How Hitman's new AI outsmarted me - CNET

I ran across the upper deck and down the stairs, trying to keep my head down. If any of the guards saw my face, they'd know I was not one of them--they knew their own, and the stolen uniform could only hide my identity until they got a good look at me. I kept running, eventually retuing to the other side of the floor and hiding in an abandoned room as I waited for the commotion to die down. As I was waiting, I saw the guard I had looted run by -- now conscious, but still in his underwear.

When things had quieted down, I found a low window looking into the captain's quarters. Inside was my target, bedecked in an ascot and expensive-looking coat, next to a man in sunglasses and a cowboy hat in all white. I vaulted over the windowsill -- someone in the shadows behind me shouted at my back, "You're a weird guy, buddy" -- and took out the man in white. My target noticed, but before he could react, I choked him out and dragged his body into a closet. For good measure, I took sunglasses' outfit too.

Now dressed as a wealthy guest on this luxury yacht, I calmly walked down the stairs to the gangplank. My HUD alerted me that someone would surely see through my disguise; I was wearing the clothes of one of the party's more distinguished guests, and they would know I wasn't him. I shrugged it off -- maybe if I walked fast, nothing would happen.

I was wrong. The cops were on me again, shouting, and panic washed over the crowd as someone, somewhere found the body of the chef I'd left in the kitchen. Like a wave, partygoers flooded off the yacht, screaming, while the cops tackled me to the ground. I had failed this round.

This was just one of the ways I could have solved -- albeit unsuccessfully -- the puzzle laid out for me by IO Interactive's upcoming Hitman game. With each hit comes a new challenge, a new situation to navigate, and a ton of tools at your disposal for carrying out the deed. You can pry open gates with wrenches and crowbars and steal clothes and weapons from the unconscious -- although if they are only unconscious and not dead, they will eventually wake up, locate new clothes, and resume the hunt for you.