For someone that grew up on Absolution and World of Assassination, I was expecting Blood Money to be a ginormous learning curve that would be too much for me to actually enjoy the game through. Surprisingly, I felt I had much more of an interactive experience with Blood Money than any other Hitman (I have not played any game before BM). In WoA you either fell in the two camps of luring targets into a corner to garrote (or just Seiker'ing them) or the camp of following a heavily scripted mission story to get a free cutscene kill. In Blood Money, every level felt like it was MY experience, uniquely, and felt way more involved in exactly how I approach targets. Fundamentally still, it's lacking in mechanics from the newer titles, but the golden rule of 'show, don't tell' is mastered here.

As for replayability, I don't know. It almost feels like the abundance of levels compared to WoA's few but plentiful ones make it so there's only a few ways to uniquely kill your targets? I don't see me playing Blood Money more than twice for a full SA run. Regardless, for the price, great title to pick up. The learning curve is NOT that steep.

For someone that grew up on Absolution and World of Assassination, I was expecting Blood Money to be a ginormous learning curve that would be too much for me to actually enjoy the game through. Surprisingly, I felt I had much more of an interactive experience with Blood Money than any other Hitman (I have not played any game before BM). In WoA you either fell in the two camps of luring targets into a corner to garrote (or just Seiker'ing them) or the camp of following a heavily scripted mission story to get a free cutscene kill. In Blood Money, every level felt like it was MY experience, uniquely, and felt way more involved in exactly how I approach targets. Fundamentally still, it's lacking in mechanics from the newer titles, but the golden rule of 'show, don't tell' is mastered here. As for replayability, I don't know. It almost feels like the abundance of levels compared to WoA's few but plentiful ones make it so there's only a few ways to uniquely kill your targets? I don't see me playing Blood Money more than twice for a full SA run. Regardless, for the price, great title to pick up. The learning curve is NOT that steep.