing the melee button, then optionally spacebar (which is to press is displayed), then W or E and the enemy is defeated. * Yawn *

There are too few memory points. Pro Level one, maximum two. And this has to be found first and get through to get there.
Cost me a lot of level restarts. It does an awful lot Geger or bypassing it, but then can not find a save point and is still exposed to all the work and can start the level again. This struck me as a bit annoying. But not in the sense of nerve-wracking.

Auszusschalten only the target persons was sometime too stupid to me. After a few levels, where I focused only on just off the target person, I've decided each off nearby enemies. I played on the difficulty "normal".
Awesome upgrades and there is not money you can not earn, so you can on the points for "clean work" also dispense the same.

Disguised you look and there is a cutscene, the Hitman can be seen again and again in his famous suit.
If you switch to a trim level, although the scenes play, for example in the same place, you stand back without disguise.

I missed someone a head scared. The blood spurted against the wall behind him. In the cutscene but this same opponent in front of me, without a head wound, and I can interrogate information in peace for a person /.

I'd never be able to approach the feeling "free". Exploring places was difficult because a person is almost entirely any heels.
In addition, the possible paths are designed but very linear.

The last level, which are supposed to be the highlight of a game were incredibly boring. Nothing spectacular.

I had to force myself to play the game until the end.

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Positives: The German language edition. Had to laugh out loud with lots of dialog. So I think that the translation is quite well done.
The synchronization voices are also failed overwhelmingly positive and credible.

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My Advice:

Is waiting until the game for 'ne little "Mark" to have. Current price it's absolutely not worth it.

I can play through it relatively quickly. Only occasionally played in the evenings for a few hours and I was surprised that I already have now through.

Do not expect the Hitman that you know already. For me, the game has nothing in common with its predecessors.

What a pity and a shame ....